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AXE 6: Scientific Innovations and responsibility

Question: To what extent are we warned about the dangerous of technology?  (Dans quelle mesure
sommes-nous avertis des dangers de la technologie ?"
 

1. Avant de regarder la vidéo, faites des recherches sur :

 The author Aldous Huxley. Who was he?
Aldous Huxley was …………………………………………………………………………………………

 Brave New World

Brave New World is …………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Watch the full video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE

What does the book start with? Choose from the following words: students, pregnant, Director, Eggs,
twins, London, fertilized, 96 (ninenty-six).
From min 0 to 0:50
The book starts with the………………………….of the Central……………… hatching in a conditional center
explaining to a group of……………………………how they create people since women don’t actually
get……………………………anymore. ………… are fertilized and then undergo a process that causes
the……………………………..eggs to divide.
They can get up to …………identical…………………………….from a single fertilized egg this way.

Vocabulary
To hatch (v.) = éclore, faire éclore
Hatch (n)= couvée
Hactchery (n) = …………………………
Twins = …………………………………
To get pregnant = ……………………….
Eggs = ovules, ………………………

Part 2. Read the text “One and the same” (Unit 11, manuel numérique – vous pouvez écouter le
texte).
Before answering the questions look up the following words (www.wordreference.com):

Test-tubes = To bud (v.) =

X-ray = Incubator =
Bud (n.) = Improvement =

1. Introduce the document (type of book, title, author, publication year).

The text is an extract from ………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. What is the text about?

The text is about……………………………………………………………………………………..
3. Focus on the pronouns. What or who do they refer to?

 He (l.1)……………………  Them (l.5)………………..

 Him (l.2)…………………..  You (l.27)………………

4. True or False? Find the line number and the quotation (citation).

 The Bokanovski’s Process can provide (give) many factory workers.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

 The Director is convinced that this process is useful.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. This text shows that Brave New World is a dystopia (une dystopie). Une dystopie est un récit de fiction
dépeignant une société imaginaire organisée de telle façon qu'elle empêche ses membres d'atteindre le
bonheur. C’est le contraire d’une utopie.

Utopia = idea, perfect world

Dystopia = the opposite of utopia

What do you think about the Director’s idea? “Standard men and women; in uniform batches”
(Des hommes et des femmes standard; groupés en uniformes).