Langue Orale and Mob Int grades

ALL langue orale classes may now view their FINAL grades online.

• UE 24.2
• TD - 1
• TD - 2

Grades are listed separately for the separate exams (pronunciation, IPA, comprehension) and the final average is the last grade on the right.


Mobilité Internationale exam and final grades are also ready to be viewed.

As usual, please email me with any questions.

Langue Orale Testing Information

April 3:

1 hour: Listening comprehension
30 minutes: IPA transcription

April 10:

Time slots of 2-4 minutes: Pronunciation.  Please refer to this chart to see at which time you must be ready for the exam.  Please arrive at least 5 minutes before your scheduled time.

Please email me with any questions.

Today in class - Langue Orale

1.  Roll: First and Last

Announcement!  This is the last normal class.

Week 9	03/27/2013	Merc
Week 10	04/03/2013EXAM 1	Merc
Week 11	04/10/2013EXAM 2	Merc
Week 12	05/01/2013	No Class!

Exam reminder (from syllabus):

 Final Grade Rubric:

33%: Listening Comprehension

33%: Phonetic Transcription

33%: Pronunciation

2.  Correct IPA homework - Raising childcare costs
Say the sentences from last week:

Up to half-a-million people will be affected by these measures.

Last year, the inflation rate in Britain was 5.2%.

There are 190,000 single-father families in the nation.

The biggest difficulty for single parents is balancing work and home life.

A problem single fathers encounter is that childcare is typically seen as a women's issue.
3.  In class work: Micromorts (sound file here)

Micromorts

1. Fill in the blanks:

What ……….. be …………………………. ? or ………………..? Or ……………….. AND ……………….? Not much, ………………………………….. at this …………………. Edinburg Fringe, who ………………….to hear ………………….., the …………………. mathematician, to a ………………………………………. all about ……………………….and death with ………………………… Timandra Harkness. We felt that a well-reviewed ………………………………………….., should not ……………. unheeded, here, at ……………………………

2. What phrase does the journalist use to say “humourous approach”?

3. What does the figure 0.000003% correspond to?

4. Dictation:

Whenever……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. they call it a micromort.

5. What two things are said about canoeing?

6. What is said about everybody’s probability of dying on a “normal” day? (2 things, including the number “30”)

7. What happened in 2008?

8. Three sports are mentioned in the next part of the document: name them and explain what they have in common.

9. What does the figure “25” represent?

10. Correct the mistakes AND fill in the blanks.

If you took at what people send on ………………….. gear, such as ………………-helmets or ……………….. airbags …………………., it walks out that people ……………………………………. at approximately ……………………….. for every micromort they ………………….. The reason a unique like micromorts can be ……………….. is that, ……………………….., we have more real …………………………. sense of …………………….. and risk. We’re over-………………… about ………………….. and blasé about ………………………. that might be …………………………………...

11. What two examples does Matt Parker give to prove that our attitude towards risk is not always very rational?

12. What does he say is the real use of this sort of statistics?

13. Summarise his final joke.

14. Write a phonetic transcription of the dictation.

Today in class: Langue Orale

1.  IPA homework corrections: Walt Disney
2.  Repetition pronunciation practice:  Childcare costs (script here) (sound file here)
3.  Homework for next time:

1) Write a phonetic transcription of the sentences in bold type AND be prepared to say them aloud in class.

we conducted a survey of every local authority in England, Scotland and Wales
one theory could be that quality has improved,//   
the qualifications of the workforce have been increasing,
I think our concern is that // families, parents, shouldn’t be asked to pay // 
for the whole of these rises in quality

 

2) Be prepared to read the following sentences aloud in class (you must check the pronunciation of every single word AND decide where you should mark pauses):

Up to half-a-million people will be affected by these measures.

Last year, the inflation rate in Britain was 5.2%.

There are 190,000 single-father families in the nation.

The biggest difficulty for single parents is balancing work and home life.

A problem single fathers encounter is that childcare is typically seen as a women's issue.

Today in class, Langue Orale

Women's votes IPA corrections.

Disney sound file here.

Questionnaire:  Disney (L1 Comprehension)

Here are some –apparently simple- words that you will find in the document. They are listed in the order in which they appear : roller-coaster – naïve – folk – aesthetics.

1. Fill in the blanks (there may be more than one word per blank)

In the ......................, er, Walt ........................ for a lot of ................ during the ................... movement and, er, the ..................... for ............................, and, er would you talk about that?

2. Dictation :

Walt Disney’s image and his acceptance.....................................loved the idea.

3. What did some people originally compare Mickey Mouse to?

4. How old was W. Disney in the 30’s?

5. Describe the way Walt Disney was perceived in the early thirties. (and find two nouns having nearly the same meaning).

6. What happens to Disney’s reputation in the early 60’s?

7. Which one of his films was responsible for that change? Why?

8. What does W. Disney symbolise in the 60’s? (What is responsible for that?) (Hint : find a synonym for “personification”)

9. What synonym does the man use for “target”?

10. Has this negative view of Disney changed since the 1960’s?

11. What criticisms are addressed to the biography of Disney?

12. Complete 3 of the following “accusations” made against W. Disney:

a) ..............-baiter            b) ................... Republican            c) ............ communist

13. Write a phonetic transcription of the dictation:

Walt Disney’s image and his acceptance went through an, almost a roller-coaster, through his life. In the 1930s he was embraced by intellectuals as this naive artist. Intellectuals had a certain feeling of superiority toward Walt. He was virtually uneducated, he had one year of high school and they loved the idea…

IPA March 6

Check: IPA corrections
Women's votes document
Women's votes sound file
Homework: written on document file (at the end)

Today in class, Langue Orale

1.  Check homework transcriptions
2.  Practice sentences pronunciation:
* I'd be really worried if my child didn't enjoy parties.
* Is psychology really scientific?
* Manchester City and Manchester United (or “Man U”) are two rival teams.
* My worst childhood memory is the time when I got lost in a supermarket and my parents just forgot me there.
* She joined me in the studio, along with Lisa, on the line from Manchester.

3. Comprehension: Polluting cars (questionnaire) (sound file)

4. Finish "regular spelling" activity

5. Homework for next time (March 6): transcribe dictation section into IPA.

Today in class - Langue Orale

Absent - Elisa B, Camille D, Terence P, Pierre T

Correction of Barbie transcriptions: accessible here.
Listen and repeat: anxious children (sound file) (script)
Homework: transcribe the bold print from the script of "anxious children" (above).

Today in class - 24.2 Langue Orale

Correction of "married to a white collar criminal" phonetic transcriptions (available here).
Pronunciation practice of 5 sentences -

• White-collar criminals are usually well educated people.
• They’ve been to good schools, they’re intelligent.
• They just think that, somehow, they’ve risen above the law.
• Mrs Clarke doesn’t think her husband is a crook.
• She was relieved when she heard her husband would lose his job.

Questionnaire - Barbie.
Listen to the sound file.
Answer the questions on this paper.
Write down what the woman says, starting with "I don't know any other toy..." and ends with "powerful emotions."

Homework: complete a phonetic transcription of the dictation (starting with "I don't know any other toy..." and ending with "powerful emotions.")

Today in class, 24.2 Langue Orale

Today we started by checking our transcription homework.  The answers can be found here.
Next, we did our repetition exercises with the following sound file and script.
Make sure you have sent the "secret word" email!!!

Homework for next time:

1) Write a phonetic transcription of the sentences in bold type AND be prepared to say them aloud in class.

• What about his wife?// Her name is Carol Clarke.   
• She ended her e-mail by describing herself as // “the wife of a prisoner”.//
• And he stole an awful lot of money without my knowledge.// 
• When did you first realize there was a problem?//
• He stole money, he should NOT have taken money!//

 

2) Be prepared to read the following sentences aloud in class (you should check the pronunciation of every single word and decide where you should mark pauses):

White-collar criminals are usually well educated people.

They’ve been to good schools, they’re intelligent.

They just think that, somehow, they’ve risen above the law.

Mrs Clarke doesn’t think her husband is a crook.

She was relieved when she heard her husband would lose his job.