You did it! 6e (Bordas) Propositions de références et d'extraits littéraires pour : Middle school is cool (part 3)

Bonjour ! 

Aujourd'hui, je vous propose des extraits littéraires authentiques (à adapter selon les besoins de vos élèves) pour la 1re unité de You did it! 6e, intitulée : Middle school is cool. 

Vous pouvez :

* proposer ces extraits à vos élèves en fin d'année, pour faire le point sur ce qu'ils auront appris pendant cette année scolaire,

* proposer ces textes aux élèves qui avancent plus vite que d'autres et ont besoin d'être sollicités davantage,

* proposer ces textes dans un contexte de pédagogie différenciée.

N'hésitez pas à commenter cet article pour :

* me dire comment vous les utilisez,

* me demander d'autres types d'articles qui vous seraient également utiles,

* et pour me motiver afin que je poursuive ces recherches qui sont très chronophages ;)

Aujourd'hui : ce sont des extraits de I can jump poodles d'Alan Marshall.

📌 Excerpt n°1

Chapter 1

I had not long started school when I contracted Infantile Paralysis. The epidemic that began in Victoria in the early 1900’s moved into the country districts from the more populated areas, striking down children on isolated farms and in bush homes. I was the only victim in Turalla, and the people for miles around heard of my illness with a feeling of dread.

Topics: school, Australia, bush homes.

Grammar: prétérit, plu perfect, more.

📌 Excerpt n°2

His father had been a red-headed Yorkshireman, a shepherd, who had migrated to Australia at the beginning of the ’40’s. He married an Irish girl who arrived at the new colony in the same year. They say he strode onto the wharf when a ship laden with Irish girls seeking work as domestics arrived in the colony. ‘Which one of you will marry me, now?’ he called out to the girls lining the rail. ‘Who’ll take a chance with me?’ One strong, blue-eyed colleen with black hair and broad hands eyed him speculatively for a moment, then called back, ‘I’m willing. I’ll marry you.’

Topics: Australia, migration, Irish emigrants, colony, seeking work abroad.

Grammar: prétérit, will.

📌 Excerpt n°3

Because of his tales, the saltbush plains and red sandhills of the outback were closer to me than the green country where I was born and grew to manhood. ‘There’s something in the back country,’ he once told me. ‘You’re satisfied out there. You get on a pine ridge and light a fire . . .’ He stopped and sat thinking, looking at me in a troubled way. After a while he said, ‘We’ll have to think up some way to stop your crutches sinking into the sand outback. Yes, we’ll get you up there some day.’

Topics: Australia, the Outback.

Grammar: comparatif de supériorité, prétérit, présent, will.