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Meeting Point Tle – U2 – MEMORIES OF THE SIXTIES (Manuel, p. 33)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPREHENSION DE L’ORAL
2. It is an interview.
3. Four voices can be heard: the journalist (M) Pete and Mike (M), Cathy (F).
4. “Memories of the 60s”. The main topic is the Sixties and what they represent for some people,
what the main characteristics of this decade were.
5. 60s - Twiggy - David Bailey - 1968 - Doctor Who - 1965 - 1951 - The Mirror - England ’66 Britain - The Beatles - The Rolling Stones
6. Sixties - television - amazing - car
7.
Changes and new ways of
thinking
• “the way the world was run”
• “new approach to society’s
way of doing things”
Public figures
• Twiggy
• David Bailey
• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
Music
pop music
Fields (domaines)
Technological inventions
style, culture, popular
music, sexual freedom,
film, television and
politics
• colour television
• transistor radio
Iconic objects or places
• Concorde
• the Post Office Tower
• the Mini
• the hovercraft
Events
England ’66 (the first time England
won the World Cup)
Dominant feelings
• good feeling that life was improving for all of us
• optimistic
• enthusiastic
Action!
1. The Sixties are depicted as a new era, a golden age when radical changes happened in Great
Britain. A radical cultural revolution took place and the access to technological breakthroughs
such as television or cars enabled people to improve their quality of life as they were better off.
This decade also witnessed new social and political trends and the triumph of pop music with
the emergence of what would become world-famous bands. Today, people still recall with a
nostalgic pleasure how optimistic this decade was when considering all the changes that
happened.
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2. It illustrates the notion of progress in so far as it shows what technological breakthroughs were
achieved in the Sixties. It was the era when people finally had access to colour television,
transistor radios… It praises the advances of the 60s as well as the cultural changes that took
place and which can also be considered progress. Indeed, people discovered new music styles,
and many iconic objects – such as the Mini car – refer to this decade. Moreover, not only can
progress be associated with technology and culture but also with lifestyle: people had the feeling
that life was improving for them. They were better off and could afford new items. This
optimism and confidence gave wings to Great Britain during the whole decade in areas as
diverse as sports, politics and music…
Meeting Point Tle – U2 – THE POWER OF MUSIC,
Sounds of the Sixties (Manuel, p. 35)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1. sergeant – psychedelic – blared – utopian – luxury
2. We can hear two voices. This recording is an interview.
3. happy memories – music – 60s
4. The Archies – The Beatles – 1967 – Top of the Pops – 50s and 60s – good songs – beautiful
albums – successful – rock album – revolution – a magical age
5. nostalgic
6. a) The Archies → “Sugar, Sugar”
The Beatles → “Strawberry Fields Forever” + “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
b)
Band
- The Archies
- The Beatles
- The Beatles
Name of song /
album
- “Sugar, Sugar”
- “Strawberry Fields
Forever”
- “Sergeant Pepper’s
Lonely Heart Club
Band”
Information about it
- one of the most
commercially successful
albums of the 60s
- represented what was
going on in the 60s
Interviewee’s
opinion?
- good song
- Everybody
remembers the tune.
- beautiful album
- finest rock album of
the decade
7. 1967
LSD, “psychedelic thing”
8.
Object used
- transistor radio
- television
Type / name of programmes / stations
- offshore pirate radio stations
- Top of the Pops
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10. a) “Oh yes, TV was a real revolution in the 50s and 60s. It went from being a luxury for the
few to entertainment for the many, and a regular source of conversation.”
b) Television changed people’s life radically. At first it was restricted to the few people who
could afford it, but it turned into a broader entertainment as it became more affordable a few
years later.
11. “happiest memories in terms of music” + “so many good songs” + “beautiful albums” + “a
magical age” + “an age when the world or the western part of it reached an almost ‘Utopian’
state”
Action!
1. 1960s music represented the birth of some of the biggest bands of all time, bands that are still
remembered and famous today, such as The Beatles. It was a new kind of music – pop and rock
music – which was more rebellious than what had been broadcast before.
2. People used to listen to music on their transistor radios, most of the time from unlicensed
offshore stations, but the arrival of television as an affordable means of entertainment also
played a major role in the way people listened to music. Indeed, at the time, there were no mp3
players or hi-tech digital devices.
3. The music in the 60s was a mirror of the counterculture since it fostered a rebellious attitude
in its listeners. Its style stood out against a conformist society, and the influence of drugs such
as LSD had a radical impact on the tunes of the time. The content of this kind of music was
often considered a challenge to authority.
4. This recording perfectly illustrates the notion of progress. First, it shows how television
radically changed people’s everyday life and above all their way of having access to music. It
brought a broader access to entertainment and enabled people to discover the counterculture that
was coming from the United States. The music of the 60s also echoed people’s craving for a less
conformist society, which was reflected in the open use of drugs.
Meeting Point Tle – U2 – YEARS OF FASHION
What would your style be? (Manuel, p. 37)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1.1 était une pionnière dans
3 classique, conventionnel
2 objet / article, ici vêtement
4 à hauteur du genou
2. This document seems to be a radio report or an interview.
Only one male voice can be heard.
Names: Mary Quant, Twiggy, Elvis
Figure: 1960s
Country: “British” (Great Britain)
Words close to the French: influence, geometric, monochrome, accessory, sandals
3. fashion, famous, popular
4. This recording must be about the Sixties and the part fashion played during that decade. It may
present the different styles that prevailed at the time.
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5. a) The Mods
Name of the style
the Mods
b) The Rockers
Name of the style
the Rockers
c) Hippie
Name of the style
Hippie
Type of clothes
- mini-skirt
- bright prints, geometric
patterns or monochrome
- bold, colored tights
- knee-high boots
- high-heeled pumps
Adjectives
- popular
- bold
- coloured
- fashionable
Iconic figure
Twiggy
Type of clothes
- leather jacket
- black jeans
- heavy biker boot
- studs and chains
Adjectives
- scruffy
- rebellious
Iconic figure
Elvis
Type of clothes
- casual and loose clothing
- peasant blouses
- long skirts with tie-dye, flowers,
zany prints
- bell-bottom jeans
- barefoot or sandals
Adjectives
carefree
Iconic figure
Action!
1. This recording is about fashion styles and the trends that existed during the Sixties. It seemed
to be important for people and especially teenagers to be fashionable / trendy / in and to adopt a
distinctive look. Each group had specific clothing characteristics that were radically different
from one style to the other. Moreover, people used accessories to characterize themselves and
their look even more. Most of these groups sought to identify with the ideas of the time, and
predominantly with anticonformism, a rejection of conservative looks and a protest against
political decisions of that decade.
2. • I prefer the Hippie look because it was associated with a social and political protest. The
Hippies had strong views against the war and they advocated nature and simple outfits as an
objection to conflicts abroad and namely in Vietnam. They were pacifists and their style is
world-famous, moreover many celebrities adopted this look, such as The Beatles in Great
Britain, but also Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, etc. in the USA. Their look was not a matter of fashion
only; it conveyed a much deeper message.
• I don’t quite share your point of view. To my mind, the Mods were the emblematic style of the
60s because they were in, and the mini-skirt was a revolution in the fashion world! It represented
women’s assertion of themselves, and a rupture with too conservative a style.
• As for me, I think the Rockers’ style is my favourite. Indeed, it is manlier and it best shows
how much teenagers wanted to rebel against conventional looks.
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Meeting Point Tle – U3 – A CHANGING IMAGE (Manuel, p. 49)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1.
1. General: Total supply of personnel available or engaged for a specific job or task.
2. Economics: Total labor force of a nation, including both men and women.
www.businessdictionary.com
1. power available from or supplied by the physical effort of human beings
2. usually man power: the total supply of persons available and fitted for service
www.merriam-webster.com
2. pivotal (crucial, essentiel) • shortage (pénurie) • plants (plantes ou usines) • uniform (uniforme) •
women (femmes) • often (souvent)
3. What type of document is it? An interview
How many voices can you hear? Two
Are they male or female? One is male and the other is female.
Can you pick out names? Professor Higgs • Mark (the journalist)
Figures? None
What countries are mentioned? None but we can hear the name of place where Pr Higgs works, it’s the
University of Chicago, so we know it takes place in the US.
What words are stressed? What words can you recognize? women • work • Professor • programme •
history • war • men • centuries • classes • survival • story • middle class • teachers • nurses • jobs • home •
factories • patriotic • government • propaganda • factory • strong • posters
Are there words close to the French? propaganda • uniforms • classes • Professor
4. women • work • job • war • factory
5. This interview is about the evolution of the place of women at work in the beginning of the century.
6.
Traditional places
Working
Middle class
class
always
– often work as
worked (a
teachers or nurses
matter of
– expected to quit
survival)
their jobs to stay at
Turning point
WWII was a
pivotal moment.
home once they were
married
Reasons
a shortage of
“manpower”
Types of jobs
Recruiting women
to work in
shipyards,
factories and
munitions plants
to help in the war
effort.
7.
Goals
– the patriotic thing to do
– to encourage this attitude
Means (moyens)
printed propaganda posters
showing women in factory
uniforms
Image of women given
– changed the way people viewed
women in the workplace
– portrayed women as beautiful, but
also as strong and capable
8. Action!
This interview presents the role of women during WWII. The nation was short of manpower because
men were enlisted / drafted into the army. They needed civilians to support the war effort. Women
had to replace men, take up manual jobs. Up until then, women had been denied a role in society
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outside their home. But then, they gave up everything to help their country at war. Their contribution to
the war effort was decisive. At that point, they were on an equal footing with them, which marked a
turning point in the place of working women and was a significant change.
9. a) Rosie the Riveter is a fictitious character representing all the women working in factory during
WWII. On a 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post, Norman Rockwell, a well-known American
illustrator, pictured her as a tall and muscular young woman eating a sandwich. Her lunch box reads
“Rosie”. She is wearing overalls and goggles, has her tool, a rivet gun on her lap. She has her foot on a
copy of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf which is quite evocative of what she thinks of him.
b) The phrase “We can do it!” is a slogan on wartime propaganda posters which encouraged women to
join in the wartime effort and work in factories. The best known poster in this series represents a young
woman with a red bandana showing her biceps to illustrate the slogan.
10. iconic (iconique, très symbolique) • struggles (luttes) • equality (égalité)
11. What type of document is it? An interview
How many voices can you hear? Two
Are they male or female? One is male and the other is female.
Can you pick out names? Rosie the Riveter • Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb • Norman Rockwell •
Saturday Evening Post • Mein Kampf • Westinghouse • Hillary Clinton • Professor Higgs
Figures? 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 18 • 12
What countries are mentioned? America • the US
What words are stressed? What words can you recognize? famous • iconic • name • face • painting •
woman • young • pretty • overalls • goggles • copy • feet • American • flag • poster • head • propaganda •
contrary • war • factory • powerful • strong • message • symbolize • political • equality • rights •
presidency • government • worked • employed • home • America • mothers • raise their children • work •
soldiers • need • changed the face • evolution • forced • working
Are there words close to the French? magazine • biceps • image • message • symbolize • political •
presidency • soldiers • munitions • evolution
12. working women • American • poster • war • Rosie the Riveter
13. This interview is about the evolution of the place of working women in the US. It focuses on the
propaganda posters made to inspire women into joining the wartime effort.
14.
Made by
Appeared
In
Redd Evans
and John
Jacob Loeb
(singers)
Norman
Rockwell
(painter /
illustrator)
Westinghouse
Date
Description
song
1942
– Rosie was a hit!
– was first given a name?
Painting /
cover
from the
Saturday
Evening
Post
poster
1943
a pretty young woman wearing
overalls and goggles with a
riveting tool in her lap, a copy of
Mein Kampf crushed under her
feet, and the American flag as a
backdrop
– famous
– woman with a red polka-dot
bandana on her head, flexing her
biceps and saying “WE CAN
DO IT!”
– powerful image (strong lines,
?
Symbol
women’s
fight for
equality
Used for
– US
propaganda
during the war
(government
campaign)
– women’s
rights struggles
– political
campaigns
(Hillary
Clinton’s bid
for the
presidency in
2008)
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bold colours and clear message)
15.
Before the war
How many?
12 million
When the war ended
How many? 18 million
– men: the soldiers returned home
and wanted their jobs back.
– women: the need for warplanes
and munitions ended, and many
women were forced to leave their
wartime jobs.
Impact on American society
– America had changed.
– Day care centers had sprung up so that
young mothers could both work and raise
their children.
– Number of working women never again
fell to pre-war levels.
– Women had changed the face of working
America for good.
16. Action!
This interview deals with the evolution of working women during WWII. Indeed, thanks to a
propaganda campaign which urged women to support the war effort by working in factories, the US
government pulled on / called upon women’s patriotism. Back then, the image of a fictitious woman
named Rosie was shaped by several artists. Along with the catchphrase “We can do it!”, she was
represented in many propaganda posters. This feminine yet brawny / muscular young woman perfectly
embodied the confident and strong-willed worker who could contribute to the war effort. She was given
a mission: to inspire young American women to leave their homes and come to work in munitions
factories. She remains to this day the personification of women’s fight for equality.
Meeting Point Tle – U5 –THE MAORIS AND MOKO (Manuel, p. 77)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1. - tattoo - mourn
2. - Names? Places? Maori - Mataora - Niwareka
- Adjectives expressing feelings? happy - jealous - enraged - guilty - heartbroken
3.
Situation at the
beginning
love affair
between Mataora
and Niwareka
Turning point
Consequence
Mataora beat his
wife.
Niwareka left her
husband, fled and
run back to her
father in the
underworld.
Family’s
reaction
They mocked
Mataora for his
dreadful
appearance.
What did
Mataora do?
He begged
Niwareka for
forgiveness.
Mataora’s
decision
He set out for her.
The journey
many trials and
numerous
obstacles
4.
State
- exhausted
- His face paint
was messed up
and dirty.
The others’
reaction
- Niwareka
accepted his
apology.
- Her father
Afterwards
- They returned
together to the
human world.
- Mataora brought
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offered to teach
him the art of
tattooing.
back the arts of ta
moko to his
people.
Action!
The legend deals with the appearance of the art of tattooing in New Zealand. Mataora and Niwareka were
happily in love, but one day, Mataora mistreated his wife, and she decided to leave him and go back to the
underworld where her father lived. Mataora felt pangs of remorse and was heartbroken, so he decided to
go find her and try to convince her to come back with him. Throughout his journey, he was faced with
numerous obstacles and plights, and when he eventually arrived in the underworld, his face paint was
messed up and dirty. Niwareka’s family laughed at him. Nevertheless, he tried to win the heart of his wife
and apologized to her, begging her for forgiveness. She accepted, and her father decided to teach him the
art of tattooing. When they returned together from the underworld, they taught this art to the Maoris who
have since then perpetuated it.
Meeting Point Tle – U7 – RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE CROWN (Manuel, p. 109)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1. - officially - issue - repercussion - attachment
2. - beside - behind - below - around
3. an interview
4. Three voices: a journalist (male), and two interviewees (female)
5. “Relationships with the Crown” /”What does the word monarchy mean to you?”
The main topic of the recording might be the British monarchy, if it still means something to
people who live in the Commonwealth.
6. - Names? Gina - Kate
- Countries mentioned? the United States - US - Canada - Canadians - Americans
7. Canadians - monarchy - Queen
8.
Who?
Name? Gina
Gender? female
Nationality?
Canadian
For or
against?
For
Clues given
It can be a plus.
Reasons given
Canadians tend to feel a little bit invisible,
or inferior to Americans.
9.
Who?
Name? Kate
Gender? female
For or
against?
against
Clues given
It’s really a nonissue for most
Reasons given
- We don’t even really see ourselves as a
monarchy.
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Nationality?
Canadian
Canadians whether
we are a monarchy
or not.
- It’s a very symbolic thing to have the
Queen as Head of State.
Action!
Two women are being interviewed about how Canadians feel about monarchy. The first one,
Gina, approves of the role of monarchy and compares the USA to an elephant, beside which
Canada is sleeping. Canada suffers from invisibility and an inferiority complex / it feels
inferior to the USA. So, the fact that it is linked to the monarchy gives it a certain weight on the
international scene.
The second woman, Kate, objects to Gina’s argument. She thinks Canadians do not give that
much importance to the monarchy, they do not even care about the Head of State, in so far as
they think it is the Prime Minister, whereas in reality, it is the Queen. She argues that it is no use
making an issue of it since many Canadians do not even consider their political system to be a
monarchy.
Meeting Point Tle – U9 – GETTING A GUN IN COLORADO (Manuel, p. 132)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1. the West
2. culture - permit - adult - automatic - heritage - illegal
3. who can get a gun in Colorado + types of weapon available for buying + local laws about gun
ownership
4. the Constitution
5.
Minimum
Main condition
legal age
18
to have not committed a felony
What is allowed?
have a firearm
What is unnecessary?
a permit, to register your
firearm
6. a) handguns, shotguns, rifles, long guns
b) automatic weapons
7. the old West, the wild West
Action!
1. - Deputy Sheriff Saber reminds to the listeners / explains that in the USA, gun ownership is
part of the American culture, and is inherited from the Wild West. It is defined and protected
by the Constitution and also by State laws.
- In Colorado especially citizens are allowed to purchase / buy / get a gun / firearm provided
they are of age / 18 years old and unless they have a criminal record. Besides, you can open
carriage which means you can have your gun visible to all / unconcealed, in a holster, a handbag
or in your car’s front locker. You needn’t / don’t have to register for any type of weapon,
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handgun or rifle unless you want to have it concealed, whereas it is forbidden to get an
automatic weapon without breaking the law.
2. This right to bear arms is inherited from the very beginning of the American nation. It is
guaranteed by the Bill of Rights which describes the individual rights of each American citizen.
In the early days of the revolution, the minutemen, young well-armed volunteers, were in charge
of protecting the colonists. They depended on their weapons for survival.
Laws in Colorado are also greatly influenced by the Wild West era when people had no means of
protection but themselves. The conquest of the West meant surviving in a very unlawful world
where might was right.
Meeting Point Tle – U10 – THE WORLD IS FLAT (Manuel, p. 152-153)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ÉCRITE
TEXT A – NIGHTHAWKS (p. 152)
1. radiologist
2. the US, India, Australia
3. at night – weekends - 24/7 - daytime - nighttime
4. a) outsourcing reading of CAT scan
b) teleradiology → ship images from hospital to home - interpret images - provide a 24/7 diagnosis
5.
Who?
Medium-size hospitals
radiologists
Small hospitals
radiologists
What?
use teleradiology to ship images
shipping scan images
From ...
To ...?
When?
from their hospital to their homes
from the United States to Australia or
India
at night and maybe weekends
at night and maybe weekends
Cause / Reason?
Final goal?
What made this
possible?
interpret images and provide a 24/7
diagnosis
It is daytime abroad when it is nighttime
in the US.
After hours coverage is more readily
done.
CAT and MRI images are already in
digital format
6. Nighthawks are birds which are awake at night. The doctors in Australia or India are compared to these
animals because they work while everybody is asleep in the United States.
Action!
1. This new way of working that is used by American radiologists is based on outsourcing the reading of
CAT scans, that is to say that they ship their scans to doctors in India and Australia at night and weekends
when they’re off work. Thanks to this new situation, radiologists provide coverage even when they are
not available. That’s why they can save time by offering a quicker diagnosis. It is a way of cutting cost
too because it’s cheaper to pay doctors abroad (especially in emerging countries) than doctors doing
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night shifts / working night hours in the US. Therefore it is very competitive. This was made possible
because of new digital technologies radiologists resort to.
2. The narrator is stunned and rather sceptical about this new situation. And yet he thinks outsourcing
can change things, especially in small and medium-size hospitals where there is insufficient staffing. He
is convinced it can be advantageous because coverage becomes more readily possible. According to him
globalization can provide tight links between emerging and Western countries. He believes globalization
can help standardization develop too as doctors abroad must have trained to be able to do the job. They
must have had the same training as American doctors to be competitive. That’s why the narrator is
fascinated too.
Text B - WHY SHOULD I GO TO AMERICA? (p. 153)
1. - “explosion of modernity” (l. 1)
- the past (début de la phrase) + the present (fin de la phrase)
2. Places: America - India
City: Bangalore
3. many of them (l. 4) = educated Indians
them (l. 7) = educated Indians
it (l. 6) = working hard in Bangalore
they (l. 8) = educated Indians
4.
First name
Last name
Anney
Unnikrishnan
Gender
female
Studies
MBA,
got into
Purdue
University
Family
background
poor
(“couldn’t
afford it”)
Job
personnel
manager in
a 24/7 call
center
Social
status
now
high
standard
of living
Way of
life
continues
with her
Indian
food (rice
and
sambar)
5. A “24/7 call center” is a place that receives people’s phone calls 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
6. a) Microsoft Windows - Intel - Lucent - Carrier - Coke
b) They are all American brands.
7. 1990 - $2.5 billion
2003 - $5 billion
8.
Exports
Where from?
What?
America
- merchandise
- services
- American goods
Investments
America
- in India’s economy
Action!
1. Although Anney was a brilliant student (she got a MBA), she couldn’t afford to go on studying
abroad. Because outsourcing has developed over the past ten years, she can now benefit from it and
stay in her own country, keeping a traditional way of living together with a high standard of living: she
is now well-off.
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2. India is an emerging country, which has highly benefited from outsourcing. As there is a large
English-speaking labour force, the USA has outsourced some services like 24/7 call centers and kept
exporting goods ($5 billion in 2003) and investing in India’s economy. The two countries are dependent
on each other as India’s growing economy creates a demand for more American goods. Outsourcing
enables Indian people to improve their purchasing power and their standard of living since their
salaries / incomes have increased.
Meeting Point Tle – U11 – SPIRIT IN MOTION, Get Ready (Manuel, p. 166)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
1. handicapped - ability - challenge - awesome - injured - wheelchair - triathlon
2. 2, male
3. interview
4. The Paralympic Games
5.
Dan Lutson (nationality, job)
American coach here at the Colorado Springs
US Olympic and Paralympic Training Site
His team (sport, characteristic)
disabled swimmers
6. enthusiastic, admiring (“awesome, craving for success, strong-will”)
7. when they were invented
8.
Date
1948
1960
1976
Place
Rome
Sweden
Type of competition
People involved
people who had injured
their spines while
fighting in the Second
World War
huge Olympic-style event
first Paralympic Winter
Games
9. a) 2
b) How many different sports are listed in the Summer Paralympics?
Are your swimmers ready for London 2012?
10. a) parallel - shorten - same - year - country – Seoul - Korea
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b)
Origin of the name
The name comes from
“Parallel Olympics” and it
was shortened.
Reason
were taking place the
same year as the summer
Olympics
Date
1988
Place
Korea
11. The name comes from “Parallel Olympics” and became Paralympics. In fact, the parallel
Games have been taking place the same year as the Summer Olympics and in the same country
since the Seoul Games in 1988, in Korea.
12. - 19-20: number of Paralympic sports
- 2016: year when triathlon and canoe will make their debut
- 2012: year of the London Paralympic Games
- 4,000: number of athletes
- 150: countries will come to the Games
13. archery - cycling - horse-riding - football - swimming - judo - rowing - sailing- powerlifting wheelchair rugby- tennis
14. thrilled - enthusiastic - in awe - eager
“What a show!” - “disability can be overcome” - “Wow”- “enthusiastic meeting”
Action!
1. The idea of a special competition for disabled athletes started after WWII when many injured
soldiers came back home from the battle fields. Over the 60s and 70s both summer and winter
events became more successful. The first international competition took place in 1976.
The name Paralympics was coined from 4parallel’ and ‘Olympics because the competition for
disabled champions was held the same year. It dawned onto organizers having the competition in
the same country as well would make things easier. The Seoul Games of 1988 were opened to
both Games for the first time.
2. In the London 2012 Paralympics Games there will be 4,000 athletes from 150 countries
competing for medals in 19 or 20 sports. And new sports enter the Games regularly. Triathlon
and canoe will be enlisted in 2016.
3. Both the journalist and the coach sound enthusiastic. These men and women have the pluck
to fight against the odds of life. Their attempts are impressive and awe-inspiring to the millions
of spectators. The coach thinks his swimmers are ready. They are iron-willed and determined to
bring back medals home.
Meeting Point Tle – U13 –NEW ORLEANS JAZZMEN (Manuel, p. 195)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
A. Recording n°1: Louis Armstrong
1. ensemble playing - Mardi gras - King Zulu
2. entertainer - international - honored - cultural - interview - misbehaving
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3. a) I can hear music.
b) I think the recording will deal with Louis Armstrong’s life and career.
4. - Name: Louis Armstrong
- Nicknames: Satchmo - Pops
- Jobs: coronetist - trumpeter - vocalist
- Dates: 1901 - 1949 - 1971
- Periods: 1920s - 1960s
- City: New Orleans
- Name of a magazine: Time Magazine
- Name of a festival: Mardi gras
- Stressed words: superstar - jazz - creative - genius - recordings - style - ensemble - playing - become soloist - art form - fans - brought - unequalled - joy - performances - uniting - artist - entertainer - single musical - personality - won - international - audience - honored - musician - appear - cover - magazine cultural - icon - hit - recordings - decade - career
5. a) - Date of birth: 1901
- Date of death: 1971
b)
Nicknames?
Jobs?
- Satchmo
- Pops
- coronetist
- trumpeter
- vocalist
Achievements?
- first superstar of jazz
- creative genius
- took jazz to a soloist art form
- brought unequalled joy to his jazz
performances
- united artist and entertainer in a single
musical personality
- won an international audience for jazz
Awards? When?
- King Zulu
- 1949
6. Some of his hits: Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, West End Blues and Ain’t Misbehavin’ in the
1920s, to Hello Dolly and What a Wonderful World in the 1960s.
Action!
Louis Armstrong was nicknamed Satchmo (satchel mouth) because of his huge mouth, or Pops by his
fans. He was a very influential musician as he was very gifted / talented at playing musical
instruments (trumpet and coronet) and singing. Thanks to his personal style and his charismatic
presence, he managed to promote himself to a larger audience and had an international career. Louis
Armstrong was an American cultural icon with hit recordings. He was honored with many awards such
as King Zulu during the Mardi gras festival in New Orleans in 1949 and he was the first jazz musician to
appear on the front cover of Time Magazine.
B. Recording n°2: Sidney Bechet
Before listening
saxophone - clarinet - trumpet - conductor - soloist
1.
People
- conductor
- Maurice Chevalier
- Édith Piaf
Places
- London
- France
Dates
- 1919
- 1920s
- 1950s
Instruments and music
clarinet, soloist voice, soprano,
saxophonist
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2.
Dates
What is it?
Blue Five
1923
jazz band
The New Orleans Feet Warmers
1932
jazz band
Summertime
1939
song
3. Clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was the first jazz musician to gain recognition for
having a distinctive soloist’s voice. While in London in 1919 with the Southern Syncopated Orchestra, he
attracted the attention of the Swiss conductor Ernst Ansermet, who described him as an artist of genius
who follows his own way.
4. - passion - virtuosity - inventive spirit - jazz pioneer
Action!
Sidney Bechet was born in 1897 and died in 1959. He was a prominent American jazz musician,
famous both for his amazing voice and talent. He succeeded in becoming a jazz star first in Europe, then
in America. He spent his life experimenting and inventing.
As early as 1919, he was spotted as a genius. His worldwide hit Summertime boosted him to the top.
Before WWII he had met many big names and, with Louis Armstrong, embodies jazz music.
Meeting Point Tle – U14 –
INDUSTRIALISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY (Manuel, p. 207)
CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DE COMPRÉHENSION ORALE
Car mass production
1. influential - durable - affordable - basis
2. - Names? Nationalities? Model T - Henry Ford - American
- Periods? 20th century
- Stressed words? Model T - car - change - American way of life - influential - invention - practical durable - affordable - slashed - price - everybody - afford - working people - farmers - everyday person common man - half automobiles - worldwide - Model T Fords - rural people - cities - transportation cheap - dominant form - ticket - personal freedom - independence - common middle-class American transformed - automobile - luxury - necessity - basis - car culture
3. change - became - transformed
4. - practical - durable - affordable
5. working class - middle class
6.
Price
affordable
Advantages
- Everybody could afford it.
- It brought rural people into the cities.
- Automobile became the dominant form of
transportation in the US.
- It gave people a new sense of
The American way of life
- opened travel to the common
middle-class American
- transformed the automobile
itself from a luxury to a
necessity
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independence.
- created a car culture
The work ethic
1. code of morals - value - humble
2. - Religion? Country? Protestants - Puritans - the USA
- Periods? 17th century - 18th century
- Stressed words? work ethic - Protestant - code - morals - hard work - saving - discipline - individualism
- Puritans - material success - belonged - Happy Few - chosen - God - success - sign - divine election money-making - hard work - self-discipline - key values - development - capitalism - humble millionaire - belief - USA - nation - entrepreneurs - individual advancement - glorified - poverty unemployment - criminalised
- Words close to the French? morals - discipline - individualism - material success - election development - capitalism - humble - millionaire - entrepreneurs
3. Protestant work ethic
4. hard work - saving - discipline - individualism
5.
When?
Who?
Main condition
Result for the
to succeed?
individual?
17th and 18th
Puritans work hard
succeed - material
centuries
success -belonged to
the Happy Few
Impact on the
economic system?
contributed to the
development of
capitalism
The self-made man
1. climb - magnate - tycoon
2. - Names? Economic sectors?
Andrew Carnegie - steel
Vanderbilt - railroad
Rockefeller - oil
Abraham Lincoln - President of the USA
- Dates? Historical periods? 1860 - 19th century
- Stressed words? self-made man - typical American folk hero - climbed - social ladder - rags - riches hard work - American Dream - success stories - Andrew Carnegie - steel magnate - Vanderbilt - railroad
tycoon - Rockefeller - oil tycoon - Abraham Lincoln - log cabin - President - USA - king - dream - place top - qualities - embody - people - admire - hard work - inventiveness - strength - courage - will-power discipline - optimism - entrepreneurial spirit
- Words close to the French? examples - president - courage - discipline - optimism
3. climbed up the social ladder + moved from rags to riches
4.
Who?
- Andrew Carnegie
- Vanderbilt
- Rockefeller
- Abraham Lincoln
What sector?
- steel
- railroad
- oil
- politics (president of the USA)
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5. hard work - inventiveness - strength - courage - will-power - discipline - optimism and entrepreneurial
spirit
6. Self-made men have become icons because they are the embodiment of success. They climbed up the
rungs of the social ladder and moved from rags to riches. They worked their way to the top thanks to their
hard work, discipline, willpower and entrepreneurial spirit. They are admired for making big money, for
fulfilling the American Dream and perpetuating the idea of America as the land of opportunity, the land
of milk and honey, the land of plenty. They are the emblems of a success story.
© Hatier, 2012.
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