Section A: Jessica
Section B: Chloée
Section C: Pantea
lundi 30 mars 2009
Activity 1. Vocabulary study - use a dictionary to define the following words.
cad
wits
woo
fleece
desert= says bye,leave
drop names=protending
fabricate
pull off= he can not make his lies true
seamstress= she sews
milliner= Hat shop
plain-looking= not pretty, ordinairy
feigns= protends his surprise
taken aback = surprised
reel in = pulls her in, convince
blandishments= his lies
blanch= bothered, doesnt care
comsummate= they could not make love
brooch= jewelery
Activity 2. Plot: put the events in the proper sequence.
Plot
Act I
__4__ A. Georgia and Adelaide talk in separate monologues - George describes his role as a gigolo and Adelaide talks about her inheritance.
__9__ B. The next day they meet in the park and things happen fast - Georgia declares his love, asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts without much questioning.
__7__ C. The next day, George bumps into her by chance and invites her to lunch as he plays the perfect gentleman.
__2__ D. He says that his suits are attractive to women.
__6__ E. George enters the shop behind her and asks about the green hat in the window - the seduction of Adelaide has begun.
__10__ F. They are married in a coastal resort, book into a hotel, play cards the whole night long but do not make love because Adelaide carries a lot of emotional baggage from the past.
__8__ G. Adelaide is touched and accepts his invitation.
__1__ H. We first meet George who tells us he wears expensive clothes, just like those worn by the upper class of England.
__5__ I. The action really starts with George walking down Edgeware Road and coming face to face with Adelaide outside the clothing shop.
__3__ J. We meet Adelaide who tells us she works in the back room of a clothing store as a milliner.
Act II.
__7__ A. She dreams about opening a clothing store together; it would be the perfect fit for them.
__4__ B. George makes excuses and convinces Adelaide to take a bath.
__2__ C. Saying he has a headache, George does not go to the post office with Adelaide, but returns to the room, hoping to escape with the money and brooch.
__10__ D. Unfortunately for her George does the unthinkable.
__8__ E. George hesitates, Adelaide prepares to leave, he tries to get her money back, and he becomes angry.
__5__ F. Adelaide realizes her brooch is not there and confronts George about his lies, telling him to stop pretending.
__6__ G. She takes on an assertive role: she wants to stay with him rather than her parents and proposes a plan to him.
__3__ H. But for some unknown reason, George returns to the room to leave the brooch and as he is leaving a second time comes face-to-face with Adelaide.
__9__ I. Adelaide decides to stay when she learns about George's troubled past.
__1__J. After Adelaide wakes up, she and George head to the bank to withdraw her inheritance and she writes a letter to her family.
Activity 3. Writing and discussion: in small groups.The elements of plot, theme, character, setting, point of view and style contribute to the overall effect of the play:
1-What is the writer's purpose? to entertain? to be thought provoking? to state an opinion? to play on the reader's emotions?
2-What is the writer's tone? Is the writer being ironic? sarcastic? humorous? serious? tongue in cheek?
3-How does the story begin? Does the writer establish setting or emphasise the background of the situation? Is the character given more emphasis than the setting? How much detail is supplied?
4-How does the story develop? Is it told through a series of blocks moving rapidly through time and space, like flash backs and flash forwards? Is it being told chronologically?
5-How does the story end? With a twist or surprise? With a build up to an inevitable climax or are you left hanging, being forced to supply your own ending based on your reading of the little blocks of action the writer supplied?
6-Who tells the story? Is the story being told through the eyes of a character involved in the action? Is the author standing outside of the action and observing? Is the author observing but within the action?
Check the use of the pronoun... if it is I, me, my, our, we then the author is a character within the story. The story is being told in the first person.If the pronouns are: he, she, it, hers, his, they, them, their the author is outside of the action and observing as if he/she was God. This is known as the Eye of God technique.Another way of telling a story is as a series of thoughts, each thought block building up an impression or action. The thoughts can be told in a logical order or as they seemingly occur to the character... at random. This is known as the stream of consciousness technique
7-What is the language and style like? The impression the writer wants in the story will be affected by the language he/she tells the story in or has the characters use. The language is important to develop the character and action. The realism of the dialogue will influence our reading of the story and our attitudes to the characters involved.
8-What images are used? In order to rapidly develop a story the writer relies on the reader recognising particular symbols and references and understanding what he/she intends them to mean, eg. in Maurice Gee's story Schooldays (Maurice Gee - Collected Stories. Penguin Books) the lead character's red hair becomes a symbol for rebellion, challenge and freedom.
9-What are the characters like? The characters don't have to be fully developed. They need not have a name. They can be identified simply as "the boy", "the girl". "the mother." In other stories it is essential that the characters have fully developed personalities and motivations.
10-How important is the setting in conveying the ideas and mood of the story?
cad
wits
woo
fleece
desert= says bye,leave
drop names=protending
fabricate
pull off= he can not make his lies true
seamstress= she sews
milliner= Hat shop
plain-looking= not pretty, ordinairy
feigns= protends his surprise
taken aback = surprised
reel in = pulls her in, convince
blandishments= his lies
blanch= bothered, doesnt care
comsummate= they could not make love
brooch= jewelery
Activity 2. Plot: put the events in the proper sequence.
Plot
Act I
__4__ A. Georgia and Adelaide talk in separate monologues - George describes his role as a gigolo and Adelaide talks about her inheritance.
__9__ B. The next day they meet in the park and things happen fast - Georgia declares his love, asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts without much questioning.
__7__ C. The next day, George bumps into her by chance and invites her to lunch as he plays the perfect gentleman.
__2__ D. He says that his suits are attractive to women.
__6__ E. George enters the shop behind her and asks about the green hat in the window - the seduction of Adelaide has begun.
__10__ F. They are married in a coastal resort, book into a hotel, play cards the whole night long but do not make love because Adelaide carries a lot of emotional baggage from the past.
__8__ G. Adelaide is touched and accepts his invitation.
__1__ H. We first meet George who tells us he wears expensive clothes, just like those worn by the upper class of England.
__5__ I. The action really starts with George walking down Edgeware Road and coming face to face with Adelaide outside the clothing shop.
__3__ J. We meet Adelaide who tells us she works in the back room of a clothing store as a milliner.
Act II.
__7__ A. She dreams about opening a clothing store together; it would be the perfect fit for them.
__4__ B. George makes excuses and convinces Adelaide to take a bath.
__2__ C. Saying he has a headache, George does not go to the post office with Adelaide, but returns to the room, hoping to escape with the money and brooch.
__10__ D. Unfortunately for her George does the unthinkable.
__8__ E. George hesitates, Adelaide prepares to leave, he tries to get her money back, and he becomes angry.
__5__ F. Adelaide realizes her brooch is not there and confronts George about his lies, telling him to stop pretending.
__6__ G. She takes on an assertive role: she wants to stay with him rather than her parents and proposes a plan to him.
__3__ H. But for some unknown reason, George returns to the room to leave the brooch and as he is leaving a second time comes face-to-face with Adelaide.
__9__ I. Adelaide decides to stay when she learns about George's troubled past.
__1__J. After Adelaide wakes up, she and George head to the bank to withdraw her inheritance and she writes a letter to her family.
Activity 3. Writing and discussion: in small groups.The elements of plot, theme, character, setting, point of view and style contribute to the overall effect of the play:
1-What is the writer's purpose? to entertain? to be thought provoking? to state an opinion? to play on the reader's emotions?
2-What is the writer's tone? Is the writer being ironic? sarcastic? humorous? serious? tongue in cheek?
3-How does the story begin? Does the writer establish setting or emphasise the background of the situation? Is the character given more emphasis than the setting? How much detail is supplied?
4-How does the story develop? Is it told through a series of blocks moving rapidly through time and space, like flash backs and flash forwards? Is it being told chronologically?
5-How does the story end? With a twist or surprise? With a build up to an inevitable climax or are you left hanging, being forced to supply your own ending based on your reading of the little blocks of action the writer supplied?
6-Who tells the story? Is the story being told through the eyes of a character involved in the action? Is the author standing outside of the action and observing? Is the author observing but within the action?
Check the use of the pronoun... if it is I, me, my, our, we then the author is a character within the story. The story is being told in the first person.If the pronouns are: he, she, it, hers, his, they, them, their the author is outside of the action and observing as if he/she was God. This is known as the Eye of God technique.Another way of telling a story is as a series of thoughts, each thought block building up an impression or action. The thoughts can be told in a logical order or as they seemingly occur to the character... at random. This is known as the stream of consciousness technique
7-What is the language and style like? The impression the writer wants in the story will be affected by the language he/she tells the story in or has the characters use. The language is important to develop the character and action. The realism of the dialogue will influence our reading of the story and our attitudes to the characters involved.
8-What images are used? In order to rapidly develop a story the writer relies on the reader recognising particular symbols and references and understanding what he/she intends them to mean, eg. in Maurice Gee's story Schooldays (Maurice Gee - Collected Stories. Penguin Books) the lead character's red hair becomes a symbol for rebellion, challenge and freedom.
9-What are the characters like? The characters don't have to be fully developed. They need not have a name. They can be identified simply as "the boy", "the girl". "the mother." In other stories it is essential that the characters have fully developed personalities and motivations.
10-How important is the setting in conveying the ideas and mood of the story?
lundi 16 mars 2009
PREVIEWING TRYST
Women’s suffrage:
1- In 18th Century, women became strongly politically active in united kingdom.
2- In 1907, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage
Societies organized it’s first large procession.
3-In 1918, with WWI over, Parliament agreed to enfranchise women who were over the age of 30. It was not until 1928 that women were granted the right to vote on the same terms as men.
Melodrama:
1-
Melodrama comes from “music drama” where music was used to increase emotions or signify characters.
2-
Some characteristics of melodrama include a simplified moral universe where good and evil are embodied in stock characters.
3-
Traditional melodrama is usually in
episodic form where the villain poses a threat and the hero or heroine escapes with a happy
ending.
Realism:
1-
Realism is the representation in art or literature of objects, actions or social conditions.
2- They actually are in our own world, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.
3- It is easy to forget that this style is only a century and a half old.
Naturalism :
1- Naturalism is an artistic movement advocating realistic description: in art or literature, a
movement or school advocating factual or realistic description of life, including its less
pleasant aspects.
2- There is a special stress on the importance of heredity and environment in
determining character.
3- They are anti-Romantic in their rejection of the self-defining hero who
transcends his background.
1- In 18th Century, women became strongly politically active in united kingdom.
2- In 1907, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage
Societies organized it’s first large procession.
3-In 1918, with WWI over, Parliament agreed to enfranchise women who were over the age of 30. It was not until 1928 that women were granted the right to vote on the same terms as men.
Melodrama:
1-
Melodrama comes from “music drama” where music was used to increase emotions or signify characters.
2-
Some characteristics of melodrama include a simplified moral universe where good and evil are embodied in stock characters.
3-
Traditional melodrama is usually in
episodic form where the villain poses a threat and the hero or heroine escapes with a happy
ending.
Realism:
1-
Realism is the representation in art or literature of objects, actions or social conditions.
2- They actually are in our own world, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.
3- It is easy to forget that this style is only a century and a half old.
Naturalism :
1- Naturalism is an artistic movement advocating realistic description: in art or literature, a
movement or school advocating factual or realistic description of life, including its less
pleasant aspects.
2- There is a special stress on the importance of heredity and environment in
determining character.
3- They are anti-Romantic in their rejection of the self-defining hero who
transcends his background.
Consumer And Business Buyer Behaviour
1- Consumers are influenced by cultural, Sucultural and social class.
2- Culture is based on person’s society, a child learns basic values, perceptions, wants and behaviours
3- Our flag, the achievements of prominent Canadians such as artist and scientist, our multicultural and multiracial makeup.
4- Because cultural shifts leads you to discover new products.
5- Subculture contains smaller groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations and it includes nationalities, religions, racial group and geographic regions.
6- The three Canadian subcultures are Native Canadians, ethic consumers and Internet users.
7- Scotia bank uses grassroots marketing and public relations efforts, including its scholarships of the Aboriginal Achievement Award and 10 annual scholarships of $ 2500 for young Aboriginal entrepreneurs.
8- Because they are growing marketing in Canada and they have purchasing power.
9- They believe that they have been neglected or misrepresented by marketers.
10- Because its technological sophistication and willingness to make Internet purchase and people aged 45 to 54 make up 15 percent of internet users, while those over 55 constitute only 8 percent,
11- They are concerned that the information they provide when making a purchase or requesting information maybe sold or given to another organization without their permission.
12- Social classes are society’s relatively permanent and ordered divisions whose members share similar values, interests, and behaviours.
2- Culture is based on person’s society, a child learns basic values, perceptions, wants and behaviours
3- Our flag, the achievements of prominent Canadians such as artist and scientist, our multicultural and multiracial makeup.
4- Because cultural shifts leads you to discover new products.
5- Subculture contains smaller groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations and it includes nationalities, religions, racial group and geographic regions.
6- The three Canadian subcultures are Native Canadians, ethic consumers and Internet users.
7- Scotia bank uses grassroots marketing and public relations efforts, including its scholarships of the Aboriginal Achievement Award and 10 annual scholarships of $ 2500 for young Aboriginal entrepreneurs.
8- Because they are growing marketing in Canada and they have purchasing power.
9- They believe that they have been neglected or misrepresented by marketers.
10- Because its technological sophistication and willingness to make Internet purchase and people aged 45 to 54 make up 15 percent of internet users, while those over 55 constitute only 8 percent,
11- They are concerned that the information they provide when making a purchase or requesting information maybe sold or given to another organization without their permission.
12- Social classes are society’s relatively permanent and ordered divisions whose members share similar values, interests, and behaviours.
lundi 2 mars 2009
Mid-term Writing Test (435 words)
This survey is about Barak Obama. His birth name is Barak Hussein Obama and he was born in Hawaii. His mother is a white american woman and his father is a black kenyan man. His parents got divorced when he was only 2 year old. He attended Chicago law school and he also studied at Harvard university. When he finished his education, he started teaching at Harvard university. He also became the editor reviewer of Harvard university and he was the first african-american in that position . Obama is the first black president of United-States at the moment. This report is made to find out how much the first black president means a Change to people. So people gave some important reasons for this big change for United States.
This survey is sent to two different group of ages: The people 18 to 29 year old and the people 30 year and older. So the questions of this survey were the fallowing:
1- If you had vote during the last election in United States, would you have voted for Barack Obama or John McAin?
2- Do you think that the first black president in this country means change?
3-Barack Obama lead is campagn by talking about change, hope and responsability. Do you think he will respect those engagements? Do you wish he will?
4-Would you rather live with the politic of Obama than the one of Harper?
5-Do you think that Obama will bring peace between USA and other countries? Do you wish that the war stops? Explain your answer.
The results were very interesting because older people used think that Obama is not as important to younger people as he is to older people.
For the first question, both group of age answered Barak Obama.
For the secound question, both group said that barak Obama means a change. The reason is that because it shows that the society is not racist and also thats because Obama looks like a new hope after some years of obscurantism.
For the third question, some people said that they hope he respects and some people said no, because he is not the only person who decides in USA.
For the fifth question, The whole group of 30 year and older said that they prefer Obama`s politics but 5 % of younger people said that they prefer harper politics.
For the sixth question which was about bringing peace, some people said that they are sure that he will bring peace and some people said that they do not know.
The survey and the results show that Barak obama means a change to people. It shows that the majority of american electors are not racist and they are very realistics. Barak Obama talks about hope and resposibilities in his speechs. Even though if he is not the only one who decides for United States politic, he will have a big influence for sure and everybody hope that. Politics is not just about talking, its about taking resposibilities and actions. Barak Obama believes that USA will distroy the world but his objectif is not to make ennemies and wars. His politic is to make a friendly relation with other countries. He`s woking on the world economics and he is also making changes inside the USA like working on medical cares at the begining of his job. Barak Obama was a good election because he`s a smart and educated person. We hope he does his best on his job.
This survey is sent to two different group of ages: The people 18 to 29 year old and the people 30 year and older. So the questions of this survey were the fallowing:
1- If you had vote during the last election in United States, would you have voted for Barack Obama or John McAin?
2- Do you think that the first black president in this country means change?
3-Barack Obama lead is campagn by talking about change, hope and responsability. Do you think he will respect those engagements? Do you wish he will?
4-Would you rather live with the politic of Obama than the one of Harper?
5-Do you think that Obama will bring peace between USA and other countries? Do you wish that the war stops? Explain your answer.
The results were very interesting because older people used think that Obama is not as important to younger people as he is to older people.
For the first question, both group of age answered Barak Obama.
For the secound question, both group said that barak Obama means a change. The reason is that because it shows that the society is not racist and also thats because Obama looks like a new hope after some years of obscurantism.
For the third question, some people said that they hope he respects and some people said no, because he is not the only person who decides in USA.
For the fifth question, The whole group of 30 year and older said that they prefer Obama`s politics but 5 % of younger people said that they prefer harper politics.
For the sixth question which was about bringing peace, some people said that they are sure that he will bring peace and some people said that they do not know.
The survey and the results show that Barak obama means a change to people. It shows that the majority of american electors are not racist and they are very realistics. Barak Obama talks about hope and resposibilities in his speechs. Even though if he is not the only one who decides for United States politic, he will have a big influence for sure and everybody hope that. Politics is not just about talking, its about taking resposibilities and actions. Barak Obama believes that USA will distroy the world but his objectif is not to make ennemies and wars. His politic is to make a friendly relation with other countries. He`s woking on the world economics and he is also making changes inside the USA like working on medical cares at the begining of his job. Barak Obama was a good election because he`s a smart and educated person. We hope he does his best on his job.
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