English language study : THE LORD OF THE RINGS


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INTRODUCTION
  • Tolkien's biography
  • Tolkien's legendarium
  • Peter Jackson's adaptation
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  • The Tolkien Society
  • One Wiki to Rule Them All
  • The Lord of the Rings in 23 minutes
  • A video on Tolkien's biography.
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  • Prepositions :
    List and exercises 1 and 2
    • DOCUMENT ONE
  • What is the Ring ?
  • Symbolical geography
  • Temptation : Boromir's attitude
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  • The film extract
  • A map of Arda
  • A map of Middle Earth
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  • Sentences with two verbs :

    Exercises 1, 2, 3
    • DOCUMENT TWO
  • The encounter with Arwen
  • The pursuit
  • Saved by waters
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  • The film extract
  • Sea covering Pharaoh's soldiers
  • Digital Domain CGI

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  • Verbs expressing motions:

    exercise
    • DOCUMENT THREE
  • Archetypal images
  • Small is powerful
  • Textual jubilation
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  • The film extract
  • Matthew 7:13-14
  • Top 10 dragons from mythologies

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  • Vocabulary list
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    DOCUMENT FOUR
  • The story-line
  • The setting
  • The character of Galadriel
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  • The film extract
    (extended version)
  • Focus on eight screenshots
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    • DOCUMENT FIVE
  • Memories from the Somme
  • The Frodo-Sam duo
  • The Gollum-Smeagol duo
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  • The film extract
  • The extract from the novel
  • Tolkien in the Battle of the Somme
  • Creating the digital character of Gollum

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  • Nominalized adjectives
    Lesson + exercise
  • Nationality adjectives
    Lesson + exercise
    • DOCUMENT SIX
  • The battle of Isengard
  • Saruman's nemesis
  • Tolkien's stand against
    industrialization
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  • The film extract
  • More about Hubris Hamartia Nemesis
  • William Morris
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  • Word stress training : BLUE / GREEN
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    DOCUMENT SEVEN
  • The Denethor-Faramir subplot
  • Father and son relationship (audiofile)
  • Dysfunctional leadership (audiofile)
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  • Denethor rebukes Faramir (film extract)
  • Denethor's death (film extract)
  • More about The sacrifice of Isaac
  • More about The Faramir subplot
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  • The passive voice
    Lesson + exercise
  • The passive voice
    with two complements
    Exercise

    • DOCUMENT EIGHT
  • Elrond-Galadriel conversation
  • extract commentary 1
  • extract commentary 2
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  • the film extract (You Tube)
  • the film extract (Daily Motion)
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  • Pronunciation and wordstress (revision)
    Sentence 1 Sentence 4
    Sentence 2 Sentence 5
    Sentence 3 Sentence 6

  • Modal preterite
    • REVISIONS
  • Translation from English into French
  • Translation from French into English
  • How to present a film extract
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  • Pronunciation

    1. Captain Faramir perfectly embodies the ideal of chivalry and honour.


    2. The lap-dissolve underlines the fact that Galadriel is talking to Elrond by telepathy.


    3. The Balrog scene features several high shots and low shots which are very spectacular.


    4. The CGI character of Gollum is particularly symptomatic of a split personality.


    5. The battle of the Ents symbolises Tolkien's hostility to industrialisation.


    6. Courage and fidelity are represented by Sam, the gardener,
    who can be analysed as the main hero of the trilogy.


    PHONETICS
    How to pronounce the [a:] sound / the [i] sound / the [u:] sound