Liverpool

About Liverpool :

history : industrial town / ships / harbour

culture : the Beatles / football = soccer / violent supporters = hooligans

Revising directions

https://elt.oup.com/student/champions/level02/dialogues/dialogue03?cc=fr&selLanguage=en

04/02

Practice asking directions with the map of Liverpool.  Discover the town.

Page 115 : Written comprehension -  Liverpool, Capital of Culture 2008

Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city and has a proud history from its foundation in 1208, to expanding into the 2nd city of the British Empire.  It developped further with the industrial revolution and is now a wonderful modern city after a difficult period after WW1.

The river Mersey and the harbour have been extremely important in the development of the city.

Homework : relire le texte à la recherche de tous les mots en lien avec l'activité portuaire et l'eau.

06/02

vocabulary related to the harbour :

docks / boat / ship / sail / set sail / sea / ocean / maritime / water front / river Mersey

Compréhension orale: Peter talks about his hometown

Notes

an exiled Liverpudlian / left the city in 1986, aged 18  /  has returned infrequently since

when he was growing up, Liverpool was harsh: opportunities limited  / unemployment high / litter everywhere / fortunate to go to university = escape route / not trapped there for life like his parents  / remembers his visits were depressing / train journey through the suburbs : rows of identical terraced houses / his grandparents' house: toilet outside / modernized 1982

in mid 2008 same streets / same houses / same litter  / Liverpool : notorious for its violence / last visit, read the local paper: 4 fatal shooting incidents / 1 ongoing courtcase an 18 yr old boy killing another 11 yr old / would not volunteer his place of birth in a conversation: he is not proud to be a Liverpudlian (his accent has been much reduced since he left)

Writing from your notes:

Peter is not proud to be a Liverpudlian. He was happy to leave Liverpool in 1986 to study at university. He only infrequently visits his hometown...

11/02 & 13/02

Only 7 pupils present this week.

Choice of activities :

- documentary about the Beatles as an instrument of change

- singing a song by the Beatles

- conversation practice : organizing an evening together / organizing a weekend away

Conversation recap / vocab

We organized a party :

Zoe is going to bring pizza.  Aurélie is going to bring coke and crisps.  Simon said he would bring apples. Célia said she would bring a bubbly drink. We decided to watch Titanic because Barnabé wanted to see a romantic movie. Some of us decided to dress up and then we want to go to a fun park.

We also organized a trip including:

Shopping in Paris, going up the Eiffel Tower, sleeping in a star-gazing dome or another original accomodation, a campsite, swimming with dolphins, jumping from a cliff, getting a haircut in Aubenas, going on a helter skelter, taking a ride on a roller coaster and a caroussel.

Structures :

Why don't we + BV...? / How about + V-ing...? / Let's + BV... / We could + BV...

It would be fun to + BV... / It would be great to + BV...

What a great idea! Excellent plan!

I don't like dressing up.

We will + BV / We're going to + BV / We intend to + BV...

Vocabulaire :

glide / slide / slip / sulk

04/03

page 116 - Past and Present - Compréhension écrite

The scene takes place at the beginning of a Beatles concert in Liverpool in a theatre.  The audience is over-excited and the noise is overwhelming as the four lads arrive on stage!

06/03

CE page 116 text 2

What does each part of this text describe?

CO : Music Fans

Entraînement sur la 1ère partie :

- context, speakers, topic...

- the foundation of the band

Evaluation sur la partie 2

11/03

Liverpool soccer - documents page 117

Liverpool fans have had a very bad reputation : they were notorious for their extremely violent and disrespectful behaviour.

Vocabulary :

football pitch / grounds / field

players

fans are not supposed to :

throw stuff at the players / insult them = throw abuse at them / make obscene gestures / make rude gestures / swear / pull faces at the players / threaten them / spit

Comprehension : a football fan

Context? Speakers? Topic? Opinions?

radio show interview

a woman interviewer + Mr Winterbottom, a football fan

racist abuse / racism in football

Experience, opinions and solutions :

He thinks fans who have a racist behaviour should be arrested

He remembers a player called John Barnes who was a target for racism.

He says groups of racist fans feel safe and powerful and they insult and make rude gestures.

He remembers another player who suffered a torrent of abuse and monkey noises because he was black. Mr Winterbottom was really shocked.

Solutions : the police should eject disrespectful supporters from the grounds.  They already arrest some of them.

Mr W. thinks it's not enough : he believes that supporters themselves should make a stand when they witness racist behaviours.  They should report racist fans. He is radical: he says these fans should have their season tickets taken off them for life.

13/03

Hour 1

Dear White Fella (video)

This video is part of a campaign against racism in football.

A black man is talking and says he remains black whatever the circumstances, unlike white people who change colours according to the temperature or life events (red in the sun, blue in cold water; green when sick...)

The tone is humouristic.  The last sentence "And you have the cheek to call ME coloured?" is ironic and it shows how absurd it is to define people according to the colour of their skin because it's all relative.

Group work : write a short radio spot against racism

Hour 2

Révision de la modalité:

obligation, absence d'obligation, interdiction, capacité, permission... au présent, passé et futur. (page 122)

 25/03

CE : textes page 118

the transatlantic slave trade and its consequences

In text 1, we see that trading with the colonies really changed Europeans' consuming habits and diet when they started consuming products like sugar, coffee, tobacco...

In text 2, we also see another consequence : slave owners made large profits and invested their money in Great Britain's economy.  As a consequence, it became a flourishing industrial country.

(economy & money : successful, fortunes, wealth, benefit from, increase, economic, industrial)

In text 3, we discover the involvement of Liverpool in the European slave trade.  It started in 1699 and demand for products from the colonies increased so more slaves were needed.  By the 1740s, more than 1.5 million African slaves had been transported by Liverpool ships. The port was well located and all the prominent people were involved.

27/03

Révisions des modaux (ex p 123 n°3)

The transatlantic slave trade recap

Compréhension orale : The Essex, a slave ship

1. What do you know about the building of the Essex?

2. When did she leave Liverpool?

3. How many sailors were on board?

4. Where did they stop on the way to Africa?

5. What was the ship's cargo then and what were they planning on exchanging it for?

6. How long did the ship stay in West Africa?

7. How many slaves did the ship carry when she left Africa?

8. What happened during the crossing?

9. What happened to the other slaves when they arrived in the Carribeans?

10. When did the ship get back to Liverpool?

11. What was her cargo then?

01/04

Group work : create a leaflet to encourage tourists to come and visit Liverpool.