Objectifs globaux : Review the séquence
Objectifs linguistiques : Three past tenses
Objectifs travaillés : Grammar / Vocabulary questions
Resources :
Contents
Your project
Read the texts and prepare a presentation that answer the question below.
Step 1 – Read the Viking legacy documents.
- Underline the information that you have understood.
- Write any new vocabulary with its translation.
Step 2 – Discuss:
- What is the popular representation of the Viking ages today?
- Why was the Viking age a turning point in British history?
Step 3 – Your project.
- Answer the question: What is the Viking legacy in modern Britain?
- Use everything that you have seen in the séance so far.
- Prepare a two minute presentation that answers this question.
- Record yourself presenting. Video is preferred, but an audio recording is also possible.
- This is individual work. Do not copy a friends work.
- If you are caught cheating, you will get a zero.
- This is the end-of-séance project: coef 2.
- Respect the deadline, or it will be marked as ‘non-rendu’, which is a zero.
- Send your completed work through email, or Pronote.
Grammar
Se situer dans le passé
Observez:
She felt sick to her stomach. The Danes had descended upon England like a swarm of locusts, and they had bought with them bloodshed and terror. Now they were descending upon her home, and she had no one left to defend it because her people had gone to Alfred
Déduisez
Copy and complete the table with the answers below
- Find a verb form in the text that states:
- an action happening at the moment of the story
- an action that is continuing to happen at the moment of the story
- an action that happened before the story started
- What are these three forms called, and how are they formed?
Entraînez-vous
Put the verbs in their correct form.
- They (can/not/enter) the church: the doors (be) locked from the inside.
- Rowan (go) to Winchester. He (be/not) here to defend her anymore.
- The villagers (have) nothing to eat; the vikings (burn) all the crops.
- The vikings (approach), and there (be) nothing that she could do.
- Rhiannon (look) at the Viking longboats on the horizon. She (hear) of what they did and she (be) terrified.
Les adjectifs
Observez:
And then there was a sea of dragon prows, striking new terror into weary hearts. Tall and savage upon the water, like mythical beasts, they sailed in, raining devastation and slaughter. Red and white, the Viking sails slashed across the dark and terrifying gunmetal sky, defying the vicious wind. Our undeniable end had arrived.
Déduisez
- Rewrite the text without adjectives. What difference does it make?
- What is an adjective for?
- Find all the adjectives and class them into simple adjectives, derived adjectives, compound adjectives.
- What prefixes or suffixes can you use when you make a derived adjective? Can you name a few derived adjectives?
Entraînez-vous
Make the following sentences more interesting by adding adjectives. Be ready to read your examples to the class.
- The girl looked at the dog. « What an animal » she thought.
- School lunch today consisted of peas, rice and a curry.
- The Viking was wearing a helmet and armour. He had a beard.
- The table had graffiti on its legs.
- The monks in Lindisfarne hid behind the door of the cathedral.
Regroup the following sentences into one, by using compound adjectives.
- The man had red hair. The man was standing on a ship. The length of the ship was 25 meters.
- The eyes of the man were dark. The man was wearing clothes. The clothes had been made by hand. The clothes were black.
- Rowan was a good servant. He worked hard.
Vocabulary
Complete the Vocabulary Worksheet.
Evaluation
Answer questions about this lesson.
Match the halves of the sentences that make guesses about the video.