This is extremely informative for Kassovitz whose preceding works tee him up amazingly well for La haine. This should be used in conjunction with examiners' reports.ĭirector background: I have produced a powerpoint for each producer tracing their childhood and early career linking through to youtube or dailymotion versions of their work. Sample essay plans and essays produced from them are provided for each examination board along with a guide to writing the essay to ensure students know where the marks go.
Finally the content free essay planning tool is designed to print off in A3 (preferably) to get students planning their work in a non-sequential manner (spider diagramming, brainstorming-whatever you want to call it). The essay tool takes one piece of evidence and shows it incorporated using similar words in paragraphs which are responding to three different essay titles. The sentence tool takes a phrase and plays with it increasing the complexity until your complex sentence is at least half a paragraph.
Hence I have produced tools for sentence, paragraph and full essay planning.
There is more subtlety around Saïd than you would think close examination of what he says reveals a boy who is frightened of what his parents will do to him if he gets into real trouble and who is logical about his physical limitations: "Je cours pas plus vite que les balles" Having been hopeless at learning quotations myself (too lazy?), I've found that setting quotations up in Quizlet gives a good platform for learning which can be either printed off, practise on a laptop or PC or through a free download app on a mobile phone or tablet.Įssays: My contention is that you can't write an essay if you can't write a paragraph and you can't write a paragraph if you can't write a sentence.
The detail around the language used is however dependent on having a good accurate transcription of the film. Getting down to detail: Analysing the film and saying why a scene is filmed using a particular combination of shots with particular sound and effects is pretty straight forward if you introduce students to the language of cinema using a site such as Hors Cadre or Centre Images I've tried to capture the full conversation with its repetitions which gives a true reflection of how annoying Saïd and Vinz can be.
What gets missed in subtitling is both detail and the sheer repetition if Saïd says something once he says it three times hardly a sentence doesn't finish with là words which are misheard are often familiar words pronounced in verlan-therefore inverted as in oinj -joint. I spent about a week transcribing the film on and off from the French version with the help of subtitles in French for the sourds et malentendants. One of the first lessons then is to compare these two versions linguistically. Both these were the same and actually don't correspond very closely at all to what appears in the dialogue of the film. The script:- I sent off for a couple of versions of the script, one from the 90's with photos of the making of and a German edition of the scenario. Version of the film: The French language collectors' edition of the film with Kassovitz's walk through and the making of et is now available for around 12 euros + PP This provides lots of extra listening practice to back up language work around the film.
(You can order from the site ) I decided however to produce a more detailed set of resources which would hopefully help teachers tackle the content of the film with more confidence. I wrote a guide to it with language exercises including a summary, contextualised grammar exercises and an essay plan three years or so ago. I've always had mixed feelings about the film but have grown to admire the production of it and the performances of the principal actors. I've recently been adding to the content on film on and have revisited La Haine with a vengeance.