jeudi 8 avril 2010

oral training unknown doc 19th or 21st May

We will work on 'Globalisation/fast food' , 'the environment' and 'discrimination'.
Do the exercises and learn the vocab!
Globalisation/fast food'

A/Match the words to their definition

1)to be brainwashed

2)consumer society

3)companies

4)to be a target

5)to be gullible

6)to be cheap

7)to be convenient

8)canteen

9)to refrain from V ing

10) warning

11)to make X feel like Ving

12) to taste good

13)vending machines

14) a couch potato society

15) to make profits


a)a nation that spends a lot and buys a lot

b) to be led to do sthg, to be manipulated

c)firms

d)to be easily influenced

e)to be the person the ad wants to seduce, to be a prey

f)to be easy to do

g)dining-hall

h)to be inexpensive

i)donner envie à X de faire qqchse

j)to order to yourself not to do sthg

k) évitez de manger trop gras, trop sucré, bougez

l)=/= to be disgusting

m)machines where you can buy food

n) a nation of lazy people!

o)to make money


B/Sort out the words in the grid

World market

Junk food





1)free-trade

2)purchasing power

3)to go on a diet

4)low-fat

5)to go bankrupt

6)healthy

7)organic

8)outsourcing (ask factories in poor countries to do some work)

9)well-balanced

10) to compete with


The environment

A/Match the phrases to their equivalents


1)to recycle

2)to pollute

3) pollutant

4)wildlife extinction

5)conservationists

6)balance

7)greenhouse effect

8)renewable energies

9) nuclear waste

10) deforestation

11)tax

12)emissions trading


a)species extinction

b)environment friendly people

c)to endanger the earth

d)chemical

e)global warming

f)sun, wind, rivers...

g) déchets nucléaires

h)équilibre

i)cutting trees

j)money given to the government

k)buying the right to pollute to other countries

l)to re-use a product


B/Associate these words to the correct definition:


to dump

waste

pollutant

an activist

wildlife

species

global warming

balance

environment-friendly

to threaten sthg

to warn X

to recyle

to get involved

to prevent X from doING sthg



1)which is not polluting.

2) to endanger sthg, to put sthg into jeopardy, sthg is under a threat.

3) to throw sthg for example litter in a bin

4) litter, refuse, things in a bin.

5)to tell X that he or she will have problems if they do sthg.

6)a person who fights for a cause

7)a product that pollutes the environment

8)to become aware of a problem and to fight against it.

9)not to get rid of sthg but to transform it for another use

10)animals and plants

11)a particular groups of plants or animals

12)increase of the world’s temperature

13)=/=disorder

14)to stop X from doing sthg


'Discrimination'

A/match the English to the definitions


1) to be on an equal footing

2)to discriminate against X

3)to fight against sthg

4)the law

5) a slave

6) to assert one’s rights= to fight for one’s rights

7) To be discriminated against

8) To lynch X

a)a person who has to work for nothing

b)a text with legal regulations

c)to stand up to sthg

d)to have the same rights

e)to mistreat X

f) to be mistreated

g) to stand up for one’s rights

h). to molest s.o.






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