WRITING

If you were the editor of a great magazine, would you or would you not publish this photo. Justify your views. 1OO words

 

FUNCTIONS

 

Make pancakes / flour

 

Goal

To make pancakes, you need flour

Be a teacher/ not always a bed of roses

Experience

Being a teacher is not always easy

Locals / be photographed

Habits

Locals are used to being photographed

French students / go to school / until 16

Obligation

French students have to go to school until 16

Students/smoke/smoking area

Permission

Students are allowed to smoke in the smoking area

Smoke / in cinemas

 

Prohibition

Smoking is prohibited in cinemas

Students / learn their lessons

Duty

(sens du devoir)

Students must learn their lessons

Tourists /be forbidden to take photos

Objection

Tourists objects to being forbidden to take photos

 

VOCABULARY

Use a (tŽlŽcommande) remote to switch on the TV

Camera-toting (en bandoulire) tourists look like cyclops

If you want to pass (inaperu) unheeded/unnoticed, dress in local clothes

(par manque de) For lack of respect, tourists are considered intrusive

They (prendre de haut) look down on locals

(gros plans) Close-ups are utterly embarrassing

(compatissants )Sympathetic people show respect

(quelles que soient les circonstances) Whatever the circumstances, respect the code of conduct

They make you (payer les yeux de la tte) pay an arm and a leg and then they forbid you to take pictures !

It is not done to (dŽvisager) stare at people !

Even if it trains, I will go biking

I was so tired that even though It was sunny, I didnŐt go biking

 

REVISION

 

Many readers -Americans – guzzle gas

reproach

Many readers reproach Americans for guzzling gas

People – American society – proviledge the prrivate sector

accusing

People accuse the American society of priviledging the private sector

The US – transport troops to Irak – unable to cope with a disaster on American soil

paradox

The US É and yet itŐs unable to cope with É soil / Although the US ...., it is unable

Kena – people who ignore the living conditions of African-American

anger

Ken is mad at people who ........... / is fed up with / can't stand / bear

Walk – drive – save gas

suggestion

Walk instead of saving, you will save gas / instead of driving, walk so as to save gas / Why not walk instead of driving / You'd better walk instead or driving /

 

 

The reader – death toll - overestimated

hope

The reader hopes the death toll has been overestmated /