This is my summary about “Les Choristes" the movie that we watched the last Thursday. It’s a little about the movie I could remember.
The film starts with a funeral. Then, continuous with a meeting among old friends in which someone talks about a diary that belonged their dead professor, is in this moment where the story began.
Clément Mathieu is a quite talented musician. He becomes an assistant-teacher at a boarding school for boys, optimistically called "Le fond de l’etang" It is a boarding school for children with problems and there are some orphans too. Mr Mathieu is at first somewhat taken aback as he learns that the school is ruled rather tyrannically by the headmaster Rachin, who uses the "action, reaction" rule as an excuse for beating up and locking children away. Mathieu is perhaps a quiet man, but he is not too terrified to stay on and see if there is something that can be done about it. Since he is a musician and he is writing a choral piece in his free time, he is surprised to learn that there are no music lessons given at the school.
He starts teaching the boys how to sing and even writes a special piece for them. Of course things do not run so easy and quickly, and many obstacles are to be overcome. One of the biggest trouble-makers is Pierre Morhange, a kid "with the face of an angel but the difficult character". This boy also has a very pretty singing voice, and Mr Mathieu is almost forced to make Pierre participate and be nice. The fact that Pierre has a single mother that is very pretty (so pretty that rumours have it she must be a prostitute) and that Mr Mathieu is really quite interested in her.
Finally, the professor Mathieu was fired. He left and with him Pépinot. (A little child who expects the visit of his father every Saturday close to the entry). But Clément won respect and the most important the affection of his students, changes their lives and also the employees who changed their manner of act.
The film starts with a funeral. Then, continuous with a meeting among old friends in which someone talks about a diary that belonged their dead professor, is in this moment where the story began.
Clément Mathieu is a quite talented musician. He becomes an assistant-teacher at a boarding school for boys, optimistically called "Le fond de l’etang" It is a boarding school for children with problems and there are some orphans too. Mr Mathieu is at first somewhat taken aback as he learns that the school is ruled rather tyrannically by the headmaster Rachin, who uses the "action, reaction" rule as an excuse for beating up and locking children away. Mathieu is perhaps a quiet man, but he is not too terrified to stay on and see if there is something that can be done about it. Since he is a musician and he is writing a choral piece in his free time, he is surprised to learn that there are no music lessons given at the school.
He starts teaching the boys how to sing and even writes a special piece for them. Of course things do not run so easy and quickly, and many obstacles are to be overcome. One of the biggest trouble-makers is Pierre Morhange, a kid "with the face of an angel but the difficult character". This boy also has a very pretty singing voice, and Mr Mathieu is almost forced to make Pierre participate and be nice. The fact that Pierre has a single mother that is very pretty (so pretty that rumours have it she must be a prostitute) and that Mr Mathieu is really quite interested in her.
Finally, the professor Mathieu was fired. He left and with him Pépinot. (A little child who expects the visit of his father every Saturday close to the entry). But Clément won respect and the most important the affection of his students, changes their lives and also the employees who changed their manner of act.
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Written Assignment
1. What does the school predict about the students who attend there?
The school predict about they students that they are boys with troubles, rebels and not easy to understand.
2. Where did most of the students come from?
They are from France. They have conflicts with their parents, others are misbehaviour and others are homeless.
3. Why do you think they were there?
I think because their parents went in search of a place to correct the conduct of their children and at the same time it was ideal because they received class there.
4. What expression about education did you hear in the movie?
The method used by the headmaster “action-reaction”.
5. What qualities did you see in the teacher that shows the qualities of a good teacher?
Teacher Mathieu wanted that their students had another point of view about their education and to set their feeling free by the music that was the resource that the teacher used and with this the boys understood the wonderful of the music.
6. What didn’t Mathieu want to touch his music?
Because he felt fear and suspected of the boys, not for their abilities unless the character and the conduct of them.
7. What is Pierre Morhange’s (child) conflict?
The conflict with Pierre is that he has face of an angel but a difficult character. Mr. Mathieu is almost forced to make Pierre participate and be nice and the fact is that Pierre has a single mother that is very pretty and the teacher Mathieu is really quite interested in her.
8. What does Rachin think about Mathieu’s manners to teach?
Rachin was in disagreement with Mathieu’s manners to teach because he was flexible with their students.
9. Does action-reaction method actually pay off?
The method action-reaction doesn’t work.
10. Do you know the term “Gray Teacher”? Is it applicable to Rachin? State your reasons.
No, I don’t know anything about this term.
11. What values did Mathieu show his students?
The teacher Mathieu show hiss students some values like: love, respect, passion (for music), interest and perseverance.
12. Mathieu’s last words were “No one even knew I was alive” Why did he mean by that?
I think that he tried to say that he never has felt the useful, and he was for the school, the boys even for himself.
13. Does music represent a mere leisure activity for the kids in fond de I’etang?
No, it doesn’t. Music is for them more than, it is a strategy to liberate many oppression and cruelty that they suffer in this place.
14. Do you think Mathieu to be a failed teacher or person? Why?
I don’t think so. I consider he was a successful professor because he gets the objective and also motivate his student making a difference on them and by other hand, like person either because he did that he really loves the music.
15. According to Pépinot, “does Mathieu keep everything to himself”?
Yes, Pépinot mention that when he gave the dairy to his old friend.
16. Why do you think music is chosen as a vital subject to change the kid’s life and not math or physics instead? What does music mean to you?
I think music is vital because it develop the attention, concentration, the memory and the sensibility. For me the music means a lot, it let me to express and sometimes find myself because sometimes I feel identified with a song and also the music is your partner in happy a sad moments, you can feel down but if you listening to music for sure your feelings changes.
17. Can music be a useful tool to teach English?
Sure, without any doubt! Music helps to develop the language, with new words, accent.
1. What does the school predict about the students who attend there?
The school predict about they students that they are boys with troubles, rebels and not easy to understand.
2. Where did most of the students come from?
They are from France. They have conflicts with their parents, others are misbehaviour and others are homeless.
3. Why do you think they were there?
I think because their parents went in search of a place to correct the conduct of their children and at the same time it was ideal because they received class there.
4. What expression about education did you hear in the movie?
The method used by the headmaster “action-reaction”.
5. What qualities did you see in the teacher that shows the qualities of a good teacher?
Teacher Mathieu wanted that their students had another point of view about their education and to set their feeling free by the music that was the resource that the teacher used and with this the boys understood the wonderful of the music.
6. What didn’t Mathieu want to touch his music?
Because he felt fear and suspected of the boys, not for their abilities unless the character and the conduct of them.
7. What is Pierre Morhange’s (child) conflict?
The conflict with Pierre is that he has face of an angel but a difficult character. Mr. Mathieu is almost forced to make Pierre participate and be nice and the fact is that Pierre has a single mother that is very pretty and the teacher Mathieu is really quite interested in her.
8. What does Rachin think about Mathieu’s manners to teach?
Rachin was in disagreement with Mathieu’s manners to teach because he was flexible with their students.
9. Does action-reaction method actually pay off?
The method action-reaction doesn’t work.
10. Do you know the term “Gray Teacher”? Is it applicable to Rachin? State your reasons.
No, I don’t know anything about this term.
11. What values did Mathieu show his students?
The teacher Mathieu show hiss students some values like: love, respect, passion (for music), interest and perseverance.
12. Mathieu’s last words were “No one even knew I was alive” Why did he mean by that?
I think that he tried to say that he never has felt the useful, and he was for the school, the boys even for himself.
13. Does music represent a mere leisure activity for the kids in fond de I’etang?
No, it doesn’t. Music is for them more than, it is a strategy to liberate many oppression and cruelty that they suffer in this place.
14. Do you think Mathieu to be a failed teacher or person? Why?
I don’t think so. I consider he was a successful professor because he gets the objective and also motivate his student making a difference on them and by other hand, like person either because he did that he really loves the music.
15. According to Pépinot, “does Mathieu keep everything to himself”?
Yes, Pépinot mention that when he gave the dairy to his old friend.
16. Why do you think music is chosen as a vital subject to change the kid’s life and not math or physics instead? What does music mean to you?
I think music is vital because it develop the attention, concentration, the memory and the sensibility. For me the music means a lot, it let me to express and sometimes find myself because sometimes I feel identified with a song and also the music is your partner in happy a sad moments, you can feel down but if you listening to music for sure your feelings changes.
17. Can music be a useful tool to teach English?
Sure, without any doubt! Music helps to develop the language, with new words, accent.
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