2ndes Lesson 5:Crime: I’m a private eye

Missions 2nde p66-85Note: bring your book for this lesson!

Language: Quantities, Probabilities (past/present/future)

Notions: Sentiment d’appartenance (singularités) – Visions d’avenir.

Compétences principales: CE/EE: Tâche finale: solve a murder case.

EOC: Research work

• Find essential information on the web (IN ENGLISH) about:

• Agatha Christie, Paul Auster, William Chandler, Mary Higgins Clark or another crime novelist or crime novel / series… and present it to the class. (cf p 76/77)

• You can make a powerpoint presentation with pics and key words. You must talk for 2 minutes without reading (15 key words authorized).

• You must all be ready to talk for next week, even though you could have to do it any day during this lesson.

• If you don’t have your notes or are not ready on the day your name is picked out, you lose 2 points.

Are you a good observer?Look at this picture (p67) for 2 minutes.

What can you remember?

Rooms Billiard Room

Weapons Wrench (US) / spanner (UK)

Suspects

Other weapons:Other rooms:

weapons

Suspects or

victims?Propose a conclusion to the investigation:

Look at the characters and weapons and complete:

………………………… was killed in the ……………………… by…………………….. With …………………

Practice: the passive aspect

• Read the story p 187

• Observe: Comment se forme le passif en anglais?

• Then do the activities p 189 I.

• You’ll get a flash test on the passive and voc.

Phonetics!

• Close your books!• Can you find what these words from the

lesson are?

Homework: Classify these words into those categories (use a dictionary) crimes / Police or justice action / criminals / other people // Nouns / Verbs / Adj

Murder Cases p68.A: Look at the title:“Fully clothed and intact”,

imagine what the article is about:

It is probably about…It may>might deal with…It could focus on…

• A1: Read the text and list the essential facts:Time / Place / Victim / possible pieces of evidence

CO: Mystery in Manhattan

• 1) Make suppositions: What may it be about?

• 2) Listen and organise your notes: CD1/23TIME / PLACE

• 3) Make a statement of what you know at the police station. (in pairs: policeman + witness)

Homework

• P68 ex A.2: Write your own article about a murder case, using the text as an example.

• Don’t forget the Headline/Title (p69 for ideas)

• Check the pronunciation of difficult words to read your text to the class.

Investigating: Forensic science

• P68 C: Lab rats.

Who? Where? What are they doing? (suppositions)

What may have happened? (suppositions about the past)The police ……….. have found a body.A criminal …………………………….(kill) a marine.A kidnapper ……………………………. (abduct) a famous woman.He ………………………………………..( want) a ransom. Someone …………………………………………. (disappear)Somebody ……………………………………..… (be killed)There …………………………………..………….. (be a murder)

Suppositions about the past

• Ex: A criminal may have murdered a marine. ……… + ….. + ……. + …………

Pour faire une supposition dans le passé, je dois utiliser un …………………… + mettre le verbe au ………….. …………… (have + part passé) car c’est quelque chose qui s’est (peut-être) produit dans le passé mais don’t je vois le résultat dans le ……………….

EE: Headlines p69

• Select a headline and write 3 suppositions about what may have happened. (past)

• Write an 8 line article corresponding to your headline (include all the essential facts)

Homework:• Memorize the words p 68 and lesson (voc flashtest)

Practice!

• Ex II p 189 1/2/3/4

• You can review the lesson p 187 II.

CO: 911 Emergency

P70. Missions 2nde CD 1 piste 24

1) Read the note about 911. What is the French equivalent? In which cases should you call 911?

2) Listen and complete:Name / address / problem / number of people involved / clues

Method: make sense of a text p78.• Read carefully and sum up the method.From the most obvious to the implied meaning: MATCH

Step 1 = …Step 2 = …Step 3 = …Step 4 = …

• Then, with your team, chose a text from pages71/ 72/ 74 /75 or MHClark photocopy. Read it, use themethod to understand it and present it to the class.

a. Lexical fieldsb. Peripheral information

c. Syntax (type of sentences, repetitions)d. Wh- questions

Quantities1) CE p 80 Read the text and close your book. Say what you remember.2) Copy the highlighted determiners from the text in the correct column3) Say if they indicate a small/large/uncertain/0 quantity

• Ex 2 p 83 to practice.

• HW/ question tags p 83 ex 3

Countable noun (suspect/suspects) Uncountable nouns (information)

Let’s act: question tags p81• Listen to 3 tags. Does the voice rise or fall?1) You live here, don’t you?2) He knew the victim, didn’t he?3) He wasn’t clever, was he?

• Write and Act in pairs: detective + victim’s wife/husbandThe detective knows / victim: Sleeps in the kitchen / body found ingarage / wasn’t at the theatre / hated that house / had an affair in townHe wants to know if: wife/husband knows the truth / had a gun / lovedhunting / loved the house / hated theatre / was faithful

Use question tags! Ex: You think I killed him, don’t you?

TF: mission p 85, Write about a crime issue.1) Read p84-85 and make a mind map of the case to recap all

the information you have. (page 1 de ta copie double)

2) Make 4 suppositions about the suspects’ motives, suppositions about what may have happened. (page 2 de ta copie double)

3) Write a report / letter or article to recap everything you know on the case, your suppositions and conclusions. (page 3-4)

Assessment grid

• J’ai bien compris tous les éléments de la double page _____/3

• J’ai repris et résumé les info. essentielles et les indices ______/3

• J’ai respecté la forme du texte que j’ai choisi d’écrire _____/2

• J’ai inclu au moins 3 hypothèses au passé, 2 au présent ______/5

• J’ai inclu au moins 2 quantifieurs et 3 question tags. _____/5

• J’ai rendu une copie propre, lisible, complète et soignée. ____/2