Builders and TitansNotion: Myths and Heroes

About some of the business geniuses or celebrities who have shaped our world.

Myth of the self-made man as part of the American dream

Meeting point T p 204-215

Final Task: (EE) Write the biography of a person who has shaped our world.

What is a hero?

Watch the 1st video, jot

down key words and

recap.

CO video 1

Every day heroes… are: Find more moreexamples with your team and answer: What does “hero”

mean to YOU?

Watch video 2 and complete the definitions:

=> A hero is someone who …

=> Somebody is a hero if / when they …

• Sacrifice (n/vb) / reputation / life / in a selfless way / to help

• Inspire / give hope

• Be like (ressembler) / make a change in… / for the better

• Go out of their way / don’t get anything from it

• Willing to help / less fortunate

CO video 2: Personal definitions

Video 3 Minitest Test CO + voc:

1. complete the following definitions

/6

• Integrity is _____ the ______ thing when ________ is looking

…

• A brave _________ who goes ____ of his or ___ way to _____ others

…

• Someone who gives up their _____, _____ safety

for ____ freedom and your _______

…

• Doing whatever ___________ to help ____________

2. Give your definition of a hero: (use the words and structures we have studied) /4___________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

CO video 3

B. Introduction: Meeting point p 204

• 1) Who? What are they famous for?

• 2) Locate the title of the magazine’s issue and the caption.

• 3) Describe the cover as precisely as you can.

• 4) Who would you have added on it? Why?

Words:

scaffolding / ladder / fumes / factory (GB) = plant (US) / set up a business / wealth / builders / titans / entrepreneurs

Unit 1: Recap : Time Magazine’s cover

• Words: scaffolding / ladder / fumes / factory (GB) = plant (US) / set up a business / wealth / builders / titans / entrepreneurs /

• Intro CO: Theme vocabulary CD3 track 32 (meeting pt T) worksheet

A typical American folk hero: the self-made man!

CO 4 podcast 1CD 3 meeting pt T

track 32

CE Meeting Point p 206-207: Modern TimesIndustrialists of the 19th century

1) Observe the clues around the text: What? Who about? What about?

2) Quick reading: Read the texts about and recap what you’ve learned in this mind map.

EO1 text1= doc 1 for your oral

exam

C. Organize your vocabulary => 1. Classify it:Nouns adj vbs

Look up examples of use in your book p 204 to 215 and write 4 sentences including this vocabulary and the people mentioned.

“Henry Ford was a

pioneer in the mass

production of cars. He

hired unskilled

workers to toil on his assembly

lines.”

Use this map as an example to organize “qualities and flaws”

vocabulary (title: tycoons)

HW: Watch the video about a famous entrepreneur

4 = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHzAtxW3TzY (Steve jobs) (HW practice)5 = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-gba5nMrc (Bill Gates) (HW practice)6 = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS7nCwOT7c (Donald Trump with script => In class)

Watch the first 2 minutes.

Jot down key words and information on a page.

Recap and get ready to report to the class.

CO 5 video 4 ( 1 au choix)= Your doc 2 for BAC oral exam

Women who broke the glass ceiling

2, Watch a video on JKR:

What do they have

in common?

1, Complete

the worksheet on Oprah’s

life

CO 6/7 video 5/6 = Your doc 3 for BAC oral exam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf8i5iLCYEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvMtUuedL

wU

Problematizing: defining the issue

Notion = ????

Topic = ????

Who could we talk about for example?

Propose a keyquestion (“issue”) that could help us develop this topic.

EOI: brainstorming

Baccalauréat Session : 2016 Etablissement : Lycée Louise Michel, Narbonne

Epreuve : Expression orale Nom du candidat :.........................................................................

Langue : Anglais Prénom : .............................. ................................................................

Série : ○LV1

Nom du professeur: ................................................................ ○LV2

○Idea of Progress ○Myths and Heroes ○Spaces and Exchanges ○Places and Forms of Power

Issue : ................................................................................................................................................................................

Document 1:............................................................................................................................................................

Document 2: ...........................................................................................................................................................

Document 3: ...........................................................................................................................................................

○Places and Forms of Power ○Idea of Progress ○Myths and Heroes ○Spaces and Exchanges

Issue: ................................................................................................................................................................................

Document 1:............................................................................................................................................................

Document 2: ...........................................................................................................................................................

Document 3: ...........................................................................................................................................................

○Myths and Heroes ○Places and Forms of Power ○Idea of Progress ○Spaces and Exchanges

Issue: .................................................................................................................................................................................

Document 1:............................................................................................................................................................

Document 2: ...........................................................................................................................................................

Document 3: ...........................................................................................................................................................

○Spaces and Exchanges ○Myths and Heroes ○Places and Forms of Power ○Idea of Progress

Issue: ...............................................................................................................................................................................

Document 1:............................................................................................................................................................

Document 2: ...........................................................................................................................................................

Document 3: ...........................................................................................................................................................

Tâche Finale:

• Imagine 50 years from now, you are very famous, you have changed the world. How? Were you an artist? A politician? A genius or A business(wo)man?

• Work in pairs: explain to your friend (who plays a journalist) what you achieved, your successes and failures and he will introduce you in a video (minibio). Then reverse roles!

Tâche Préparatoire Séq 2: A Man’s World?

Web Search and EOC: Estée Lauder

Meeting point p 212 Q.1a.