Silicon Valley ENGLISH

Thème: Les univers professionnels, le monde du travail (WORKING WORLDS)

LESSON 1

INTRODUCTION: What is Silicon VAlley?

LESSON 2

Training task: Record your opinion

LESSON 3

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Training task: Record your opinion

WHEEL

FINAL TASK: Create a Powerpoint presentation promoting a fictitious company that you would establish in Silicon Valley

INTRODUCTION: A. What is Silicon Valley?

Let's be precise!

You know: - Tech companies vocab and pronunciation. - What Silicon Valley is.

Brainstorming + Useful Vocab

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VOCAB

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B. LET'S BE PRECISE!

San Fransisco

CORRECTION

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a) Find the pieces of information: 1. Where? 2. Major cities? 3. What is this place?(It is home to...) 4. Famous companies? + describe them with a word from the vocabulary mind map. 5. Why the name "Silicon" Valley?(S.V. gets it name from...)

LESSON 1: WELCOME TO SILICON VALLEY: WATCH AND LISTEN

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1st Part and Introduction

Detailed Comprehension

YOUR GOAL: Write about the advantages and possible disadvantages of working in Silicon Valley

Second Part

ANTICIPATION

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ANTICIPATION a) Look at the picture and the title. Guess what the video is about.

=> It may be about... - - -

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b) Check your hypotheses. => Yes or No?

LESSON 2 : PERKS

Classify the perks

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You know: - What perks are. - Talking about different perks in a company.

Perks?

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LESSON 2: PERKSANTICIPATION

Look at this definition: "perks are advantages or services provided to workers by their company". => What is the French equivalent?

In pairs, make a list of perks you can think of.

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LESSON 3 : NOT SO PERFECT...

Imagine the topic

Aide à la compréhension

ENGLISH EXERCISES

Copy your work, listen and practice

Record your work

YOUR GOAL: Give your opinion about working at Google, considering its perks and drawbacks.

Regarde la vidéo et suit la méthode.

Methodologie de la compréhension orale.

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Look at the title and the picture with its caption. Can you guess what the video is going to be about? => It will probably be about...

Références culturelles:

Edward Snowden worked for the National Security Agency (NSA). In 2013, he revelead that The NSA's surveillance programm called PRISM, spied on people by collecting internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. MIT: a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It has a key role in the development of modern technology and science. One of the best universities in the world

VOCAB

To be sketch with: être soucieux de, se préoccuper de

FINAL TASK: Create a Powerpoint presentation promoting a fictitious company that you would establish in Silicon Valley.

Create your powerpoint

Instructions and scale

Copy your work, listen and practice

Ready?

Structuring your work and practice.

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