an eternal summer season

Thursday,19th November

An Eternal Summer Season

The picture : Describe the photograph

* Background a mosque ;  architecture  ;                   could be Tunisia ?

- Dark mountains

- blue sky

- minarets

- arid surrownding ; landscape

* Middle ground

- a thick wall (mur)

* foreground

- longchairs / dockchairs

- palmtrees

- tourist (= holiday makers)

- suntanning (bronzer)

- figures lying down

- vivid colours

           The coulour photograph represents holiday makers (tourist) tanning in the sun. In the background we can make out (distinguer) a mosque and two minarets. The vivid colours / brights colours in the foreground stand out (contraster) against the dull mountains.

           The palm trees create on impression of exotism. The foreground and the background are separated by a thick wall to prevent intrusions.

Conclusion :   This photograph was taken in a North African or a Middle-East country. The photographer probably aimed at capturing the contrasting cultures.

The text is going to be about ?

East meets west

The boys : Sami and Han 11 yers old a swimming pool (a hotel)

activities : biking ; creeping (ramper) ; sliping in : se glisser

exotism : palmtrees ; colorful flower

Friday, 20^th November

An eternal summer season

           The title of this passage is “An Eternal Summer Season”. It’s an extract from a novel called “Crescent”, it evoques the Middle East. It was written by Diana Abu-Jaber.

Thursday, 26^th November

An Eternal Summer Season

           The two mains characters of this text are Han and Sami, who are eleven. One day, when they were biking, they discovered a swimming pool, they crept into the scrubs, and slipped into the hotel.

           The were : surprised

                            voiceless

                            amazed

                            flabberghasted

           They discovered women who were “arrayedé in their chair around the edge of the pool. The swimming pool was a “perfect fullmoon of blue water”

           The palmtrees contributes to the impression of exotism the colourful flowers, the adventures of simbad and the activities of the women make this text exotic.

           This women are from French, German, American origin. They are wives of politicans, diplomats and business man.

Thursday, 3^rd December

An Eternal Summer Season

           The women around the pool had western names such as Helga, Dee Dee, Magaret. Name of them had a job, they were idle. They spent their time reading, tanning in the sun while their husbands attended conference, business meetings. They were relaxing whereas the women in Han’s village wanted and lesly. They had chones to go through.

           Their physical appearance contrasted : in the village they were fat, lig, plum whereas the women at the pool were slander, slim. They looked like models with a perfect figure. They looked younger than their age. Their life was easier than that of the women in the village. And yet they seen loned, they had nothing to do except / but wait for their husbands. Janet, however, seemed different from the others. She was interested in the little boy’s way of life. Han thought the women at the pool led the same kind of life as the women in the village away from their man.

           But on second thought, he was not sure when Janet said “No think I live this all the time?”