Unit 6

Lesson 1

• Have a look at the picture and try to the title of the unit (28 letters and 4 words: FAMILY AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION) .

• Do the worksheets below with the vocabulary

• Now, write the date in your copybook and start describing the picture using the table below. Just write one or two words not complete sentences. 

Lesson 2

• Have a look at the text.

   "He turned slowly back to the mirror.

    There he was, reflected in it, white and scared-looking, and there, reflected behind him, were at least ten others. Harry looked over his shoulder - - but still, no one was there. Or were they all invisible,
too? Was he in fact in a room full of invisible people and this mirror's trick was that it reflected them, invisible or not?

    He looked in the mirror again. A woman standing right behind his reflection was smiling at him and waving. He reached out a hand and felt the air behind him. If she was really there, he'd touch her, their reflections were so close together, but he felt only air -- she and the others existed only in the mirror.

   She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes -- her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought,edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, and his hair was very untidy. It stuck up at the back, just as Harry's did.

    Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.

    "Mom?" he whispered. "Dad?"

   They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in the mirror, and saw other pairs of green
eyes like his, other noses like his, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees -- Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life."

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling. Ch. 12 The Mirror of Erised, pp. 225-6.

= > How to read a text properly : 

-highlight the words you know (concerning clothes and physical description)

-read the sentences and try to identify the meaning.

• Fill in the table with the details that you can identify.

Assignment: Draw Harry's family with as many details from the text as you can (only from the text!!!)

Lesson 3

• Read the following extracts following the same method as in Lesson 2 and highlight all the words you know ro recognise. 

Extract nº1

"It was a horrible sight. Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite gray, its great lumpy body like a boulder with its small bald head perched on top like a coconut. It had short legs thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet. The smell coming from it was incredible. It was holding a huge wooden club, which dragged along the floor because its arms were so long."

Harry and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling, chp. 10, Halloween, p.190.

Extract nº2

"The baby dragon flopped onto the table. It wasn't exactly pretty; Harry thought
it looked like a crumpled, black umbrella. Its spiny wings were huge compared to its skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils, the stubs of horns and bulging, orange eyes.[…] It sneezed. A couple of sparks flew out of its snout.

"Isn't he beautiful?" Hagrid murmured. He reached out a hand to stroke the dragon's head. It snapped at his fingers, showing pointed fangs."

Harry and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling, chp. 14, Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback, p.254.

Extract nº3

"And into the clearing came -- was it a man, or a horse? To the waist, a man, with red hair and beard, but below that was a horse's gleaming chestnut body with a long, reddish tail."

Harry and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling, chp. 15, The Forbidden Forest, p.273.

Extract nº4

"Harry managed not to shout out, but it was a close thing. The little creature on the bed had large, bat-like ears and bulging green eyes the size of tennis balls. […] The creature slipped off the bed and bowed so low that the end of its long, thin nose touched the carpet. Harry noticed that it was wearing what looked like an old pillowcase, with rips for arm- and leg-holes."

Harry and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K Rowling, chp. 2, Dobby's Warning, p.18.

Extract nº5

"Spiders. Not tiny spiders like those surging over the leaves below. Spiders the size of carthorses, eight-eyed, eight-legged, black, hairy, gigantic. The massive specimen that was carrying Harry made its way down the steep slope toward a misty, domed web in the very centre of the hollow, while its fellows closed in all around it, click- ing their pincers excitedly at the sight of its load."

Harry and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K Rowling, chp. 15, Aragog, p.297.

Extract nº6

"And from the middle of the misty, domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly. There was grey in the black of his body and legs, and each of the eyes on his ugly, pincered head was milky white. He was blind."

Harry and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K Rowling, chp. 15, Aragog, p.298.

• Now, choose ONE extract and fill in the table with words from the text. Put them in the right column. 

• Check your findings with the TRACE ECRITE and write it in your copybook. 
• Then do the two assignments below:

Assignment 1 

Assignment 2

Lesson 4

• Do the exercices in your Bescherelle p.28-29 and 30-31. To help you revise your vocabulary, you can do the exercices on Quizlets below. 

• Now, go back to Assignment 2 and check the correction.
• In your copybook, write full sentences using BE and HAVE GOT to describe your family.

Lesson 5

• Watch the video

•  Now do the exercices on your Bescherelle p.30-31 and do the Quizlet below.

• Follow the link (if you can. Il se peut que le lien ne fonctionne plus, pas de panique. Vous ne faites pas l'activité) : click on the heads and listen to the words. Then put the heads next to the right word. 

Assignment 3: (à rendre en classe): On a blank piece of paper, write a letter to an Australian student using the following template:

Hi, 

[my name] - [my nationality]

[my age] - [my address]

[my physical description: size, weight, hair, eyes...] - [my clothes today]

[my family's description: parents, siblings, pets]

[signature]
xx

• Insert a picture at the end.

You will be need: to follow the template / to use BE and HAVE GOT accordingly / to write 5 sentences minimum. 

You can either type it on a computer or write it by hand. 

If you need an example, have a look at the help. 

Lesson 6

• Have a look at the Simpson's family tree and describe it with short sentences using possessive pronouns. 

• Check your sentences with the TRACE ECRITE
• Do the following exercice in your copybook:

Exercice transformation génitif

Examples: 

Herb is their uncle. 

=> Herb is Bart, Lisa and Maggie's uncle. 

Homer and Marge are their parents.

=> Homer and Marge are Bart, Lisa and Maggie's parents.

Marge is his wife. (Homer)

=> Marge is Homer's wife.

• Grammar point: Bescherelle p.26-27

In your copybook transform the following sentences. 

Herb is his son. (Abraham)

=> 

Mona is his wife. (Abraham)

=> 

Mona is his mother. (Homer)

=> 

Patty is her twin sister. (Selma)

=> 

Ling is her daughter. (Selma)

=> 

Clancy is her husband. (Jackie)

=> 

Bart, Lisa and Maggie are her cousins. (Ling)

=> 

• Correction
• TRACE ECRITE
• Assignment 4: answer the following questions:

Lesson 7

• Assignment 5: draw your family tree and describe it in 7 sentences using the genitive form. 
• Choose one teacher and create a chocolate frog card: write their name at the top, then a brief physical description. After, give the subject and the classroom. Follow the instructions below:

How to create a chocolate frog card:

1. Choose a teacher. 
2. Write their name.
3. Write a short physical description (hair, colour, age, size, ...)
4. Write their subject. 
5. Write their usual classroom. 

CAREFUL: with the pronouns (HIS/HER), the different verbs (HAVE GOT, BE...).