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Chers élèves, ce blog a été créé afin de faciliter votre apprentissage de l'anglais et vous mettre à portée de "click" les exercices, textes, vidéos ou audios étudiés en classe. Vous pourrez ainsi travailler de façon plus autonome et vous tenir à jour lors de vos absences.
Bonne année scolaire et apprentissage à tous !

jeudi 25 janvier 2018

2ndes : Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?



Listen carefully and fill in the blanks :
Detective
:”Clearly, ___________ in this room __________ Lord Smythe who at _____________
3:34 this afternoon was brutally bludgeoned to _______ with a _______
instrument. I want ______ of _____ to tell me your whereabouts at precisely
this dastardly deed ______ ________.”

The
housemaid : “I _____ ___________ the brass in the master’s bedroom.”
The
butler : “I _____ ____________ his Lordship’s scones below stairs, Sir”
Lady
Smythe : “I _____ __________ my petunias in the potting shed”

Detective
: Constable, arrest Lady Smythe.

Lady
Smythe : “Oh, But how ____ you _______…?”

Inspector
: “ Madam, as any horticulturalist will ______ you, one does not plant petunias
until _____ is out. ______ her ________.”
It’s
just a matter of ______________ ! The real question is how observant
_______ you?

BLUDGEONED=
hit with a short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one
end.

BLUNT= not sharp.

YOUR WHEREABOUTS: the place where you were, your location ____

POLISH= to polish is to rub an object to make it look shiny
THE BRASS= the objects in a house (usually for decoration) made of an yellowish
alloy of copper and zinc 

SCONE= a thin, flat cake

POTTING SHED= a building in which plants are set in flowerpots and in which
empty pots, potting compost, etc., are stored. A greenhouse.
HORTICULTURIST= one who cultivates flowers and other plants 
UNTIL MAY IS OUT= until the month of May finishes.

 



















































































mercredi 17 janvier 2018

2ndes / MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Trailer (2017)


Watch the trailer  and answer the following questions, using clues  to justify your answers.
Use modal forms (Probability : MUST/CAN/MAY/COULD/MIGHT/)
Cause : as/since/Due to/because of
Ex : « they may be going to….since I can see in the film…. »

1° Title of Agatha Christie’s detective story in English  :

2° Where does the scene take place ?  Country ? Precise location ?

3° Where are the characters going to ?

4°When does the story take place ? (Century/ possible date/ time of the year)

5° Hercule Poirot’s origins :

6° How does he qualify himself ?

7° List all the passengers’ professions (In order of appearance)

8° List all the words related to crime that you hear in the trailer