Dear students,
I hope that you are all well and ready for this new academic year. For the English classes with the Master’s Degree students will proceed as follows:
Session 1: In class session
You will have to read four texts and present a summary of each text. You will also be tested on a grammar point.
Sessions 2 and 3: Distance learning(Documents uploaded onto a OneDrive folder)
Instead of doing interviews,you will haveto write a 75-word summary of EACH of the articles/ videos posted on the Intranet or sent to you. Please note that it is a summary of each article and not a synthesis.
In addition to the three articles sent, you have to choose another article and write a 75-word summary thereof. That means that the total number of words for ALL your summaries should be300 words.
For sessions 2 and 3, ALL WORK HAS TO BE UPLOADED BY 3 P.M on the day that you were scheduled to do your interview and not at the end of the semester.ANY WORK NOT HANDED IN BY 3 P.M(Time uploaded will be checked) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. If you were ill, follow the procedure in the some practical information section.
Session 4: In class session
For this session, you will have to read a book in English. The book needs to be 200 pages minimum and published after2010.Preference is given to novels(fiction). Should you decide to choose a book that falls in the category of non-fiction, you will need your teacher’s approval. All book titles are to be sent to teachers by the end ofsession 2.
You will be required to prepared apdf presentationin which you will explain:
1. Why you chose the book.
2. Which characters you preferred and why.
3. What you thought of it.
4. Whether or not you would recommend it to a friend(s) etc.
Some practical information
This semester is very particular. Please read the following information carefully.
1. If you are absent for your interviews in Session 1 and 4 or were unable to hand in your work for Sessions 2 and 3, you need to send a justification via e-mail(medical certificate etc) toscolaritéwithin48 hours of your absence.Do not send the e-mail directly to the teachers. Everything goes through scolarité concerning absences.
2. If your absence isjustified, and accepted by the administration,you will be allowed to do a ‘rattrapage’ at the end of the semester. No ‘ à la carte’ sessions or marking will be done.
3. In the event that you do need to communicate with a teacherfor reasons other than an absence, you are kindly requested to do so using the school e-mail address and not via Teams. Any message sent via Teams will not be taken into account.
