Memory Challenge: Excuses

Year 9 - Week 9 Day 2

Year 10 - Week 9 Day 1

Vocabulary list: Global Warming (disponible sur Pronote)

Easy words:


Intermediate words:


Difficult words:

Year 9 - Week 9: 25th to 29th May

Year 10 - Day 1 Week 7

Hello guys!
I am preparing your revision. In the meantime (= pendant ce temps), you can:

• Finish your work on the final task for Route 66 (to be handed in ideally by Friday)
• Do this great escape game on Australia
• Answer my questions to help me prepare the revision topics

Have fun!







RIP Little Richards.


Don't forget to answer my auto-evaluation questions for week 6:

Year 10 - Day 1 Week 3

Year 9 - Day 1 Week 3

English dictionnary online: Wordreference 

Year 9 - Workplan for week 1: 16 - 20 March

Good morning class! Here is your workplan for week 1.
Le plan de travail est complet, tous les documents sont maintenant disponibles. 
See you next week!

Weekly overview:
- Day 1: Vocabulary review with your Memory Challenge
- Day 2: Grammar checkpoint #2: le comparatif
- Day 3: Grammar practice

Day 1 - Vocabulary review
1) Révise le vocabulaire du Memory Challenge dans ton cahier. Si tu as perdu la feuille, tu peux la télécharger (voir dessous) et la coller dans ton cahier.
2) Ferme ton cahier et fais au moins une des activités d'entraînement sur Quizlet et/ou entraîne-toi avec la feuille de test de ton choix (tu trouveras les différents tests à la suite du Memory Challenge).
3) Pour aller plus loin: Découvre les traditions de la St Patrick en Irlande et dans le monde. Have fun!

Day 2: Grammar checkpoint #2 Le comparatif

1) Regarde les vidéos (Grammar checkpoint #2) et/ou lis la leçon dans le livre p. 142-143

2) 4B, 4D, 4E: Recopie la leçon et complète l'arbre de décision sur le comparatif dans ton cahier. Vérifie tes réponses avec le corrigé. 

       4C: Complète ton arbre de décision avec les informations manquantes sur les adjectifs qui se terminent en consonne, voyelle, consonne).

3) Pour aller plus loin: Regarde cette vidéo sur les différences entre les écoles américaines et françaises.

Day 3: Grammar practice

1) Revois les vidéos ou la leçon dans le livre et dans ton cahier si tu en as besoin puis fais les activités LearningApps.

2) Roll a sentence: lance un dé et écris des phrases en utilisant le comparatif. Écris les phrases dans ton cahier. N'hésite pas à relire et à te corriger en utilisant ton arbre de décision!

3) Pour aller plus loin: Découvre qui était Johnny Appleseed !

Vérification: Envoie-moi une photo de ton cahier avec ta leçon de grammaire et tes 5 phrases (au moins) écrites en dessous.

Tu peux me l'envoyer par Pronote ou par mail à l'adresse indiquée sur la droite (onglet Contact).

Bon travail pour cette semaine, and see you next week!!

Take a sneak peak at next week's main topic: Watch this video and have a guess!

Download the documents:

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is on 31st October.

Here are 2 songs about Halloween, enjoy! You can sing along and play in your booklet!




And here is another one, from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Tim Burton:


Learn how they celebrate halloween in Great Britain:


This is a fun memory game to play to learn Halloween vocabulary! And this is another fun memory game.

To finish, there is a Halloween Webquest you can do on The Webquest Website, for year 7 pupils (6ème) but everyone can do it!

Have fun, and have a happy and spooky Halloween!!

Excuses - No excuses!

The word of the day: Excited /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/
It's an adjective. It's a feeling of happiness, an emotion.
Syonyms: very happy, merry, joyful, content, delighted.
Antonyms: very sad, angry, unhappy, gutted.

Excuses - No excuses!

The word of the day: Excited /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/
It's an adjective. It's an emotion, a feeling of happiness.
Syonyms: very happy, delighted, pleased.
Antonyms: very sad, tired, stressed, gutted, upset.

Excuses - How to do my homework.

The word of the day: Lunchbox /ˈlʌntʃbɒks/
It's a noun. It's a box you bring to school. In the box you put food: a sandwich, a fruit, salad, a soda or water, chips (US) / crisps (UK), cookies... for your lunch (12 o'clock / midday)
In the USA or the UK, the pupils bring a lunchbox to school.

⚠ chips (US) = crisps (UK) / French fries (US) = chips (UK)



The pupil didn't do his homework. He compliments the teacher because he hopes the teacher doesn't give him a punition.

Excuses - No excuses!

The word of the day: Alarm /əˈlɑːm/
It's a noun. It's a sound you hear when there is a fire. The alarm clock rings in the morning to wake us up. At school, the bell rings at the start / beginning and at the end of the lesson.

Escape Game: Can you save your teacher?

Task: Describe yourself and a family member.

Today it's sunny and hot.

Today's password: Don't skip class! = Go to school!
skip = jump = sauter                                    /ˈskuːl/
  /ɪ/
Prince Harry and Meghan had* their first baby boy yesterday.

I am tall / of medium height / small
I have got brown eyes
I have got long wavy brown hair (in a ponytail)

Revise how to describe somebody:

BE au présent simple - 3

Today it's cloudy, a little windy and cold.

Today's password: Awful /'c:fxl/ ≠  Awesome /'c:sFm/
                          = horrible, terrible, unbearable

Adjectives and definitions

Today's password: Lightning /ˈlaɪtnɪŋ/ fast = Going / running extremely fast.

To go further, have fun with this matching activity!

Christmas decorations

Today is sunny and cold, a little windy.

Today's password: a bauble = an ornament
You decorate the Christmas tree with baubles or ornaments and tinsel. You place a star at the top of the tree.

Let's make a snowman!

Today is cloudy and cold. It's not windy.

Today's password: It's no big deal = It's not important = Nevermind.

Numbers in English

Watch this fun video and sing along!


Listen to the numbers in English
Another video and an exercise

Have fun!