Post on 01-Apr-2018
Become an Art Critic http://pedagogie.ac-limoges.fr/anglais/
Niveaux A2/B1 du CECRL
Activités langagières: CE : Analyse a front page & a cartoon PO: Debate: Can we laugh about any subject? (+ Criticize a TV programme dedicated to Art) CO: Analyse a TV programme dedicated to Art PE: Write an article about a work of Art & Publish it on the school website.
Objectifs visés: Utiliser les différents médias pour: - analyser de manière critique une information. - se l’approprier pour la retransmettre à ses pairs . Faire évoluer le Journal papier du collège vers un Web-journal, en alimenter et en pérenniser la rubrique « Culture ».
Tâches à accomplir: • Tâches intermédiaires: 1- Formaliser une Une papier d’après des éléments fournis (images, textes découpés). 2- Analyser un dessin de presse et répondre à la problématique: Debate: Can we laugh about any subject? Give your opinion. 3- Analyser une émission de télévision sur l’Art. •Tâche finale: Créer une page d’un Web Journal sur un évènement culturel avec insertion de vidéos. (Concours?). 1- A partir de Unes papiers + Dessins de presse 2- A partir d’une émission de télé / vidéo.
Stage 1 :What on Earth is a media?
Brainstorming
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Media
Stage 2:Focus on a newspaper’s front
page
•Appropriation d’un modèle de mise en page.
• Acquisition du lexique spécifique.
1- Focus on an event & Compare
the different front pages...
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5
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10 12
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David Bowie •Log on :
•Type of music : http://www.biography.com/people/david-bowie-9222045
•Name :
•Birthplace (which region?) & Birthdate:
- Died in:
•Historical context Timeline: write the important dates and explain
History: •Focus on the artist:
•Was he artistic when he was a teenager?
•When did he start singing and playing an instrument?
•Activities/ jobs before being an artist?
•Focus on the song: “Space Oddity”
•Which words can you identify?
•What is the song about?
•Focus on the song: “Heroes”
•Finish the line: “I, I can remember… “
2- Analyse the front pages - Which event is focused on? →David Bowie’s death
- Are the newspapers and magazines... ?(Tick) □ broad in scope (≈generalist) □ specialising in Arts & Culture
□ daily □ weekly □ monthly □ quarterly □ yearly
- Which front page do you find most attractive? Why?
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- Analyse your favourite front page:
-Aim of the picture:
to illustrate □ to move □ to inform □ to shock □
- Aim of the text:
to illustrate □ to move □ to inform □ to shock □
- Would you change an element in this front page? No / Yes, ---
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Stage 3:You are the journalist:
create your own front page!
- Version papier: images, textes découpés et fournis + éléments amenés par les élèves.
- Version Blog (skyblog.com, magmagz) ou sites dédiés: fakemagazines.com
-Sur Ipad: Application Piccolage.
-Ou les élèves prennent leur Une papier en photo et la publie ensuite sur Calameo.
→ Ils la présentent ensuite à l’oral à l’aide d’une grille d’analyse élaborée par l’enseignant.
+ image source Wikipédia
The cartoonist’s intentions...
Stage 4:Focus on a
cartoon
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2
3
4 5
Cartoon Source
Cartoon 1
Cartoon 2
Cartoon 3
Cartoon 4
Cartoon 5
Describe:
What I can see
Interpret
What I
understand
Analyse the
context
(connected to
the news?)
Analyse the
Symbols
Analyse the
meaning
What does
the journalist
want me to
understand?
Cartoon 1
Cartoon 2
Cartoon 3
Cartoon 4
Cartoon 5
Your favourite. Justify:
Debate: Can we laugh about any subject?
→ Give your opinion
• Toolbox à fournir.
• Grille de synthèse (Mindmap?) à donner à l’issue du débat.
Stage 5: Understand a TV
programme dedicated to Art A2/B1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzxWFRrYD4&feature=player_detailpage
1- Get ready to understand a tv
programme dedicated to Arts.
1- Visionner le générique sans le son. Faire des hypothèses.
• Make Hypothesis
• What genre of TV programme? Is it about...
-Culture?/ Science?/ Politics?/ Entertaining?
• What type of TV programme? Is it...?
- TV News? a film? a documentary? a TV report?
2- Visionner avec le son: Vérifier les Hypothèses.
3- Comprendre un court dialogue (le générique): donner le texte lacunaire: écouter le dialogue et faire compléter le texte.
2- Describe the works of Art presented in the TV
programme: • Fill in the grid:
Its shape:
Its dimensions:
The main colours:
Its Style:
What does it represent?
3- What does the painting...represent?
Make Hypothesis, Check them & give your opinion
1- Group Work: Make Hypothesis
-Distribuer l’œuvre principale (traitée dans l’émission) aux élèves.
-Faire formuler des hypothèses sur l’œuvre d’art: period, historical /social context, style (justify)
- What does it represent? Justify.
- Noter les hypothèses dans la première colonne du tableau. Mise en commun des hypothèses.
2- Check them:
-Visionner le reportage avec le son. Vérifier les hypothèses, compléter les colonnes 2 et 3 du tableau.
3- Make a commentary about the work of Art and Give your opinion:
-Write a commentary using the elements of the grid.
- Give your opinion.
Your Hypotheses Checked Hypotheses Non-checked Hypotheses
Stage 6: Criticize a TV programme dedicated
to Art
1- Watch the programme, video.
2- Analyse it:
-How was it filmed? Describe the setting, music or sounds used.
- What is the aim of such a programme? Has the aim been reached?
You are the Art Critic!
•Write an article about a work of Art
& Publish it on the school website
- Find a work of Arts dating back to the same period ( but created by a different artist...)
- Write an article about this work of Arts:
- Give information about it, express what you figure out about it, give your opinion.