Class cancelled on April 26 and 28

Dear students,

Due to bad health,  I won't be able to have class next Tuesday and next Thursday (April 26 and 28).

My sorries for the inconvenience and for this (very) late notice. I wish I could have informed you earlier.

Reminder: everything planned for this week is postponed for next week.

Best regards,

MN

NEXT EXAM DATES / HOMEWORK FOR APRIL 26-28 / REMINDERS

April 26 (Tuesday group) / April 28 (Thursday group): short vocab test (15 minutes) from the following audio reports:

• Remembering Famine in Ukraine
• Sicko
• Spanglish (vocabulary up to "...wheareas Jews or the Poles or the Germans")
• False Friends 1, 2, 3 and 4

May 10 (Tuesday group) / May 12 (Thursday group): short vocab test (15 minutes)

May 17 (Tuesday group) / May 19 (Thursday group): second main exam (this exam will account for 40% of your "contrôle continu" semester grade.  

Homework for April 26 (Tuesday group) / April 28 (Thursday group):

False Friends 5 and 6

Spanglish: listening comprehension + vocabulary

Idioms: Bird / Pig / Gold

REMINDERS: 

1/ There is no "contrôle final" in L3, make sure your don't miss this exam. As per the rules of the History department, I will not be able to do anything if you miss this exam even if you have a very valid and very sincere justification. As a result, there won't be any catch-up session whatsoever.

2/ 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.

3/ Should some 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.

4/ 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 Raymond 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.

Job/internship opportunities

These job/internishp offers might interest some of you, do check the following link: 

http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/l-international/le-service-des-relations/les-opportunites/

Stage d’été à l’Ambassade des Etats-Unis (deadline: April 08)

Poste à pourvoir auprès d’un programme américain (deadline: May 31)

Poste à pourvoir auprès de la MICEFA (programme USA) (deadline: May 13)

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, 

MN

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

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, 

MN

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

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,

MN

(mounirnassor@yahoo.co.in)

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