L3 English Class at La Sorbonne University in Paris

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

FIRST MAIN EXAM: MARCH 29-31

Dear students,

Your first main exam will take place next week and will account for 30% of your "contrôle continu" semester grade.

REMINDER: there is no "contrôle final" in L3, make sure your don't miss this exam.

1/ You are strictly forbidden to switch groups, I will remove up to 10 points if you switch groups without my explicit and prior agreement for which you will have to provide me with a genuine and sincere justification.

2/ Program of revisions:

a) Gram: from Unit 1 to 12 included + IF/ WISH structures (you will have to translate sentences in French and in English using specific grammar structures)
b) False Friends: 1, 2 and 3
c) Audio reports: listening comprehension + vocabulary
- Remembering Famine in Ukraine
- Sicko

d) Idioms: ARM / EYE / HEAD / BEAN / HAIR / EGG

Best regards,

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

Friday, March 4, 2011

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION / LATEST UPDATED INFORMATION

Dear students,

I have just received this clarification from the History department about an important aspect of the English class in L3.

Unlike in L2 and in M1, there is no "contrôle final" in L3 because the English course is optional in L3. Should the students be absent 3 times (ie 2 + 1) without providing a valid and sincere justification, they are automatically excluded from the English class which means they will not have any grades at all in English even if they had taken part in some of the exams during the semester.

All the previous indications and information that could have contradicted this latest updated clarification are not valid.

Best regards,

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

Friday, February 25, 2011

CONTROLE FINAL

Dear students,

If some of you would like to be in "contrôle final" this second semester, they are required to email me as soon as possible.

They will not be allowed to sit the end of the semester exam without my prior and explicit agreement.

Best regards,

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Useful Websites on False Friends

Here are two websites that could be useful for your exercises on false friends:

http://perso.numericable.fr/jeuxdelettres/HTML/faux_amis/faux_amis.htm

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/fauxamis-a.htm

Attendance Rules

Attendance is compulsory for those who are in "contrôle continu": if you are absent 3 times (ie 2+1) for unjustified reasons, if you cannot provide me with a valid and sincere justification, you will be automatically registered in "contrôle final".

Those of you who would like to be in "contrôle final", I recommend that you come and talk to me about this at the end or at the beginning of a class or send me an email about this as soon as possible.

In case you fail to be present for a class session (for justified or unjustified reason), you will have to do all the exercises from a unit/chapter of your choice from the grammar textbook (English Grammar in Use by Murphy). You will have to hand in these exercises the following class otherwise you will get a zero. This assignment must be handwritten NOT typed.

In "contrôle continu", in case you fail to be present at one of the two main exam sessions, you will be automatically registered in "contrôle final" even if you have a valid and sincere justification.

In "contrôle continu", if you have no valid and sincere justification for your possible absence for the short tests and quizzes that will also take place during the semester, you will get a zero.

Permanent link for documents (audio reports, transcripts, etc.)

Here is the link all L3 students (Tuesday and Thursday groups) will have to use to find the documents (audio reports, phrasal verbs, vocabulary, etc.) used and discussed during the class sessions:

[in case this link does not work, switch to Mozilla/Firefox or to Internet Explorer or email me, I will send the documents and audio reports by email]

http://9giga.sfr.fr/n/50-17/share/LNK51384cab25c068d3c/

All my students are required to check this website on a regular basis (at least twice a week) and before coming to class.

Best regards,

Mounir Nassor

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)