• delphine.nowakowski@univ-reims.fr

Course Plan

Session NumberPlan/ ContentYour work, your remit for THIS session
11. Introduction to our course
2. The death penalty: historical & constitutional backgrounds
-> Video + questions 		N/A
21. Brainstorming
Quiz!
2. Grammar : Modals
– lesson (here, as well as on your booklet) & Ex C: 1, 2, 3 p.31-32

Prepare for our brainstorming session (p. 3, learn your vocab p.4), read text on the 8th amendment p. 7-8
31. Grammar : checking MODAL Exercises 1 & 2 + ex Can/could 1 & 2 p. 33
2. The 8th amendment: answering the questions
3. Let’s work on the notion of Cruel and Unusual punishment
4. What about our question: “Could (systemic) institutional or organisational abuse be invoked when defending a convict who has been sentenced to the death penalty?”
What do you think?
5. Presentations
1. Lesson on modals: p.30 etc & online here
2. Lesson on questions here
3. MODAL Exercises 1 & 2 MUST be done
as well as exercices in Can/could section: 1 & 2 p. 33
4. Answer questions on 8th amendment text p.8-9
5. Could (systemic) institutional or organisational abuse be invoked when defending a convict who has been sentenced to the death penalty?

41. Grammar: checking MODAL Exercises 3 & 4 + exercice in May/Can/Be allowed to section at the top of the page (p.34)
+ exercise in must/can’t/couldn’t section – at the bottom of p.34
2. Answering the questions on Documents 4 & 4bis
3. Presentations		1. Grammar MODAL Exercises 3 & 4 MUST be done as well as :
2. exercices in May/Can/Be allowed to section: exercice at the top of the page (p.34)
3. exercise in must/can’t/couldn’t section – at the bottom of p.34
4. Please work on Documents 4 & 4bis, answering all questions p.11-15
5
1. Grammar: checking exercise on May/Might p.35
2. Let’s review questions (right or wrong) on Doc 4, chapter 1
3. Let’s jump ahead to Chapter 3: Botched executions (answering questions p.24 & 25)
4. Presentations
1. Grammar: exercise on May/Might p.35
2. Please answer questions on Doc 4, Chapter 1 (right or wrong)
3. Please work on document 2 p.26-27, answering questions p.28
6
1. Grammar: exercises 1 & 2 p.36 (top of the page)
2. Let’s work on questions relating to Document 2, p.26-28
3. Let’s work on document 4 p.19, answering questions p.20
3. Presentations (if any)

Please answer questions II-7 to III -7 on Botched executions (p25)
71. Grammar: checking all remaining exercises 1. on should p.36 (bottom of the page) + long exercise p.37-38
2. Reversing to Chapter 2: Checking your answers on questions relating to Document 4, p.20
3. Hinton’s case Check answers here


Answers to long additional exercise p.37-38, to enjoy next summer!		1. Grammar: all remaining exercises 1. on should p.36 (bottom of the page)
(very good for your revisions ! :))
8WRITTEN EXAM

Revisions:
– vocab: please revise all listed words p.4, 8, 12, 20, 28.
– audio: train with Botched Executions and Hinton’s case
– text understanding: read the texts we went through together in class; there is nothing to learn in those texts (-> you won’t be questioned on them), but they might prove being good practice as well as a source of inspiration on the D day!
–Grammar: practise with the exercises we did together in class; leave the last one (the additional translation exercise) aside.


-Finally just in case: check your irregular verbs!
Be ready!!!!
91. Death by firing squad
2. Presentations		N/A
101. Presentations
2. Finale!
N/A