TIMELINE PROJECT. The United States of America during the 1930s. Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt,

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1 PROJECT 4 Dear Mrs Roosevelt, TIMELINE Note down all the key events you encounter in Project 4. The United States of America during the 1930s Events (economic, political ) & social consequences Arts & entertainment Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 37

2 LOGPAGE Note down your findings throughout Project 4 here. Request letter guideline Sender (name and address); date of letter Addressee (name and additional information) Letter to Mrs Roosevelt n ➊ (p. 68) Letter to Mrs Roosevelt n ➋ (p. 69) Mrs Roosevelt Letter to Mrs Roosevelt n ➌ (p. 69) Letter to Greta Garbo (p. 72) Sender s situation and needs Needs clothes for school but no funds to buy them Sender s request(s) Send money so can fi nish High School Explanations and arguments Raised no grain and money scarce. Father injured two months ago. Worked hard during the campaign for Mr Roosevelt. 38

3 LANGUAGE SKILLS Book p WORDS A Pronunciation: compound adjectives and compound nouns You have seen a lot of compounds in Step 1: shanty town bread line ill fed food bill low spirited money problems employment agency a. Use two different colours to highlight: the nouns, the adjectives. job queue down hearted badly dressed stock market request letter dead tired Piste n 23 b. Check your answers and the meaning of these words with the class or check in a dictionary. c. Now listen to these compounds and: circle the nouns, underline the adjectives. d. What conclusion can you draw? Compound nouns are generally stressed on... Compound adjectives are generally stressed on... Can you explain your conclusions? B Organizing words: talking about hard times a. Sort out the following words under these headings: ill-clothed, desperate, go bust, breadlines, struggle, starve, destitute, hard up, lay off, ill-clad, homeless, broke, cope with, down hearted, ill-fed, shanty towns, fend for, worried, make do, earn money, wages, relieved, devastated, in rags, debts work poverty resistance feelings Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 39

4 work poverty resistance feelings b. Complete the list with other words you have come across. C Collocations a. Link words from column 1 to words from column 2 to find as many expressions as possible. 1 sharp devastating sudden grim dramatic bare tough hard glamorous 2 times contrast realities struggle decrease life experience hard times; b. Pick out some of these pairs and use them to write a short paragraph or talk about the 1930s in the USA. D Combining elements into a story Write a short text (about 30 words) about someone living during the Great Depression, using all or some of the words given below: 1. family no work no money no food leave home hit the road fend for himself man factory closed laid off no wages debts soup kitchen homeless shanty town

5 E Word bank This exercise on three of the key words of this chapter will help you to learn more about many other words that are linked to them. devastate needy relief Sentence(s) where you found the word Lexical field it is related to Part of speech verb adjective noun Definition Don t forget! Pronunciation Words with a similar meaning synonyms Words with the opposite meaning antonyms Words derived from it (+ part of speech and definition) relieve (verb); relieved (adj.) Don't confuse! (homophones, homographs ) Collocations devastating grief on relief; relief from pain; What a relief! Proverbs, sayings, idiomatic expressions Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 41

6 SPEAKING Book p Réfléchir sur la langue : présenter une suite d événements en faisant apparaître les liens de causalité Vous avez pu produire les énoncés suivants : 1. As people were out of work, they didn t get any wages. 2. People were laid off, so they couldn t earn any money. 3. Farmers left their farms because they couldn t grow crops. 4. People didn t earn money, that s why they couldn t buy consumer goods. a. Dites ce que ces énoncés signifient. 1. Les gens n avaient pas de salaire parce qu ils n avaient pas de travail b. Chacun d entre eux se compose de deux propositions, dont l une est introduite par un mot de liaison ; entourez ce mot de liaison. c. Les deux propositions introduisent deux événements. Classez ces événements de manière chronologique : événement 1 événement d. Pour chaque énoncé, dites quel rapport logique le mot de liaison établit entre l événement 1 et l événement 2 : e. Conclusion Pour exprimer un rapport logique de..., je peux utiliser ou... Pour exprimer un rapport logique de..., je peux utiliser ou... 42

7 READING Book p Réfléchir sur la langue : Preterite / have + participe passé Vous avez pu lire les énoncés suivants dans les lettres envoyées à Mrs Roosevelt : 1. I live on a farm and I have lived here for five years. 2. In 1930 I was a freshman but I had to quit on account of the Depression. Since then financial difficulties have kept me from going to school anywhere. 3. We worked hard during the campaign for Mr Roosevelt. 4. My father was seriously injured two months ago. a. Rappelez en français ce qu ils signifient b. Dans chacun des énoncés, soulignez les indications temporelles et surlignez de deux couleurs différentes les groupes verbaux au prétérit et ceux contenant have + participe passé. Quel lien remarquez-vous entre les indications temporelles et les groupes verbaux?... À quelle sphère temporelle appartiennent : have + participe passé : passé présent prétérit : passé présent c. Situez les différents événements et les indications temporelles dont vous disposez sur l axe suivant : Now (the moment when the sender writes the letter) d. Concluez : Lorsque l énonciateur se situe dans le présent mais tourne son regard vers le passé, il utilise :... Lorsque l énonciateur indique qu il se situe dans le passé, il utilise :... 7 Preterite / have + past participle b. Read the following letter. Highlight the verbs and time markers, if any, referring to the past and those referring to the present in two different colours. Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 43

8 GREENSBORO, N.C. February 12, 1938 Dear Mrs Roosevelt On January 1st I was laid off from my work leaving my brother the whole support of our family. Just recently he was cut down to 3 days a week with a cut in salary. With seven of us in the family it is just about impossible for us to live on this amount. My mother has been sick for over two months having had a nervous breakdown, and we are unable to buy or furnish her with the medicine required for her recovery. I am 18 years of age the oldest girl in the family, and it just seems impossible for me to get a job anywhere. I have been to Mills, Stores and Firms of all sorts. I am willing and able to work. Can furnish excellent references but at this time of the year it just seems impossible to find work. We are so in debt and each week the bills are piling higher and higher that it just seems as if there was no way out. We must make a payment on our furniture bill, and if it isn t paid soon they will be out any day for our furniture. And on top of this we are behind in our rent. It would be a big help if we could get some of our bills paid on as they are already impatient for their money. If you could help us out with from $35.00 to $50.00 I believe we would be the happiest family in the world. Though we are poor, we try to hold off embarrassment, for you know it is hard to be broke, and harder to admit it. Please grant me this favour and I will ever be, Gratefully yours, c. Organize the key events on a timeline. January 1st February 12, WRITING Book p Réfléchir sur la langue : expression du paradoxe ou de la discordance : though, even though, although, despite Vous avez été amenés à lire ou à produire les énoncés suivants : 1. Although Felix Otria had to go to hospital, he was very happy with his performance. 2. In the thirties, Americans went to the cinema a lot even though they had very little money. 3. Despite their poverty, many Americans did not want to beg. 4. Despite the fact they had serious money problems, Americans packed into theatres. a. Dites ce qu ils signifient :

9 b. Quelle idée est exprimée dans toutes ces phrases? c. Soulignez les mots qui expriment cette idée. Observez leur environnement immédiat. d. Que pouvez-vous conclure? PRACTICALS Book p ; 72 Request letters Book p Highlight clues about: the writer s identity and situation Colour 1 her request Colour 2 the arguments she uses Colour 3 1 Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 45

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11 Dear Greta Garbo Book p. 72 Highlight: what the sender wants Colour 1 what he did and what happened Colour 2 what kind of person he is and what his arguments are Colour 3 Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 47

12 DEBRIEFING Before working on Your Project, fill in chart 1 and compare what you have learnt with what your classmates have learnt. Fill in chart 2 after working on Your Project. 1 What I have done In Steps 1 and 2 Activities & documents I have collected information from different sources and explained their connection in order to get a picture of America in the 1930s. I have read personal letters. I have heard recordings about personal experiences. I have done a report or a presentation insisting on the important and significant points. I have written request letters. 2 Where I stand When I worked on the final project, I was able to: With a lot of help With a little help f With no help ä understand the chain of events leading to a situation. link ideas logically: cause and consequence and paradox. give an account of my situation and needs. use adequate vocabulary. ask for something convincingly. write an extravagant letter. 48

13 3 What I need to work on 1. Listening to personal experiences Listen to Dorothea Lange s photographs Piste and follow your teacher s instructions. n Linking ideas logically Tick possible continuations to the following statements as in the example rack your brains: one, two or three statements can be ticked or none of them! Be ready to justify your choice(s). Example: He is out of work. although the company he worked for went bust. because the company he worked for went bust. despite his qualifications. as a result of the economic crisis. 1. Some American farmers fled their farms in the 1930s so there was a dust storm. as they couldn t grow crops. despite the drought because they were broke. 2. Americans packed into the theatres because they couldn t afford it. although they didn t have much money. so the film industry went bust. although a lot of films were released. 3. Lining up was a devastating experience for Harry Belafonte s mother so she enjoyed it very much. despite the rain. because people were very kind to her. as she was going to earn money. 4. Consumption dropped in the 1930s because Americans earned a lot of money. so the production was cut back. as a result of the Stock Exchange Crash. despite government relief. 5. Young Americans wrote letters to Mrs Roosevelt as she looked glamorous. although they didn t know her personally. as she was the First Lady. because they needed some help. 3. Linking ideas: cause, consequence and paradox a. Read the following paragraph in which some words are missing.... the economic crisis provoked pain in more than just the young, it hit the young with special force.... they had less education, less vocational training and less job experience, they were more vulnerable to the ravages of the Project 4 - Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 49

14 Depression...., young unemployment rates were above the national average: surveys in show unemployment rates among years olds at 45% in Pennsylvania and 53% in Denver. The Relief Census of 1933 found that 42% of all relief recipients were under sixteen years of age,... this age group constituted only 31% of the US population. Children below working age were dependent on their parents,... when their parents lost their jobs, hunger often resulted. b. Identify the meaning of the missing words: cause, consequence or paradox. c. Complete the paragraph using either: even though, though, so, as, consequently. 4. Asking for something convincingly A young boy from Michigan wrote to Mrs Roosevelt on May 17, Here is an extract from his letter: I have heard that you get lots of money and that you have life easy. Our way is quite different. I have wanted a bicycle for so long. I will be grateful to you if you will help me. Goodbye. a. Read this letter and complete your logpage. b. Use the headings of your logpage to find out what could be added to make this letter more convincing. c. Complete the letter accordingly. Dear Mrs Roosevelt, 50