Fiction et réalité
Gangsters on screenThe Peaky Blinders
How does the series Peaky Blinders measure up to British history?
Table of contents
Brainstorming
grammaire: le passif
Step 1- a gangster TV show
Learn vocabulary level 3
Learn vocabulary level 1
Step 3- the real Peaky Blinders
Step 2- an urban setting
HW- CO Edpuzzle
Step 4- Women in Peaky Blinders
Learn vocabulary level 2
+ the real Jessie Eden
Tâche finale
Netflix is inviting people to take part in a creative writing competition. Imagine and write the pitch of the next season of the series based on historical events and/or characters. Introduce a new character: give biographical elements: A war hero - A cop from Northern Ireland • Use passive forms: he is traumatized by the war. Use simple present for narration: He wants to turn his family’s gang into…… He is also the leader of…… Use adjectives and relatives : Shelby’s beautiful moodiness - His striking eyes - A war-hero who wants to …… Use vocabulary linked to the mob and the working class of the turn of the century. .
Brainstorming
Words related to the theme?
Famous gangsters?
vocabulary of crime and justice
Adjectives to describe the characters
Peaky Blinders
There are at least 4 intertwined (/ai/) stories in Peaky Blinders Find them after watching the trailer Then write a short radio film critic of season 1
Weapons theft/misunderstanding
The workers strike
The investigation/ a cop who wants to get rid of the gang
Bookmaking and fighting
family bonds
Love story
Police bribery (corruption through money) and corruption
Click to Learn your vocabulary level 1
Click to Learn your vocabulary level 1
Country? date? Story? Atmosphere?
Use the flashcards to Learn your vocabulary level
Step 2: an urban setting
Correction: An urban setting1. First, Peaky Blinders deals with the heavy weight brought by WWI without over-dramatizing it. First, the show evokes the atmosphere of sadness and despair that prevailed at the time. Secondly, it shows how the Great War completely upended (= bouleverser) British society to the point that people had no faith in authority and technology anymore. The ensuing (= following) decadence of the “Roaring Twenties” is depicted as a way to cope with (= faire face à) the trauma of the war. Last but not least, Peaky Blinders portrays post-war Britain as being in the grip of (= aux prises) a political unrest (= agitation)that threatened social order. 2. The dark setting and the grim (= sombre) atmosphere created in the series largely contribute to heightening people’s sadness and despair (“a slum street”, “smoky”, “grim”, “as a hangover”) as well as their desire for change (“crackling with nerves”) at the time. 3. The Shelby family uses the social and political unrest that prevailed at the time to commit criminal acts and impose their own rules on the city of Birmingham. Crime and violence become the Shelby’s weapons for social mobility. Last paragraph: “During this hiatus of property, of rules, lives were ruined, but fortunes were made as well, and we meet the Peaky Blinders on the up, able to take on everything.” 4. The verb form used here is the passive voice. Other examples: “had been racked by the war” (l.7-8), “the Government was terrified of it” (l.11-12), “their lives are burdened” (l.20), “The War and its aftermath are dealt with” (l.23-24), “lives were ruined, but fortunes were made as well” (l.44-45). The use of the passive voice highlights the damages brought by the war and conveys the idea of a society which is out of control.
Grammaire: le passif
To be + participe passé
S'utilise - quand on s'intéresse à l'objet plus qu'à la personne qui fait l'action. On va souvent omettre le complément d'agent (introduit par "by") et on va traduire par la forme impersonnelle "on". ex: - quand on parle d'un processus ex: gangsters are arrested by the police - quand l'action est subit ex: the social order is upended. - quand l'action est subit: ex: society has ben racked by the war.
À tous les temps et avec des modaux ex: he is judged he is being judged he will be judged he has been judged he had been judged he was judged he was being judged he must be judged he would be judged he should be judged
Work on passive forms
Work on passive forms
Work on passive forms
Use the flashcards to Learn your vocabulary level 3
Your task stEp 1
You now have the historical context of the series, imagine A precise context for your upcoming pitch. Where is it going to take place (country? Town? neighborhood? streeet?atmosphere (colors/description of buildings/weather....) how long after the events of season 1? ...keep it for later In order to check the quality of your description, you will put it in a generative AI as a prompt to see if the illustration offered corresponds.
Step 3: the real Peaky Blinders
Listen and fill in the mindmap
Listen
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
1. Give a precise description of the women in the picture before going to the next page.
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
Your task: After watching the video, answer the questions developping each answer as shown in the previous class.
click to enlarge
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
10:00
The real Jessie Eden
She made headlines in 1926 when she convinced her all-female section of workers at the Joseph Lucas motor components factory in Birmingham to down tools as part of the general strike, before going on to lead 10,000 women out on a week’s strike in 1931, a show of power that was almost unprecedented in its time.Now the half-forgotten but fascinating life of trade union activist and British Communist party member Jessie Eden is set to play a key role in the much-anticipated fourth series of BBC2’s period gang drama, Peaky Blinders.“I’m always interested in those people you see flashing by at the corner of your eye,” says the show’s creator Steven Knight. “So much of history concentrates on the memoirs of some politician but then in the middle of all that grey there’s a flash of colour and that’s Jessie – being female and working class there was very little prospect that she would become a household name but she did extraordinary things.” That strength in her convictions can be heard in Eden’s account of her time on the frontline of the 1926 strike. Talking to the Birmingham Post in 1976 she said: “One policeman put his hands on my arms. They were telling me to go home, but the crowd howled … ’Hey, leave her alone’… and some men came and pushed the policemen away. They didn’t do anything after that. I think they could see there would have been a riot. I was never frightened of the police or the troops because I had the people with me, you see.” The Guardian, 2017
"Birmingham has always been a very radical, very unionised, very leftwing city" Steven Knight
The gerund
Un nom composé d'un verbe en -ing
peut être sujet ou complément
s'utilise aussi après des prépositions: after, before, without et expression + prep: good at, blame for, accuse of, no point in, et après les verbes de début et de fin: finish, start, begin...
A une fonction de nom ou d'adjectif
Your final task
Write the pitch of a new season of Peaky Blinders. Step 2: - choose the setting (period and location) - Choose a logical action according to the setting and period chosen. - Now gather this part with the previous one and add your illustration (s) you will have to use at leat 15 words seen in class and 5 passive forms (minimum) as well as 3 gerund forms (minimum). Publish it online on the collaborative Ourboox.
The document is an article from The guardian, dated 2017. It deals with Jessie Eden, one of the characters of the TV show, The Peaky Blinders. She lived at the beginning of the 20th century and was active in the 1920s and 1930s as a trade unionist and a member of the Communist party. She worked in a factory which produced motor components. She led several important strikes in the 20s and 30s, and acted to protect women. What is striking is the importance of the strikes she led which were followed by thousands of people. She was supported by her fellow workers who were ready to protect her from the police. This was something new at the time, even more because she was a woman. The director explains that he is interested in anonymous people who shape history, a country or society, which is the case with Jessie Eden. Birmingham seems to be an industrial city with many factories, mainly inhabited by the working class, so it must have been rather radical and unionised. We may also imagine that the social gap was enormous between the rich owners and the workers.
Train with basic vocabulary gangs/ investigation level 1
Bookmaking is his favorite hobby
His favorite activity is bookmaking
The police blames him for killing people.
He started stealing at 16.
Learn to summarize/make a synthesis
Read the text about Jesse Eden and write a paragraph which will contain: - the nature and source of the text, - the place and time she lived in, - her political opinion/involvement, - the actions she took, the reactions of her fellow worker (use passive) - the reason why the director chose Jesse Eden as a character in his show (only use your own words to reformulate), - the reason why he chose Birmingham as a setting, - then draw a portrait of Jesse Eden from what she says in the last paragraph. Don't hesitate to look for adjectives online. -
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Fiction et réalité
Gangsters on screenThe Peaky Blinders
How does the series Peaky Blinders measure up to British history?
Table of contents
Brainstorming
grammaire: le passif
Step 1- a gangster TV show
Learn vocabulary level 3
Learn vocabulary level 1
Step 3- the real Peaky Blinders
Step 2- an urban setting
HW- CO Edpuzzle
Step 4- Women in Peaky Blinders
Learn vocabulary level 2
+ the real Jessie Eden
Tâche finale
Netflix is inviting people to take part in a creative writing competition. Imagine and write the pitch of the next season of the series based on historical events and/or characters. Introduce a new character: give biographical elements: A war hero - A cop from Northern Ireland • Use passive forms: he is traumatized by the war. Use simple present for narration: He wants to turn his family’s gang into…… He is also the leader of…… Use adjectives and relatives : Shelby’s beautiful moodiness - His striking eyes - A war-hero who wants to …… Use vocabulary linked to the mob and the working class of the turn of the century. .
Brainstorming
Words related to the theme?
Famous gangsters?
vocabulary of crime and justice
Adjectives to describe the characters
Peaky Blinders
There are at least 4 intertwined (/ai/) stories in Peaky Blinders Find them after watching the trailer Then write a short radio film critic of season 1
Weapons theft/misunderstanding
The workers strike
The investigation/ a cop who wants to get rid of the gang
Bookmaking and fighting
family bonds
Love story
Police bribery (corruption through money) and corruption
Click to Learn your vocabulary level 1
Click to Learn your vocabulary level 1
Country? date? Story? Atmosphere?
Use the flashcards to Learn your vocabulary level
Step 2: an urban setting
Correction: An urban setting1. First, Peaky Blinders deals with the heavy weight brought by WWI without over-dramatizing it. First, the show evokes the atmosphere of sadness and despair that prevailed at the time. Secondly, it shows how the Great War completely upended (= bouleverser) British society to the point that people had no faith in authority and technology anymore. The ensuing (= following) decadence of the “Roaring Twenties” is depicted as a way to cope with (= faire face à) the trauma of the war. Last but not least, Peaky Blinders portrays post-war Britain as being in the grip of (= aux prises) a political unrest (= agitation)that threatened social order. 2. The dark setting and the grim (= sombre) atmosphere created in the series largely contribute to heightening people’s sadness and despair (“a slum street”, “smoky”, “grim”, “as a hangover”) as well as their desire for change (“crackling with nerves”) at the time. 3. The Shelby family uses the social and political unrest that prevailed at the time to commit criminal acts and impose their own rules on the city of Birmingham. Crime and violence become the Shelby’s weapons for social mobility. Last paragraph: “During this hiatus of property, of rules, lives were ruined, but fortunes were made as well, and we meet the Peaky Blinders on the up, able to take on everything.” 4. The verb form used here is the passive voice. Other examples: “had been racked by the war” (l.7-8), “the Government was terrified of it” (l.11-12), “their lives are burdened” (l.20), “The War and its aftermath are dealt with” (l.23-24), “lives were ruined, but fortunes were made as well” (l.44-45). The use of the passive voice highlights the damages brought by the war and conveys the idea of a society which is out of control.
Grammaire: le passif
To be + participe passé
S'utilise - quand on s'intéresse à l'objet plus qu'à la personne qui fait l'action. On va souvent omettre le complément d'agent (introduit par "by") et on va traduire par la forme impersonnelle "on". ex: - quand on parle d'un processus ex: gangsters are arrested by the police - quand l'action est subit ex: the social order is upended. - quand l'action est subit: ex: society has ben racked by the war.
À tous les temps et avec des modaux ex: he is judged he is being judged he will be judged he has been judged he had been judged he was judged he was being judged he must be judged he would be judged he should be judged
Work on passive forms
Work on passive forms
Work on passive forms
Use the flashcards to Learn your vocabulary level 3
Your task stEp 1
You now have the historical context of the series, imagine A precise context for your upcoming pitch. Where is it going to take place (country? Town? neighborhood? streeet?atmosphere (colors/description of buildings/weather....) how long after the events of season 1? ...keep it for later In order to check the quality of your description, you will put it in a generative AI as a prompt to see if the illustration offered corresponds.
Step 3: the real Peaky Blinders
Listen and fill in the mindmap
Listen
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
1. Give a precise description of the women in the picture before going to the next page.
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
Your task: After watching the video, answer the questions developping each answer as shown in the previous class.
click to enlarge
Step 4: Women in peaky Blinders
10:00
The real Jessie Eden
She made headlines in 1926 when she convinced her all-female section of workers at the Joseph Lucas motor components factory in Birmingham to down tools as part of the general strike, before going on to lead 10,000 women out on a week’s strike in 1931, a show of power that was almost unprecedented in its time.Now the half-forgotten but fascinating life of trade union activist and British Communist party member Jessie Eden is set to play a key role in the much-anticipated fourth series of BBC2’s period gang drama, Peaky Blinders.“I’m always interested in those people you see flashing by at the corner of your eye,” says the show’s creator Steven Knight. “So much of history concentrates on the memoirs of some politician but then in the middle of all that grey there’s a flash of colour and that’s Jessie – being female and working class there was very little prospect that she would become a household name but she did extraordinary things.” That strength in her convictions can be heard in Eden’s account of her time on the frontline of the 1926 strike. Talking to the Birmingham Post in 1976 she said: “One policeman put his hands on my arms. They were telling me to go home, but the crowd howled … ’Hey, leave her alone’… and some men came and pushed the policemen away. They didn’t do anything after that. I think they could see there would have been a riot. I was never frightened of the police or the troops because I had the people with me, you see.” The Guardian, 2017
"Birmingham has always been a very radical, very unionised, very leftwing city" Steven Knight
The gerund
Un nom composé d'un verbe en -ing
peut être sujet ou complément
s'utilise aussi après des prépositions: after, before, without et expression + prep: good at, blame for, accuse of, no point in, et après les verbes de début et de fin: finish, start, begin...
A une fonction de nom ou d'adjectif
Your final task
Write the pitch of a new season of Peaky Blinders. Step 2: - choose the setting (period and location) - Choose a logical action according to the setting and period chosen. - Now gather this part with the previous one and add your illustration (s) you will have to use at leat 15 words seen in class and 5 passive forms (minimum) as well as 3 gerund forms (minimum). Publish it online on the collaborative Ourboox.
The document is an article from The guardian, dated 2017. It deals with Jessie Eden, one of the characters of the TV show, The Peaky Blinders. She lived at the beginning of the 20th century and was active in the 1920s and 1930s as a trade unionist and a member of the Communist party. She worked in a factory which produced motor components. She led several important strikes in the 20s and 30s, and acted to protect women. What is striking is the importance of the strikes she led which were followed by thousands of people. She was supported by her fellow workers who were ready to protect her from the police. This was something new at the time, even more because she was a woman. The director explains that he is interested in anonymous people who shape history, a country or society, which is the case with Jessie Eden. Birmingham seems to be an industrial city with many factories, mainly inhabited by the working class, so it must have been rather radical and unionised. We may also imagine that the social gap was enormous between the rich owners and the workers.
Train with basic vocabulary gangs/ investigation level 1
Bookmaking is his favorite hobby
His favorite activity is bookmaking
The police blames him for killing people.
He started stealing at 16.
Learn to summarize/make a synthesis
Read the text about Jesse Eden and write a paragraph which will contain: - the nature and source of the text, - the place and time she lived in, - her political opinion/involvement, - the actions she took, the reactions of her fellow worker (use passive) - the reason why the director chose Jesse Eden as a character in his show (only use your own words to reformulate), - the reason why he chose Birmingham as a setting, - then draw a portrait of Jesse Eden from what she says in the last paragraph. Don't hesitate to look for adjectives online. -