Anglais BEP : "A series of unfortunate events Book the First : The Bad Beginning" de Lemony Snicket : donner un ordre

OBJECTIFS : en Terminale BEP, lire un extrait d'une oeuvre de littérature de jeunesse; être capable d'exprimer un ordre; enrichir le lexique culinaire.

1. Expression orale à partir de la première de couverture pour reconstituer l'intrigue :

                                                          

The main characters are three children and an adult. How old do you think they are ? There is a baby called Sunny Baudelaire, a girl called Violet who is fourteen and a boy called Klaus who is twelve.

Imagine what unfortunate event has happened to them. Do they look happy or sad ? They look very sad because their parents' house has been destroyed in a fire/has burnt down and their parents have died. So they are orphans and this is their new house. They look shy because they don't know this man. What does the man look like ? Does he look friendly ? Who do you think he is ? This man is very tall and thin. He looks like the devil. He is a distant relative, who is going to look after them/raise them now that their parents are dead. He is Count Olaf. He is going to make them work hard.

2. Lecture du texte réécrit (p. 30-39) et activités.

The instructions Count Olaf left for the children were usually difficult chores, such as repainting the back porch or repairing the windows.

Make Count Olaf speak : 1. imperative mood   2.You must ...    I want you to ...

Imagine other instructions. Put the words in the right order :

peel           feed                clean                   do                    dig                        tidy up

dogs         garden            house                 windows           potatoes              washing-up

One morning his note read, "My theater troupe will be coming for dinner before tonight's performance. Have dinner ready for all ten of them by the time they arrive at seven o'clock. Buy the food, prepare it, set the table, serve dinner, clean up afterwards, and stay out of our way."

Violet and Klaus read the note as they ate their breakfast. Then they looked at each other in dismay.

"None of us knows how to cook", Klaus said.

"I don't know how to cook anything except toast," Violet said.

"And sometimes you burn the toast", Klaus said and they smiled.

"Perhaps we could find a cookbook, and read about how to cook", Klaus said.

"It shouldn't be that difficult to make a simple meal."

Violet and Klaus spent several minutes opening and shutting Count Olaf's kitchen cupboards, but there weren't any cookbooks to be found.

At that moment there was a knock on the front door. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny walked to the door and peered through the peephole. They were delighted to see Justice Strauss, their neighbour, peering back at them, and opened the door.

"Justice Strauss !", Violet cried. "How lovely to see you."

"Now then how are you children getting on ? Is there anything you desire ?"

The children looked at one another, thinking of all the things they desired. What they desired most of all, of course, was to be associated with Count Olaf in any way whatsoever. What they desired most was to be with their parents again, in their true home, but that, of course, was impossible. Finally, Klaus spoke.

"Could we perhaps borrow a cookbook?" he said. Count Olaf has instructed us to make dinner for his theater troupe tonight, and we can't find a cookbook in the house."

"Well, why don't you come next door to my house, Justice Strauss said, and find a cookbook that pleases you ?" The youngsters agreed and followed her to her house. She led them to her private library. For thirty minutes, the children looked through several cookbooks that Justice Strauss recommended.

Finally Klauss found a dish that sounded delicious, and easy to make.

Tick the right answers :

1. Count Olaf is      an actor                    a cook                       a writer.

2. The Baudelaire children have to prepare       breakfast     lunch            dinner.

3. When they know they have to cook, they are       happy     worried        indifferent.

4. Justine Strauss visits them               because  she needs help          

                                                                 to see if they are all right

                                                                 because she wants to see Count Olaf.

5. The children can find a cookbook   in Count Olaf's house          in Justice's house

                                                                 in a public library.    

Imagine what recipe the Baudelaire children found and prepared.

Brainstorming : ingredients. Possibilité d'utiliser le dictionnaire bilingue Le Visuel Compact, Editions de La Martinière, 2003.

Useful verbs : boil, cut, peel, pour, mix ...

3. Production écrite : les élèves imaginent une recette et la communiquent. Ensuite, ils lisent celle concoctée par les enfants Baudelaire, soulignent d'une couleur le lexique des ingrédients, d'une autre couleur les verbes, puis la réécrivent sous la forme d'une recette de livre de cuisine (impératifs). Ils la comparent à celle qu'ils ont inventée.

"Listen to this", Klaus said. "'Puttanesca'. It's an Italian sauce for pasta. All we need to do is sauté olives, capers, anchovies, garlic, chopped parsley, and tomatoes together in a pot, and prepare spaghetti to go with it."

For most of the afternoon, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny cooked the puttanesca sauce according to the recipe. Violet roasted the garlic and washed and chopped the anchovies. Klaus peeled the potatoes and pitted the olives. The children grew cozy as the sauce simmered, a culinary term which means "cooked over low heat".

Imagine Count Olaf's reaction when he tasted the dish.

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