oral training unknown doc 4th or 9th june

We will work on 'new technologies', 'immigration' and 'violence'.
Do the exercises and learn the vocab!

'new technologies'

A/Sort out the words in the grid

Advantages	Drawbacks

a)to fulfil a dream

b)not to distinguish between reality and illusion

c)to pretend to do sthg

d)to be cautious: être prudent

e)to break down barriers : casser des barrières

f)to get to know : apprendre à connaître

g)to reveal yourself

h) to be shy (timide)=/= outgoing

i) to be a good opportunity to do sthg (occasion)

j)for real: pour de vrai

k) a bad way of life: mode de vie (way:façon)

l)to lie: mentir

m)exciting=/= n)dull

o) a world of your own : un monde à soi

p)thanks to: grâce à

q) to enable X to do sthg: permettre à X de faire qqchse

r) to be addicted to sthg

s) to be cut off from society

t) to move with your time

'violence'

A/match the English to the definitions:

To be trigger happy / to be trivial / to take sthg for granted / to feel safe to bully

1) to be crazy about guns and to be ready to shoot anytime.

2) to think that sthg is normal

3)to feel powerful, in security

4)to be common

5)to behave in an aggressive way towards someone who is weaker.

B/match these phrases to their equivalent (look for similarities with French):

1)panic-stricken

2)aghast

3)to slay X

4)to threaten X with sthg.

5)slaughter=bloodbath

6)to hold up

7)to claim one’s rights

8)to take X hostage

9)to do a coup

a)to shoot at X

b)to keep X as prisoner

c)massacre

d)horrified=terrified

e)who feels panic

f)to tell X that you will do sthg if they don’t obey you

g)to rob

h) to declare that you can do sthg, that you are allowed to do sthg

i)to overthrow a government.

'immigration'

A/Match the English to the French

1) to go through hardships

2) a grim future

3) to be in store for X

4) to earn a decent living = to make a decent living

5)housing conditions

6) to make ends meet

7) to cross the border

8) to find a way out of poverty

9) to look for better prospects=better opportunities

10)to be lured by sthg

a)subvenir à ses besoins

b)subir des épreuves

c)joindre les deux bouts

d)un triste avenir

e)attendre X

f)conditions de logement

g)rechercher un meilleur avenir

h)traverser la frontière

i)échapper à la pauvreté.

j)être leurré par qqchse

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.