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Chapter 1 Task Civilisation and culture
a) RIGHT or WRONG? Right Wrong
1. Queen Victoria reigned for 44 years. Queen Victoria reigned over Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until she died in 1901.

2. The Queen felt compassion for her subjects. a genuine sympathy for her poorer subjects 3. She had a large family. They had nine children.

4. Victorian first meant prosperous, successful The adjective Victorian, which had come to be used in her lifetime to mean flourishing, potentially great 5. Then the word Victorian kept its first meaning. came to acquire the sense of over-strict, censorious, much as it means today 6. The British Empire was created in Victorias time. In the 1870s, Great Britain had direct control of a fifth of the Earths surface, including India, Canada and Australia.

7. Britains standing army was important at the time. it did not need a large standing army to defend its borders

8. The Industrial Revolution was an easy time for the working class. The Industrial Revolution in England meant very hard living conditions for those who worked in the mines and in the factories, especially children.

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b) What a puritanical Victorian young lady would find proper or improper to do.
P P I I I I P I P I I I P I P to read the Bible on the day of the Sabbath. to speak to a member of the opposite sex. to address a person who has not been introduced to you. to read Shakespeares comedies. to mention such words as legs, belly, bosom, breeches in the conversation. to speak before you have been spoken to. to go for walks with a chaperone. to turn up your skirt and show your ankles when walking in the snow. to read the Family Edition of Shakespeares Works. to let your hair down on your shoulders. to read or play music on the day of the Sabbath. to sleep in a room which had been previously occupied by a man. to wear dark clothes and tie up your hair. to show your emotions in public. to be discreet.

Chapter 3 Task

Text 1 The British Guests


Anticipation
Personal answer.

Task

General comprehension
Completing the grid
When? Where? Who? (give names, nationalities and relationship) The four main characters present are Colonel Mills and his wife Alicia who are the British guests. The host is Indrajit Ray, an Indian, and his son Jagat Rai. What about? Narrator?

The events happen in 1857, during a reception.

The scene takes place in the house of a wealthy Indian.

The extract is about an unfortunate incident during the reception. Jagats attitude and talk appear to be insulting to the British and Colonel Mills leaves the party, quite offended.

It is a third person narrative.

Detailed comprehension
a) The first offence (beginning to line 24)
1. Colonel Mills accepts to shake hands with the young Indian. NO He kept his right hand extended even though it was ignored.(line 6) 2. In colonial India, Jagats gesture was an offence. YES Didnt he know the form? (line 9) 3. Alicia doesnt intervene in the incident. NO Alicia touched him gently on the arm. (line 10) 4. Indrajit Rai behaves obsequiously towards his guests. YES his eyes lowered (line 13); It is such an honor such a great honor (line 16)

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5. At the end of this first part, the tension in the room has dropped. YES The difficult moment was over (line 23)

b) Vocabulary of body expressions and attitudes. Avancer : step forward; incliner la tte : bow his head; ses narines senflrent : his nostrils flared; retenir sa langue : hold his tongue; les yeux baisss : his eyes lowered; transpirer : sweat; frapper bruyamment dans ses mains : clap his hands loudly. c) The second offence (from line 25 to line 46) 1. Jagat Ray doesnt address himself to the whole party. Jagat Ray had his back to the rest of the party as he spoke to a small group of young men in the corner (line 27) 2. Jagat is still a young man and enjoys saying what he truly thinks. spoke simply off the top of his head; he enjoyed the thrill of indulging in dangerous talk. (line 29) 3. The colonel is prepared to humiliate the young man. He had no intention of restraining himself this time; the boy needed to be embarrassed, put in his place. (line 31) 4. Jagat Ray is not afraid of the colonel and he persists in his accusations. (3 quotes). the British superiority in India is a figment of their imagination The British are no better than any other ruler the people of India are not happy with them. d) More vocabulary on body expressions and movements: avoir le dos tourn : to have his back to; parler sans rflchir : speak simply off the top of his head; le visage impassible : his face set; le regard fix sur : his gaze steady on; virer au rouge carlate : flush deep red. e) From line 47 to the end Colonel Mills is hateful, bilious, incensed, haughty, tense, outraged, contemptuous, shocked, and scorn-ful Jagat Ray is defiant, spirited, cool, provocative. f) Vocabulary on attitudes.

Translations

Dismay = dsarroi flounder = bredouiller perturb = perturber

offend = offenser hushed = silencieuse glare across = balayer la pice dun regard furieux

g) Jagat Rai is an educated Indian. He is young and wealthy. He has received a British education and unlike his father he considers himself as equal to the British. He is quite young and slightly foolish. He probably wants to show off in front of his friends. Colonel Mills represents the British authority in India. He doesnt want to lose face in front of the other British guests. Moreover he is worried, as he has just heard about Indian unrest. We also detect that he loses his temper quite quickly and he takes offence easily. These two men are likely to come to a dispute. h) Alicia Mills is concerned with keeping appearances. She knows that her husband can lose his temper quite easily therefore she quietens him by touching his arm. They seem to understand one another and are probably in love. Once in the room she plays her role well by nodding to the British people she knows. Indrajit Rai is a wealthy Indian who belongs to a generation which seems to have accepted the British ruling of India. He is probably quite proud of his status and of having British guests. However his attention to his guest seems obsequious. He is slightly comical too when he tries to hide his son from the colonels eyes. In the end his sons behaviour will spoil his party.

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i) In this passage we learn that Anglo-Indian relationships were not as easy as the British would have liked them to be. There was unrest, which we hear rumours of. Although the wealthy Indians like Indrajit Rai and the British mixed at parties they were not on equal footing. The Indians were particularly polite. The British behaved in an almost condescending manner. Each had to play a role. The occupation of India didnt seem natural while the young generation of educated Indians was likely to protest and would eventually require the independence of India.

Chapter 4 Task

Pronunciation and vocabulary


Vocabulary
b) Familles de mots low, lower, lowermost, lowland, lowliness, lowly, lowness. hope, hopeful, hopefulness, hopeless, hopelessness, unhoped. horror, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrify.

Chapter 5 Task

Enjoy your grammar


a) Les formes en ing

1. Consequently talking with restraint is necessary. 2. we are all too afraid of putting the situation right. 3. he enjoyed the thrill of indulging in dangerous talk. 4. He had no intention of restraining himself this time.
b) Choisissez la rponse qui convient ou compltez 1. Les formes en ing : putting, indulging, restraining, ont pour bases verbales : put, indulge, restrain. 2. Le grondif est form par la base verbale + ING. 3. Dans lexemple 1, le grondif est sujet.
4. Le grondif semploie aprs la prposition of. 5. Les prpositions sont normalement suivies de noms. 6. Le grondif semploie donc comme les deux.

c) Les grondifs 1. Riding on a big boat across the Atlantic may sound like fun, but it wasnt. (A Boys Journey) 2. It was like being in jail. (A Boys Journey) 3. Right away I started singing in concerts and making money. (A Boys Journey) 4. I kept singing as a young man and became a star of Yiddish theatre. (A Boys Journey) 5. I remember going in one end and coming out of the other. I remember being told I must remember and then for many years forgetting. (Jarhead) d) 1. Le sujet de lexpression verbale may sound like fun est Riding. 2. Le complment de lexpression verbale was like est being.
3. En 3, money est complment de making. Vrai

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4. Le verbe keep indique une activit dj en cours. Vrai 5. Le verbe remember indique une activit dj ralise. Vrai

Exercises
a) Completing the sentences with the ing form: 1. He kept criticizing the British ruling of India. 2. He made a point of proving that he was an educated Indian. 3. Showing off his possessions was wonderful for the wealthy man. 4. He went on talking without thinking. 5.The colonel couldnt stand hearing the young mans abusive talk. 6. He loved having his own way. b) Translations 1. They left without saying goodbye. 2. I remember having written to him. 3. Visiting temples were one of her favourite pastimes. 4. She visited her neighbours after having noticed the doctors car. 5. In the evenings, she enjoyed walking in the garden.

Task

Formes pronominales
a) Traductions des exemples Le colonel se dtendit un peu. Je me rappelle. Le lieutenant se tenait sans bouger devant son cheval. Il navait aucune intention de se retenir. b) La forme verbale franaise a toujours besoin du pronom rflchi (me, se), la forme verbale anglaise na pas forcment une forme pronominale correspondante.

Exercices
a) Completing with the correct pronouns 1. I made this painting myself. 2. He poured the drinks himself. 3. We can rule India ourselves. 4. Help yourself. 5. She decorated their house herself. 6. They were quite pleased with themselves. b) Translations into English 1. She loved looking at herself in the mirror. 2. They had an argument. We didnt enjoy ourselves. 3. You have made your misfortune yourself. 4. I remember that he used to get angry quickly. 5. I expect him to make a scene. 6. In the morning, she wouldnt hurry; she woke up with him but got up late, washed a long time and dressed with care.
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Chapter 6 Task

Translation
c) Exercice
1b ; 2h ; 3k ; 4d ; 5e ; 6a.

Task

Suggestion de traduction
Il me semble, rpondit Jagat, que la supriorit des Britanniques en Inde est un produit de leur imagination. Il parlait avec une tranquille assurance, le visage immobile, le regard fix sur le Colonel Mix. Un murmure 1dindignation 2traversa la pice. Jagat Ra, 3jeune homme intelligent, instruit, et en colre, ne se rtracterait pas. Les Britanniques ne font pas mieux que nimporte quel autre dirigeant de ce pays, et peut-tre mme font-ils plus mal. Il vit le visage du colonel sempourprer 4profondment mais il continua.
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Quils fassent mieux ou plus mal, Colonel, le peuple de lInde ne les aime pas, 6cest une situation inconfortable, et je crois quil va falloir que cela change.

Eh bien je je Pour la premire fois de sa vie, le Colonel Mills ne trouvait pas ses mots et tous les invits le regardaient 7bredouiller avec horreur et consternation. Jamais, de toute sa carrire8, il navait t 9trait avec tant dinsolence par un subalterne, certainement jamais par un indigne ! Jagat Ra 10se contenta de sourire, hocha la tte, et sloigna pour rejoindre ses amis, comme si rien de fcheux ne stait produit. La seule chose qui le proccupait tait davoir peut-tre offens son pre.
1. quivalence : un murmure dindignation : cette formule semble meilleure en franais que murmure choqu. 2. transposition. Traversa : noubliez pas de traduire dabord lide de la particule through. 3. jeune homme et nom un jeune homme : pas darticle devant une apposition en franais. 4. profondment : sempourprer dun rouge fonc serait redondant. 5. toffement : Quils fassent mieux ou plus mal pour whatever. 6. transposition : la tournure cest une situation inconfortable convient bien ici au lieu de la situation est... inconfortable : transposition galement, on remplace la forme ngative avec adjectif positif (is not comfortable) par une forme affirmative avec adjectif ngatif (cest inconfortable). 7. on vitera le calque : tandis quil bredouillait. 8. Allgement : inutile de traduire military car Colonel suffit pour indiquer le contexte. 9. quivalence : le calque en traduisant par parl ne conviendrait pas. 10. transposition : lide de ladverbe simply est traduite par le verbe se contenta de.

Chapter 7 Task

Written expression
a) Rponses concernant les mots de liaison 1. Deux quivalents lexpression first : firstly, first of all, to begin with. 2. Trouvez quatre manires dannoncer ce que vous pensez : In my opinion; in my view; actually, I think that; as far as I am concerned I think that; personally I think that... 3. Vous tes daccord avec lauteur : I agree with the author; pas daccord : I disagree with the author. b) The Campaign for Womens Suffrage 1903-28 It is obvious that Victorian women led a restricted life. Although Queen Victoria had been the most powerful woman of her time, women were still treated as second class citizens. For example, they were not allowed to vote. In 1903, the campaign for womens suffrage was intensified by the founding of the Womens Social and Political Union : the WSPU - associated particularly with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters. WSPU members, known as suffragettes, became increasingly violent in the years before the World War One, as successive governments failed to reform the voting laws. Indeed the harsh manner in which imprisoned suffragettes were treated,

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including forcible feeding of women on hunger strike, contributed to the growing public sympathy for the cause of womens suffrage. However, the outbreak of war in 1914 led to a political *truce in the suffrage movement. No doubt that the participation of British women in the war effort, for instance their work in factories and the armed services as well as in the home, was a major factor in the Governments decision to give women over the age of thirty the right to vote in 1918. Later, this right was extended to women over 21 in 1928.

Task

Suggested answer. People usually think that male/female inequality is a thing of the past. If this may sound true in the Western World let us look at the plight of women in other circumstances. In so far as women in third-word countries are concerned, we cannot say that their lives today are equal to those of men. In some places in India and Africa for example women are submitted to mens will. They have to obey their fathers, their brothers, their husbands, even their sons. It begins as soon as they are born. In some countries, a baby daughter is a curse. It can make a family man poorer since he will later have to give a dowry to marry his daughter. Female infanticides have not disappeared from our world. Then, since a woman is considered a servant, little girls receive less education than their brothers. Later, they are servants for their family, carrying water, cleaning, cooking, washing, etc. etc. It is obvious that women in the Western World have a more envied life. Indeed, on the whole they do as well if not better at exams than their male counterparts. They earn money and hold any job they want. They also marry for love and even have control over their reproductive life. Women are found among the top ten richest people in the world, women are found as head of states, and airline pilots. Yet Yet, in many countries still there is a hidden code that makes it hard for a woman to succeed. For the same level of performance, a young man would be preferred to a young woman as he is not likely to get pregnant or miss work to attend to his sick children. Once at home, in many cases, women look after children, shopping and housework while a Mediterranean husband for example would think it unmanly to do so. To conclude, I would say that male and female equality is still a fallacy. As long as a woman cannot walk in the streets of Paris without being sexually insulted because she is pretty and refuses to notice catcalls, women are not equal to men.

Chapter 9 Task

Text 2
General comprehension
a) 1. The scene takes place in Italy, in Florence, in the dining room of a pension for tourists, mainly English people. The owner is called the Signora, some rooms overlook the river which runs through Florence: the Arno, the guests are sitting at the table. 2. The characters present are Miss Bartlett, Lucy, an old man, his son George and two little old ladies. The characters only mentioned are the Signora and Lucys mother. 3. The English tourists seem to belong to a well-off middle-class. However, Miss Bartlett may be less well-off, as her stay is being paid for by Lucys mother. 4. The two women have a negative image of the place and people. 5. At the end of the scene they decide to leave the pension. 6. The apparent problem is that they have been promised a view overlooking the Arno and Lucys room doesnt have a view. 7. In fact the more basic problem is that they have been shocked by the old mans indelicacy. He has offered to exchange rooms with them. This is quite improper by Victorian code of conduct.
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b)
Elements from the text Names Lucy Miss Charlotte Bartlett. Probable age Lucy is probably in her late teens. Charlotte is probably in her forties. Family links They are cousins.

Personal relationships

Charlottes trip has been paid for by Lucys mother so we conclude that Charlotte wants to do everything thats proper for Lucy. Moreover she wants the girl to have the best even if she has to make sacrifices.

Detailed comprehension
Part 1 from the beginning to line 46. a) The negative impressions Lucy and Charlotte have at the beginning of their stay.
The pension dining-room The hostess has a working-class accent and this bothers Lucy. And a Cockney2, besides! said Lucy, who had been further saddened by the Signoras unexpected accent. (line 5). The dining-room is decorated as in England: It might be London. She looked at the two portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laureate3 that hung behind the English people heavily framed Lucy feels that we might be in London. (line 8). The English guests keep their English customs including going to their church: the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M.A. Oxon.), that was the only other decoration of the wall. (line 10). The rooms The hostess hasnt given them the promised room with a view. (She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart) lines 2 and 3. Their rooms are far apart. They are not overlooking the Arno. I wanted so to see the Arno. The rooms the Signora promised us in her letter would have looked over the Arno. (line 14). The food The meal is not first class as the meat has been boiled. This meat has surely been used for soup, said Miss Bartlett, laying down her fork (line 13). The guests are all English while the ladies wanted to be among foreigners She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table (line 7). They are shocked as one of the guests actually intervened into their argument. - one of the ill-bred people whom one does meet abroad - leant forward over the table and actually intruded into their argument. (line 25).

The people

b) Lucie and Miss Bartlett are tired and disappointed. They are even losing their good manners and have started an argument between them as to know who should have the best room. They seem ready to quarrel. Charlotte wants to play the martyr and this upsets Lucy who becomes peevish. The ladies voices grew animated, and - if the sad truth be owned - a little peevish. They were tired, and under the guise of unselfishness they wrangled Part 2 from line 27 to the end c) The new characters who appear in the text are an old man and his son George. Then there are two well-bred old ladies. d) Some elements in the description of the old man appear offensive to Charlotte Bartlett. First he breaks into their conversation: and one of them - one of the ill-bred people whom one does meet abroad - leant forward over the table and actually intruded into their argument. (line )

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He didnt wait the required two or three days of discretion: Generally at a pension people looked them over for a day or two before speaking (line ) He is not dressed as he should: passed on to his clothes. These did not attract her. (line ) He doesnt seem right but childish. She thinks he takes them for two innocent abroad: He was probably trying to become acquainted with them before they got into the swim (line ) e) Miss Bartlett is offended when the old man proposes to exchange rooms with them, this is not done in Victorian code of conduct: a lady cannot accept to be so intimate with a stranger as to sleep in a room he previously occupied. However here we have another code of conduct: for the old man and his son what is important is to make people happy. f) This extract gives us some information about Victorian middle-class society. We learn about the convention for the young to travel abroad with a chaperone in order to visit sights and acquire culture. For example Lucy wants to have a view on the beautiful city and visits what one expects to visit in Italy. However, not everyone is well-off and Miss Bartlett for example seems to have to accept Lucys mothers charity to enable her to travel. So the life of single women without much money may have been difficult. Finally these Victorian people seem to be living under a strict code of conduct even when travelling abroad. You do not talk to strangers on their first day of arrival for example. Conversation must stay neutral and it is not done to argue when strangers can hear you. Finally a woman must not accept any favour from a man, even an old man.

Chapter 10

Lire un texte littraire


a) Comprhension globale 1. Vous avez surlign : We (ligne 1), Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre, 1827. Vous savez donc quil sagit dune autobiographie fictive (dont la narratrice sappelle Jane Eyre), crite lpoque victorienne. 2. Les noms des personnages prsents sont Mrs Reed, Eliza, John et Georgiana, ses enfants. Jane ne semble pas tre lenfant de Mrs Reed, on mentionne lexistence de Bessie, la nurse. 3. Les mentions de lieu et de temps : we had been wandering (un plus que parfait qui dcrit une action qui a eu lieu le matin) the leafless shrubbery, in the morning, now out of the question. Le second paragraphe est au prtrit dcrivant une habitude de la narratrice : I never liked long walks. Le troisime paragraphe est au moment de parole, au prtrit : now clustered, for the time, in the drawing room, La conversation entre Mrs Reed et Jane est au prtrit, le moment de parole : I asked. Le dernier paragraphe est au prtrit : I slipped, I mounted. Le nouveau lieu est donn : a small breakfast room, into the window-seat. 4. Larchitecture du texte est donn par cinq divisions. Le premier paragraphe : le matin Le second paragraphe : lopinion de Jane Le troisime paragraphe : les personnages au salon La conversation Le dernier paragraphe : Jane dans la petite salle manger 5. Les quatre expressions qui indiquent de quoi il sagit dans ce passage : clustered around their mama; Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; she really must exclude me; I was shrined in double retirement.

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b) Comprhension dtaille

La prsentation du dcor
La situation due au mauvais temps : There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Les mots indiquant le mauvais temps : the cold winter wind; clouds; a rain so penetrating. Dans le troisime paragraphe les lments qui dcrivent la position des personnages : clustered round their mama; lay reclined on a sofa; Me, she had dispensed from joining the group. Dans le dernier paragraphe les lments qui dcrivent la position de Jane : into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat crossed-legged, like a Turk; shrined in double retirement.

Les personnages et les relations entre les personnages


Dans le premier paragraphe un lment indiquant la position sociale de Mrs Reed : when there was no company, dined early. Dans le second paragraphe un lment indiquant la personnalit de Bessie : the chidings of Bessie. Dans le troisime paragraphe, puis dans la conversation qui suit, les mots indiquant les sentiments de la mre pour ses enfants : her darlings around her; looked perfectly happy. Les rapports des enfants entre eux : for the time neither quarrelling nor crying.

La narratrice
Dans le second paragraphe les verbes ou adjectifs indiquant les gots et les sentiments de la narratrice : I never liked long walks; a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie; humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority. Dans le troisime paragraphe les mots qui dcrivent ce que Jane nest pas selon Mrs Reed : sociable and childlike disposition; attractive and sprightly manner,-something lighter, franker, more natural as it were -; contented, happy. Ce qui rend Mrs Reed dsagrable, hypocrite et victorienne aux yeux du lecteur : until she heard from Bessie, I dont like cavillers or questioners; something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Limage du dernier paragraphe qui indique lisolement et le besoin de protection exprims par la narratrice : I was shrined in double retirement.

Le vocabulaire difficile
Shrubbery: le bosquet ; nipped: gels ; chidings: rprimandes ; sprightly: alerte ; cavillers: chicaneur ; forbidding: dsagrable
c) Rsum This is the beginning of a fictitious autobiography. The narrator, Jane Eyre, relates one day of her childhood at Mrs Reeds place. It is winter, mother, children and nurse cannot take their usual outdoor walks and stay in the drawing-room. Jane doesnt seem to belong to the family and is set apart by the mother. The latter would like to instil some Victorian values to Jane who should be sweet and lively. On the contrary the girl hates outside walks, is questioning and judging. She seems to be resilient however as reading allows her to escape. With this opening page the readers sympathy goes to Jane: a lonely if not rebellious child.

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odel answers
Sequence 6
Chapter 1 Task Civilisation and culture
World War I saw the British Empire reach its full expansion. It covered two thirds of the planet and held two thirds of its people, but in the years that followed came its decline. Victory over the Germans had been achieved with a considerable help from people of the Empire (more than 200,000 men from the overseas empire died in the war). However, the men from the colonies who had left their country to fight in France and Belgium realized that the British were not so superior after all. The huge number of deaths bled Europe. Once they went back home the soldiers from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and British Africa expected now some sort of self-government. Nationalist agitation against economic disparities, often stimulated by acts of racial discrimination by British settlers, was particularly strong in India and in parts of Africa. Britain gradually capitulated to the pressures of nationalist sentiment. Iraq gained full sovereignty in 1932 and concessions were made toward self-government in India and later in the African colonies. Meanwhile, uprisings had started in Ireland which declared itself independent in 1919. In 1931 Great Britain officially recognized the independent and equal status of its former colonies, most of them became members of the Commonwealth of Nations. After World War II self-government advanced rapidly in all parts of the Empire. In 1947, India was partitioned and independence granted to the new states of India and Pakistan. Other parts of the Empire, notably in Africa, gained independence and subsequently joined the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is thus an association of states which have economic ties with Britain, speak and write in English as well as in their own languages, have a common allegiance to the Queen, meet and help one another, are supposed to have democratic elections to elect their own government, play cricket and rugby, drink tea, wear school uniforms and are allowed to emigrate in the UK when the British have a labour shortage. In 1973, the United Kingdom joined the European Union, deciding to become part of Europe.

Who said what


a) 6; b) 4; c) 5; d) 2; e) 3; f) 11; g) 9; h) 7; i) 8; j) 1; k) 10.

Task

Listening Comprehension
General comprehension
The text in an interview of Jennie, who was in her twenties in the Swinging Sixties. She explained the time as exciting and free when the young became a power group. Freedom was expressed through Rock and Roll music, particularly that of the Beatles. Contraception became legal. Protest particularly against the Vietnam war prevailed.

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Detailed comprehension
Part 1 a) For Jennie the Swinging Sixties meant music and clothes. b) She liked wearing a saffron coloured kaftan, black trousers and an enormous felt hat. Wearing trousers meant freedom for her. Part 2 c) The Beatles came from Liverpool. d) London was fab. Carnaby Street was the hub of everything where you could see girls wearing Mary Quants mini-skirts. The girls wanted to look like Twiggy and the Shrimp. Part 3 e) For Jennie, Rock and Roll meant her new freedom. Its attitude was one of rebellion and social consciousness. f) Jennie was sensitive to Lennons messages. She had no longer a religion but looked for answers all the same. She went for gentleness, peace and love. She never had a guru though. Part 4 g) Contraception was available in Britain before France which meant that many French girls sought abortions in England. h) The Hippies slogan was make love not war. They thought that by peaceful protests they would put an end to war. Part 5 i) Four events which shook the world in the Sixties: mans landing on the moon, John Kennedys assassination, Martin Luther Kings assassination, the first James Bonds film.

Chapter 2 Task

Texte BAC The Landlady


1) Roald Dahl 2) P.D James 3) Dame Barbara Cartland 4) Salman Rushdie 5) Ruth Rendell 6) J.R.R Tolkien 6) Kazuo Ishiguro 6) J.K Rowling 6) V.S Naipaul 6) Helen Fielding

Task

Anticipation
c) The text is a whole short story. d) Judging by the reputation of its author it is likely to be a mystery story. e) Judging by its title it will have a very English flavour. f) The events will concern the character in the title.

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Task

General comprehension
Completing the grid
When? Where? Who? (give names ages, jobs, expectations and interests) The main character present is Billy Weaver. The other character is a woman, the landlady probably. What about? Sum up the story. A young man is looking for lodgings in a town. He goes to a deserted boarding-house. Narrator?

The events happen during winter, in the evening (after nine), the moon and stars are out.

The scene takes place in Bath, in an empty street then in a boarding-house.

The point of view is that of Billy, although it is a third person narrative.

Detailed comprehension
a) London and Bath on the map.

Bath London

b) The statements are right or wrong. 1. Billy wanted to act like a successful businessman. RIGHT He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. (line 13) 2. Billy was elegantly dressed. RIGHT He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown tilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. (line 12) 3. The weather was pleasant. WRONG But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. (line ) 4. Billy didnt know anyone in this city. RIGHT He didnt know anyone who lived there. (line 12) 5. The street he walked on had an air of being prosperous. WRONG it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences. But now, even in the darkness, he could see that the paint was peeling from neglect. (lines 17-20) 6. Billy was struck by something bright and cheerful. RIGHT Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street lamp Billy caught sight of a printed notice (line 21) 7. Billy hesitated then decided to push as far as the Bell and Dragon. RIGHT He turned to go. (line 40) 8. In the end he was irresistibly attracted to the boarding-house and he rang the bell. RIGHT He pressed the bell. (line 48)

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Characteristics of a pub

Characteristics of the boarding house he is looking at


It is more pleasant. It seems attractive with velvet curtains, a burning fire, a dog, a parrot, a piano and nice comfortable furniture. However boarding-houses frighten Billy a bit. He has never been in one and he fears rapacious landladies, poor food and cooking smells.

A pub is more congenial. You can drink beer, play darts and talk to people. It is cheaper than a boarding-house.

d) Foreboding: examples which are puzzling for Billie and the reader - Although Billy has made up his mind to go as far as The Bell and Dragon, the sign BED AND BREAKFAST seems to hypnotise him. (his eyes were caught in the most peculiar manner by the notice, line 42). - He can no longer move but feels the compulsion to climb the steps and ring the bell. - He rang and at once the door swung open, as if the woman had been standing behind the door waiting for him. e) Vocabulary (1)
un ciel clair toil une lame de glace plate hbergement un chapeau de feutre marcher dun bon pas les grands pontes qui en imposent tach aperut en velours regarda travers la vitre

a clear starry sky a flat blade of ice lodgings a trilby hat walk briskly the big shots swanky blotchy caught sight velvety peered through the glass

la chemine rembourrs remarqua sympathique une pension (de famille) des flchettes bien moins cher harengs saurs retourner dans sa tte contraindre trange

the hearth plump spotted congenial a boarding-house darts a good bit cheaper kippers dither compel queer

Chapter 3

Texte 1 The Landlady (parts 2 and 3)


Part 2

Task

a) The narrative a. Billy asked the lady how much she charged for the night.
b. Billy unpacked his suitcase. c. Billy had a look at the names in the guest book.

d. Billy put the suitcase on the bed and opened it. e. The landlady asked Billy to come down to the living-room in order to sign the guest book. It was the law. f. The landlady proposed Billy some supper but he declined the offer.
g. Billy ran down to the living-room.

h. Billy realized that he was the only guest in the boarding-house. i. The lady told Billy he might light the gas fire if he was cold. j. Billy took off his coat and hung it. k. Billy and the landlady went upstairs to the room. l. Billy entered the house.
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b) The stereotyped landlady: a deceiving appearance Stereotyped ideas about landladies come to Billys mind and reassure him. To Billy she seemed terribly nice (line 71). She reminded him of the mother of an old schoolfriend welcoming one into the house for the Christmas holidays (line 72). He thought that she was slightly mad like many old ladies who have suffered a loss but he didnt mind as she seemed benign enough. He assumed that she had probably lost a son in the war, or something like that, and had never got over it. (line 110) In todays English currency, five and six pence is 66 pence. c) Foreshadowing (prsage) 1. Elements that give a negative impression of the landlady and foreshadow the events: She appeared so fast when Billy pressed the bell that It made him jump and we can imagine she had been watching him. The fact that she opened the door wide seems to be part of the strange compulsion Billy felt of coming in. She seems choosy about the people she invites in. She is fond of having young men to stay. Her insistence in looking at the length of Billys body (line 87) is unnerving. 2. Billy noticed something strange for a boarding-house: there was no other guest. The landlady explained it by the fact that she doesnt accept anybody, she is just a tiny bit weeny bit choosy and particular (line 79). 3. A list of the things that seemed to indicate that Billy was expected in the house: - There is a hot water-bottle between the sheets (line 93). - the bedspread had been taken off the bed, and the bedclothes had been neatly turned back on one side. (line 96) - He found the guest-book lying open on the piano. (line 116) 4. Billy does want to stay as the rent is cheap and he feels he has made a bargain and he is quite proud of himself. d) The names in the guest-book 1. The two names are: Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple. 2. The adverb suddenly (line 120) is used to indicate a change of awareness from Billys part. 3. Billy keeps thinking of those two names on the guest book because he seems to have come across those names before. It rings a bell (line 120). 4. Billy associates the names with his sisters numerous young men (line ), or a friend of his fathers (line ). He has seen their names in newspapers, he thinks they might be famous cricketers or footballers (line 132). 5. The strange thing Billy notices about the two names in the guest-book is that their entries are over two years old and even three years old. e) The Landlady 1. She doesnt want to be involved in the conversation about the names in the guest-book. She says politely How interesting when Billy mentions that the names are familiar to him but she doesnt suggest any reason. Later she dismisses the possibility of them being famous. She plays the fool when he says that there has been no one in the house for two years by pretending that time flies as if she were feeble minded. 2. The fact that she forgets Billys family name implies that she has no memory, she continues to pretend that she is queer like any little landlady.

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Part 3

Task

a) The Landlady 1. The fact that she has forgotten Billies name is surprising and contradictory as she has precise memories of Mulholland and Temple. She remembers their physical appearance But they were extraordinarily handsome, both of them, I can promise you that. They were tall and young and handsome (line 135). She remembers that Mulholland was not from Eton He was a Cambridge graduate. (line 171). She remembers their taste: Mr Mulholland was a great one for his tea. (line 189). She still knows their precise ages: seventeen and twenty-eight and even their height: he was a trifle shorter than you are (line 195) and even the colour of their teeth: his teeth were not quite so white (line 195). And she adds There wasnt a blemish on his body. And His skin was just like a babys (line 203) The latest details are certainly strange. b) The suspense 1. Billys attitude changes when the landlady says that the two young men are still upstairs. He puts down his cup and starts observing the landlady. He must be wondering if she is saying the truth, then he wonders how they can still be upstairs, maybe she is absolutely mad. 2. The reader is even more suspicious than Billy because the smell from her person reminds Billie of hospital, a bad omen. We know he shouldnt have sipped any tea so quickly. We think he should have remembered why he knew the names before drinking, but he is still too trusty. We wonder why she keeps mentioning physical details of the young men and why she observes Billies body. We know more than Billie, he is still searching his mind about the names, we can observe the landlady observing him. 3. There is a silence after that as Billy wonders how on earth she happened to see the young mans body, so he wants an explanation We can only think that he was sick and she happened to nurse him or he was killed naked and she saw the body. 4. The stuffed animals: When Billy learns about the animals in the house being stuffed it seems to open his eyes to the reality of the place: everything is faked. He had never guessed they were stuffed because it was done skilfully and they appeared natural, moreover their position in the room was natural. His realisation is the climax of the story; will he guess soon enough what is in store for him and stop drinking the tea and rush out of the place? Probably not, he is a naive young man and cannot conceive that the same fate is reserved for him. 5. The guest book The landlady insists on Billy signing the book using did to emphasize her request. She wants him so much to sign that book in order to look it up later. It is part of her ritual. c) The cliff-hanging ending There is no explicit denouement, the murder is not described. Since the tea is poisoned readers conclude that Billie will have the same fate as the other young men and will be killed and stuffed. d) Vocabulary
Frisky Handsome Dainty Sigh Peculiar To bother To fuss Tantalising Fringant Beau Dlicat Soupir trange Gner Saffairer provocant Eton Undergraduate (in Britain) To pat Pickled walnuts Sweet Mr Mulholland She arched her brows A trifle A blemish Une grande cole prive tudiant Tapoter Des noix marines Ce cher Mr Holland Elle leva les sourcils Un peu Un dfaut

e) When the reader understands, he can go back to previous situations or previous allusions by the landlady. Roald Dahl has given a few elements here and there to raise the readers suspicion.

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Examples

Everything was ready for the young mans arrival. The landlady was expecting him: The door immediately opened when he rang the bell. His room was ready Its all ready for you dear (line 60) The landlady is very choosy about her guests and takes only the young ones (line 84) and I see someone standing there who is just exactly right; (line 98) Im so glad you appeared, she said, looking earnestly into his face. I was beginning to get worried. (line 86) Seventeen! she cried. Oh, its the perfect age! Mr Mulholland was also seventeenmy dear, just exactly like you. (line 194). We know now that it is the perfect age to die and be stuffed. She refers to the tea in which she has put poison: (line 184) Mr Mulholland was a great one for his tea Never in my life have I seen anyone drink so much tea as dear Mr Mulholland. It is rather cynical. When she mentions: The blemish and the skin just like a babys the story becomes horrible and cruel. When she observes Billy (line 231) she looked at him out of the corner of her eyes; we can imagine the pleasure, the thrill that she feels at the thought of seeing him dead and stuffing his body and adding him to her collection.

Chapter 5 Task

Enjoy your grammar


La forme en ing, le grondif et le participe prsent
a)
prtrit en be + ing was coming up was wearing was feeling was peeling were hanging grondif walking dithering making up his mind participe prsent pointing going up burning

b) Dans lexemple 1, la forme en ING est associe loprateur be conjugu au prtrit Un exemple de prtrit en be + ING au pluriel est were hanging Tous les exemples de prtrits en be + ING dcrivent un personnage (ex : was wearing, was feeling, was peeling, were hanging) ou des choses qui taient en train de se faire (ex : was coming up). Le participe prsent existe aussi en franais.

pointing down the road se traduit par en montrant la rue going up to their front doors se traduit par qui montaient jusqu leur porte dentre et montant jusqu leur porte dentre a bright fire burning in the hearth se traduit par un bon feu qui brlait dans ltre.
Dans lexemple 6 le grondif est complment du verbe stopped. En anglais les prpositions sont normalement suivies de noms et de grondifs. Dans les exemples 9 et 10 les prpositions after et before sont suivies dun grondif. En franais After dithering se traduit par Aprs avoir hsit. Before making up his mind se traduit par Avant de prendre une dcision. wondering walking was walking drinking hesitating going entering.

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Task
a)

Exercices
1. As he was walking along he noticed how derelict the area was. 2. Then she poured the tea and he drank it without any foreboding. 3. Billy could see that the room was cosy indeed. 4. He was quite pleased with himself as he was coming down the stairs in a leisurely manner. 5. She was carrying the tea-tray with a decisive air. 6. Finally, they both sat on the sofa and she patted him on the knee. b) 1. He was walking alone. Thats why he noticed the light coming from the window. 2. What were you doing last night? I was reading a horror novel. 3. He was too nave. He was responsible for his own downfall. 4. She was having a cup of tea while dreaming in front of the hearth when the bell rang. 5. He went to the pub twice a week when he was a student. 6. The landlady, who was mad, killed then stuffed her guests.

Task

Il faut rpondre oui toutes les questions.

a) Les verbes au plus-que-parfait 1. When he got to his room, he realized that she had already made the bed. 2. Once he saw that the animals were stuffed, he understood why they had been so still. 3. Now he knew why she had been watching him so closely. 4. The woman had been waiting for quite a while before Billie entered her place. 5. After many attempts at getting up, he had given up any hope of escaping and was now only wishing for a new visitor. b) Les verbes au prtrit, simple ou en be + ing, ou au pluperfect, simple ou en be + ing, la voix active ou passive 1. Billie wondered where and why he had already heard of those names before. 2. Previously, when he had been away from home, he had always stayed in a pub, now he dithered. 3. Up to now, Billie had always thought that little old ladies were harmless, presently he wasnt so sure. 4. He then realized that they had been dead for over two years and that he was in great danger of being her next victim. 5. This time he had been trying hard to get up but his legs had once more failed him and he felt the irresistible urge of sleep overcoming him.

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Chapter 6

Translation
Here are the best alternatives
He trotted downstairs to the ground floor and entered Il descendit rapidement jusquau rez-de-chausse et entra Nous faisons ici une transposition (procd qui consiste traduire un mot par un mot appartenant une catgorie grammaticale diffrente). Ladverbe downstairs est traduit par le verbe descendit, le verbe trotted est traduit par ladverbe rapidement. the little dachshund was still sleeping in front of it. le petit teckel dormait encore la mme place. Devant lui est gauche, on a trouv une quivalence car la phrase ne peut se traduire littralement. The room was wonderfully warm and cosy. Il faisait merveilleusement bon et la pice tait agrable. Encore un procd de transposition, le nom room a t traduit par lexpression verbale il faisait. I am a lucky fellow Jai de la veine Transposition: I am se traduit par le verbe avoir, lexpression lucky fellow par un quivalent. This is a bit of all right. Cest pas mal du tout. Equivalence pour traduire une expression anglaise idiomatique qui reste fidle au langage familier de Billie.

Traduction
Il trouva le registre ouvert sur le piano (lying na pas t traduit), il sortit alors son stylo pour crire son nom et son adresse. Il ny avait que deux autres inscriptions sur la page, il fit donc ce que tout le monde fait dans ces cas-l, (quivalence) il commena les lire. Une inscription tait au nom (toffement) de Christopher Mulholland de Cardiff, lautre tait dun certain (toffement) Gregory W. Temple de Bristol. Cest bizarre, pensa-t-il (inversion en franais) soudain. Christopher Mulholland, a me rappelle quelque chose. (quivalence pour traduire une expression idiomatique). Mais o diable avait-il dj entendu ce nom inhabituel ? (Encore des quivalences)

Chapter 7
Exemple dune rdaction possible

Written composition
Bit by bit Billy realized he was feeling sick. He had that unpleasant taste in his mouth, it seemed to be coming from the smell of the place, from the landladys clothes too. It smelt of hospital. He hated hospitals, always had. Suddenly he understood that it must have been the chemical she used to stuff her pets. How unpleasant! But she really was clever. She had fooled him all right, would have fooled anybody. No one could have guessed the animals werent real. That parrot still had vivid colours and its glass eyes were watching Billy without a blink. Billy felt dizzy, that smell! Excuse-me, he said, getting up briskly I must have some fresh air. Its quite all right, my dear, its the fire, the heat after the cold outside. She was murmuring and smiling, even holding him tightly by his sleeves. He looked at the long pointed red fingernails, the pink carpet started moving under his feet, the nausea become more unrestrained. Come on, dear, she patted his sleeves, sit down, itll soon pass, she smiled in a decisive tone.
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But Billy was a well brought up young man, he wasnt going to puke on anybodys carpet, specially a pink one. In a last desperate effort he tore himself from her and the room, and before he knew it had run through the hall, opened the door and was vomiting on the pavement. She wasnt so fast, came only a split second after him and recoiled from the cold of the street. Down the road she saw two policemen coming towards them.

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odel answers
Sequence 7
Chapter 1 Task Civilisation and culture
Map of Africa
Canary Islands Western Sahara Cape Verde Mauritania Mali Niger Ghana Togo Benin Burkina Faso Chad Sudan Nigeria Central Cameroon African Republic
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Libya Egypt

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Eritrea Djibouti Ethiopia


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Uganda D. R. Congo Kenya

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South Africa

Swaziland Lesotho

A quiz on African history


a) 1; b) 640 AD; c) 2; d) 1; e) 1; f) 1; g) 1; h) 1; i) 2; j) 3; k) 2; l) 2; m) 1; n) 1.
* a Boer was the name given to the descendent of the Dutch people who had settled in South Africa, it means a peasant in the Dutch language. An Afrikaner is a white African who speaks Afrikaans, a language coming down from the Dutch spoken by the early settlers.

Extra for experts


a) South Africa had to leave the Commonwealth because of its policy of apartheid which started in 1961 and was undemocratic. It rejoined it in 1994 after the end of that regime. b) Nigeria was suspended from the Commonwealth in 1995 when it was under an authoritarian regime. It was readmitted in 1999 with the return of democratic elections.

Task

Listening comprehension General comprehension


The people interviewed feel very enthusiastic and happy about the fact that they were present at Nelson Mandelas release from prison.

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Detailed comprehension
Part 1 a) Nelson Mandela was released on 11 February 1990. b) The first person interviewed is called Peter. He is English. He was working in Cape Town at the time. c) People were pressed together, the weather was very hot and the waiting was longer than expected. Some people fell from a tree but refused to leave the place. d) Seeing black and white people together, sharing the same happy event was comforting. e) At the end Peter hardly heard Mandelas speech because of the noise, but he was extremely happy to be there. Part 2 f) The second person interviewed lives in Kenya. Her name is Praveena and she is of Indian origin. She was at school at the time and she left together with the others to watch TV at a friends place. g) She was surprised to see such a crowd of black and white people together. Then she was astonished to see how old and fragile Nelson Mandela appeared to be. h) The two evils Mandela has fought were white domination and black domination. i) She has been influenced by Mandela as he made her proud to be African. Part 3 j) The third person interviewed is called Stephen and lives in Durham. He was an activist before and was involved in protests for the liberation of Nelson Mandela. k) The noisy reception reminded him of the celebration of a South African victory at a rugby match. l) He had hoped that South Africa would become one nation.

Chapter 2

Text 1 And if something happens


Anticipation
d) The text deals with a socio-political situation.

Task

Understanding the text a)


When? It happens in daytime, during the apartheid. Where? It happens in a street in South Africa. Who? The two characters in presence are the narrator, a white man, and Ben du Toit, a black man. What about? Ben wants to trust his friend with some mysterious papers. The latter doesnt take this very seriously but Ben dies two weeks later. Type of narration? It is a first person narrative.

b) The narrator is a writer or a would-be writer: You may even turn it into a bloody novel if you choose. (line 19). c) They must be good friends because the narrator is prepared to keep his friends papers whatever they are: Of course Ill keep your stuff for you. (line 37). As for Ben, he seems to be trusting the narrator with important material. I want you to keep my notes and journal. (line 21).

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The mystery
a) At first the narrator doesnt want to believe the seriousness of the situation. He jokes asking if this material he has to keep is stolen goods. Then he asks for more precision concerning the mysterious they whom Ben seems to be afraid of: Who are they? (line 6). Later he becomes suspicious wondering if his friend is in his right mind and he observes him closely: A pale smile twitched his tense mouth (line 24). He ends up thinking his friend is paranoid and speaks to him the way one would comfort or humour a child (line 39). Finally he is resigned and even irritated: I sighed with resignation (line 43) and later I insisted not without some irritation (line 46). He doesnt realize the importance of the event and dismisses Bens worries as due to hypertension. b) glanced round again (line 5); as agitated as before (line 7); With another anxious glance over his shoulder (line 13); He jerked his shoulders (line 15); if one could call that harsh brief sound a laugh (line 17); A pale smile twitched his tense mouth (line 24); an unnatural glance in his grey eyes (line 24). c) Those mysterious they are probably the police or even the secret police that were all powerful in South Africa during apartheid. Ben says he doesnt want them to find the stuff on me (line 5). Apparently they have already taken some material of his: They have taken everything from me (line 25). They seem to know him and want him to disappear. They want to wipe out every sign of me (line 28). They seem powerful and omniscient to the point of knowing that he is at the end of his strength: But I cant go on for very much longer, and I think they know it too. (line 31). d) For the narrator paranoic means that his friend believes he is being persecuted. He is under the delusion that he is being watched or suspected in the atmosphere of suspicion that prevailed during apartheid. The expression as if is repeated four times to express the uncertainty he feels about his friend. Is the latter inventing a story or is he really being under threat? e) Ben is mysterious because he doesnt explain himself completely. He is incomprehensible for the narrator as he asks for his help but doesnt explain what his stuff is or the details of his subversive activities. f) The last sentence comes as a shock as the meeting was related from the narrators point of view. He was treating Bens worries as a sign of delusion but now the reality of the situation is there when Bens death is announced. We are no longer in the mind of a paranoid but in reality.

Vocabulary Find the following words or expressions


Quest-ce quil y a? de la marchandise vole avana rapidement jeta un coup dil autour de lui garder des bouts il repartit de plus belle Il secoua les paules

Whats the matter? Stolen goods Hurried on Glanced around To store Some bits He set off again He jerked his shoulders

En toute hte ce son pre et bref je veux mettre tous ces trucs chez toi sa bouche se tordit dans un sourire ple et crisp une lueur inquitante dans les yeux gris Cest leur but Ils veulent effacer toute trace de mon existence Soupirai-je, rsign.

hurriedly This harsh brief sound I want to dump all my stuff on you A pale smile twitched his tense mouth An unnatural glance in his grey eyes Thats what they are aiming for They want to wipe out every sign of me I sighed with resignation

After the meeting (for candidates in L (LV1))


One evening, quite late, I was at home working on my computer, I was brushing up an interview I had done with the local candidate for the next elections. It was important stuff. The man was a good fellow and I trusted him when he said that South Africa would change and he believed it could be done without bloodshed. It was well past midnight when the doorbell rang. I wasnt all that worried by a late call, my informers came mostly at night. When I opened the front door I noticed that the moon was up but there was nobody there. In the envelope left on the mat, the small piece of paper read: Bens body dumped at the tip.
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The rubbish tip, in the eastern suburb, was the place they left the bodies. I had never been there. I hardly believed there was such a place. It took me a good half-hour to find the place. It was isolated and unmarked but the smell reached my car before I saw it. A small van was parked. As I climbed to the tip, I heard shuffled voices, two big black fellows came down carrying a body, when they saw me they scrambled to the van. I yelled to them but the doors slammed and the van left screeching. His was the only body. I recognised his form, he had the same clothes, the face was turned on the rubbish, I turned him back, I had this wild thought that he might still be alive. When I saw his mutilated face, I vomited. Then I took him in my arms and carried him. The rubbish tip was uneven and at times my feet would go into soft ground, which gave in under me, but I never fell.

Chapter 4

Enjoy your grammar

Exercice completed with possessive pronouns


a) Whats your name? John. Whats yours? b) These notes are Bens. Are you sure they are his? c) She says her job is terrible. Im lucky mine is interesting. d) Their climate is better than ours but our income is better than theirs. e) We dont have a car, can we borrow yours/his/hers?

b) Les phrases au style direct 1. Can you help me? he asked in an agitated voice. 2. It is rather urgent, he added. 3. Ill leave it to your discretion, he said. 4. What have you done, Ben? I enquired. 5. Nothing will happen, Ben. I insisted. c) Il a fallu changer les temps, les pronoms personnels, les adjectives possessifs. f) Exercise

Completing with the correct verbal form


She says she is worried. I told him I didnt understand. They declare they wont accept it. They said they were lost. She said she had been here before. She asked me what I was doing.

Translating into English


He told me that he had already written it. I promised him / her that I would help her / him. I thought you had already gone on holiday. I told him I didnt like secrets. g) 2. Exercise: indirect speech He told me that it was my responsibility. She yelled that they were hers. They stated that it was theirs. They complained that she had laughed at them. I said to Ben that he looked tired.
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h) 1. Completed in indirect speech: I suggested that he come* to my office the following day. I cant explain right now. He said that he couldnt explain right then. He asked me to meet him at Bakkers bookshop. I wanted to know what the matter was. He requested me just to keep the stuff like he had told me about.
* quivalent du subjonctif franais. Le verbe reste la forme infinitive.

Translated into English


He told me that the following day he had read the news of his death in the papers. He had asked him not to mention it to anyone. They had asked his wife where he hid / was hiding his documents. They announced that they were going to search the house. He revealed that he had sent his documents three days before.

Chapter 5

Translation
The best alternatives
Son attitude avait quelque chose de paranoaque. (pratique de linversion) Bien entendu, je te garderai tes papiers, ai-je dit. (remarquez linversion en franais: ai-je dit) Encore une de ces histoires larmoyantes dont javais lhabitude. (pratique de la transposition) Tout ce quil te faut cest des vacances. (veillez respecter le ton du passage)

Translation
Son attitude avait quelque chose de paranoaque, ctait comme sil avait perdu prise sur le monde, comme sil ntait pas vraiment dans cette rue, dans cette ville, cet instant prcis, comme sil navait pas du tout conscience de ma prsence. Comme si, en fait, il tait lui-mme un tranger dont la ressemblance lointaine et superficielle avec le Ben Du Toit que javais connu tait pure concidence. Bien entendu, je te garderai tes papiers, ai-je dit, avec le ton de quelquun qui rassure ou apaise un enfant. Pourquoi ne pas les dposer ce soir chez moi, on en profitera pour prendre un verre de vin et bavarder tranquillement. Il sembla encore plus agit quauparavant. - Non, non, je ne peux pas faire a. Je vais massurer quils parviennent chez toi. Je ne veux pas te causer dennuis. - Bon, daccord. Je poussai un soupir rsign. Encore une de ces histoires larmoyantes dont javais lhabitude. Jy jetterai un coup dil et te ferai savoir ce que jen pense. - Je ne veux pas que tu men parles. Garde seulement ces papiers comme je te lai demand. - Rien narrivera, Ben, insistai-je, non sans irritation. Ce nest que de lhypertension. Tout ce dont tu as besoin, cest des vacances. Deux semaines plus tard, il tait mort.

Chapter 6
An example

Written expression
I had a very good friend then, a girl named Hafida. Her parents were from Morocco. She was more extroverted than I was and when I was with her I felt bolder. She used to come to my place to do her homework or watch TV.

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She had been absent from school for two whole weeks and I missed her. Finally I decided to go to her place right after school. As I got down the bus I suddenly realized that I was in a different country. My friend lived in one of the worse suburbs of the town. I had heard of such places but I never thought she could actually live there. The buildings were high, blank, identical. There were no trees at all, not one. I was amazed by the bleakness, tramped grass everywhere, no trees. The graffitis at eye level casted a cheerful note. I met a few boys from school, they stopped talking and looked at me as if surprised. I suddenly realized that I was an ignorant fool who didnt even know her own schoolfellows. Moshine was there, he didnt say much but took me to Hafidas place. I was dismayed by the stairs, the graffitis, a broken window patched up with a plastic flowery paper, and strong cooking smells which came out of the flats were spicy and foreign. At some floors I heard loud beat music. Hafida opened the door, pale and slimmer and so happy to see me. I met the whole family and I had to phone home as they insisted in keeping me that evening as the mother had by chance done a special couscous. I got used to the foreign spicy smells, the too sweet little cakes and the tea which tasted like syrup. I felt drunk by it all. I marvelled at the way they could eat so much in one go. The grandfather got so welcoming that we started to go through the family album but I had to leave with a promise to return for a proper meal soon. I kept wondering what a proper meal would be.

Chapter 8 Task Task

Text 2 A Portrait of Chinua Achebe


a) The text is informative. Understanding the text

General comprehension
1. Who is Chinua Achebe? 2. A defender of Africas past 3. A short biography 4. A quote from Things Fall Apart 5. A review of Things Fall Apart 6. A summary of Things Fall Apart 7. The language of Chinua Achebe 8. Chinua Achebes main works and themes

Detailed comprehension
a) Chinua Achebe writes in English because it is a world-wide language in which he can express his experience of Africa. b) 1.Name: born Albert Achebe, he chose to be called Chinua Achebe. 2. Place of birth: Ogidi, Nigeria. 3. Date of birth: 1930. 4. Parents religion: Protestant. 5. Own values: he is proud of his Ibo tradition while accepting to write in English, the language of Africa colonial past, he now fights todays corruption in Africa. 6. Languages: Ibo and English. c) He changed his name because he wanted to accept his Ibo origin. d) The white man defines their gods as things of wood and stone, he has no idea of their power. e) The African gods mentioned are Ani, Amadiora, Idemili, Ogwugwu.

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f) The men of Mbanta laugh at the expense of the white man because they know from experience the power of their own gods. g) We learn about life in a traditional African community and how the changes brought by colonialism were all powerful. h) In 1890, missionaries and colonial government made their intrusion into Ibo society. i) Onkongwo is different from his fellowmen because he realises that missionaries and colonial government will change his society. He will be destroyed because he is unable to accept these changes while the other Africans seem to have done so. j) Achebe writes in African English. His African characters use an elevated diction which reproduces the melody of the Ibo language in English. k) He is not happy with present day Nigeria denouncing the corruption and power struggles.

Vocabulary
les coutumes occidentales baptis indigne ne peuvent pas vous faire du mal un rire railleur sans malice la caractristique la plus frappante

Western customs christened indigenous cannot do you any harm a derisive laughter harmless the most striking feature

pour affirmer son enclos est grand son refus de changer pour communiquer leffet de la langue ibo qui met en scne les luttes de pouvoir la dception

to assert his compound is large his unwillingness to change to convey the sense of Ibo speech featuring power struggles disappointment

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odel answers
Sequence 8
Chapter 1 Task Civilisation and culture
Ambivalence
We had started the first sequence with the 17th century in the new world and the settling of the Puritan pilgrims in America. They were inspired with a mission: to create a model community for the rest of the world to envy and copy. Throughout their history Americans have stayed fast to this sense of mission. At times they withdrew from intervention and concentrated on developing their territory and own wealth as in the drive to the West in the mid 18th century. This isolationism gave way to interventionism in the two world wars of the 20th century. This phase is not over, American presidents are still set to give democracy to the rest of the world and this is the reason or the excuse for the interventions in Vietnam and the Arabic Gulf. Whatever opinion we personally have of American military interventionism today we witness and all share in the factual dominance of the USA in the fields of trade, technology and popular culture. And the youth of the world all over is learning English, wears jeans and watches American films even those who wear protest placards to protest against American military interventions, or non-interventions for that matter.

Brands
Apple Macintosh Coca-Cola Levis McDonalds Nike Shell United Airlines Burger King Kentucky Fried Chicken Kodak

Think different. Its the real thing. Have you ever had a bad time in Levis? You deserve a break today. If it feels good then just do it. You can be sure of Shell. Fly the friendly skies. Have it your way. Finger lickin good Americas storyteller

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On Hollywood
The ten blockbusters Titanic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Genre Disaster, Romance Filmmakers/ authors nationality James Cameron: American Based on the work of Tolkien, an English writer, directed by Peter Jackson a New Zealander. Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling, an English writer Based on the work of Tolkien, an English writer, directed by Peter Jackson a New Zealander. George Lucas: American The ten best films as listed by critics Citizen Kane La Rgle du Jeu Genre Biography Social Comment Filmmakers/ authors nationality Orson Welles: American Jean Renoir: French

Science-fiction

Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Fantasy

Vertigo

Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock: British

Fantasy

The Godfather

Gangster movie

Francis Ford Coppola: American

Star Wars I Jurassic Park Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Science-fiction Science-fiction Fantasy

Tokyo Story 2001: A Space Odyssey Battleship Potemkin

Romance

Yasujiro Ozu: Japanese Stanley Kubrick: American Eisenstein: Russian

Steven Spielberg
Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling, an English writer Based on the work of Tolkien, an English writer, directed by Peter Jackson a New Zealander. American American

Science-fiction History

Fantasy

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Fantasy

Federico Fellini: Italian

Finding Nemo Spider-Man

Animated cartoon Fantasy

Pather Panchali The Seven Samurai

Social Comment War

Satyajit Ray: Indian Akira Kurosawa: Japanese

One possible conclusion: although the USA produce many films, those may be based on works of fiction created by British writers or writers of the English-speaking world. It is to be noted that Japanese, Indian, Italian, French filmmakers figure among the best, together with American names.

Chapter 2 Task

Text The Good Samaritans


Anticipation
The text is an extract from a magazine article, it deals with the rich and famous and with humanitarian issues.

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Task

Comprhension du texte
a) Completing the grid. Answer in complete sentences
What type of text? This is an extract from a magazine article. It is taken from Time magazine. Date of publication? The article was written in the Time issue of December 2005/ January 2006. Name of the author? It was written by Nancy Gibbs. What is it about? Its about Bill and Melinda Gates, as well as Bonos involvement in humanitarian aid.

b) Bill Gates is a computer expert. He co-founded Microsoft. He is considered the great predator of the internet age (line 4), he has worked on Microsoft for years (line 10). c) Bono is a rock singer (line 23: an Irish rock star). d) The title: The Good Samaritans refers to an episode in the Bible. Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan who once helped a wounded man, although he was a stranger to him. A good Samaritan is thus someone who practises charity. The Gates and Bono are such persons. e) The article contains 5 paragraphs. The titles are in the following order: 1. Unlikely rescuers 5. Gates new challenge is charity 3. The same standards can apply to the software and charitable markets. 4. Bono asks help on all sides 2. Charity is a passion

The first paragraph of the article


a) The first paragraph informs us that the Gates and Bono behave as normal billionaires or celebrities do and indulge themselves. The examples of this are given by Bono drinking Pinot Noir costing several thousand dollars at a restaurant and Bill Gates having a $100 million house. Yet, they have also chosen the non-prestigious task of people who work for charity and want to save the world. b) The behaviours of Bono and Bill Gates appear contradictory. They spend a fortune on themselves yet they also spend a fortune on helping the poor. We could wonder why they dont give all their money away but they dont behave as saints or martyrs. c) Bono and Bill Gates influence us because they behave in a way untrue to the image we have of celebrities. They could live in a protected world, in the limelight, but have chosen to give back their wealth. Instead of glamour they are concerned with the poorest among us. If the richest man in the world and one of the worlds most famous rock star can do that, why not us? d) Vocabulary
venir au secours brilliant superficiel individus nichs richesse composer eux-mmes un numro de tlphone

to come to the rescue shiny shallow creatures nestled wealth to place their own calls

voyager en classe normale ces types sassocier avec autrement soccuper de causes rclamer rester sans rien faire

fly commercial these guys to partner with otherwise care about causes require staying on the sidelines

The second paragraph


e) In the eyes of Bill Gates poverty is stupid and unprofitable. The poor die because they have no money to buy medicine. But all human lives are valuable. f) Bill Gates uses the expression a system failure as it is an expression which applies to the computer world. In this context he wants to eradicate world poverty and diseases by applying to them the same logical and efficient methods he uses when solving a system failure on a computer. He is a strategic thinker.
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g) Bill Gates has decided to act now because he has the resources that could make a big impact (line 13). Therefore, he wants to act now and not wait until he retires while people are dying now. h) Vocabulary
par manque de une pilule se dtacher de avoir lintention de changer dintrt

for want of a pill to draw away from to intend to to shift his focus

une panne du systme de valeur Je vais moccuper de a Restez l sans rien faire

a system failure valuable Ill get around to that Stand by

Paragraph 3
i) Bill Gates has revolutionized the charitable market by treating it as he treated the software business. He demands the best from everyone. He wants to know where all his money goes. He demands efficiency. He has rigor. He studies the problems and approaches them as he does a computer problem. For example he can fix malaria in 10 years. j) It is an advantage for Bono to be working with Bill Gates because the rock star is now taken seriously. He no longer runs the risk of being considered as a star indulging in charitable action. k) Vocabulary
ressentir lappel des btiments en marbre la sant plaisanter (familier) faonner une bourse, une allocation avoir tant dimportance

feel the call marble buildings health to kid to shape a grant mean so much to

lefficacit le risque de ne pas tre pris au srieux coupable harceler se concentrer sur rgler (familier) tableaux (sur ordinateur)

efficiency the risk of not being taken seriously guilty to pester to focus on to fix spreadsheets

Paragraph 4
l) Bono manages to convince people to give money by making them feel involved in his charitable aid. He invites everyone into the game. m) The fact that he is willing to work with all spectrum of society makes him open to criticism. n) Vocabulary
comprendre, saisir hurler auditoire impuissant

to grasp to yell audience helpless

faire comprendre vrai, sincre pour leffet tre prt

to make them think genuine for show to be willing to

Paragraph 5
o) Pity is compassion and tries to make people suffer less, passion is a revolt against poverty. Passion warns us that we must give the poor the possibility of working: the poor are fully capable of helping themselves if given the chance. (line 38). p) Vocabulary
la souffrance soulager la douleur les puissants

suffering to ease the pain the powerful

prvenir, avertir les pauvres du monde se mettre en colre (familier)

to warn the worlds poor to get mad

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Chapter 4 Task

Enjoy your grammar


Rdaction corrige
Today, we are all aware of what is happening everywhere on the planet. Wherever they take place wars and natural disasters are every night on our TV screens. Then they disappear from the news and from our minds and only some of us have the courage to go and fight famine in Ethiopia for example or in some other foreign country whose name we have forgotten. I admire these selfless people who dedicate most of their lives, and moreover risk their lives, to save others all over the world. I feel proud of being French when I hear that Doctors Without Borders is a French organisation. However I do know that there are many international aid organisations like the Red Cross for example. I intend to become a computer programmer, I would like to work abroad for a while, may be in Africa or in another developing country. At present I cant do much for the poor in the Third World countries but at least I give money to Telethon or whenever there is an appeal for a natural disaster such as the tsunami in India. My mother regularly gives our old clothes to the Red Cross for the destitute. Maybe the most important thing I can do is to stay aware to the problem of the poor in my city and on my planet and find it intolerable.

Les treize rgles enfreintes


1. what is happening : le prsent en BE + ING dcrit une action en cours de droulement (ce qui est en train de se passer en ce moment sur la plante.) 2. wars and natural disasters: aucun article napparat lorsquon le nom est un dnombrable pluriel. 3. every night: every est toujours suivi du singulier. 4. our minds: un collectif pluriel en anglais. 5. famine in Ethiopia: un concept gnral non prcis ; Ethiopia: les noms de pays sont sans article (sauf the USA, the UK, the Netherlands). 6. people who dedicate: le pronom relatif ayant pour antcdent une personne est who. 7. all over the world: dans le monde entier. 8. I feel proud of being French = proud + of + verbe + -ing. 9. I intend to become a computer programmer: to intend + to + base verbale. 10. a: article devant un nom de mtier. 11. the poor: un adjectif (poor) devenu un nom pluriel collectif ne porte pas ds. 12. my mother gives: une faute dinattention des plus communes, relisez-vous. 13. I can do: can exprime lide de possibilit.

Task

Larticle appropri
a) Bill Gates is a computer expert, Bono is an Irish rock singer. b) What an awful lot of money they have given to causes! c) What a beautiful song! d) He can play the piano. e) Summer is my favourite season. f) Time is money. g) The Net brings together people from all over the world.

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h) Man may conquer space but the poor are still among us. i) Are girls better achievers at school than boys? j) Mankind still needs to solve many ills.

Le prsent simple ou continu


a) Every morning he does his training then he goes to work at eight. b) In winter she goes skiing in the Alps and tries to release her stress. c) The Earth turns around the sun. d) Dont disturb her, she is listening to her favourite piece of music. e) They arent watching TV yet, they have to do their homework first. f) Why are you putting so much emphasis on this issue? g) Does the train leave at 7 or at 8? h) Look, its snowing! Isnt it beautiful? i) Do you like Paris? j) He knows I am right.

Les temps appropris


a) I lived in New York for two years. Now, I am in Chicago. b) She had been sleeping for three hours when the fire started. c) He knew their names because they had been arrested before. d) They seemed very tired. They had been working all day long. e) Soon after their arrival they got married. f) He doesnt have his car today, it is being repaired. g) She has been looking after the children all day, she deserves a break. h) Ive just been spending a whole week in London, it was great. i) Have you ever seen such a mess? Tidy your room, will you. j) I have been learning English since I started elementary school.

Modal ou forme quivalente


a) They are arguing so loudly, I cant hear the TV. b) When she was younger she could swim for hours. c) Im sorry but you musnt cant stand in the corridor, its not allowed. d) May can I borrow your pen, please? e) You dont have to pay for me, I have enough money. f) He must have been very anxious for you, thats why he phoned the police. g) You might should have rung me before coming to visit me. h) You should must stop smoking immediately. i) He wont be able to do that work on his own. j) You shouldnt have done that, it was silly.

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Liaisons de deux verbes : to + infinitif/ linfinitif sans to/ le grondif


a) The policeman asked me to see my identity card. b) We have decided to move to the States. c) He made me do the dishes before going out. d) I am used to listening to the radio first thing in the morning. e) She closed the door without saying a word to them. f) You need to believe in yourself to succeed. g) I remember seeing her with him everyday. h) Remember to contact me every week. i) I dont agree with you coming home so late. j) They expect me to obey their orders.

Chapter 5

Translation
The best alternatives
These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue On ne sattend pas ce que ces gens viennent la rescousse. Une transposition ; you se traduit par on. Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures On considre les Rock stars comme des cratures brillantes, superficielles. La forme passive se traduit souvent par on. if these guys can make it their mission to save the world, = si ces types ont dcid de se donner pour mission de sauver le monde. On peut toffer lexpression anglaise.

Translation
On ne sattend pas ce que ces gens viennent la rescousse. On considre les Rock stars comme des cratures brillantes, superficielles, coupes jamais de la ralit. Les milliardaires sont mme encore plus dtachs du monde, nichs au sommet de richesses fantastiques, do ils nont jamais besoin de passer leurs propres coups de fil ou de dcongeler leur dner ou encore de prendre lavion en classe touriste. Ainsi, Bono dpense plusieurs milliers de dollars au restaurant pour un Pinot Noir, et Bill Gates, le grand prdateur de lre de lInternet, possde une salle de trampoline dans sa demeure de 100 millions de dollars. Cela vous amne penser que si ces types ont dcid de se donner pour mission de sauver le monde, de sassocier des gens quils nauraient normalement pas frquents, de soccuper de causes qui ne sont ni sexy ni valorisantes pour une clbrit, alors personne na plus vraiment de bonne excuse pour rester sans rien faire

Chapter 6

Written expression
Judging by the article The New Samaritans we can see that when celebrities like Bill and Melinda Gates or Bono get involved in humanitarian issues, the result can be quite spectacular. Yet we wonder why we have come to this point, is it the role of famous individuals to solve the ills of our times or should we rely on governmental institutions or other official means to do this? The governments of the Western World have attempted solutions like erasing the debt of the Third World for example. Direct financial help is also present either from governments or from aid organisations

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like Save the Children Fund or Action contre la faim. There are many instances of celebrities who contribute to help these organisations. For example, in France, artists flock to Telethon each year to support whatever cause. We have a tendency to copy the rich and famous when we can. We copy their fashion, we envy their life style. Celebrities set trends and we like to feel we are in. They are role models somehow. Whenever they support a cause this has a strong impact on us as we are quite prepared and able to contribute to aid organisations as well. So it is evident that celebrities should be involved in humanitarian issues. In The New Samaritans, the author mentions the accusations which could be levelled off against stars like Bono. Some celebrities may not be genuine and get involved in humanitarian issues simply to improve their image. In fact by giving money or support they receive back more glory (and consequently more money). It would be hard to name anyone who does this even if these people exist. I personally dont mind what is in their heart provided that by their support they raise more money for the causes they have chosen. In conclusion, whether celebrities are sincere or not, their involvement in humanitarian issues is useful. Today, with the involvement of Bill and Melinda Gates, we see a revolution in charity. However isnt it shameful that the governments of the wealthier countries havent eradicated world poverty before the Gates came on the scene?

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