Langue anglaise

Feelings and Emotions

Les notions du chapitre Feelings and Emotions en Langue anglaise pour la 3AS, une par une : ce que le programme demande, la méthode, les erreurs fréquentes et le type d’exercice qui tombe au BAC.

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  • Lettres et philosophie
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  1. 1 Vocabulary — feelings, emotions, humour, happiness Pre-teach vocabulary via title/picture anticipation
  2. 2 Reported speech — reporting questions Reported question keeps statement word order, drops the question-mark auxiliary inversion
  3. 3 Reported speech — reporting instructions/orders Instruction/order → subject + told/ordered + object + to-infinitive, dropping the imperative form
  4. 4 Obligation, prohibition & advice about feelings/behaviour Test: is it forbidden (mustn't) or just unwise (should not)?
  5. 5 Articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love) Abstract nouns used generically take no article ('Happiness is ...', not 'The happiness is ...')
  6. 6 Word formation — deriving adjectives/verbs from nouns; pronunciation of 'h' & 'ngth' cluster Identify the target word class first, then pick the matching derivational suffix
  7. 7 Expressing likes/dislikes/preferences prefer X to Y vs would rather + base verb — don't mix the two patterns
  8. 8 Reciprocal pronouns — each other / one another each other for two people/things, one another for three or more — the classic (soft) distinction
  9. 9 Quantifiers with emotion/abstract nouns Sort the emotion noun (countable/uncountable) first, then pick the matching quantifier
  10. 10 Word formation — suffixes -ness/-ful/-ous/-ic Sort the target word class before choosing among -ness (noun)/-ful/-ous/-ic (adjective)
  11. 11 Reading strategy — distinguishing facts from opinions & identifying organisational pattern Ask 'can this be proven?' to sort fact vs opinion sentence by sentence
  12. 12 Reading strategy — making inferences beyond the literal text Combine an explicit textual clue with background knowledge to state what the text implies but doesn't say
  13. 13 Production — letter of advice Acknowledge the problem, then give 2-3 concrete pieces of advice using should/ought to
  14. 14 Production — newspaper article about feelings Lead with the human-interest angle, then develop with 2-3 points
  15. 15 Production — formal speech Open with a formal address line, keep register formal throughout (no contractions)
  16. 16 Production — book/film review article Summary in 1-2 sentences, then judgment with justification, never the reverse proportion