Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(by David Cotton, David Falvey and Simon Kent. Published by Pearson Longman)
Unit 11 & 12: (si vous faites tous les exercices inclus dans
cette présentation, vous serez bien préparé(e)s pour le partiel de fin de
semestre.)
Please go through this powerpoint
document page by page.
1) TV Documentary
2) An application for a smart phone or tablet.
3) Computer game.
Exercice 2b, page 106
Faites l’exercice dans votre livre avant de continuer.
Exercice 2b, page 106, réponses
Exercise 3a:
4) Radio (four stars): very good. It lives up to its name; it’s hilarious;
some of the jokes don’t always work well.
5) Book (one star): poor. There’s no real plot; I couldn’t relate to any of
the characters; the worst novel I have read recently; a huge
disappointment.
TV (five stars): excellent. It’ll keep you on the edge of your seat;
Exercice 4a, page 107
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Exercice 4a, page 107, réponses.
1) Novel
2) Chapter
3) Plot
4) Romantic comedy
5) Location
6) Audiences
7) Lead actor
8) Cast
9) Series
10) atmosphere
Exercice 4b, page 107
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Exercice 4b, page 107
1) Gripping
2) Stunning/breathtaking
3) Groundbreaking
4) Outstanding
5) Hilarious
6) Classic
7) Breathtaking
8) Adeqaute
Exercice 5a, page 107
Faites l’exercice dans votre livre avant de continuer.
Pourquoi pas ajouter d’autres mots que vous connaissez dans les listes?
Exercice 5a, page 107, réponses
MUSIC: R&B, reggae, rap, hip hop, opera, garage, punk, rock & roll,
pop, Country & Western, Bluegrass, Portuguese Fados, Corsican
polyphonies…
Radio/TV: soap, crime, documentary, thriller, quiz shows, current
affairs programmes, reality TV shows, drama series, science fiction, the
news, travel shows, music clips, sit coms…
Films/Books: Crime, thrillers, horror, animation, autobiographies,
science fiction, classical literature, detective novels, historical fiction…
Exercice 2c, pages 108, 161
and 162
Faites l’exercice dans votre livre avant de continuer, il faut lire les 3
textes J.D. Salinger pages 108/109, Stanley Kubrick page 161 et Syd
Barret page 162.
Exercice 2c, pages 108, 161 and 162, réponses
1) Kubrick
2) Salinger
3) Kubrick and Barret
4) Kubrick
5) Salinger
6) Barret
7) Kubrick
8) Barret
9) Kubrick
10) Salinger
Exercice 3, pages 108, 161
and 162
Faites l’exercice dans votre livre avant de continuer, il faut avoir lu les 3
textes J.D. Salinger pages 108/109, Stanley Kubrick page 161 et Syd
Barret page 162.
Exercice 3, page 108
1) A bestseller
2) A masterpiece
3) A biography
4) Hits
5) A household name
6) Royalties
7) An epic
8) A blockbuster
9) Critics
More practice: what word is missing from each sentence below?
Word to use are: masterpiece; outstanding; epics; moving; household name;
groundbreaking; blockbusters; plot
1) The scene in ‘Titanic’ where Jack gives up his place on a floating object to save Rose’s life is
very _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2) The Mona Lisa is probably Leonardo Da Vinci’s greatest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3) The movie Titanic is still one of Hollywood’s biggest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
4) The _ _ _ _ of the novel is very intriguing but also a little complicated.
5) The movie Ben Hur (1959) is 214 minutes long and is one of Hollywood’s best known _ _ _ _ _
6) Citizen Kane (1941) is still frequently voted best movie ever by the public and experts alike. The
camera and shooting techniques used by Orson Welles were considered _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ at the time.
7) Dustin Hoffman’s performance in ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1985) is simply _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
truly superb.
8) Gérard Depardieu is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in France, but in the USA he is still relatively
unknown.
Answers,
1) The scene in ‘Titanic’ where Jack gives up his place on a floating object to save Rose’s
life is very moving.
2) The Mona Lisa is probably Leonardo Da Vinci’s greatest masterpiece.
3) The movie Titanic is still one of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.
4) The plot of the novel is very intriguing but also a little complicated.
5) The movie Ben Hur (1959) is 214 minutes long and is one of Hollywood’s best known
epics.
6) Citizen Kane (1941) is still frequently voted best movie ever by the public and experts
alike. The camera and shooting techniques used by Orson Welles were considered
groundbreaking at the time.
7) Dustin Hoffman’s performance in ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1985) is simply outstanding,
truly superb.
8) Gérard Depardieu is a household name in France, but in the USA he is still relatively
unknown.
Reported Speech:
• When we use Reported Speech it is necessary to make some changes to
the syntactical structure of your sentences.
• We say that you have to ‘go back’ a tense.
• Look at a simple example:
• John: ‘I am tired’
• What did John say?
• John said that he was tired.
• Note that when John spoke directly he used the present tense (I am), but
when this information is reported the verb goes into the past tense (he
was).
‘Going back’ a tense.
2) One of his professors insisted he was the worst English student in the
history of the college.
3) She added that he enjoyed being with people
4) Syd told the reporter that he walked a lot.
5) A bald, fat man said that Syd couldn’t talk.
6) Syd asked him to leave.
7) He once told a friend that he travelled to London four or five times a
year.
Exercice 7, page 109
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Exercice 7, page 109
1) The band said (that) they expected their new CD to be a big hit.
2) He said (that) he was writing a new article that day.
3) She said (that) she had just finished writing a new book for her
publisher.
4) He said (that) Val had refused to speak to the reporters the day before.
5) They said (that) they would finish the recording the day after.
• Exercise 2a:
Richard was asked questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10.
Exercise 2b:
The incorrect options are:
1c, 2a, 3b, 4c, 5c.
Exercice 7a, page 111
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Exercice 7a, page 111
a) Paragraph 5
b) Paragraph 2
c) Paragraph 1
d) Paragraph 1
e) Paragraph 2
f) Paragraph 4
g) Paragraph 3
Exercice 8, page 111
Exercice 8, page 117
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Exercice 8, page 111
1) Wangled
2) Traineeship
3) Single out
4) Brought home to
5) Daunted
6) Integrity
Exercices 1-7, page 147
Faites tous les exercices sur cette avant de continuer ici.
1 (G1)
1) Would
2) Had spoken
3) Wasn’t available
4) Was also trying
5) Could
6) Had spoken
7) Had said
8) Could
9) Couldn’t
10) To try calling
3 (G2), page 147
1) Plot
2) Dub
3) Series
4) Hilarious
5) Outstanding
6) Documentary
7) Special effects
8) Characters
Unit 12: Crime
• Make sure you do the exercises in the book before looking at the
answsers in all of the following slides.
What is a crime?
In English we call everything which is illegal a crime. Murder is a crime
and driving too fast on the road is a crime.
To make the distinction between these two crimes, we can use the
terms:
• Serious crime (murder)
• Petty crime (speeding on the road)
What is a crime?
Look at exercise 1a on page 116 and decide if each action is
• A) a serious crime
• B) a petty crime
• C) Unethical or immoral, but not a crime.
What is a crime?
Exercise 1a, page 116 (my own personal answers, but I’m not sure of how correct I am from a purely legal point of view)
• Graffitti – B
• Personal phone calls – C
• Taking hotel items – B for such items as towels and bathrobes.
• Change – C
• Parking in disabled space – B
• Driving too fast – B
• Finding a purse and keeping it – B
• Buying an essay on the internet to give to your teacher – C
• Doctoring your CV – C
• Insurance claim – B or A if it’s for a very substantial sum of money.
Read the seven funny stories about ‘dumb’
criminals on page 117.
• After you have finished reading them, move onto the next slide.
Read the seven funny stories about ‘dumb’ criminals on page 117.
Match each term (1-14) with its synonym/translation (A –N).
1) Dumb A) Stupid
2) A convenience store B) A small shop that says open later than regular shops and is usually open
throughout the weekend.
3) Sales assistant C) Vendeur/Vendeuse dans un magasin.
4) Cash register D) La caisse
5) Brainless E) Dumb
6) To smash F) To break
7) Daft G) Crazy
8) To charge somebody with a H) To arrest and accuse someone of a crime
crime
9) Court I) A trial
10) Theft (a thief, to steal) J) Robbery (a robber, to rob)
11) To hold up a petrol station K) To rob a service station
12) Inept L) Incompetent
13) Foolish M) Silly; dumb; stupid
14) To rent N) To hire
Exercise 8a page 117.
Match each term (1-9) with its translation/definition (A –I).
1) shoplifting A) Vandalisme
2) Blackmail B) Pickpocket
3) Stalking (Cyber stalking) C) Driving over the speed limit.
4) Bribery (to bribe someone/a D) Agression (attaquer quelqu’un)
bribe)
5) Speeding E) Harcelement (poursuivre quelqu’un dans la rue etc. ou sur le web).
6) Smuggling F) Taking goods illegaly across an international border.
7) Pickpocketing G) Chantage
1) Evidence shows
2) Facts case
3) Find client
4) Doubt minds
5) You defendant
6) Look ways
7) Certain guilty
8) Believe innocent
Exercise 4, (V1), page 149 -answers
1) Kidnapping
2) Suspect
3) Getaway
4) Lawyer
5) Investigate
6) Witness
7) Fingerprints.
Exercise 5, (V1,2), page 149 -answers
1) Career decision
2) Long tradition
3) False pretences
4) Antisocial behaviour
5) Close relationship
6) Genetic link
7) Vicious circle
8) Hostage crisis
The End