For Dec 8 & 9 (all groups)

Dear students,

As said earlier: to illustrate the article by Sen we are studying, we will watch the movie on Tuesday evening (Dec 09 - 7 pm- 8:30 pm), "normally" in amphi Milne-Edwards (I will confirm this on Monday and Tuesday).

You will have to write an essay on this movie (optional assignment) to help you "boost" your semester grade. This optional assignment will have to be returned in January (first class).

Reminder:

The first in-class exam (maximum 50 minutes) will take place on December 8th (Monday groups) and on December 9th (Tuesday group); there will be several parts:

Part A will be based on listening comprehension:

• you will hear extracts from the reports we have studied and a series of questions will be asked to explain/clarify some aspects from these extracts
• there could be a fill-in-the-gap like part as well (I will use the transcripts handed out to you).
• there could be an unknown report and specific questions on it (that is why it is VERYimportant that you VERY regularly listen to reports from the BBC, PBS, ABC, etc)

Part B: there will questions on the vocabulary, the idiomatic expressions, and the phrasal verbs (only pages 4/13/21)

Revision program:

Susan Wicklund
The Cost of Coffee
The Brain Drain From African Countries
The phrasal verbs (only pages 4/13/21)
Vocabulary from Wicklund
and The Brain Drain (see transcripts)

If you are absent for justified or unjustied reason, there will be no catch-up exam whatsoever. Make sure you get up early in the morning, take the right train/metro much in advance, don't miss the steps in the staircase, don't walk on banana peels in the streets and don't eat too much before the exam! Remember, in Paris, there never was a tsunami, nor any earthquakes, no any giant floodings or similar catastrophes...and so far, no coup d'états or curfews are in the offing...

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)