Happy New Year

costs MEANING: at any expense of time, effort or money EXAMPLE: He plans to go to school at all costs.  back on your feet MEANING: return to good financial health EXAMPLE: My sister is back on her feet after losing her job last year.  bet your bottom dollar MEANING: bet all one has on something EXAMPLE: I would bet my bottom dollar that the accounting manager will be late again today.  bet on the wrong horse MEANING: base your plans on a wrong guess about the

| stretch  | tendre  ( étirer ) |   |    | suppose | supposer |    | unless  | à moins que |    | wear  | porter  ( vêtement ) |    | year  | année |   | Don't hit me!  | Ne me frappe pas!  |    | Last year.  | L'année dernière.  |    | The bullet hit him in the leg.  | La balle l'a frappé dans la jambe.  |    | A period of two years.  | Une période de deux ans.  |

Throughout the post-war period, theirs was a big and powerful industry making lots of money, and controlling just about everything - recording artists, publishers, distributors and retailers. By 1982, music had gone digital. (The first CDs went on sale that year.) So recording studios converted the sounds made by musicians into bitstreams - long sequences of ones and zeroes - while, at the consumer end, CD players converted those bits back into high-fidelity sound. The problem was: how to get the bitstreams

to take care of him in his later years. American and Indian societies are poles apart and Jagan fears Mali will be an outcast (=a misfit) and won’t be happy in America. THE TEXT The story is set in a small town in India. The three main characters are an elderly shopkeeper, Jagan, his cousin, a college teacher, and Mali, Jagan’s son, a twenty-year-old arts student who is mentioned in the text but not actually present. At the beginning of the text, Jagan learns from his cousin that Mali intends

to be nervous on this particular day : - Kindergarten pupils - Students starting middle school - Students starting high school 8) Which category of students feels “pretty good” and why ? Seniors feel pretty good because this is their last year in high school. 9) Sum up the anecdote B. Obama tells about the time he spent in Indonesia by completing the grid : |His mother’s problem |Hadn't got enough money to send the young barack to American

WITNESS = le jury entend un témoin. I CAN SEE IT = Je le vois. - SHE IS SEEING TO THE MAIL = elle s'occupe du courrier. SHE FEELS GOOD = elle se sent bien. - SHE IS FEELING THE CUSHION = elle tâte le coussin. o Description d'un état passager : I FEEL HAPPY = Je suis heureux. - I'M NOT FEELING WELL = je ne me sens pas bien. 5 Dominique Vinet – Basic English Grammar PRESENT SIMPLE EMPLOI : o On l'emploie avec les verbes n'exprimant pas d'action apparente : TO WANT, TO LIKE, TO ENJOY, TO HAVE, TO

were à la forme négative contractée : weren’t [wɜːnt] à contraster avec went [went] – won’t [wəʊnt] – want [wɒnt]. Commentaire du cartoon p. 18. Faire lire à haute voix la bulle en respectant l’accentuation des mots lexicaux (young – power – wealth – happy – right) et la prononciation des verbes au prétérit. Prolongement possible : demander d’autres exemples de mots qui se prononcent comme “would” ➞ could – should ; ou comme “thought” ➞ bought – caught par exemple. Faire imaginer le métier de cet homme

Chapter 1 Ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening place

in Tom’s life (we learn what Nathan’s ambitions had been). Moreover, Tom’s character is built in contrast with Nathan: while Nathan didn’t hesitate to show his own faults in the “overture”, he describes Tom’s temper in an entirely positive way. A new contrast is being revealed: the one that opposes the former Tom, the brilliant “Doctor Thumb” and the man he has become. This creates some kind of suspense; as well as Nathan, the reader is waiting to understand what happened. Main themes. Family

la forme négative contractée : weren’t [wɜːnt] à contraster avec went [went] – won’t [wəʊnt] – want [wɒnt]. Commentaire du cartoon p. 18. Faire lire à haute voix la bulle en respectant l’accentuation des mots lexicaux (young – power – wealth – happy – right) et la prononciation des verbes au prétérit. Prolongement possible : demander d’autres exemples de mots qui se prononcent comme “would” ➞ could – should ; ou comme “thought” ➞ bought – caught par exemple. Faire imaginer le métier de cet