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6ème G. - COURS D’ANGLAIS 1 (4H) Ry-Vl-Cw-Wt©

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A l’attention des ELEVES de : Sophie ROYER- Laura VANHOVE - Bernadette WARNANT - Charlotte Wauters

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Dans les pages annexes, tu trouveras …

1. Une C.A. = A Cure for Boredom p.3

2. Un exercice lexical inspiré de cette C.A. p.3

3. Les solutions et la retranscription de la C.A. p.4

4. 10 des phrases de traduction p.5

5. Le correctif des traductions p.6

6. Une nouvelle ( = a short story ) à découvrir à p. 7 à 10


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1.C.A. The Cure for Boredom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-175C95uGE

Listen and write a number (1–6) to put the ideas in the order they are mentioned.

……Once you know how to meditate, you might still find that some activities are a. waste of time. ……People avoid boredom by watching things, reading and communicating on their devices. ……But if you always distract yourself, you will never learn how to do nothing. ……People experience boredom less nowadays than they did in the past. ……When you meditate, you pay attention to your breathing and feelings. ……Learning to meditate will cure you of boredom – you will never be bored again.

2.After listening : Match the definitions (a–j) with these words (1–10).

Words:

1. ...... a gadget

2. ...... boredom

3. ...... a capacity

4. ...... to encounter

5. ...... to meditate

6. ...... to distract yourself

7. ...... to pay attention

8. ...... contemplation

9. ...... an inoculation

10. ...... blissful

Definitions :

a. feeling unhappy because something is uninteresting or because you have nothing to do b. to experience something, especially something bad c. a device or machine, for example a phone or tablet d. to stop thinking about a problem by keeping busy e. someone’s ability to do a particular thing f. to become calm and relaxed by thinking about one thing g. to watch, listen to or think about something carefully or with interest h. extremely or completely happy i. serious and quiet thought for a period of time j. an injection that protects someone from a disease


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3. Solutions C.A.

Comprehension

1. People experience boredom less nowadays than they did in the past. 2. People avoid boredom by watching things, reading and communicating on

their devices. 3. But if you always distract yourself, you will never learn how to do nothing. 4. When you meditate, you pay attention to your breathing and feelings. 5. Learning to meditate will cure you of boredom – you will never be bored

again. 6. Once you know how to meditate, you might still find that some activities are a

waste of time.

Exercice lexical

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

Transcript

I’m going to talk today about the 1

problem of boredom. Now, it’s true, we 2

encounter boredom less and less, with 3

all of our gadgets and with the totality of 4

human knowledge and artistic output 5

always available to us. When you can 6

always hear your favourite song or 7

watch a great film or read a great book 8

or text a friend because you can do all 9

of these things with the device that you 10

have at your side 24 hours a day, you 11

might successfully avoid boredom for 12

the rest of your life. But you might also 13

never discover what’s on the other side 14

of boredom. And you might not 15

recognise the price you are paying for 16

being compelled to distract yourself, for 17

having lost or having simply never 18

acquired a capacity for doing nothing. A 19

productive capacity for doing. 20

Once you learn to meditate, you realise 21

that boredom is simply a failure to pay 22

attention. If something as simple and 23

repetitive as breathing can become a 24

source of blissful contemplation, and it 25

can, and if the feeling of boredom itself 26

can become an object of intense 27

interest, and it can, there’s no way to be 28

bored, if you’re paying close attention to 29

your experience. So training in 30

meditation is the true cure for boredom. 31

It’s a kind of permanent inoculation. 32

Once you learn how to meditate, you 33

will never be truly bored again. Now, 34

this isn’t to say that you won’t still make 35

choices in life. Certain activities might 36

still feel like a waste of time, and they 37

might be a waste of time, given all the 38

other things you could do. So you might 39

still walk out of a movie or stop reading 40

a book because it’s, quote, ‘boring’, but 41

when left alone with yourself, how do 42

you feel? Are you desperate to be 43

distracted by some stimulus? Or can 44

you find a deep feeling of well-being as 45

an intrinsic property of just being 46

conscious? The gulf between these two 47

conditions is enormous and in my 48

experience only meditation allows us to 49

reliably span it. 50


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4. 10 phrases de traduction à Compare tes réponses à celles du correctif de la page suivante à Prévois des questions à poser pour notre retour en classe.

1. Il y a des reportages qui montrent des images de vraies interventions qui peuvent être à la fois choquantes et perturbantes.

2. Dans une émission, on a montré une jeune fille de 16 ans qui s’était fait poser des implants mammaires défectueux par un charlatan. On a dû les lui retirer.

3. Je (ne) comprends les (pas) parents qui laissent leur fille subir une augmentation

mammaire. 4. Elle est passée sur le billard pour avoir réussi ses études, ce qui est

inconcevable/inacceptable à mon sens car même une petite intervention peut avoir des résultats dévastateurs.

5. Ce que beaucoup de gens ignorent, c’est que ce genre d’épilation au laser est

irréversible et que vous pouvez donc garder des cicatrices ou de graves lésions au niveau des organes.

6. Avoir de gros seins, la taille fine et un visage parfait, c’est tout ce dont les jeunes

femmes rêvent. Mais les garçons n’ont-ils pas des envies de perfection aussi? 7. La jeune fille, dont le nez avait une légère bosse, avait déjà subi une

abdominoplastie quelques mois auparavant. 8. On avait conseillé à cet homme, dont le menton a été refait grâce à des injections

de graisse, de ne pas opter pour une rhinoplastie. 9. Son opération n’a rien d’une chirurgie esthétique et d’une escroquerie à l’assurance

parce que le chirurgien lui a enlevé la bosse qui l’empêchait de bien respirer.

10.Les insécurités dont il souffrait ont disparu peu après qu’on lui a recollé les oreilles, implanté des cheveux et de magnifiques pectoraux.


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5. Correctif des traductions :

1.There are programmes/reports that show images of true/actual/real procedures that may be both graphic and disturbing.

2.A 16-year-old girl who/that had faulty breasts implanted by a fraud was shown in a tv show. She had to have them removed.

3.I (don’t) understand the parents who/that let their daughter have a breast augmentation. 4.She went under the knife after/ as a reward for being graduated, which is inconceivable to me because even a minor intervention can have devastating results. 5.What a lot of people ignore is (that) this kind of hair lasering is irreversible and (that) it can leave scars or cause serious organ damages. 6.To have/Having big breasts, a slim waist and a perfect face, that’s all/everything young women dream of. But don’t boys feel like looking perfect as well/but don’t boys yearn for perfection too? 7.The young girl, whose nose had a slight bump, had already had a tummy tuck a few months before. 8.That man, whose chin has been reshaped thanks to fat injections, had been advised not to opt for a nose job. 9.Her operation has nothing to do with a plastic surgery or an insurance fraud because the surgeon removed the bump that prevented her from breathing properly.

10.The insecurities Ø he suffered/was suffering/had been suffering from disappeared soon after his ears were pinned back and after hair and beautiful pecs were implanted.

N’hésite pas à nous contacter si tu souhaites aller plus loin dans cet exercice. En effet, les élèves de Vl, Cw, Wt ont d’autres phrases de traductions aux pages 13à15 du chapitre Cosmetic enhancements.


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6. Compréhension à la lecture : Lis cette nouvelle et veille à décrire le contexte dans lequel cette histoire se déroule. Essaie également de bien comprendre qui est qui. Ensuite, n’hésite pas à me demander des tâches de compréhension et leur correctif si tu le souhaites.


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