Compulsory test

 When a student misses too many classes, the teacher gives them a compulsory test so they can get a main grade. What do you think about it? Do you think it is a good idea?

A possible eruption in Iceland

 The most active volcano in Iceland is under high surveillance since water flowed from it for 10 days. If you were living near a volcano, how do you think you would react?

Joséphine Baker

46 years after her death, Josephine Baker was buried in the pantheon. What do you know about her ? Do you think that it is important to pay tribute to worthy people when they are dead or should we do it when they are still alive ?

Probability(possibility) structures

 Imagine what your best friend did yesterday ? Use the structures studies in class.

The wall between between Poland and Belarus

Poland announced the construction of a wall in December on its border with Belarus to prevent migrants from entering the country. What do you think about it ?

Scapegoat

What advice would you give someone who uses another person as scapegoat? 

Back to Earth

Last Tuesday, Thomas Pesquet came back to earth after being in space for 6 months. He said that getting back to normal life was not that easy. Do you think you would be able to do the same?

Halloween!

 What did you do for Halloween ? 

Here's my favourite horror series you can watch on Netflix: The haunting of Hill house, The haunting of Bly manor. Tell me yours.

Happy halloween !

New passports in the USA

 The USA delivered the first passport with the gender "X" to a person who identify with none of the traditional genders (feminine, masculine). What do you think about this ? 

Read and comment

Michelle Obama says a White

woman 'cut right in front of her'

in a line—like she were invisible

The former first lady said the experience was "telling of how White America views people who are not like them."

By Chandni G September 1, 2020

Former first lady Michelle Obama recently launched a podcast on Spotify, in which she discusses her life in the White House and reflects on her journey. For fans of Obama who just could not get enough even after reading her bestselling memoir Becoming, the podcast has been a welcome treat. In her latest episode, she discussed what it was like to be "just a Black woman" in White America with guests Kelly Dibble, Denielle Pemberton-Heard, and Dr. Sharon Malone. She described one incident when she was waiting in line to order at a Häagen-Dazs with her two daughters and another Black woman, sans Secret Service. A White woman cut her off in the line, without a second thought, treating Obama as if she were invisible.

"What the White community doesn’t understand about being a person of color in this nation is that there are daily slights, in our workplaces where people talk over you, or people don’t even see you," she explained, before describing her own personal experience. "We were stopping to get ice cream, and I had told the Secret Service to stand back because we were trying to be normal, trying to go in [to a Häagen-Dazs]... There was a line, and when I’m just a Black woman, I notice that White people don’t even see me. They’re not even looking at me." Pemberton-Heard and both of Obama's daughters, in soccer uniforms, were with the former first lady when this incident took place.

She continued to share that a White woman cut right in front of the group to place her order. She said, "A White woman cuts right in front of us to order. Like, she didn’t even see us. And the girl behind the counter almost took her order. And I had to stand up because I know [Pemberton-Heard] was like, ‘Well, I’m not gonna cause a scene with Michelle Obama.'"

Do we really live in a time and age when the most powerful woman in the country has to introduce herself? Well, it appears so. "So I stepped up and I said, Excuse me?'" Obama went on. "I was like, 'You don’t see us four people standing right here, you just jumped in line?'" Apparently, the White woman had no idea that she had just cut Obama off in line. She did not apologize or look her in the eye either.

Obama stated, "All she saw was a Black person, or a group of Black people, or maybe she didn’t even see that, because we were that invisible. I can tell you a number of stories like that, when I’ve been completely incognito, during the eight years in the White House, walking the dogs on the canal... People will come up and pet my dogs, but will not look me in the eye. What White folks don’t understand is, like, that is so telling of how White America views people who are not like them. You know, we don’t exist. And when we do exist, we exist as a threat. And that—that’s exhausting."

If even the Michelle Obama could be treated as if she were invisible, take a moment to reflect on how other Black people, and people of color in general, feel in America today. If you have White privilege and witness an incident like this, but also notice that the person of color does not stand up for themselves, step in. You do not have to be a White savior but you can put your privilege to good use.

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Present perfect

Have you got your junior school certificate ? With which honors ? Use present perfect to answer.

Past continuous

What were you doing before before logging in? Use past continuous to answer.

Past perfect

After he had done his homework.. Continue the story. Use past perfect to answer.

The new superman

In the comic book "The New Superman", the author made the main character (who's the son of Superman) bisexual. We can see him kissing his male crush. What do you think about it? 

Brexit -Northern Ireland

 

"Cry Freedom"

 

If you were a black person during the period of segregation in South Africa, would you have let the white government treat you like how blacks were treated or would you have militated like Biko ? Justify your answer.

Abolition of the death penalty

 40 years ago the death penalty was abolished in France. What is your opinion about this? Do you think that’s a good thing or should it be reinstated ?

What is the most shocking thing you learned about South Africa ?

Did you like the book Cry Freedom? And why ?

Do you think that time should be used for forgiveness or people should be punished for their crimes no matter how long it takes?

Inspirational

 

Northern Ireland

 Is Violence the best way to be heard ?

Answer the question using the example of Northern Ireland.

"Getting something free" STOP AND THINK!

 Will contraceptive pills really be free? Who provide(s) the money/resource to make them?

Listen and think

 

 

Free contraception for women

 Last Thursday, Olivier Véran announced that contraception for women under 25 would become free from 2022. What do you think about it ?

Northern Ireland

 

September 10th is the World Prevention Suicide Day, do you think a whole day should be dedicated to help fight suicide. Why ?

Relatives challenge UK plans

 

President Biden to warn the UK & the EU

 

suicide

 Due to the damage of the epidemic, more and more students are in depression and committing suicide. 
A week ago two BTS students, 19-year-old Leila and 21-year-old Kevin, committed suicide for fear of failure and stress. 
What do you think?

Aboriginal children

 Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families until 1970 take Australia to court. 

"They wiped out entire generations as if they never existed," says Heather, who was 9 when she was taken from her mother.

What do you think about that?

Smoke-free state

 New Zealand plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to people born after 2004, because the country wants to become the first smoke-free state by 2025. 

What do you think?

Watch and comment

 https://youtu.be/Zh3Yz3PiXZw

Freedom (Liberties)

 Do you think there are limits to freedom of expression?

schools

 The president announced that schools will be closed for three weeks, Consequently, the spring break is advanced. 

What do you think?

Social manners and tolerance

 Can social manners and tolerance be taught only at home?

Society

 What is the downside of the society that you would like to change and why?

Covid in nice

In Nice, the covid incidence rate is the highest in France. 
Are you worried? 
And what do you think of the prefect's decision to confine us for the weekend?

Imagination

 To what extent does imagination affect our everyday life ?

Proverb

 Please comment on this French Proverb:

"Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is."

Proverb

 Comment on this proverb from Moorish origin.

He who does not travel, does not know the value of men. 

A 14-year-old in a coma

 On Thursday 21 January, Yuriy celebrated his 15th birthday on his hospital bed, in an artificial coma. Last Friday, he was violently assaulted by a dozen individuals at the exit of Guillaume-Apollinaire secondary school, where he is a pupil in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. 

Have you heard this sad news? What do you think?

Differences

 Are people with differences accepted in our society ?

New Year

 Happy New Year everyone!! 
I hope this new year will be successful for all of us, I wish you all happiness and success!
What are your new resolutions for this year?

Different meanings

 Continual = start and stop/come and go.

Whereas : continuous = is nonstop

Examples : continuous snow = means it will never rain

Continuous rain = you will never see sunshine.

Attention ! continual and continuous are like twins who aren't really identical.