Statistics you must know :
Number of inhabitants in the UK
Surface of the UK (Approximately)
Number of inhabitants in London + comparison with the second largest city
Share of the primary, secondary, tertiary industry, quaternary industry in the jobs
Maps :
Location of the 4 nations (England, Wales, Scoltand, Northern Ireland)
Location of the 10 most populated cities
Location of the British overseas territories (to be able to give two examples)
Location of the richest parts of the UK and the poorest ones
Vocabulary:
Nation, region, area,
Overseas territories, Commonweath,
CBD, countryside, council estate, terraced house, semi-detached houses, green belt, inner city, outer city, commuter village
rural-urban fringe areas
What you must be able to explain :
- why was regeneration necessary in Manchester (and what was decided to achieve it)
- What were the changes in the rural-urban fringe areas (example of Chester)
- the link between the type of industry and the wealth of an area
- the different types of farming
- what are national parks
- why tourism is important in the UK
- what is green tourism
- why London is a world metropolis
- what High Industries are
Section Internationale de Nogent-sur-Marne
mercredi 20 janvier 2016
dimanche 10 janvier 2016
4e History : American revolution
To revise : American Revolution
Dates to know:
1773 : Boston tea party
4th July 1776 : Declaration of Independence
1776-1783 : American Revolution (or ‘war of
independence)
1778 : Alliance between France and the USA
1781 : Battle of Yorktown
1783 : Treaty of Paris
1787 : American Constitution
1789 : Washington elected president of the USA
People to know :
Washington, La Fayette, Franklin, Louis XVI
What you must be able to explain :
- What were the "13 colonies" (location, origins of the people, ...)
Why did the
Americans revolt against the British ?
-
The human
rights according to the Declaration of Independence
-
Why did
France play a key role in the American Revolution ?
-
The
differences branches in the American constitution -who is in charge / How they are chosen / What their powers are / length of time of their mandates
VVocabulary :
C Constitution, executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, a term, president, vice president, congress, secretaries, House of Representatives, Senates, senators, Supreme court, justices,
samedi 7 novembre 2015
WW1
For
the official program
|
For
the international Section
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August 1914 : Outbreak of the war
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August 1914 : DORA*
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September 1914 : Battle of the Marne
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December 1914 : German raid on Scarborough
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Late 1914- Early
1918 : Stalemate
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From April 1915 : Armenian genocide in the Ottoman
Empire
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April 1915 : Gallipoli Battle
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February-December
1916 : Battle of
Verdun
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1916 : Military Service Act*
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July- November 1916
: Battle of the
Somme
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February and October
1917 : Russian
revolutions
December 1917 : Russian Armistice
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April 1917 : The United States declared war on
Germany
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November 1918 : Revolutions in Austria-Hungary
and in Germany
11 November 1918 : Armistice : End of WW1
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June 1919 : Treaty of Versailles
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1919 : Right to vote for women over 30
y.o. in the UK
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25
April : ANZAC day
DORA : Defense Of the Realm Act : law passed in August 1914 to limit freedoms in the UK because of the War
Military Service Act : Before that law in the UK, men had to enlist (= to be volunteer) to become soldier
Propaganda poster : the different targets of propapanda poster (to recruit soldiers [Until 1916] + to convince people that the it is a just war + to encourage people to give money to pay wepons and (especially for women) to work in war factories
What you must know :
-
The
different phases of WW1
-
Vocabulary
to describe trenches + what were the conditions of life in the trenches
-
To
explain why WWI was a ‘total war’
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To
explain why the Home front played an important role in the war
-
The
number of soldiers killed during WW1, Which countries had the most casualties
-
The
new map of Europe in 1919 : new frontiers of Germany, new countries
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Why
the treaty of Versailles was considered as a humiliation by Germany
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Who
Lenin, Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George were.
Testimonies about
WW1:
-
An
example of a soldier’s diary : Billy Congreve
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Examples
of novels about World War I :
o
Erich
Maria Remarque, All quiet on the Western
Front (1929)
o Humphrey COBB, Path of Glory,
(1937)
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Examples
of a film about World War I :Paths of Glory (1957=
lundi 2 novembre 2015
dimanche 1 novembre 2015
4e : Chapter 2 : World trade
What you must remember
Case study : the Ipod : itinerary from Shenzhen to New York
Explain the different mean of transport (advantages and disadvantages) + transport in containers ==> in order to ease the transshipment
Share of the price (components, assembling, transport, design, marketing)
World trade today :
- growth of the World trade since 1960
Different types of products exported and their share in the total (agricultural goods, oil and minerals, manufactured goods) + evolution since 1960
- the most important areas for world trade : Asia and Pacific, North America, Europe
World map :
- names of the continents and the oceans and their location
- strategic seaways : location of the different straits and canals
What you must be able to do :
- to describe the itinerary of a boat
- to read a graph and to make a comentary about it
vocabulary : GDP
Case study : the Ipod : itinerary from Shenzhen to New York
Explain the different mean of transport (advantages and disadvantages) + transport in containers ==> in order to ease the transshipment
Share of the price (components, assembling, transport, design, marketing)
World trade today :
- growth of the World trade since 1960
Different types of products exported and their share in the total (agricultural goods, oil and minerals, manufactured goods) + evolution since 1960
- the most important areas for world trade : Asia and Pacific, North America, Europe
World map :
- names of the continents and the oceans and their location
- strategic seaways : location of the different straits and canals
What you must be able to do :
- to describe the itinerary of a boat
- to read a graph and to make a comentary about it
vocabulary : GDP
vendredi 25 septembre 2015
4e ; Chapter 1 : revolutions in England during the 17th century
Stuart England: How did England become a
limited monarchy?
Important dates :
1642 :
beginning of the Civil War
1649 :
trial and execution of Charles I + beginning of the Commonwealth
1653 :
Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
1658 :
Oliver Cromwell’s death
1660 :
Restoration
1679 :
the Habeas Corpus Act
1688 :
Glorious revolution
1689 :
Bill of Rights + Toleration Act
+ The dates
of the reign of the kings or the queens of England from 1603 to 1714
What you must be able to explain :
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Why there was a Civil war from 1642
to 1649.
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Why monarchy was restored in 1660.
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What is the Habeas Corpus about.
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Why there was a revolution in 1688
and why it is called ‘the Glorious revolution’.
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What is the Bill of rights about.
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Who were Newton, Halley, Hooke.
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