Classes préparatoires – Lycée Chateaubriand – Rennes
ECS2 – English 2020-2021
Program. We will cover one chapter of An Apple a Day and two units of vocabulary each week.
Civilization topics from 80 Fiches, Culture et Civilisation and articles will be assigned to you each week in an effort to improve your reading comprehension and essay writing.
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Advice. If you are proficient in English (average of over 12 during the 2019 – 2020 school year), choose one novel in English from this list to read over the summer:
1984 by George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Moon Palace by Paul Auster
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Saturday by Ian McEwan
If your average in English was under 12 during the 2019 – 2020 school year, choose one novel in a bilingual edition from this list to read over the summer. You can read the English on the left page and check your comprehension / translation on the right page:
My Lady Love, My Dove by Roald Dahl, éd. Folio bilingue ISBN 9782070783984 Animal Farm by George Orwell, éd. Folio bilingue ISBN 97820700387809
The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle, éd Folio bilingue ISBN 9782070461974 Consult websites in English at least three times per week over July and August:
BBC NPR The Guardian
The Washington Post The New York Times National Geographic
U.N. News The Christian Science Monitor The Los Angeles Times Listen to British news on bbc news - radio 4 and American news on npr.org. Watch news on BBC, ABC News or CNN.
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Books. Please have these books in the first week of September:
- The Vocabulary Guide –2ème édition, D. Bonnet-Piron, É. Dermaux-Froissart, 2019.
ISBN: 978-2091653792 (prix public constaté €18,90) obligatoire
- 80 fiches de culture et civilisation. Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis, Commonwealth, Joël Cascade, 2ème édition, avril 2019 obligatoire ISBN : 978-2340030701 (prix public constaté 18,00€)
- An Apple a Day, Jean Max Thomson, Ellipses, 3ème ou 4ème édition. obligatoire
