LESSON SECONDE 1 THURSDAY THE 2 ND OF OCTOBER

 LESSON SECONDE 1 THURSDAY THE 2 ND OF OCTOBER 

WORD OF THE DAY :

HARMFUL = HURTFUL = TOXIC 

TO COMMIT SUICIDE = TO TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE  

STEP 1  TEST 

 

STEP 2 ANTICIPATION

Guess the story here :

She is a girl

She is called molly russel

She looked like a depressed person

She was a happy little girl = she used to be a happy little girl

USED TO + BV = qui marque une rupture avec le passé

She was scared to go to school .

She faced cyber bullying from her classmates

She was a star student

Her parents were wealthy = rich

She was on social media

Her parents are heart broken

She commited suicide because of cyber bullying

 

 

STEP 2 COMPLETE THE TEXT BELOW

amount	self harm	algorithms	illness	safe
contributed	sites	feeding	firmly	requesting

 

WELCOME BACK WE HAVE HAD SOME BREAKING NEWS IN THE LAST FEW MOMENTS.

We have had a verdict from the coroner in the case of the death of the teenager  Molly Russel

KATY ( the journalist reporting live)

The coroner has just finished giving his conclusions in this case.

We know since Molly died in 2017, her family have campaigned actively in response to what they discovered after her death , the amount ……………….. of content that she has been viewing in relation to self harm ……………and suicide.

They  firmly ……………… believe that what she saw on social media …contributed ……………….to her death

And the conclusion he’s come to is that we know that molly was suffering from a depressive …illness ………… , the ……sites……….that she was viewing were not  safe… …… ; she had access to images and text relating to self harm and suicide.

And what he believes is that the… algorithms…………… and he heard  for the last weeks from experts ‘ testimony is that these algorithms were …feeding………… molly without her …requesting……… it very very negative images of self harm and suicide.

 

 

 

 

STEP 3 NOW LISTEN AND GUESS THE MEANING OF THE WORDS IN BOLD LETTERS 

She was having these binge period ………………..where she would be looking on line at  these images.

That was certainly having a real negative effect on her mental health ………….. ………….It was romantisizing ………………..the idea of her taking her own life ………………

Some of it was encouraging her to isolate herself ……………away.

What the coroner says was that there was no counterbalance of normality here and he believes that that likely contributed to her death………………. in a more than minimal way ………………, he said in court.

He said «  bear in mind ………………… the fact that these sites essentially normalise  ……………….her condition what she was going through, this depressive state.

It portrayed suicide as ………………….something she was not going to be able to recover from…………… and giving that , the coroner has said, that he does not feel that it is safe to recall a verdict of suicide.

Instead he has said that she died as an act of self harm while suffering from depression and the negative effect of online content viewing that.

 The family want the social media involved …………….to take responsibility for the content she was viewing.She was only 14 and 13 when she joined instagram and was viewing this very dark material …………….to an incredibly bleak ( sombre) world.

I do believe it could be a watershed moment ………………..on how this social media should take responsibility for the content that they are feeding to younger users.

CORRECTION

She was having these binge period ( periode de consommation extreme) ………………..where she would be looking on line at  these images.

That was certainly having a real negative effect on her mental health sante mentale ………….It was romantisizing IDEALISANT ………………..the idea of her taking her own life SE SUICIDER ………………

Some of it was encouraging her to isolate herself away.

What the coroner says was that there was no counterbalance of normality here and he believes that that likely contributed to her death in a more than minimal way ………………, he said in court.

He said «  bear in mind …gardez à l’esprit ………………… the fact that these sites essentially normalise  rendre banal ……………….her condition what she was going through, this depressive state.

 

 

 

STEP 4 TRUE OR FALSE

	TRUE	FALSE
Molly committed suicide	x
Molly suffered from depression	x
Molly did not have access to social media		x
Molly watched loads of videos on self harm and suicide	x
Social media ask for your permission to suggest some videos and materials		x
The suggestions made to you on social media are selected by algorithms	x
Social media bar harmful content to protect young people		x
The coroner has declared that the parents were responsible for molly’s death		x
The coroner has blamed social media for molly’s death	x
The coroner has reproached molly for her own death		x
Molly ‘s parents accuse social media of being responsible for the death of their daughter	x

 

STEP 6 WHO IS TO BLAME IN YOUR VIEW ?

SUJET IS/are  TO BLAME

SUJET IS RESPONSIBLE

SUJET ACCUSE SOMEONE OF ING / STH

SUJET BLAME SOMEONE FOR  ING /STH

SUJET REPROACH SOMEONE WITH STH/ ING

Parents should have been careful( be careful = faire attention) 

I see eye to eye with that. the person responsible is the social media because they fed ( to feed= nourrir) molly with a lot of harmful content and videos .

I disagree .I believe the school is to blame because they should have stopped the bullying.

As for me molly is to blame because she did not talk to her parents.

 i don’t think so because molly was a victim of cyber bullying

so her  school mates are responsible  because they bullied  molly

the parents and the school should have paid  attention to her.( pay attention to ...= faire attention à ...) 

HOMEWORK 

read the lesson and learn the voc in red.