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Route 66

Laurence Bernard

Literature

E. A. Poe: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1839); The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

Arthur Miller: Death Of A Salesman (1949)

Climate Change

The city

Cinema

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise: West Sise Story (1961)

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Vocarules

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VOCARULES

The objective is to review the concepts and vocabulary covered in class and to encourage students to speak. The students have two dice, but they can also use only one die. If you are playing with a paper version, each player (or each team) also has tokens of the team’s colour that he/she can place on the squares once their answer has been validated by the designated game master (or by the teacher). If you are projecting the game on a board in class, you do not use any tokens, you can simply agree on a code to be written on the validated square (a circle for one team, a cross for the other team, etc.). Each player or team throws the two dice in turn: the first die thrown corresponds to a line, the second die thrown corresponds to a column. The selected square is therefore at the intersection. Of course, you can use only one die that you roll twice ... The teams/players must make an oral statement in relation to the illustration on the selected square. If the production is validated, the team/player is allowed to place a token on the square. Otherwise, the hand passes and either the other team proposes something for the same square or the other team rolls the dice. The winner is the one who has placed the most tokens of his or her colour on the board, either after a limited time (15-20 minutes), or when all the squares are covered with a token, or when it comes to 3, 4 or 5 tokens, you decide! You can imagine all sorts of rules, depending on the level of the students, the size of the group, the objectives. We can also provide a board and 2 dice per team and let the students develop their own rules of the game.Credits: all icons from http://www.thenounproject.com

The City

airport (n.)

park (n.) garden (n.) leisure park (n.)

architecture (n.) monument (n.) landmark (n.)

prison (n.)

garden (n.) park (n.) leisure park (n.)

factory (n.) workshop (n.)

cinema (n.) movie theater (n.)

bank (n.)

library (n.)

market (n.) stall (.n) street vendor (n.)

building (n.)

restaurant (n.)

church (n.)

pier (n.) river bank (n.)

police station (n.)

supermarket (n.) grocery store (n.)

city hall (n.)

bar (n.) pub (n.)

gas station (n.) petrol station (n.)

university (n.) college (n.)

stadium (n.) arena (n.)

bowling (n.)

clinic (n.) medical clinic (n.) hospital (n.)

office (n.)

bus stop (n.) bus station (n.) coach station (n.)

museum (n.) gallery (n.)

mall (n.) shopping mall (n.)

court (n.)

hospital (n.)

post-office (n.)

statue (n.) monument (n.) landmark (n.)

railway station (n.) train station (n.) underground/subway station (n.)

cathedral (n.)

sports ground (n.) football ground (n.) playground (n.)

fire station (n.)

school (n.)

London

The Bank of England

Westminster Abbey

PLAY TWICE

The Gherkin

Madame Tussaud's

The Shard

Hyde Park Regent's Park

Big Ben

The Tate Modern

Theatre The Globe Theatre The West End

PLAY TWICE

Kensington Palace

pound

Speaker's corner

Windsor Castle

map of London Thames river

red bus double-decker bus

The British Museum

China Town Soho

Admiral Nelson's Column Trafalgar Square

The Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

The House of Parliament (+ Big Ben) Westminster

Tower Bridge

black taxi black cab

The O2 Arena

PLAY TWICE

Marble Arch

The UK Great Britain England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

The London Eye a wheel

The Tate Gallery

The Underground The Tube

PLAY TWICE

The British flag The Union Jack

The City Hall

school

Route 66

ride (v.), rider (n.) bike (n.) , biker (n.)

The state of Texas

The Mojave desert

Highway (n.) The Mother Road (n.)

The state of Oklahoma

mountain (n.)

gas station (US) (n.) petrol station (GB) (n.)

billboard (n.)

drive (v.), driver (n.)

The state of Illinois

road sign (n.)

diner (n.)

The state of Kansas

car (n.) Cadillac (n.)

The state of California

Chicago, Illinois

Bobby Troup , Nat King Cole , "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" music (n.)

wind (v.) curve (n.)

bridge (n.)

The USA The United States of America

motel (n.)

build (v.)

sunrise (n.)

literature (n.) John Steinbeck , The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Jack Kerouac , On the Road (1957)

New Mexico

Wigwam motel (n.)

Drive-in theater (n.)

sunset (n.)

From ... to ... (prep.) Chicago, Los Angles cross (v.)

Missouri

California Los Angeles Santa Monica pier (n.) Pacific Ocean

Holiday (n.)

Gateway Arch St Louis, Missouri

Arizona

close (v.)

television (n.) series (n.)

Climate Change

warning danger to be endangered

to melt the ice a polar-bear The North Pole

to pollute to emit emission CO2 pollution exhaust fumes a car

to chop down to cut tree forest wood fire-wood

Carbon dioxide emissions

conference meeting United Nations

drought

oil oil well fossil fuel

clean energy

factories industry industrial pollution

flood to be flooded

to burn gas

snow caps the ice is melting

hurricane cyclone violent storm natural disaster

temperature to rise global warming

the heat the weather the ozone layer the water cycle

a global issue

to plant to protect nature

the sea the ocean to rise flood to be flooded

solar energy solar panels

the ice to melt

to recycle

a nuclear site nuclear energy

rainfall rain

pollution to pollute to dump pollutant chemical oil spill

iceberg ice

to switch off to turn off the light aplliances

coal coal mine mine

wind (n.) energy (n.) turbine (n.) renewable (adj.) clean (adj.)

nature

rise (v.) temperature (n.) hot (adj.) warm (adj.)

gas (n.) emission (n.) pollution (n.) CO2, Carbon dioxide (n.)

time

global warming temperatures to rise degree

methane meat

Edgar Allan Poe

• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

the eye the vulture eye

a brother - a sister - twins friends

to dismember body part leg

a ghost to haunt

the heart the heart beat

to cut to dismember

to be frightened / to be afraid to fear to be frightening to frighten fear terror

blood

the floor the floor-boards

the heavens

The house of Usher

lantern light

a disease

death to die to be dead

the old man

bed bedroom to sleep

mad madness insane insanity

cotton

twins brother - sister Frederick and Madeline Usher

a wall

the police a police-officer

the mind the soul

a bath-tub

midnight

a vulture a vulture eye

the tarn

an arch

a watch

an eye-like window

a storm

to bury a coffin

evil The Devil

you the reader

to callapse to fall cracks The Fall of the House of Usher

light darkness

The author The writer Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Miller

• Death Of A Salesman, 1949

the car; the old Chevvy ; the Studebaker to drive

stockings

the house; the Loman's home; the mortgage

"a silver athletic trophy" ; a sports cup

a suitcase; a valise

the dollar ; a dollar-bill; money; bill; salary

a family; the Lomans;

education; university; graduation

maths

a hotel-room (in Boston)

The USA;

Alaska

road

a rubber-pipe

fruit; fruit-peel

a diamond

Africa

elm trees

flute

wire-recorder

fridge

seeds; to plant; to grow (carrots, peas, etc.)

apartment buildings

well-liked; popular; famous popularity; fame

love love-affair

to cry

theater; stage a play; a playwright Broadway

death; grave; to die

New-York

memory; reminiscence; flashback; to remember; to recall; the past

football

flowers the garden

the office

Arthur Miller playwright

Brooklyn; bridge

dream

Jerome RobbinsRobert Wise

• West Side Story (1961)

bridal store, wedding store

window

knife, weapons, to stab, violence

candy store, Doc's, drugstore

skip a turn

fight, rumble, opposition, violence

love at first sight

immigration, immigrants, migration, migrate

territory, opposition, division

cop, police, Krupke

dance, dancing, Mambo, ball, ...

music, musical, songs, lyrics, ...

street(s)

Jets

Broadway, theater

prejudice, discrimination, racial prejudice, racial discrimination

choose your square

gang(s), rivalry, rivals, enemies..

movie, film

marry, marriage, wedding, groom, bride, mock-wedding, arranged wedding

forgive, pray

sharks

throw dice again

the Gym

to shoot down, to kill, gun, violence

America, The USA

Puerto Rico, Puerto-Rican(s)

roof-top

skip a turn

fire escape, exit stairs

to die, death

choose your square

New York city

play ground, sports ground

forbidden love, secret love

prejudice, to be prejudiced against, to hate, hatred,