The activity about birds : une activité construite d’après une idée originale de Mathilde Tricoire
Goal of the activity : We want to know, if the movie of « The birds » from A. Hitchcock can become true…
The activity
Instruction (The activity about birds): Choose your team (film or algae) and follow the instructions according to the group
FILM : First part = first group : The movie
- Try to understand what the movie ‘The Birds’ from A. Hitchcock is about
- Find how this story started in the mind of Hitchcock
- Explain all of this to your classmates
ALGAE : Second part = second group : the scientific point of view
- Become an expert in your domain !
- Read and study the documents that have been given to your group
- You have to be able to explain it to your classmates of other groups !
The vocabulary :
| relentlessly | sans relâche |
| odd | impair |
| flocks | groupes |
| dislocation | |
| broadcaster | radiodiffuseur |
| dominion | domination |
| to rely on | compter sur |
| fittest | plus fort |
| peck | picorer |
| Seagull | Goélands |
| gull | mouette |
| ceaselessly | sans cesse |
| to plug up | à boucher |
| the chimney | la cheminée |
| To settle back | Pour régler de retour |
| stabbing beaks | becs lancinantes |
| deft | habile |
| To heighten | rehausser |
| doomed | condamné |
| Jaw | mâchoire |
| bent on | courbé sur |
| hoards | hordes |
| to ramme into | percuter |
| Mussels | des moules |
| Tides | Marées |
| Algal bloom | efflorescences algales |
| threshold | seuil |
| Harmful | Nocif |
| To harm | nuire |
| Diseases | Maladies |
| shellfish | Fruits de mer |
| poisonous | Toxique |
| runoff | Rejets |
| widespread | Répandu |
| awareness | Conscience |
| disruption | perturbation |
| dizziness | Vertiges |
| to harness | Exploiter |
| Photosynthesis | Photosynthèse |
| To swoop | descendre en piqué |
| Raking | Ratissage |
| sooty shearwaters | Macareux fuligineux |
| anchovies | anchois |
| outbreak | épidémie |
| stranded | échoué |
| estuary | estuaire |
| Mussels | des moules |
| slumping | affaissement |
| Shoreline | littoral |
| To spann across | s’étendre |
| manatees | Lamantins |
