You can hear the words with the following links:
Fields: https://e-didier.com/code/IFS2164
Personality: https://e-didier.com/code/IFS2165
Equality & inequality: https://e-didier.com/code/IFS2166
Changing things: https://e-didier.com/code/IFS2167
Extracted from In Full Swing Seconde
What are boys and girls supposed to be and do?
Let’s recap the vocabulary we discovered in the video
French | English | French | English | |
Une femme au foyer la grossesse Une petite voiture confiant | a housewife pregnancy a toy car confidant | fort sportif une poupée le corps | Strong athletic a doll the body |
"He's a man"
Read the text and fill in the chart below.
You can listen to the conversation if you click on the following link: https://e-didier.com/code/IFS2151
Let’s recap the vocabulary we discovered in the video
French | English | French | English | |
Un travail qualifié Faire les tâches ménagères Mettre la table | a skilled job to do the domestic chores to lay the table | Laver la vaisselle faire la lessive la poussière | do the washing up do the laundry dust |
Nuance entre ‘must’ et ‘have to’ :
He must do his homework : il doit faire ses devoirs ( il s’oblige à faire ses devoirs, c’est lui qui l’a décidé).
He has to do his homework: il doit faire ses devoirs ( il est obligé de faire ses devoirs, sa mère le veut ou quelqu’un d’autre que lui-même).
Nuance entre ‘mustn’t’ et ‘don’t have to’ :
He mustn’t drive so fast : il ne doit pas conduire aussi vite ( c’est interdit, la vitesse est limitée)
He doesn’t have to drive so fast : il n’est pas obligé de conduire aussi vite ( c’est un risque inutile, il a le temps d’arriver en roulant normalement).
https://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-26718.php
How much do you know about gender equality?
https://populationmatters.org/test-your-knowledge-gender-equality
Happily ever after ?
Prepositions to locate things and people in a photo
What ? The mother is holding 2 babies in her arms WHILE (= pendant que) the father is watching television.
Who ? 6 people ( one person) among whom (= parmi lesquels) two adults and a dog
Where ? The scene takes place in a living room.
Whose living-room ? It is Snow White’s living room.
Le salon de qui ?
What time of the day ? Maybe it is 12:00 a.m.. Lucie doesn’t agree ; she thinks it it is ten TO six.
Period of time ? The action is set in the 20th Century.
Compare with what you know about Snow White
The characters are wearing the same (= les même) clothes as (que) in the fairy tale ; that is how we can recognize the young lady as (= en tant que) Snow White. But the setting (= le décor) is contemporary.
Speaking about the past with no connection with the present : USED TO ex : I used to play tennis = je jouais au tennis mais pour une raison quelconque, ce n’est plus le cas aujourd’hui (je suis trop vieux, je n’aime plus ce sport etc..) |
She used to live with 7 dwarves in the forest (a dwarf= un nain) She used to be served by the dwarves. She used to be happy. She used to love Prince Charming. | He used to live in a wonderful castle with the king and the queen. He used to be served by domestic servants He used to be admired by his subjects. He used to be madly in love with Snow White. |
Now, how does she feel ?
From the look on her face, we can guess she feels bored ( to feel bored= s’ennuyer) / depressed (= déprimé) / disillusioned just like her husband.
They don’t love each other anymore. They used to love each other a lot !
What happened to them ?
They have lost their kingdom. They have ended up (= se retrouver) in an American suburb (= quartier). Snow White is not helped anymore, she has to do all the house chores (= les corvées) (/ˈtʃɔːrz/). She is working as (= aussi) hard as (= que) she was in her childhood (= enfance)
The prince may have lost his job so he is very depressed.
What is the artist’s message ?
This is a sharp criticism of the society. Fairy tales make little girls believe in the Prince Charming and a wonderful life but that’s an illusion.
WRITING A FAIRY TALE
Here are some common Fairy tale characters and words in English you may need while writing a folktale story.
Characters | Places | animals | Actions and verbs | objects |
Fairy fairy godmother witch (wicked) king / queen prince/prince charming knight princess / damsel /maiden wizard=sorcier sorcerer= enchanteur magician= magicien mermaid giant dwarf – dwarves stepmother hero / heroine villain giant goblin= lutin troll elf monster / demon etc… | Castle tower drawbridge cottage forest kingdom enchanted place cemetery haunted house etc… | beast unicorn :a single-horned mythical horse dragon : a giant reptile-like creature which can fly and breathe fire ogre pig toad wolf bear horse frog etc… | To practise magic to feed on human flesh to curse / a curse to kiss to be brave to cast a spell / to break a spell to daydream =rêvasser to dream of + verb + ing to be evil to be magical to be maleficent to fall in love with to chase someone around a place to escape to get on well with a person etc… | Tiara axe wand / broomstick sword gown glass slippers crown magic ppotion magic lamp etc… |
Once upon a time….. happily ever after
Write a fairy tale using the following elements
