Public cible 2de / Écouter, Parler (IO) : B1 Séquence 4
Empty Camp
Une polémique s’est construite autour d’une manifestation anticapitaliste devant la cathédrale Saint-Paul à Londres. Des centaines de manifestants ont édifié un campement qui bloque l’entrée du monument londonien. Cependant, les autorités remettent en question le bien-fondé de cette manifestation en révélant que ces tentes ont été scannées par un système détectant la chaleur humaine et que la plupart d’entre elles étaient vides.
Transcript
Sky News presenter, Martin Stanford: Police are being urged to clear an anti-capitalist camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral, after thermal imaging pictures appeared to show it largely empty overnight. Protestors set up a camp eleven days ago forcing the cathedral to close to visitors for the first time since the Blitz.
Harriet Prest reports.
Sky News reporter, Harriet Prest: The occupied London camp now sprawls around the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. Some 200 tents mark the occupation. They vowed to stay here whatever the weather. But now these thermal images filmed just after midnight this morning appear to show many of the tents empty. And now Sky News has learned, the city of London police have used the same technology to show only 10 per cent are occupied at night.
Chancellor Alex Deane, of the City of London corporation: I don’t really care if they’re full or not. I mean they’re an eye-sore either way. I mean London is sick and tired of this mess on the doorstep of one of our great national monuments. On the other hand, I suppose I’m quite glad ... that it’s gonna be easier to evict these people if ultimately that’s what has to happen, if they’re not even here in the first place.
Sky News reporter, Harriet Prest: Since the camp arrived here over a week ago, it’s grown in size with new tents springing up all the time. But with some of them apparently empty, some have accused this camp of being a part-time protest. Every lunchtime, the protestors meet to discuss the issues of the day. They firmly disagree with the evidence and say they can explain why some of the tents might be unoccupied.
First interviewed protestor: People can be sort of sat around sort of outside their tents, just having a chat... and that doesn’t actually come up on the the media, the thermal imaging and so therefore you get a false picture on what’s actually in reality an active camp.
Second interviewed protestor: We can’t all be here all the time. When we go away for any reason we leave our tent and somebody else takes it over.
Third interviewed person: The idea that you know people aren’t being...you know, that they aren’t staying in their tents, it it seems... to me it just seems irrelevant.
Sky News reporter Harriet Prest: Since St Paul’s closed its doors to tourists at the weekend, the pressure on the church, the police and the City of London to act has been gaining momentum. In the meantime, the protestors say the empty tents are irrelevant and that they’ll stay until their message about corporate greed is heard.
Harriet Prest, Sky News, the City.
Objectifs et démarche pédagogique
Liens avec les programmes culturels de lycée
¾ Classe de seconde : Le thème culturel étudié en classe de seconde « Vivre ensemble en société » prend en compte la notion de lien social. Ce lien est repris à travers l’idée de groupe, qui peut se trouver en opposition avec une autre partie de la société.
CECRL
Peut comprendre les points principaux de bulletins d’information radiophoniques et de documents enregistrés simples, sur un sujet familier, si le débit est relativement lent et la langue clairement articulée. – Écouter, peut comprendre des émissions de radio et des enregistrements, B1
Peut échanger, vérifier et confirmer des informations, faire face à des situations moins courantes et expliquer pourquoi il y a une difficulté. – Parler, interaction orale générale, B1
Contenu grammatical
¾ Le prétérit simple : urged; appeared; set up; vowed; arrived; closed.
¾ Le present perfect : has learned; have used; it’s grown; have accused; have been gaining.
¾ Divers adverbes : largely; really; ultimately; apparently; firmly; actually.
Lexique de reconnaissance
¾ Protestation : anti-capitalist; protestors; the tents; the occupation; they vowed; a part-time protest; to discuss;
the issues; accused; they firmly disagree; staying; the pressure; the message.
¾ Enquête policière : police urged; to clear; thermal imaging; filmed; to show; to evict; accused; the evidence;
explain; gaining momentum.
Lexique de production
¾ Accusation et défense : to show; they vowed; appear to show; I suppose; to evict; the evidence; sort of; just having a chat; explain; a false picture; actually; in reality; it seems irrelevant.
Démarche possible
A. Anticipation
¾ Avant le visionnage de l’extrait vidéo, montrer l’image figée et amener les élèves à réfléchir sur le sujet de la vidéo.
B. Comprehension
¾ Visionner une fois en entier puis laisser le temps aux élèves de lire les questions. Visionner une deuxième fois avec des pauses.
¾ Revoir les questions avec les élèves et visionner une troisième fois avec des pauses.
C. Speaking, interacting through a debate
¾ Imagine that you are a protestor and your partner is a police officer. Each of you will try to defend his or her opinion about the protest and clear the debate about the empty camp.
Compléments
Liens avec des sites internet
¾ Le site http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15519439 propose un article de presse qui explique les événements devant la cathédrale Saint-Paul. Il peut être proposé aux élèves dans le cadre d’un travail approfondi sur ce thème.
¾ Ce lien mène les élèves à un autre article qui explicite la pensée des manifestants concernant les accusations portées contre eux par les autorités locales : http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/21/occupy-london- st-pauls.html. Il peut être utile de le donner aux élèves en lecture libre ou comme devoir à la maison, puisqu’il leur donne des indications sur l’opinion des manifestants et donc des idées pour leur travail d’interaction orale en classe.
¾ Ce site offre une variété de témoignages au sujet de la polémique qui tourne autour du campement de la cathédrale Saint-Paul et vient donc infirmer ou confirmer certains dires : http://www.metro.co.uk/news/879659- st-pauls-cathedral-camp-a-charade-as-police-find-90-of-tents-empty
Liens avec des manuels de lycée
¾ New Projects 2de : Project 5, “In or Out”, p. 70-75.
Corrigé des activités
A. Anticipation
1. Look at the image and describe it giving as many details as you can.
This is unusual as there are tents in front a building. The sign in front of the building indicates that the scene takes place in front of St Paul’s Cathedral.
2. Make hypotheses about the video extract you are about to watch.
a. The topic may be a protest by homeless people who are seeking shelter.
b. The protagonists may be some people who need help and are seeking it from the church.
c. It could be taking place in London, as St Paul’s Cathedral is in London.
B. Comprehension 1. Tick the right answer.
a. This scene is taking place...
o in New York o in Birmingham þ in London b. There are tents in front of...
þ St Paul’s Cathedral o St Patrick’s Cathedral o St Peter’s Cathedral c. The police have found...
o many young people o drunk people þ empty tents d. The police have scanned the camp with...
o an infra-red system o night cameras þ a thermal imaging system e. The percentage of occupied tents at night is...
o 1 per cent o 2 per cent þ 10 per cent f. The protestors say this information is...
o ridiculous o quite obvious þ irrelevant
g. The protestors say they...
o will leave soon o admit it’s true þ will stay to have their message heard h. They are fighting against...
o Catholics þ capitalists o Anglicans
i. Their message is against...
o inflation o tourism þ corporate greed 2. Look at the scheme and complete the captions by saying what each side claims.
C. Speaking – Interacting
1. Work on words. Find the odd one out.
a. tents; bed; camp; sun; house sun
b. protest; claim; advocate; submissive submissive c. authorities; government; protestor; police; mayor protestor d. empty; ball; full; round; square; oval; triangular ball 2. Transform these adjectives into adverbs.
a. large g largely d. apparent g apparently
b. real g really e. firm g firmly
c. ultimate g ultimately f. actual g actually
3. Now find five new adverbs using adjectives you may know or find in the dictionary, linked to the topic.
a. ridiculous g ridiculously d. true g truly b. surprising g surprisingly e. annoying g annoyingly c. obvious g obviously f. full g fully
Fic he d’activités
Nom : Classe : Date :
Empty Camp
Séquence 4
A. Anticipation
1. Look at the image and describe it giving as many details as you can.
...
...
...
2. Make hypotheses about the video extract you are about to watch.
a. The topic may be ...
b. The protagonists may ...
c. It could be taking place in ...
d. It is quite unusual to see ...
B. Comprehension 1. Tick the right answer.
a. This scene is taking place...
o in New York o in Birmingham o in London b. There are tents in front of...
o St Paul’s Cathedral o St Patrick’s Cathedral o St Peter’s Cathedral c. The police have found...
o many young people o drunk people o empty tents d. The police have scanned the camp with...
o an infra-red system o night cameras o a thermal imaging system e. The percentage of occupied tents at night is...
o 1 per cent o 2 per cent o 10 per cent f. The protestors say this information is...
o ridiculous o quite obvious o irrelevant g. The protestors say they...
o will leave soon o admit it’s true o will stay to have their message heard h. They are fighting against...
o Catholics o capitalists o Anglicans i. Their message is against...
o inflation o tourism o corporate greed
2. Look at the scheme and complete the captions by saying what each side claims.
Fic he d’activités
Nom : Classe : Date :
Séquence 4
Empty Camp
Grille d’autoévaluation de la compréhension orale au niveau B1 :
Compréhension orale, B1
J + J K L
Je peux comprendre une information factuelle directe sur des sujets de la vie quotidienne ou relatifs au travail en reconnaissant les messages généraux et les points de détail, à condition que l’articulation soit claire et l’accent courant.
Je peux comprendre les points principaux de bulletins d’informations radiophoniques et de documents enregistrés simples, sur un sujet familier, si le débit est assez lent et la langue relativement articulée.
C. Speaking – Interacting
1. Work on words. Find the odd one out.
a. tents; bed; camp; sun; house ...
b. protest; claim; advocate; submissive ...
c. authorities; government; protestor; police; mayor ...
d. empty; ball; full; round; square; oval; triangular ...
2. Transform these adjectives into adverbs.
a. large g ...
b. real g ...
c. ultimate g ...
d. apparent g ...
e. firm g ...
f. actual g ...
3. Now find five new adverbs using adjectives you may know or find in the dictionary, linked to the topic.
a. ... g ...
b. ... g ...
c. ... g ...
d. ... g ...
e. ... g ...
f. ... g ...
4. Interacting – Imagine that you are a protestor and your partner is a police officer. Each of you will try to defend his or her opinion about the protest and clear the debate about the empty camp.
Lexical help: to show; they vowed; appear to show; I suppose; to evict; the evidence; sort of; just having a chat; explain; a false picture; actually; in reality; it seems irrelevant.
