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Warm Up Topic exoskeleton Iron Man Black Sabbath futuristic Badass Chest / Torso a mark a brand Who were the Luddites? Today we listened to an audio document. Here's what we found out: - It talks about the violent movement of protest of the Luddites. It took place in England, in March 1811. - The goal of the Luddites was to keep the jobs of the textile workers by destroying the new machines of the textile industry.  - The context was the Industrial Revolution. - Luddites were scared that the machines would replace them, because they were textile workers. They said no to this new technology. - We also heard a excerpt from a 1988 drama, with a Luddite saying: "I don't want to be a slave to a machine for the rest of my life." - We also heard a name, "Ned Ludd." It was the mythical creator and leader of the Luddites. If he was mythical, it means he never existed. - The word Luddite survived, and it means someone who rejects technology. There...

Presentation of the Luddites, an Industrial Rebellion  Today, we started working on the new notion, "Idea of Progress." We studied a few pictures from the 19th century, they looked like drawings. The first document presented people, maybe peasants, with weapons. There was a building on fire in the background, and a huge character on the foreground, called "the Leader of the Luddites."  The second document presented us with a group of angry people with axes. A man tried to stop them from destroying a machine. It was a machine used in the textile industry. The third document was a poster asking for people to denounce Luddites (machine breakers), and rewarded witnesses (témoins) with £1.000. We also noticed that it took place in the early 19th century (in 1812 precisely).  Then the last document compared the Luddites with rats in a cage, like people who reject technology. To sum it all up, we know: - the Luddites were a group of people, - who destroyed m...

Today we talked about exam preparation. We have to prepare notes for next time , one for each notion. We also considered reading questions first, before reading the text themselves. It can help us to understand the topic. Warm Up truth                   -> vérité faith                   -> foi faithful               -> fidèle a liar                   -> un menteur revealed truth    -> vérité révélée Tertullian

An Exciting Jungle: Swiss Family Robinson Today we watched a last trailer inspired by the story of Robinson.  Here's what we thought we understood (ce que nous pensions avoir compris): - it speaks of the arrival of Robinson and a "team of  people." - it's about a family, the Swiss Family Robinson. - After a shipwreck, a family falls underwater, and has to fight sharks, and the angry sea. - After a while (après un moment), they arrive on a strange and lost island. It's uncharted. They eventually (à la fin) transform the hostile jungle into a tropical paradise. That movie was produced by Walt Disney, so it's family movie, it's not very realistic. It looks like a parody.