Wonderland séquence de présentation

Anglais de spécialité

Axe d'étude:

Imagination Créatrice et Visionnaire

We all need a Wonderland

Final Task: Participate in a Rhyming Story writing contest!

Mars 2019, Caroline Owers

I. Down the Rabbit Hole

A . Following Alice

1. Character 2. Situation

Wonderland survival kit

1. Watch the Disney adaptation of the Mad Tea Party scene (1951).2. What is mad about the situation? 3. Focus on Alice. How does she react when confronted with nonsense?

Read the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll in 1865 and enter Alice's world.

B. Books are secret portals to Wonderlands

1. Information about the author and his different feelings. 2. Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (1982) as opposed to other books. 3. Find words or expressions that the author of the article uses when he speaks about Dahl's stories. 4. Number 1 ingredient that makes a great child's book.

The Guardian, 25th April 2016

C. Time to have fun with Kahoot!

How well do you know your classics?

D. Present your best loved childhood book!

This book and you.Why do you love it? How might it have influenced you? Explain if it is worth reading for us, grown-ups.

The story.Present the main characters and the plot.

Give information about the author and illustrator. If you can, bring your favourite childhood book to class.

Describe what the book looks like:dimensions, colours, style of illustrations and choice of print

Pick a passage you like, find the corresponding extract in English then read it with a convincing tone.

II. BOUNDLESS IMAGINATION

A . Julie Blackmon and the Realm of children

Photos taken from the collection "Domestic Vacations", 2008

IN S T R U C T I O N S

B. Roald Dahl's overflowing creativity

Dahl, 1916-1990

Reading

1. Read the article and briefly sum up what it is about. 2. What activity does "gobblefunking" correspond to? 3. Find two tips to be successful at gobblefunking. 4. Take a close look at this spoonerism: "mideous harshland". Can you find out how a spoonerism works? 5. Your turn: Invent a spoonerism!

Listening

Here, you will find 10 questions that Roald Dahl was asked about his writing process.1. Get into pairs, pick a question and LISTEN to RD's answer. 2. Take notes and get ready to report to the class.

C. Delving Deeper into Dahl's world

1. Pick a study set

2. Listen to the classic tale.

3. Read RD's rewriting of the tale (enjoy!)

Help

4. Make a Venn Diagram and present it to the class.

Set 4: Snow White

Set 2: Goldilocks

Set 3: Little Red Riding Hood

Set 1: Three Little Pigs

D. A glimpse at Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, 1817

1. Reading and reflecting

2. Take a moment to reflect on the following quote by Albert Einstein (1879-1955):

"Logic will get you from A to B.Imagination will take you everywhere."

speaking

In what ways can it be connected to Coleridge's Biographia Literaria?

E. Time to organise our thoughts

Using all your notes and documents, complete the timeline

Final Task Prep

Train you ear and find the rhymes

Discover Limericks, short and usually silly rhyming stories.Get ready to put them back in order!

Brush up your grammar basics with this fun activity

Team challenge: Which group can turn "a spider" into the longest noun phrase? Ready, steady, go!!! You have 5 minutes!

Final Task!

Remember Gavin Puckett? The Roald Dahl fan who also writes stories for kids?

Time to GOBBLEFUNK!

Using the beginning of his rhyming tale, invent a wondertaining rhyming story that you will READ to the rest of the class.

"On a warm summer’s day at a racetrack in Surrey, something odd happened to a racehorse called Murray…" Gavin Puckett

• assonances
• consonances
• alliterations
• the cherry on the cake? An oxymoron and... a SPOONERISM!

add a good dose of humour

write in rhyming couplets

do a bit of gobblefunking

have fun with literary devices: