1. Actualités et Faits de Société Week 1: Introduction to English Studies
teacher: Maud MICHAUD

2. Tell me more about you NAME First Name Date of Birth/age
(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

3. READ NEWSPAPER WEBSITES!

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

5. 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?

6. 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

8. 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

11. 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

12. 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