Séquence : Little Miss Sunshine

Marie-Noëlle FEPPON – Collège La Mandallaz – SILLINGY (74) – Académie de Grenoble

Séquence : Little Miss Sunshine Classe de 4° EURO

Tâches intermédiaires

- Role play à partir d’un script. EO en interaction guidée - Role play à partir d’une scène du film étudiée. EO en interaction semi-guidée

Tâche finale : élaboration d’un document didapage : imagine the final scene of the contest.

- Écriture d’une scène de théâtre. EE libre - Role play filmé à partir de cette scène - Ecriture d’une narration/conclusion du film

Le document didapage comportera une vidéo de la scène jouée et la narration créée.

Objectifs principaux de la séquence :

- Objectifs linguistiques grammaticaux et lexicaux : Le comparatif de supériorité / d’inégalité Les mots de liaison du contraste, de la concession, de la cause/conséquence La proposition infinitive Le présent be-Ving pour décrire Le vocabulaire des sentiments Le vocabulaire des moyens d’expression (shout, complain, …)

- Objectifs méthodologiques Savoir être : s’écouter / s’entraider en travaux de groupe Skimming et scanning dans des documents écrits et oraux authentiques Gagner en autonomie en compréhension orale: de très guidée à moins guidée Gagner en autonomie en expression orale : de guidée à moins guidée Se servir des acquis linguistiques pour créer la tâche finale.

- Objectifs phonologiques L’accent de mot Le schéma intonatif d’une phrase (accent de phrase)

- Objectifs culturels Les « little misses » aux Etats unis : opinion et controverse/critique.


Séance

Objectifs par séance Supports Compétences ACL Activités/tâches intermédiaires / tâche finale Homework

/Evaluation

Séance

1

Mobilisation de Be –

Ving

Inférence dans un

message écrit

Skimming / scanning

Mobilisation du

génitif

Mot de liaison :

although

Vocabulaire de la

famille

Little miss

sunshine ,

extract 1:

première

minute du film

Worksheet

« plot

summary » 1 et

2

DOC 1

Anticiper sur le contenu du

film

Décrire une scène

Repérer des informations

dans un texte

Inférer le sens de mots

nouveaux

Anticiper sur les personnages

du film et l’histoire

Employer le génitif – revoir le

vocabulaire de la famille

EO

CE / EO

Anticipation film

-Comment the extract : what ? who ? What is the film

going to be about?

A little girl is making gestures. She’s imitating miss

Louisiana in front of the telly. She wants to become a

little miss. She is plump and pudgy.

-In groups: read the summary and do the activities in the

worksheet

(who?where?). Voir fiche

Franck is Olive’s uncle. He tried to commit suicide.

Dwayne is Olive’s sister. He has decided to stop

speaking.

Although Edwin is an old person, he is a drug addict.

Vocabulary

Worksheet « the

family » : complete.

Apprendre trace

écrite

DOC 2


Séance

2

Vocabulaire de la

famille /

prononciation de

l’accent de mot

Mobilisation du

génitif

En filigrane : les

membres de la

famille royale

Britannique

Vocabulary

Worksheet «

the

family » DOC 2

“The Family

Bingo” game. 6

games : 1 per

group. DOC 3

Rebrasser les aqcuis de la

séance précédente

Repérer / reproduire l’accent

de

mot

Employer le génitif

EO

EO

Warming up lesson: what do you remember about the

characters?

Correction homework

Repeat the vocabulary of the family

Guess what family it is about The British Royal Family

In groups: play a game”family bingo”

Pick a card, make a sentence in the form of a riddle,

place a piece of paper on the face of the person

Ex: he is Elizabeth’s husband. Who is it?

Example teacher / 1 pupil. Then in groups

Apprendre le

vocabulaire de la

famille

Séance

3

Mobiliser le prétérit

Vidéo-

projecteur :

Family tree of

the British Royal

Family DOC 4

Parler au passé

Se faire comprendre en

respectant la prononciation

Mobiliser le génitif

EO

EO / CO

Warming up lesson :

Look at the picture of the royal family. What are the

different symbols for? (Lightening / heart..).

Ex: Princess Diana got divorced and she died.

Guessing game: make a sentence and let your

classmates guess

Ex: she is Diana’s sister in law. Who is she?


Inférence dans un

message écrit.

Skimming / scanning

.

dans un document

écrit

Créer le suspens

quant au

dénouement du film

Le comparatif

Adjectifs de

description

physique

Analyse du

personnage de

Dwayne

Worksheet

« plot

summary » 3

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract 2:

Dinner time

(8’00 to 8’40)

Inférer le sens de mots

nouveaux

Faire des hypothèses sur la fin

du film à partir d’une photo

Donner son opinion

Comparer

Repérer des éléments

d’information

Traiter l’information en

récapitulant.

CE / EO

CO / EO

-In groups: do the activities of n°3 in the worksheet /

recap (what?) Voir fiche

In my opinion, Olive is going to win / lose the contest

because the other girls are more sophisticated than her

/ she looks prettier than the other girls

Watch extract 2 and comment: what? Why?

Dwayne is making signs / gestures to Uncle Franck

because it’s dinner time.

Dwayne doesn’t speak because of / because he

admires Nietzsche

Revoir les traces

écrites et la fiche

sur little miss

sunshine

Séance

4

Le vocabulaire des

sentiments

Worksheet “Dinner time: study of the characters

DOC 5

Mobiliser les acquis de la


Repérer des segments de

phrase dans un message oral


d’information dans un

EO

CO / EO

en

continu

Warming up in circle at the end of the class: recap about

the characters / the plot of the film

Watch extract 2 Dwayne and Edwin and do the activities

in your worksheet.

In groups: compare your answers / recap orally


Les mots de

liaison de la cause /

conséquence, du

contraste et de la

concession

Ecoute

mutuelle/entraide

Culture : un repas

typique americain

Faire des phrases

complexes

Skimming /scanning

dans un document

oral

+

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract 2:

Dinner time

Dwayne and

Edwin (8’40 to

11’48)

message oral


récapitulant

Lier des phrases et les

complexifier

Se faire comprendre au sein

du groupe

Mobiliser le vocabulaire des

sentiments

Mobiliser des mots de liaison

Recap in class

Recap 1

Edwin is cross / furious / besides himself. So /

consequently he’s shouting and complaining because

they’re eating some chicken again. Actually he’s fed up

with / he’s had enough of / he’s sick and tired of eating

chicken

Recap 2

Dwayne doesn’t want to speak because he has a goal, a

dream: he wants to become a test pilot. He hasn’t said

a word for 9 months, so he uses a notepad to

communicate. His parents are proud of him because

they think it shows conviction, whereas Frank looks

puzzled and surprised.

Although Dwayne has a goal in life , Franck looks

puzzled /finds it strange

Even if Dwayne is convinced, Franck looks puzzled.

Apprendre la trace

écrite

Séance

5

Faire des phrases

complexes

Skimming /scanning

dans un document

oral

Worksheet

Mobiliser les acquis de la


Repérer des segments de

EO

CO / EO

Warming up : recap about Dwayne and Edwin

Watch extract 2 Franck and Olive and do the activities in

your worksheet.


Le vocabulaire des

sentiments

Les mots de

liaison de la cause /

conséquence, et de

la concession

Shouldn’t

Ecoute mutuelle

Vocabulaire de la

mésentente

“Dinner time:

study of the

characters

+

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract 2:

Dinner time

Franck and

Olive ( 12’00 to

14’00)

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract 2:

Dinner time

The characters’

relations ( 12’00

to 14’00)




message oral


récapitulant

Lier des phrases et les

complexifier

Se faire comprendre au sein

du groupe


sentiments

Mobiliser des mots de liaison

Traiter le non-dit / synthétiser

l’information

en

continu

EO

In groups: compare your answers / recap orally

Recap in class

Richard is horrified / stunned. He can’t believe his ears

and he’s gaping because he thinks Olive is too young to

hear about suicide / to hear the truth. He thinks Sheryl

shouldn’t talk about suicide to a child.

However, although he wants Sheryl to stop speaking,

she keeps explaining.

Franck tried to commit suicide because he was

unhappy. Actually, he fell in love with a boy who didn’t

love him back, and he was fired from his job.

Olive is very surprised because she didn’t know a boy

could fall in love with another boy.

Watch extract 2 the characters’ relation

In groups: describe the characters’ relations? Ask for the

vocab.

In class: recap

In this scene, the atmosphere is tense because the

members of the family keep shouting, arguing and

cutting each other off. Some keep complaining. They

can’t communicate properly

Apprendre la trace

écrite

Apprendre la trace

écrite

Crosswords sur les

sentiments DOC 6


Séance

6

Be Ving

Vocabulaire des

sentiments :

excitment

Skimming

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

2: Dinner time

Olive learning

she’s admitted (15’45)

Script of the

scene “in the

dining room”

DOC 7

Vocabulary

sheet


sentiments vu précédemment

Décrire une scène

Lier des phrases à l’oral


sentiments d’enthousiasme.

Différencier didascalies et

paroles de personnages

Inférer le sens des mots

inconnus

EO

EO

EO

CE

Warming up : recap about Franck and Olive / the

characters’relation

Homework correction (crosswords)

Watch Olive

Comment Olive’s reaction. Why?

Olive has just learned she can participate in the beauty

contest of Little Miss Sunshine / compete.

So / as a consequence she’s screaming out loud / she’s

gone crazy / she keeps running all over the place / she

keeps screaming. She’s overexcited

CE first scene wksheet:

highlight the stage directions in red

Highlight Sheryl in yellow

Highlight Franck in green

Highlight Dwayne – Olive – Grandpa in pink

Highlight Richard in blue

In groups: find the English for..

Correction


Scanning

L’accent de mot / de

phrases

DOC 8

Script

Reproduire un schéma

intonatif / les accents de mot

Mobiliser seul le bon schéma

intonatif

Apprendre à mettre le ton

CE

EO

EO

Pronunciation: listen and repeat. Mind the word stress

and sentence stress.

Then in groups: deal out the 4 parts (4 colours) and train

to pronounce.

Learn your part.

Mind the intonation

and word stress

Think of accessories

(Dwayne’s notepad

– the salad...)

Séance

7

Inter évaluation à

l’oral

Ecoute mutuelle

Mobilisation des

pré-acquis

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

3: In the van

1: 02’35

Répéter son rôle / se mettre

d’accord sur les prises de

parole

Repérer les erreurs de

prononciation / se sensibiliser

à l’importance du schéma

intonatif

Replacer l’histoire dans son

contexte par rapport au

résumé

EO

interactio

n guidée

EO

CO

Tâche intermédiaire:

Train on the scene in groups

Role play in front of the other groups

Rest of the class: comment the intonation / word stress

/was it understandable?

Extract 3: in the van

Look at the first seconds: where? Who?

The family are in the van and they have to push start it

because it has become unreliable. The horn keeps

beeping

Watch the next scene: (on the board) Problem with

Dwayne?


Skimming scanning

Be Ving (description

Propositions en If /

Will

May-might

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

3: In the van

1: 02’50 to

1:03’45

Video-

projecteur:

vocabulaire

DOC 9



message oral

Repérer un segment de


Traiter l’information par la

reformulation

Faire des hypothèses

Anticiper sur la suite

EO

EO

Repasser plusieurs fois la scène.

Colourblind

In groups: recap

Look at the vocabulary and repeat

Describe the scene and think of the consequences

Olive is testing Dwayne’s vision, and they realise he is

colourblind.

If he is colourblind/can’t see the colours, he won’t be

able to fly a jet/ will have to give up his dream / do

another job.

Imagine Dwayne’s reaction

Dwayne may be cross. He might be besides himself

Apprendre la trace

écrite

Séance

8

Rebrasser le pre-acquis

EO

Warming up : recap about Dwayne in the van


Be –Ving

Mobilisation des

pré-acquis

Faire des phrases

complexes

Scanning dans un

message oral

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

3: In the van

1: 03’45 to

1:04’50

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

3: In the van

1:04’50 to

1:08’40

Décrire une scène à l’oral

Mobiliser le vocabulaire de la

colère

Traiter l’information par la

reformulation

Repérer un segment de


EO

CO / EE

Watch the next scene. Pendant le passage: noter “swear

word” au tableau lorsque Dwayne crie “Fuck”

Describe in groups

Dwayne is besides himself. He is getting crazy: he’s

punching and kicking, he’s crying. He wants to get out

of the van. So Richard stops it, and Dwayne gets out.

Suddenly he screams a swear word: fuck.

He’s upset and very disappointed.

Watch the next scene and complete the 3 columns / in

groups

Passer plusieurs fois

On the board:

Sheryl’s words / Dwayne’s words / Olive’s words-

reaction

Sheryl’s words Dwayne’s words

-Dwayne, I ‘m sorry -Come on, we have to go -For better or worse we’re your family -I don’t know what to do -There’s nothing to say we just have to wait.

-I’m not going -I don’t care I’m not getting on that bus again -You’re not my family -I don’t want to be your family -I hate you fucking people -Divorce, bankrupt, suicide: you’re fucking losers, you’re losers -Please just leave me mum.

Olive’s words / reaction: No words / she hugs him


Discrimination

auditive: repérages

intonatifs

Les mots de liaison

du contraste

(whereas – on the

one hand / on the

other hand)

Repérer les accents de mot

Les reproduire

Anticiper sur la suite (jouer la

scène)

Reformuler

Traiter l’information

Recouper avec les

informations connues

Aller à l’implicite

EO

EO

Prononciation: Listen to the scene again and highlight

the stressed syllables / repeat / train to pronounce

properly

In groups:What do you think of the scene in terms of

communication?

Olive manages to communicate with Dwayne without

words whereas her mother can’t with words. / on the

one hand, .. / on the other hand…Words are useless

here.

The family can’t communicate properly except Olive.

Apprendre la trace

écrite / savoir

prononcer les

phrases à l’oral

Séance

9

Interevaluation à

l’oral

Ecoute mutuelle

Répéter son rôle / se mettre

d’accord sur les prises de

parole

Repérer les erreurs de

prononciation / se sensibiliser

EO

interactio

n

Tâche intermédiaire:

Play the scene in the van in groups: 4 parts = Olive /

Dwayne / Sheryl / Franck. Then swap the parts.

The groups who volunteer can play it in front of the class


Les mots de liaison :

le contraste

(whereas / on the

one hand..)

Le comparatif de

supériorité et

d’inégalité

Mots de liaison de la

chronologie : first,

then / after

Look like + nom

Look + adj

Video

projecteur

Picture « the

contest »

DOC 10

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

4: the contest

1:21’32 to

1:23’29

à l’importance du schéma

intonatif

Remobiliser les idées vues en

début de séquence en les

enrichissant

Comparer

Contraster

Mobiliser le vocabulaire

connu / le comparatif (pré

aquis)

EO

EO

Rest of the class: Comment about the intonation / word

stress /was it understandable?

Look at the picture of the contest and comment

The other contestants are more beautiful than Olive,

they are not as plump / they are not as pale as her

Olive is plainer than the other contestants. She isn’t as

sophisticated.

The other contestants look like Barbie dolls whereas

Olive looks like a normal little girl.

They look like adults whereas she looks like a child

Extract 4: the contest . Watch

In groups: talk about the adults’ reaction and its cause

Recap

First, Richard looks happy and cheerful, but after / as

the contest goes on, he looks more and more

concerned / worried.

Franck and Dwayne can’t stay in the room

They are concerned because they think Olive isn’t as


More and more

La proposition

infinitive avec want

EO

good/ gifted as the other contestants

Enrichissement classe:

They don’t want Olive to be a loser / they don’t want

the people to laugh at her / they want to protect Oive.

Apprendre la trace

écrite

Séance

10

Mobilisation des

acquis linguistiques

à travers l’écriture

d’une pièce de

théâtre et d’un récit

imaginant la fin du

film :

Le comparatif

Les mots de liaison

La proposition

infinitive

Le prétérit

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

4: the contest

1:23’29 to

1:24’28 SANS LE

SON except the

last sentence

“let Olive be

Olive”

Vidéoprojecteur

: élaboration de

la tâche finale

mobiliser des acquis

Mobiliser les acquis

linguistiques de la séquence

Utiliser des didascalies en se

servant du vocabulaire des

sentiments et de la

communication.

EO

EE

Warming up: the contest

Elaboration de la tâche finale: explication

Extract 4, next scene: watch

First part:

In groups, imagine and write the dialogue between

Richard, Franck, Dwayne and Sheryl. Use stage

directions to express the ways of speaking, their

feelings.

Take the script of the dinner as an example.

You will have to play it


Prise en compte de

l’analyse des

personnages pour le

récit

en 3 parties

DOC 11

Comparer / contraster /

complexifier ses phrases à

l’aide de mots de liaison

Analyser le film en

réfléchissant à une fin logique

sur l’évolution des

personnages.

EE

Ex: Dwayne (he shouts)…/ Sheryl (upset)..

Train on the pronounciation

Second part:

In groups, think of an end to the film and write it as a

narrative: Olive chooses to go anyway. And she walks on

stage.

Use: the comparative / Link words expressing contrast /

although/ the preterit tense/ la proposition infinitive

Think of the problems of communication between the

characters and find a positive/ negative conclusion to

the story.

In groups: deal out

the 4 parts.

Learn one part of

the dialogue you

wrote.

Séance

11

Mise en bouche de

la pièce de théâtre :

respect des schémas

intonatifs et du ton.

Inter évaluation à

l’oral

Ecoute mutuelle

Utilisation du

caméscope pour

filmer les

groupes

Respecter l’accent de mot et

la prononciation

Respecter les didascalies (ton)

EO i Play the scene you wrote / filmed

Rest of the class: comment at the end of each play.

In groups: finish writing the end of the story as a

narrative

Séance

12

Mise en page de la

tâche finale avec le

logiciel

Computer

room: logiciel

Mettre en oeuvre les

Last part:

Computer room: create a “didapage” document with

Evaluation de l’oral

et de l’écrit


« didapages »

Didapages

Fiche

d’évaluation EO

et EE DOC 12

Film Little Miss

sunshine,

extract

4: the contest

1:26’20 to

1:30’20

competences requises pour le

B2I (insérer une video, insérer

un texte..)

Comparer sa fin et la fin du

film

Conclure sur la

communication entre les

personnages.

EO

your video on one page and the narrative on the

next.page

Montrer les différents travaux à la classe / mettre sur le

site du collège pour diffusion.

Watch Olive’s show.

In groups: give your opinion about the little misses in

the US and communication in the family at last.

I think Olive is less vulgar than the other contestants

even if her show is more provocative because she is

natural / isn’t as superficial as the other misses

At the end, Olive manages to reunite the family

together.

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