The front cover1. Which written elements can you find on this cover?

The date The title The name of the main characters The place

The author's name The actors' names An ad for the film

2. What is there on the picture?

The people:

How many people are there?__________________________________________________________________________

Who are they? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What does their picture tell about their social status and how?______________________________________________

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Why are their pictures of different sizes? _______________________________________________________________

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No one ever knew who Gatsby was.

Some said he had been a German spy, others that he was related to one of Europe's royal families. Nearly everyone took advantage of his fabulous hospitality. And it was fabulous. In his superb Long Island home he gave the most amazing parties, and not the least remarkable thing about them was that few people could recognize their host. He seemed to be a man without a background, without history: whose eyes were always searching the glitter and the razzamatazz for something... Someone?

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed

The back coverWhich elements from the front cover do you find again on the back cover?_______________________________________

Which new elements are there? ________________________________________________________________________

Why is a sentence bigger than the rest? __________________________________________________________________

Which feeling does it give? ____________________________________________________________________________

What information does the summary give?

The period of the story A description of the hero The characters' names

The place where the story unfolds* The period of the action The plot* summary

A construction of suspense The end of the story

Read the last part; Try and sum up (in French) what it says:

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According to you, what is it?