Actualités et Faits de Société Week 1: Introduction to English Studies teacher: Maud MICHAUD Maud.Michaud@univ-lemans.fr

Tell me more about you NAME First Name Date of Birth/age Email: (univ-lemans.fr) What were you doing last year (bac? 1st year? something else?) Do you have a part-time job or do you plan to have one? Give me one reason why you decided to study English (develop your answer) Tell me more about you

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CLASSES Questions about the lectures (Tuesday mornings) Extracts from newspaper articles Videos Iconographic documents Discussions HOMEWORK every week CLASSES

September check: What do you know about Britain? Some key words: with your fellow classmates, try and give a definition of the following notions – those are notions we will deal with quite a lot this semester! BREXIT COMMONWEALTH MONARCHY MULTICULTURALISM BRITISHNESS September check: What do you know about Britain?

Match the symbols, flags and saints to one of the UK’s 4 nations Saint Andrew Saint David Saint George Saint Patrick Match the symbols, flags and saints to one of the UK’s 4 nations

The difference between: the British Isles (blue circle) the United Kingdom (red circle) Great Britain (yellow circle) How do we call the inhabitants of the UK? the Brits – the British – Britons vs. the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Northern Irish

Testimonies on what it means to be British Testimony Male or female Age City/town and nationality? Positive comments about Britain Negative comments about Britain Sum up testimony’s view Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Testimonies on what it means to be British

With your group, fill in this table together Positive definitions of Britishness, positive values? Negative definitions of Britishness, negative values? With your group, fill in this table together