Fiche de révision : Anglais : handicap et société

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Préserver les œuvres et les graines
2. Les Beatles et les Rolling Stones
3. Peaky Blinders et la fiction
4. The X Factor et les performances
5. Handicap et réussite exceptionnelle
6. Exprimer les réactions et décrire un cartoon

📖 1. Préserver les œuvres et les graines

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Seed bank : A place created to duplicate seed samples from banks around the world; the seeds are stored in sealed envelopes and then placed in plastic containers with limited access to oxygen.

📝 Points essentiels

📌 Les artefacts et les œuvres d’art possèdent une valeur historique et une valeur artistique, et doivent être protégés pour ne pas être détruits ou endommagés.

💡 Astuce mémo

Préserver les artefacts et les graines → transmettre la mémoire et la diversité

📖 2. Les Beatles et les Rolling Stones

📝 Points essentiels

• The Beatles had four members:

  • John Lennon
  • Paul McCartney
  • Ringo Starr
  • George Harrison

• The Rolling Stones had five members:

  • Mick Jagger
  • Keith Richards
  • Brian Jones
  • Bill Wyman
  • Charlie Watts

📌 The Beatles are described as catchy, dynamic, uplifting, positive, optimistic, modern, dreamy, simple, repetitive and universal, whereas the Rolling Stones are described as energetic, rough, sensual, provocative and influenced by old-time blues.

💡 Astuce mémo

Beatles : énergie positive et universelle ; Rolling Stones : blues rugueux et provocation

📖 3. Peaky Blinders et la fiction

📝 Points essentiels

• Peaky Blinders is a fiction series about a gang working in Chicago and is presented as a successful series with effective use of scenes, colours, dialogue, music and costumes.

📖 4. The X Factor et les performances

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• X Factor : A music competition designed to find new singing talents, with a panel of four people and an audience.

★ À maîtriser

📌 Although a contestant’s performance may be bad, the audience can still enjoy it, sing along, clap and support the performer.

📌 In English, concession can be expressed with although, even if, even though, however, yet, despite or in spite of; for example, “Although the performance was bad, the audience sang along with him.”

Compléments

• The jury and the audience can be moved to tears, speechless, amazed, shocked, surprised or aghast by an exceptional performance.

💡 Astuce mémo

Audition → jury → public → réaction

📖 5. Handicap et réussite exceptionnelle

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Disability : A physical, psychological or mental condition that may disadvantage a person but does not necessarily prevent intelligence, talent or achievement.

★ À maîtriser

• Steven Hawking had a progressive nervous disease but became a leader in cosmological theory.

Compléments

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt had polio, used a wheelchair and launched the New Deal in the 1930s.

• Stevie Wonder became blind and learned to play the piano at the age of seven.

• Helen Keller was blind and deaf and learned to read, write and speak before becoming a political activist.

💡 Astuce mémo

Handicap physique ≠ absence de talent ou de réussite

📖 6. Exprimer les réactions et décrire un cartoon

★ À maîtriser

📌 To describe a cartoon in English, one can state its format, date, author, topic and visible elements; for example, “This document is a drawing in black and white. It was published in 1977 and was drawn by Woodman.”

• The cartoon shows a bear trying to smash a hunter who is leaving the “27th annual hunters’ breakfast”, illustrating the problem of bear hunting.

Compléments

• The cartoon uses indirect expressions such as:
  • physically disadvantaged
  • intelligence challenged
  • optically inconvenienced
  • orally challenged

📊 Tableaux de synthèse

Beatles et Rolling Stones