The testimony. As the plaintiff in a trial, you testify against a bully who threatened you.
Task I : the incident
1/Alone, please mime : happiness, shyness, rudeness, carelessness, tenderness,
wickedness, ruthlessness, gentleness
2/ Look at the board and (orally) match the equivalents :
You show carelesness.
You are shy.
You have happiness
You are ruthless.
You show gentleness.
You are gentle.
You show rudeness.
You are tender.
You have shyness.
You are wicked.
You show tenderness.
You are happy.
You show wickdness.
You are rude.
You show ruthlessness
You are careless.
3/With a mate : please mime : respect, disrespect love, condescendance,
indifference, hate, despise, violence, friendship, aggressivity/aggressiveness
4/ Look at the board and (orally) match the equivalents :
You show respect.
You are indifferent.
You show condescendance.
You are respectful.
You show hate
You are condescending.
You show indifference.
You are hateful.
You show despise.
You are friendly.
You show friendship.
You despise.
5/ Below is the definition of a bully found on dictionary.com. In French, can
you tell what a bully is?
A bully : a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and
intimidates smaller or weaker people.
6/ With two mates, invent characters that are going to have a conflict.
First bully
Second bully
Victim
Student/Actor
Name (in fiction)
Personality/mood
(happy, respectful,
loving...)
Vous imaginez maintenant une scène silencieuse avec les trois personnages ci-dessus.
Préparez-vous à la jouer pour une note sur 10 dotée du coefficient 1.
Dans nos jeux de mime (activités 1 à 5), nous avons appris du vocabulaire. Apprenez-le chez
vous, en vous aidant, au besoin, d'un dictionnaire classique ou numérique.
The testimony. As the plaintiff in a trial, you testify against a bully who threatened you.
Task II : the incident (part 2)
1/
One
of
your
schoolmates is going to
mime something. Can
you guess what it is?
(bonus : 5 points)
2/Make
sentences
following the example :
Where may we put our
bags?
coats
stuff
Shakespeare,
King Lear, Act
II, scene 2
OSWALD
Good dawning to
thee, friend: art
of this house?
OSWALD
Where may we
set our horses?
KENT
I' the mire.
KENT
shoes
belongings
Ay.
3/
Make
answers
following the examples :
Please, put your bag in the
closet.
4/Read the text. What is the equivalent for :
Good morning to you, friend...
Do you live in this house?
Hi, there.
5/Repeat the sentences in the text.
6/ In the text, find the English for :
Dans la boue.
7/ With the vocabulary from last time, please describe Kent and Oswald :
Kent is...
Oswald is ...
8/ Who is the bully?
Vous allez maintenant, par paire, vous préparer à jouer l'extrait ci-dessus. Veillez à
manifester par votre ton (4/10 points), votre expression faciale (4/10) et votre
attitude corporelle (2/10 points) les traits de caractère du personnage. Votre note
recevra le coefficient 4.
The testimony. As the plaintiff in a trial, you testify against a bully who threatened you.
Task 3 : The incident (part 3)
1/ One of your schoolmate is going to
mime something. Can you guess
what it is? (bonus : 5 points)
2/ Read the text and find the
equivalents for :
Fellow, I know you
Shakespeare, King Lear, Act
II, scene 2
KENT
Fellow, I know thee.
OSWALD
What dost thou know me for?
What do you know me for?
3/ Make sentences following the
example : I know him for (being) a
bully. I know her for (being) a loving.
4/ Translate into French (bonus : 5
points)
What dost thou know me for?/What do
you know me for?
Par groupes de 4, traduisez, à l'aide du
dictionnaire, les passages en gras. Le groupe
qui aura ke mieux réussi obtiendra en bonus la
note de 5/5. Chaque équipe travaillera de
façon autonome à surmonter les obstacles
rencontrées, par exemple, en décomposant les
mots difficiles.
KENT
A knave; a rascal; an eater of
broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly,
three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worstedstocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking
knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one
that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service,
and art nothing but
the composition of a knave,
beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a
mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous
whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy
addition.
5/Kent threatens Oswald. Underline
the part of the text where it happens.
6/ What does Kent call...
A dishonest person An homeless man A criminal
asking for money
deserving of death
A female dog of
mixed race
7/ With the words above, make sentences following the example :
He said I was a slave.
Pour la prochaine fois, entraînez-vous à refaire l'activité 7.
The testimony. As the plaintiff in a trial, you testify against a bully who threatened you.
Task 4 : Grammar tools
1/Please mime : being beautiful, being
Shakespeare, King Lear, Act
awesome,
being
cool,
being
II, scene 2
sympathetic, being gentle, being careful,
KENT
being sensitive, being classy, being
impressive...
A knave; a rascal; an eater of
2/ Say something nice to one of your
broken meats; a
mates. Follow the example : Jack, you
base, proud, shallow, beggarly,
are a extraordinary.
three-suited,
3/ Someone is going to compliment
hundred-pound, filthy, worstedyou. Listen to him or her and repeat
stocking knave; a
what he said. Follow the example :
lily-livered, action-taking
Jack said : “You are nice”
knave, a whoreson,
4/ Someone is going to compliment
glass-gazing, superyou. Listen to him or her and repeat
serviceable finical rogue;
what he said. Follow the example :
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one
Jack said I was nice.
that wouldst be a
5/Please mime : an angel, a hero, a
bawd, in way of good service,
savior, a good person/man/woman, a
and art nothing but
friend, a genius
the composition of a knave,
6/ Say something nice to one of your
beggar, coward, pandar,
mates. Follow the example : Jack, you
and the son and heir of a
are an angel.
mongrel bitch: one whom I
7/ Someone is going to compliment
will beat into clamorous
you. Listen to him or her and repeat
whining, if thou deniest
what he said. Follow the example :
the least syllable of thy
Jack said I was an angel.
addition.
8/Someone is going to compliment
you. Listen to him or her and repeat
Pour la prochaine fois, entraînez-vous à
what he said. Follow the example :
refaire les phrases de la dernière
Jack called me an angel.
9/Repeat
the
words
from activité et apprenez-les par coeur.
Shakespeare's text.
10/ You are Oswald. Testify against
Kent. Use words from the text and
follow these two examples :
Kent said I was a Kent called me an
knave
knave.
The testimony. As the plaintiff in a trial, you testify against a bully who threatened you.
Task 5 : testifying.
1/ One of your schoolmate is going to mime something. Can you guess what
it is? (bonus : 5 points)
2/Repeat these words from Shakespeare's King Lear (Act II scene 2) : knave,
rascal, eater of broken meats, whoreson, rogue, slave, bawd, beggar, coward,
pandar, son and her of a mongrel bitch
3/ Read the text page 4. Underline the part where Kent threatens Oswald.
4/ Circle the right testimony :
Kent threatened to Kent threatened to Kent threatened to Kent threatend to
kidnap me.
humiliate me.
disown me.
beat me.
5/ Rephrase these sentences following the example.
Kent threatened to Kent threatened to Kent threatened to Kent threatend to
kidnap me.
humiliate me.
kill me.
beat me.
Kent said he would
kidnap me.
6/ You are Oswald. Testify against Kent. Use words from the text and follow
these two examples :
Kent said I was a knave
Kent called me an knave.
7/ You are talking to a judge. What will you call him/her?
Dude
Mister
Your Honor
Man
Vous êtes désormais prêts à être notés. Formez des groupes de deux. Dans
chaque groupe, il y a un juge, un plaignant (qui témoige contre Kent). Chacun sera
plaignant à son tour, dans une mise enscène que vous inventerez. Le témoin, seul
à parler, mentionnera :
- son nom
- le motif de sa venue : I am here to testify against Kent.
- le titre adéquat pour s'adresser à un juge (4/20)
- la menace prononcée par Kent (4/20)
- les insultes proférées par Kent (12/20)
Votre note sera dot&e du coefficient 4.
Attention : dans chaque binôme, les témoignages doivent êtres différents :
choisissez des phrases dans les activités 6 et 5 pour vous en assurer. Si cette
condition n'était pas remplie, la pénalité serait de 3/20 points.