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4.4: On découvre - la description morale

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    1. On parle de la personnalité

    In English and other languages you speak, what adjectives come to mind to describe someone’s personality? Write down the adjectives that the group came up with and make a list of the ten most common adjectives.

    A. On apprend : les adjectifs irréguliers

    #Grammaire #AdjectifsIrréguliers

    ** Potential ADAPT/H5P problem

    Lisez les explications et complétez les activités : irregular adjectives

    B. Ils sont comment ?

    ** Potential ADAPT/H5P problem

    Step 1. Choisissez l’adjectif le plus approprié pour chaque personnage. Allez sur Internet si vous ne connaissez pas ces personnes.

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    Asterix est

    franc

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    hypocrite

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    Greta Thunberg est

    prétentieuse

    unchecked

    modeste

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    John Boyega est

    incapable

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    travailleur

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    Harry Potter est

    naïf

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    débrouillard

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    Georges (le singe) est

    indifférent

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    curieux

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    Platon est

    idéaliste

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    fou

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    Malala Yousafzai est

    pessimiste

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    optimiste

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    Ketanji Brown Jackson est

    drôle

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    sérieuse

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    Step 2. Et vous ? Choisissez un adjectif qui vous décrit et un adjectif qui ne vous décrit pas.

    #Grammaire #Négation (révisions)

    Lisez les explications et complétez les activités : basic negation: ne ... pas

    Modèle :

    - Je suis sportive mais je ne suis pas hypocrite.

    -

    C. C’est qui ?

    ** Potential ADAPT/H5P problem

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    Step 1. Vous connaissez Mafalda et Le Petit Prince ? Si non, lisez les descriptions.

    Votre prof va lire une liste d’adjectifs. Écoutez et ☑ si l’adjectif décrit Mafalda (la forme féminine) ou Le Petit Prince (la forme masculine) ou est-ce que c’est impossible à distinguer ?

     

    Mafalda

    Le Petit Prince

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    Step 2. Lisez les phrases suivantes à propos de Mafalda. Ensuite, avec un / une partenaire, choisissez les phrases qui vous décrivent ou pas ? Cochez la colonne appropriée.

     

    MOI

    MON PARTENAIRE

     

    moi aussi!

    pas moi!

    lui / elle / iel aussi

    pas lui / elle / iel

    1. Mafalda est petite.

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    2. Mafalda est souvent pessimiste.

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    3. Elle est idéaliste.

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    4. Elle est brune.

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    5. Elle a les cheveux bouclés.

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    6. Susanita, sa meilleure amie, est égoïste et prétentieuse.

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    7. Mafalda a des parents tolérants et généreux.

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    8. Son voisin, Felipe, est rêveur.

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    9. Mafalda et ses amis sont d'Argentine.

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    10. Son frère, Guille, est le cadet.

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    Step 3. D'après les informations du tableau ci-dessus, avec votre partenaire, écrivez un petit paragraphe de six phrases minimum pour parlez de vous deux. Commencez par vous présenter (1), ensuite parlez de vos caractéristiques physiques (2) et de personnalité (3) et enfin parlez de votre entourage (4).

    Modèle :

    Nous nous appelons X et Y. X est petit mais moi je suis grande. Nous sommes optimistes et jamais pessimistes…

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    Step 4. Présentez votre groupe au reste de la classe.

    D. La personne idéale

    ** Potential ADAPT/H5P problem

    Step 1. Regardez les adjectifs suivants. Choisissez les adjectifs qui décrivent le copain de vos rêves / la copine de vos rêves ou le copain horrible / la copine horrible.

     

    le copain

    la copine

    ...de rêve

    le copain

    la copine

    ...horrible

    1. amusant(e)

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    1. prétentieux(se)

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    1. sérieux(se)

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    1. intelligent(e)

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    1. pessimiste

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    1. sympathique

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    1. sportif(ve)

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    Step 2. Partagez vos réponses avec le reste de la classe. Quels sont les deux adjectifs les plus sélectionnés pour le copain ou la copine de rêve et pour le copain ou la copine horrible.

    2. On écoute : le portrait moral

    Activez les sous-titres en français ou en anglais.

    https://youtu.be/irtcGZ3Y5pw

    Faites une courte vidéo où vous décrivez quelques personnes. Pour cela, préparez un script et ensuite filmez !

    Ch 4 Devoirs 2

    Ch 4 Devoirs 3

    Variations sociales : verlan à (l’en)(vers)

    Language users often develop word games to transform everyday words into new forms that only certain people have access to. Often, though not exclusively, young speakers engage in this practice as a way of communicating with their peers so that outsiders (i.e. adults, parents, authority figures) can’t figure out what they are saying. This linguistic exclusivity does double duty by also allowing the novel word forms to serve as an identity marker for the people who choose to use them.

    Verlan is a well-known language game in French from France. The game was first attested in the 16th century, however, the name Verlan wasn’t attested until 1968, when the game’s usage took off in and around the Parisian suburbs. Every generation in France has seen the popularization of a different set of verlanized words relevant to the social issues of the time (sex, drugs, immigration, rock music, rap music, electronic communication, etc.). What makes Verlan unique as a language game is that many of these game words have become conventionalized and have hung around in the general vocabulary of French speakers in France for decades.

    Verlan is a type of backwards slang (this type of word game is popular across human languages). It works by inverting the syllables of a word, or in the case of 3+ syllables, displacing the final syllable to the front of the word. Consider the following forms (the dots indicate syllable boundaries):

    fran.çais

    cé.fran

    ‘French’

    mu.sique

    zic.mu

    ‘music’

    po.ssi.ble

    si.ble.po

    ‘possible’

    moi

    wam / ouam / oim

    ‘me’

    In fact, the name of the language game, Verlan, is a verlan word itself!

    l’en.vers

    ver.lan

    ‘reverse’

    Below is a list of some popular Verlan forms:

    méchant

    chanmé

    ‘mean’

    fou

    ouf

    ‘crazy’

    bizarre

    zarbi

    ‘bizarre’

    mec

    keum

    ‘guy, dude’

    énervé

    vénère

    ‘angry’

    louche

    chelou

    ‘sketchy, shady’

    Since Verlan has existed for several generations, a few forms have even been reverlanized over the years to keep them sounding fresh for young users. In this case, the original order of consonants is restored but the vowels are changed. Consider these forms:

    femme

    meuf (1st verlan)

    feumeu (2nd verlan)

    ‘woman’

    flic

    keuf (1st verlan)

    feuk (2nd verlan)

    ‘cop’

    What language games exist in the languages you speak? Name one/some and describe how each one transforms words.

    Have any word forms created by the language game entered into the general vocabulary over time in any of your languages? Which ones?

    Describe the social groups of people who use these language games. Is it young people? Specialized professions? Something else?

    Do you have any personal experience participating in language games in any of your languages?


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