La mule et le serpent

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Today is Tuesday, May 28th ( the twenty-eighth) 20/24( twenty/ twenty four)

The weekly saying is: « The pen is mightier than the sword ».

 For your oral presentation, do not to forget to pronounce these four (4 )things:

 the final “s”

 the “h”

 the three 3 different ways to say the final -ed : /d/ , /t/ or /Id/

 the tonic stress ‘

Let’s check Wordreference for the pronunciation!

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/the

-The before a consonant: ( devant une consonne) /ˈðə/,

before a vowel:(devant une voyelle) /ˈðiː/ (article défini) le/la/les

-mighty /ˈmaɪti/ (= strong) puissant ( adjectif) > mightier than (comparatif ) plus puissant

-sword /ˈsɔːrd/ = une épée

-weapon /ˈwɛpən/ =une arme

-blade /ˈbleɪd/ une lame

-instead of /ɪnˈstɛd/ (adverbe) plutôt /à la place de/ au lieu de

-ammunition /ˌæmjəˈnɪʃən / munitions

A sword is a weapon with a blade instead of ammunition.

Translations= traductions

Le dicton de la semaine: Le stylo est plus puissant que l’épée.

Une épée est une arme avec une lame à la place de munitions.

Pour l’exposé à l’oral, n’oublie de prononcer ces 4 choses: le – s final/ le “h”/ les 3 prononciations

différentes du -ed / l’accent tonique ‘


Banksy, 2011,Crayon Boy, Los Angeles. Let’s describe this picture!

There is a smiling sun in the top left hand corner. There are many colorful flowers at the

bottom of this street art mural. What shocks us the most is the color of the bullets. They

are shaped like crayons. An Asian boy is standing in the middle of this piece of art. He is

holding a machine gun with special ammunition which is in fact crayons. In the top left cor-

ner, two butterflies are flying toward the No parking sign.

So we can say it’s a mural, because the background is not a canvas but a wall. It was

spray painted in a street of Los Angeles. This city is located in the state of California, on

the West Coast of the USA.

Banksy denounces the participation of children in conflicts, and he transmits this feeling

through rainbow bullets, which are shaped like crayons.

Because there is a No Parking sign on the top left hand corner and that the background is

a wall, we can deduce that it is a street art mural. Which was actually spray-painted in Los

Angeles in 2011.
faux ami (false friend ) « Actuellement » et « actually » sont des faux amis : « actually »

ne veut pas dire « actuellement » mais « en fait ».

actually /ˈæktʃuəli/ en fait

Crayon/ˈkreɪɒn/ crayon gras / pastel

a butterfly/ two butterflies /ˈbʌtərflaɪ / : un papillon

surrounded /səˈraʊndid/ = entouré

background /ˈbækˌgraʊnd/ arrière-plan/ fond

canvas /ˈkænvəs/ toile

spray paint /ˈspreɪpeɪnt/ bombe peinture aérosol

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