Livret de corrigés

Unité 10

Séance 1

Exercice 1

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SCRIPT DE L’ENREGISTREMENT :
1- Grant Wood / 2- Francis Bacon / 3- Gustav Klimt / 4- Howard Hodgkin / 5- Norman Rockwell / 6- Andy Warhol

Exercice 2

American painter (1891-1942) best

known for his paintings *depicting
the rural American Midwest,
particularly American Gothic
(1930) which has become an iconic
painting of the 20th century.
* représentant

Grant Wood

Irish-born. British figurative painter

(1909 –1992) best known for his
*depictions of popes, crucifixions
and portraits of close friends. His
abstracted figures are typically
isolated in geometrical cages
which give them vague 3D depth,
set against flat, nondescript
backgrounds
* représentations

Francis Bacon

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 Austrian symbolist painter
(1862 –1918) well known for
providing the first dedicated space
for contemporary art in Austria. His
primary subjects are women. His
figurative works include allegories,
portraits and landscapes. He was
influenced by Japanese art and its
methods.

Gustav Klimt

British painter and *printmaker

(1932 –2017). His work is most
often associated with abstraction.
* graveur

Howard Hodgkin

American author, painter and

illustrator (1894 –1978). His works
have a broad popular appeal in the
United States for their reflection
of American culture. He is most
famous for the cover illustrations
of everyday life he created for
The Saturday Evening Post magazine
over nearly five decades. Among
the best-known of his works is
The Problem We All Live With.

Norman Rockwell

American artist, director and

producer (1928 –1987), he was
a leading figure in the visual art
movement known as pop art. His
works explore the relationship
between artistic expression,
celebrity culture and advertising.
Some of his best known works
include the *silkscreen paintings
Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and
Marilyn Diptych (1962).
* sérigraphie sur toile

Andy Warhol

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 Exercice 3

Grant Wood American Gothic

Self-portrait
Francis Bacon

Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Anthony Hill and Gillian Wise

Howard Hodgkin

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 Norman Rockwell No Swimming

Marilyn

Andy Warhol

Exercice 4

paintbrush artist

canvas paint

easel palette

workshop stool

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 Exercice 5
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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The artist is in his workshop. He is sitting on a stool with his back to the viewer. He is studying his reflection in a
mirror and is painting it on a canvas. He is smoking a pipe. He is holding a paintbrush in his right hand and a palette
in his left hand. There may be different colours of paint on his palette but he seems to be painting in black ink. The
canvas is propped up on an easel. Four other self-portraits of illustrious painters are pinned on the canvas and an
old style helmet is placed on top of the easel. Other *props include a glass of Coke, a metal bucket, and brushes
scattered around the floor.

*props = accessoires

Exercice 6
1- Rockwell’s portrait on the canvas
2- his own reflection
3- the painter himself

Séance 2
Exercice 7–1

a pipe
a helmet

4 self-portraits

a looking-
glass

a glass of
coke

an art book
a trash can
with smoke

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 Exercice 7–2
a) The drink is on the art book.
b) The art book is on the seat.
c) The trash can is next to Rockwell’s right foot.
d) The self-portraits are on the canvas.
e) The helmet is on top of the easel.
f) The pipe is in Rockwell’s mouth.
g) The mirror is against the back of the chair.

Exercice 8–A
Les 3 titres sont possibles pour ce tableau. Ce qui est important c’est comment tu justifies ton choix. Si tu as choisi ‘Triple
self-portrait’, tu pouvais dire par exemple :

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We can call this painting a triple self-portrait because there are three representations of Norman Rockwell by
himself: one is his reflection in the mirror, one is the drawing on the canvas and the third one is the artist ‘for real’
that we see from the back.

Exercice 8–B
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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The Rockwell that can be seen in the mirror shows a common and somewhat unattractive face. His glasses are fogged
and seem to indicate that he can’t actually see what he looks like. Yet this may be the way he actually perceives himself.

On the other hand, the drawing on the canvas shows a more outgoing, confident and friendly face. It is an
illustration of what he could want to look like.

By contrasting these different representations of himself, Rockwell raises the problem of the sincerity of the
autobiography. Of the three characters represented, which is the “true”? The one who is seen from behind and who
is painting is no more true than the others, since it is also the work of Norman Rockwell.

With a sense of humor, the artist may want to show us an impossible self-portrait.

Exercice 10
1- There can be some Coke.
2- The pipe tells us that Rockwell may be a smoker.
3- There could have been a fire in Rockwell’s workshop 17 years before.
4- Rockwell might have been a fireman when he was younger.
5- They could be self-portraits of Rockwell’s masters or favourite painters, or they could be his favourite portraits.

Exercice 11
1- Norman Rockwell must have been one of the best illustrators of his time.
2- He may have chosen to be a painter by chance.
3- He must have traveled a lot.
4- He can’t have been conceited.
5- He may have bought the helmet in an antique shop

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 Séance 3
Exercice 12

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SCRIPT DE L’ENREGISTREMENT :
1- to enroll / 2- to hire / 3- to retire

Exercice 14
to enroll  • • prendre sa retraite

to hire • • s’inscrire

to retire • • embaucher

Exercice 15
1-
The reference: the smoke coming out of the trash can.

The accident: a fire destroyed his Airlington studio in 1943.

2-

Title: Triple Self-Portrait

Artist: Norman Rockwell
Date: 1960
Age of the artist at the time: 66
Name of the magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
Title of the autobiography: My Adventures as an Illustrator

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 Exercice 16
1-

glass of Coke pipe helmet art book

............................. ............................. ............................. .............................

À Venir

trash can 4 self-portraits mirror

............................. ............................. .............................

2- He liked drinking coke and smoking his pipe. He also liked being surrounded by his favourite objects (helmet,
self-portraits, art book).
3- It could refer to a fire that could have started in the studio.
4- It could be his habit of smoking a pipe while painting.

Exercice 17
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1- What does Rockwell want you to do?

a) Choose an object from his painting and take it back with you þ
b) Choose an object in your room and paint it o
c) Choose an object in a shop and buy it o

2- But on two conditions. Which ones?

a) You must not choose the helmet o
b) You must tell him why you chose this object þ
c) You must insert it in your future painting þ
d) You must put it in your bedroom o
e) You must give him another object in return o

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Script de l’enregistrement :

Hey, young artist. I really appreciated your visit inside my Triple Self-Portrait, or should I say, in my studio. I
wouldn’t like you to leave without giving you something as a souvenir. So, please, as a gift, select any prop you want
from my painting, just tell me why you chose this object, and promise me to insert it in your future work of art!

Exercice 18
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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Let me tell you why I chose the helmet. First of all, because I like this object, I think it is a nice antique. Then, the
second reason why I chose this helmet is that I believe it refers to an important event in your life. Finally, I think it
will look nice in my future painting even if I don’t know yet how I will use it.

Séance 4
Exercice 20

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SCRIPT DE L’ENREGISTREMENT :
1- a paper knife / 2- paper clips / 3- a rubber / 4- a hip bone / 5- a saucer / 6- a desert rose

Exercice 22
a paper knife paper clips a rubber a hip bone a saucer a desert rose
un coupe-papier des trombones une gomme un os de une soucoupe une rose des sables
hanche

Exercice 23
Nationality: British
Old or young: old
Job: writer or journalist
Activity during World War II: pilot
Important events in his life: World War II, traveled overseas, a hip operation

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 Exercice 24
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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I think that the person is British because of the English stamps in the saucer, and also because of the Hurricanes.
The hip bone makes me think of a hip operation. So this person could be quite old. Moreover we know that this
person was living during World War II.

The pencils in the mug, the notebook, the paper clips and the paper knife make me think of someone who writes a
lot. He could be a writer or a journalist.

He may have been a pilot because he keeps two model planes on his desk.

The model planes could mean that he was a pilot in the RAF during World War II.

Maybe he kept a desert rose on his desk because he visited exotic countries and traveled through deserts.

Exercice 25
2-
þ J’avais l’impression qu’on prenait mon ventre pour un coussin à épingles rouillées

3-
þ a sense of humour

4- A plane crash during one of his air-fighting missions in Lybia during World War II.

5- It happened in or just before1942 as the article was published in August 1942.

6- He kept model planes to remind him of his Hurricane when he was a pilot in the RAF. He also kept a desert rose
to remind him of the Libyan desert.

Exercice 26
1- Tirer sur le manche ne faisait aucune différence.
2-
a) Verbe : to pull
b) sujet
3- Manger des fruits est bon pour la santé.
4- Learning foreign languages is my favourite hobby.

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 Séance 5
Exercice 28

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1- He is talking about his hip bone.

2- He keeps that object on his desk because he thinks it is a funny sort of trophy!
3- He could be Roald Dahl as I know that he had hip surgery and also that he was a pilot during WW2.

Script de l’enregistrement :

Hello, my dear friend. You must wonder why my hip bone is sitting on my desk! I’m sure you don’t have any bone on
your desk! Anyway, let me tell you why. As you know, I am getting old and I seemed to have problems with my hip.
I couldn’t fly a Hurricane these days, mind you! So, my doctor decided to have me operated on. I was feeling quite
anxious about it, but everything went well and I came home safely after the operation. A few days later, I received a
parcel. I wondered who it was from. It was from the surgeon who had operated on my hip. And you know what, inside
the parcel was this beautiful hip bone, with a message from my surgeon: “This is the biggest hip bone I have ever
seen! Wishing you all the best with the new one!”.

Now you know why this bone is decorating my desk! I thought it was a funny sort of trophy! What about you? What
object have you got on your desk which reminds you of an important event of your life? I love stories, you know, so
please, tell me all about it!

Exercice 29
category of where you get the
information object / quotation
information information from
nationality British Séance 4 - Exercice 23 English stamps
Séance 4 -Teacher  British ‘Hurricane’ model planes
‘‘…posted to the British Embassy…’’
old or young old Séance 5 - Exercice 28 ‘‘… as you know, I am getting old…’’
job writer Séance 4 - Exercice 23 a paper knife, a mug full of pencils, a saucer
filled with paper clips, a pair of glasses,
Séance 4 - Exercice 25
two rubbers, a notebook
…excerpt from Shot Down Over Libya
which was published in the ‘Saturday
Evening Post’ in August 1942…
activity during RAF pilot Séance 4 - Exercice 23 British ‘Hurricane’ model planes
WW2
Séance 4 -Teacher  ‘‘…in September 1939, our mystery man
enlisted in the RAF…’’
Séance 5 - Exercice 28
‘‘I couldn’t fly a Hurricane these days,
mind you!’’
important event in plane crash Séance 4 - Exercice 25 This excerpt is about an episode that really
his life during WW2 happened to our mystery man during the war.
personality sense of Séance 4 - Exercice 23 his hip bone on his desk
humour
Séance 4 - Exercice 25 ‘‘My stomach felt as though someone were
using it as a pincushion for rusty hatpins.’’
Séance 5 - Exercice 28
‘‘I thought it was a funny sort of trophy!’’

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 Exercice 30
A. Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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I am sure that he was British because he was an RAF pilot during WW2, he also had British stamps in a saucer on
his desk.

I know that he was quite old when I visited him because he told me so himself. He added that he seemed to have
problems with his hip.

No doubt he was a writer as he kept a notebook, pencils, a paper knife, paper clips and a rubber on his desk.

He was undoubtedly a RAF pilot during WW2 as he was shot down over Lybia.

He was definitely a person with a sense of humour, which is why he kept his hip bone on his desk.

B. He is Roald Dahl.

Exercice 32
A. Yes I have an office / No I don’t have an office. I study in my room / in my office. On my desk / In my room,
I keep a …………………..

B. Yes I do have an object that means a lot to me: it is a …………………..

I keep it on my desk.
C. I keep a tennis racket (exemple) on my desk / in my room because I like playing tennis a lot and it reminds me of
great matches I’ve played.

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Exercice 33
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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I keep a tennis racket in my room because I like playing tennis a lot and it reminds me of great matches I’ve played.
My parents gave me this racket on my twelfth birthday. Since the first day I played with it, my game has improved
considerably. It’s like magic! I am a bit superstitious and so I’m afraid to change my racket. I think that if I buy a new
one, I won’t be as good at tennis.

Exercice 34
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1- St Peter’s is the school the author went to.

2- On Sunday mornings, students wrote letters to their families.

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3- After letter-writing, students went to church.
4- The “long crocodile” mentioned at the beginning of the extract was a line formed by the students.
5- The writer got in the habit of writing letters to his mother.
6- He used to write to his mother once a week, sometimes more often.
7- He stayed in East Africa, Kenya, Iraq and Egypt.
8- It is Roald Dahl.
Script de l’enregistrement :
At St Peter’s, Sunday morning was letter-writing time. At nine o’clock the whole school had to go to their desks
and spend one hour writing a letter home to their parents. At ten-fifteen we put on our caps and coats and formed
up outside the school in a long crocodile and marched a couple of miles down into Weston-super-Mare for church,
and we didn’t get back until lunchtime. Church-going never became a habit with me. Letter-writing did.
From that very first Sunday at St Peter’s until the day my mother died thirty-two years later, I wrote to her once
a week, sometimes more often, whenever I was away from home. I wrote to her every week from St Peter’s
(I had to), and every week from my next school, Repton, and every week from Dar es Salaam in East Africa,
where I went on my first job after leaving school, and then every week during the war from Kenya and Iraq and
Egypt when I was flying with the RAF.

Exercice 35
1-
a) The description of an incident which happened during WW2. o
b) The narrator’s childhood. þ
c) A political event in the United States in the 19 century.
th
o
d) A story told to small children. o

2- Fill in the narrator’s identity card.

• Male or female: male (“…I should not be a clergyman”)

• Century: 18th (“…In 1717 my brother James returned…”)

• Nationality: American (“…returned from England with a press

and letters to set up his business in Boston.”)

• Family: a father, a brother (James)

• Hobby: reading

• Future job: a printer

3- It is called an autobiography.
Here are 5 very famous autobiographies:
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
2. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
3. The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
5. Chronicles, Vol 1 by Bob Dylan
Did you find out who wrote this extract? It is Benjamin Franklin

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4- Some authors may write their autobiography to feed their egos; some may want to leave a record of their life
and activities for future generations of their family; others may do so because they wish to justify actions taken
during their lifetime.

Exercice 38
1-
a) religion þ
b) politics o
c) divination o

L’expression ‘polemic divinity’ se rapporte aux religions et aux différences entre les religions. L’auteur regrette qu’à
l’époque où il était si avide de connaissances (‘a thirst for knowledge’,) , il ait restreint ses lectures à des œuvres
religieuses (‘more proper books had not fallen in my way’) alors que plus tard, il décida de ne pas faire carrière dans
le clergé. (‘since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman’.)
2-
a) yes o
b) no þ
3-
a) 1er since  (“…have since regretted that…”) : depuis
b) 2ème since  (“…since it was now resolved…”) : puisque

Séance 7
Exercice 39
Voici ce que tu aurais pu écrire :

1- Portrait 1:
1

2 This is a black and white sketch. Norman Rockwell looks

younger and more handsome. He also looks quite confident. He
isn’t wearing glasses. He’s firmly holding his pipe in his mouth.

2- Portrait 2:

This is the image of Norman Rockwell looking at himself in

the mirror. He is different from Portrait 1 and openly less
attractive. He is wearing glasses. His glasses are fogged and it
is impossible to see his eyes.

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3-

Differences
– Rockwell looks younger in portrait 1.
– Portrait 1 is in black and white whereas portrait 2
in in colour
– There is just the face in portrait 1 whereas in
portrait 2 I can see part of his shirt and part of
the palette.
Reasons
– I t is as if the mirror changed the way Norman
Rockwell sees himself. It makes him look
younger as if the mirror helped him to go back
through time.
–T  he colours as well as the clothes give a
sense of reality to portrait 2.

4- Script de l’enregistrement :

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Now then, welcome back. I have been very attentive to the way you improved your knowledge about self-portraits
and autobiographies. I knew you would have questions to ask me before you start painting. So, please, do ask all
your questions, and then it will be my turn to ask you some questions.

Voici des exemples de questions que tu aurais pu poser :

• How old were you when you painted the Triple Self-Portrait?
• Why do you look younger and more handsome in Portrait 1?
• Why is Portrait 1 in black and white and Portrait 2 in colour?
• Why are you wearing glasses in Portrait 2 and not in Portrait 1?
• Did you have good glasses at the time?

Exercice 40
Voici ce que tu pouvais dire :

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1- A falling intonation.
2- A rising intonation.
3- Tu auras repris à l’oral tes questions de l’exercice précédent et veillé à ton intonation : descendante pour les ques-
tions en WH- et montante pour les questions fermées.

Écoute à nouveau les phrases suivantes (Piste 34 - Question 3).

• How old were you when you painted the Triple Self-Portrait?
• Why do you look younger and more handsome in Portrait 1?
• Why is Portrait 1 in black and white and Portrait 2 in colour?
• Why are you wearing glasses in Portrait 2 and not in Portrait 1?
• Did you have good glasses at the time?

Exercice 41
SCRIPT DE L’ENREGISTREMENT :

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Well, your questions show that you are becoming a real expert. Now it’s my turn to ask questions. Be very careful.
Take your time to think and write down your answers on your notepad.

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My first question is: Imagine you are me in 1960 when I painted this Triple Self-Portrait. I was 66 at that time. How
would you have chosen to draw yourself on the canvas? Can you justify your choice?

My second question is: You have already seen a lot of paintings. Where does a painter usually write his signature?
Where is my signature on my Triple Self-Portrait?

My third and last question is: What is the object in the painting which transformed the vision I had of myself?

I wish you good luck with your painting. Last time, you chose a prop from my painting. This time, as a farewell gift,
here is a book. It will probably give you a hint about Question 3. Bye-bye!

Exemples de réponses possibles :

Answer to Question 1: I would have chosen to represent myself as I really am because a portrait as close as
possible to reality seems more interesting to me than a distorted image.

Answer to Question 2: Traditionally a signature is put in one of the bottom corners, most often the bottom
right-hand corner. Your signature is in the bottom right-hand corner.

Answer to Question 3: The looking-glass.

Exercice 42
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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1- It must be the story of the girl who is on the picture. She seems to have magical powers like walking through
mirrors, or else she lives in a magical world.
2- The title could be: ‘Through the looking-glass’.
3- By giving me this book, Rockwell may want to explain the role of the looking-glass in his painting. It is the loo-
king-glass which changes the vision he has or pretends to have of himself.

Exercice 43
The object in the painting which transformed the vision Rockwell had of himself is a mirror.

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 Séance 8
Exercice 45

paintbrush artist

canvas paint

easel palette

workshop stool

Exercice 47
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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I have choen to include my tennis racket in my self-portrait because it means a lot to me. I like playing tennis a lot
and it reminds me of great matches I’ve played.
I also want to include my crayons, my markers and the contents of my pencil case that I use every day. Finally, as
I’m greedy, I’ll include my favorite pack of cookies.

Exercice 49
Voici des exemples de réponses possibles:
A glass of coke: He may have always been thirsty when he was painting.
An antique helmet: Maybe he was fond of ancient times and antiquity.
Four Self-Portraits: He was certainly a fan of these four painters.

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 Exercice 50

Tu auras réalisé un triple portrait de toi-même à l’instar

de celui réalisé par Norman Rockwell. Tu auras ajouté
l’objet que t’a donné Rockwell (cf. Séance 3 –
Exercice 18), tes propres objets et tu auras
signé en bas à droite.

Exercice 51
Voici un exemple de ce que tu aurais pu dire :

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I have chosen to represent myself a little older on the canvas than I actually am. Given my age, I will quickly change
appearance and I want my self-portrait to stay close to reality as long as possible. What’s more, it is very funny to
try to imagine what one can look like in the future.

Exercice 52
I will explain why I [chose] (choose) to keep a hip bone on my desk.
First of all, my doctor [decided] (decide) to have me operated on. I [was feeling] (feel) quite anxious about it, but
everything [went] (go) well and I [came.] (come) home safely after the operation. Then, I [received] (receive) a
parcel. I [wondered] (wonder) who it [was] (be) from. It [was] (be) from the surgeon who [had operated] (operate)
on my hip. I [found] (find) it very funny to send me my hip bone and finally, I [decided] (decide) to keep it on my desk
ever after.

Exercice 54
Running on sand is hard / difficult.

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