The History of Tea
Where does tea come from?
China
Where did the crime take place in the film Murder Mystery?
On a luxury yacht.
What is wrong with this sentence?
"Bob Dylan wrote many famous musics in his career."
"Musics" does not exist.
Music = la musique = indénombrable
"Songs" is the correct term (= chansons = dénombrable).
Name one of the protest songs that we studied and its creator.
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Respect - Aretha Franklin
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
This is America - Childish Gambino
Name and explain on of the techniques used in advertising
Appeal to emotions - red herring - false dilemma - bandwagon... etc
What is the difference between 'high tea' and 'low tea'
High tea = the evening meal, served at regular tables and including meat pies, bread, soups, etc.
Low tea = an afternoon snack, served on low coffee tables in sitting rooms and including light sandwiches and cakes.
What do you call an old woman who was never married? And why do they make good detectives?
A spinster
What is the difference between paint and painting? Which one is correct in the following sentence:
'Flower bomb' is Banksy's most famous ___________.
Painting
Paint = verb
Painting = noun, the object that is painted by the artist.
What did the song "Strange Fuit" denouce?
The lynching of black people in the USA
Which type of company spent the most amount of money on advertising in the USA?
Insurance companies (ex: Geico)
The private company founded to import tea and expand the British Empire.
The British East India Company
Who was Enola Holmes looking for in the extract we watched? What did she discover about this person?
Her mother. She was planning to bomb various areas in London in protest for Women's Suffrage (the right to vote).
When doing a Written Comprehension, what is the FIRST thing you must do?
Identify the document (title, author, date, nature)
Give one example of symbolism in the This is America music video and explain it.
The red silk used to take the guns away
The church choir - the Charleston massacre
The children with their phones out
The white horse
The empty cars
The joint he lights at the end...
Give three examples of techniques used to advertise to kids.
Bright colours, cartoon characters, songs, story-telling...
How do lower-class people take their tea and why?
Lower-class people tend to drink stronger tea with sugar. This is because they work long hours and need the caffeine and sugar for energy.
Translate the following sentence into English using the génétif and the correct relative pronoun:
"La mère d'Enola, qui est aussi le mère de Sherlock Holmes, a un plan secret de se battre pour le vote des femmes"
Enola's mother, who is also Sherlock Holmes's mother, has a secret plan to fight for women's suffrage/ women's voting rights/ women's right to vote.
How do you say "l'arme du crime" in English?
The murder weapon
In the extract from the movie 'Across the Universe', where did Max go and why?
He went to the war office because he was called up to serve in the military during the Vietnam War (conscription). All young men were required to go or you risked prison time.
Explain how JUUL vapes managed to advertise their tobacco products to kids.
They modified their ad campaign to target younger kids, they had ads on social media, they made their vapes look more appealing, they didn't enforce age restricttion during online purchasing...
What was the name of the Scottish botanist sent by the EIC to steal tea seeds from China?
Robert Fortune
Name 3 characters from the Netflix film Murder Mystery (2019), of which we watched an extract in class.
Audrey and Nick Spitz (the Americans)
Malcolm Quince (the victim), Tobey Quince (the son), Charles Cavendish (the nephew), Suzi Nakamura (the new wife), Grace Ballard (the movie star), Vikram (the Maharaja), Colonel Ulenga and Sergei (the bodyguards), and Juan Carlos Rivera (the race-car driver).
Complete and justify the following sentence:
"English goods _____________ (refuse) by the Chinese government in exchange for tea."
were refused
We need the passive voice: we are more interested in the goods than in who refused them (the agent), who is introduced with BY.
We also need the past tense (were), as this happened in the past.
What racist caricature does Donald Glover imitate by striking poses and wearing an unnatural grin?
Jim Crowe (reference to the Jim Crowe segregation laws in the southern USA).
Teen psychology
Name a part of the brain that is developing during your teen years
The limbic system : processes hormones, emotions
The prefrontal cortex : analysis and reasoning centre of the brain