blog 2 2020-21

  Travail sur votre roman: - avant de lire, imaginez pourquoi le titre est  Death of a Perfect Wife : What is a perfect wife? Who would kill such a person? Why?   - puis lisez uniquement le tout début du roman de MC Beaton, jusqu'au milieu de la page 3 "cup of coffee" et répondez dans votre cahier aux questions suivantes : 1° Where does the scene take place? What sort of place is described? 2° Who is the main character? What's his job? What is he doing at the beginning? 3.° What do the Currie sisters think of Hamish Macbeth? Can you guess why? 4.Why does Jessie mention Miss Halburton-Smythe " maliciously" ?   Bon courage Take care  

    That day I had one of the greatest disappointments of my life! I would even say that on that day I experienced a very great sorrow. Instead of the red, white, and blue Montreal Canadiens sweater, Monsieur Eaton had sent us a blue and white sweater with a maple leaf on the front - the sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs. I'd always worn the red, white, and blue Montreal Canadiens sweater; all my friends wore the red, white, and blue sweater; neverhad anyone in my village ever worn the Toronto sweater, never had we even seen a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater. Besides, the Toronto team was regularly trounced by the triumphant Canadiens. With tears in my eyes, I found the strength to say: "I'll never wear that uniform." "My boy, first you're going to try it on! If you make up your mind about things before you try, my boy, you won't go very far in this life." My mother had pulled the blue and white Toronto Maple Leafs sweater over my shoulders and alre...

 Sum up the beginning and imagine what will happen next...   "The Hockey Sweater"   The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church, and the skating-rink, but our real life was on the skating-rink. Real battles were won on the skating-rink. Real strength appeared on the skating-rink. The real leaders showed themselves on the skating-rink. School was a sort of punishment. Parents always want to punish children and school is their most natural way of punishing us. However, school was also a quiet place where we could prepare for the next hockey game, lay out our next strategies. As for church, we found there the tranquillity of God: there we forgot school and dreamed about the next hockey game. Through our daydreams it might happen that we would recite a prayer: we would ask God to help us play as well as Maurice Richard. We all wore the same uniform as he, the red, white, and blue uniform of the Montreal Canadi...