zz1STI2D à Coubertin

  HOMEWORK : Fri. Nov. 6th : try and find a social network or an online service. Then find their rule about death. Write them up in your notebook. + Vocab Test  Nov. 6th, LVL5

  1. This text is about the death of a man in NY, a man in his 30s. It's about death on Facebook, what they do when people die. Right : the man from New York died when he was 39.  Right : "A message appeared on Dowdell's Facebook wall : 'I am a friend of Anthony's [and] our dear friend [...] has passed away.'" 2. In the text, we can see a man who talks about his dead friend, he's sharing news of his friend's death. Right : in the text, we can see a testimony of his friend, and they give the news of his death. It's Jessa Moore. She regretted there was no memorial for the 700 online friends Dowdell had. So "Facebook became [their] memorial - His name is Anthony Dowdell, he was 39 years old. We saw Dowdell's facebook wall. He had a smile on his face   Right : Anthony is 39 years old. The photo shows him with a smile on his face. - He was a shining person, no one among his friends knows why he killed himself. Right : He killed himself, alt...

- This text is about the death of a man in NY, a man in his 30s. It's about death on Facebook, what they do when people die. - In the text, we can see a man who talks about his dead friend, he's sharing news of his friend's death - His name is Anthony Dowdell, he was 39 years old. We saw Dowdell's facebook wall. He had a smile on his face - He was a shining person, no one among his friends knows why he killed himself.  HOMEWORK (next Friday): check out the four propositions about the text : are they right or wrong ? Justify your answer by quoting from the text !

Today we finished watching the videos from Black Mirror . Sara (the widow) realizes ( se rend compte ) that her friend signed her up to the app. She sounds like she's crying. She thinks it's "sick, and obscene, and it hurts." Her friend explains it's just an app, it's an algorithm. "You talk to it," she says. It used facebook and twitter to mimic ( imiter ) the dead. "It's software." The question is : " what happens to our digital life when we die? " to grieve = faire son deuil grieving = le deuil, tristesse intense a widow = une veuve a widower = un veuf she LOOKS sad (avec adjectif) she LOOKS like she's crying. (suivi par like et phrase) on peut aussi utiliser d'autres verbes de perception : she SOUNDS sad, she SMELLS bad, she TASTES bitter, etc.    HOMeWORk : vocab test, LVL 1, 2 & 3, next Friday (Oct. 9th)                  

 Today we had a recap. Here's what we remembered : - a man died in a car crash.  - his wife is at his funeral, she is heartbroken ( very sad ). - another lady (her friend ? her husband's sister ?) says that she can "sign her up to something that helps." - it's not spiritual. - Sara (the wife's name) screams "shuuuuut up." HOMEWORK : trouvez deux synonymes croustillants pour les mots suivants en utilisant thesaurus.com BLAND WORDS : sad / death / a person