EnglishScheme of work2deEN03

EN03 Friday lunch on the fifth floor

2de · A2 · a meal and a rule

Learning Journey at a glance

Level: Bac Pro agricole · 2de
Period: 2de
Details: 2de · A2 · a meal and a rule
Text(s) studied: A meal, phones in a bowl
Assessment: 10 to 12 sentences
Link to the trade: No trade case in this learning journey: the text comes first.
Word file: Progression_BacPro_francais_anglais.docx

Séquence faite Word

Aim of the learning journey

Food is a culture when it has a rule, a person, and a clock. This lunch is not a stall and not a label. It is Nadia's Friday.

Text(s) studied

Text written for this class

Every Friday, Nadia Benali eats lunch at her mother's flat, on the fifth floor, not at school. The chickpeas have been in water since Thursday night. If someone forgets, there is no couscous: her mother will not open a tin.

They are six at the table: Nadia, her mother, her little brother Samir, her uncle Farid, and the neighbours from door B, Madame Cruz and her son. Farid tells the same joke about a lost tram ticket.

Everybody laughs before the end. Samir puts too much harissa on his plate and then drinks all the orange soda.

The meal starts when the mother sits, not when the food is ready. Phones stay in a bowl by the window.

Last Friday Nadia hid her phone in her pocket. Her mother saw it and put it in the bowl without a word.

Dessert is oranges, cut, not a cake. At 1.40 they wash the plates together.

Nadia is back at school at 2.05, with the smell of cumin on her scarf.

Reading and questions

Three questions

Since when must the chickpeas be in water, and what does Nadia's mother refuse to open?
Who are the six people, and what happens to Samir and the orange soda?
Where do phones go, what did Nadia try last Friday, and what time is she back at school?

Who	At the table
Mother	sits first, no tins, oranges not cake
Farid	the same tram-ticket joke
Samir	too much harissa, all the orange soda

Cumin on the scarf is the detail that leaves the flat. A meal text needs a smell or a rule, not a slogan about food.