Breaking the Model

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1. Intonation in question tags.

2. Pronunciations of the letter .

➜ BLUE PAGES pp. 202-205

Topic

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Overview

Read the tasks before listening to the recording.Identify:1. The two characters,their age.

2. Where the conversation takes place.

3. The main topic of the c onversation.

Zooming in

• Running with the pack

1. True or false? Justify:

The young boy:

a. is a fashion victim;

b. thinks wearing trendy clothes shows one lacks in

originality;

c. likes the shoes he has just tried on.

The man:

a. wants the boy to look original;

b. thinks the shoes go well with the clothes the boy

is wearing;

c. intends to buy him more clothes.

2. Identify the sentence that illustrates the pressure thatpeople are exposed to by fashion trends.

3. Rearrange the following sentences in the order in whichthey appear in the dialogue.

a. I’ll never be able to afford them!

b.That’s what everyone wears.

c. Now the rest of me looks all wrong.

d.You don’t want to look different.

e. It’s got to be Adidas.

• Fighting your own battles (p.45)

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.

1. Choose the most suitable title for the extract:

Walking or cycling – Rubber soles – The shame of being

different.

2. Identify the narrator and the main characters.

3. Find the sentence which triggers off (déclencher) the action.

4. True or false? Justify:

a. The couple are having an argument.

b.The father decides to do something about his children’sshoes.

c. He repairs them so well they look brand new.

d.The children feel proud.

Overture

1. Describe the picture opposite.

2. What type of shoes is shownhere?

3. Are these shoes to play sportsin or to show off in?

4. After seeing the title and thispicture, what do you expect

to hear?

PHONOLOGY CORNER

Running with the pack Marcus’s mother finds it hard to make ends meet (joindre les deux bouts). Someone has decided to do something

about the boy’s looks.

Unit 3: Breaking the Mod

• Nouns

a fashion victim

hairstyle: coupe (de cheveux)

looks = physical appearance

ready-made clothes [kləυðz] (GB), [kloυðz] (US):

prêt-à-porter

tailor-made / c ustom-made:sur mesure

• Adjectives

casual [´kuəl] ! formal

fashionable, trendy,in: à la mode

! out of fashion, old-fashioned: démodé

gaudy, garish [ ´eəriʃ]: criard identical = similar

proud [praυd] ! ashamed [ə´ʃemd]

showy: voyant

• Verbs

belong = be part of

conform (to)

look like = resemble (somebody)

look + adj.: avoir l’air

show off: se montrer, frimer

sport: porter ostensiblement

strut: se pavaner

HELP YOURSELF

Over to you

• Running with the pack (p. 44)

1. ‘Running with the pack’:what is your interpretation of this title?What do people do when they ‘run with the pack’?

2. Sum up the conversation.

3. Imagine what the mother will say to her son when he comes home.Express regret, reproach, disagreement,interdiction.

• Fighting your own battles1. Why do the mother and the father disagree on what to do?

2. What are the father’s and the children’s definitions of pride and shame?

3. ‘I wonder if it’s better to have shoes with rubber tires that make youtrip and stumble or to go barefoot.’ Explain in your own words how

the boy feels.

• Both documents

1. Why do some people try to be original at all costs?

2. How important is it for you to conform to the latest fashion?

Fighting your own battlesThe narrator’s father has found his wife begging for new shoes for

her children from a Charity. The father is furious and decides to fix

their shoes.

He comes home the next day with an old bicycle tire. He sends

me to Mr Hannon next door for the loan of a last 1 and a hammer.

He takes Mam’s sharp knife and he hacks2 at the tire till he has

pieces to fit on the soles and heels3 of our shoes. […] He makes

us put on the shoes and tells us our feet will be good and warm

but we don’t want to wear them anymore because the tire pieces

are so lumpy we stumble4 when we walk […]. He sends me back

to Mr Hannon with the last and hammer and Mrs Hannon says,

God above, what’s up with your shoes? She laughs and Mr Hannon

shakes his head and I feel ashamed. I don’t want to go to school

next day and I pretend to be sick but dad gets us up and gives us

our fried bread and tea and tells us we should be grateful5 we

have any shoes at all, that there are boys in Leamy’s National

School who go to school barefoot on bitter 6 days. On our way to

school Leamy’s boys laugh at us because the tire pieces are so

thick they add a few inches to our height and the boys say, How’s

the air up there? There are six or seven barefoot boys in my class

and they don’t say anything and I wonder if it’s better to have

shoes with rubber tires that make you trip and stumble or to go

barefoot. If you have no shoes at all you’ll have all the barefoot boys

on your side. If you have rubber tires on your shoes you’re all

alone with your brother and you have to fight your own battles.

Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes, 1996

1. last: forme (de cordonnier)

2. hack = cut roughly

3. soles and heels: semelles et talons 4. stumble: trébucher

5. grateful = thankful

6. bitter = very cold

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I once took a drive to Manhattan Beach to survey thesocial situation I had heard about so much. As I

trudged1 across the sand toward one of the volleyball

nets, […], I became puzzled. It was like a weird2 dream,

as though I had landed on a faraway planet.

There, in Manhattan Beach, I saw them: the

Thousanduplets. It seemed there were a thousand

identical twins standing around with cans of Schlitz in

their right hands. Each of the Thousanduplets was tall,

with a flat, muscular stomach, a dark tan and, of course,

blond hair down to his shoulders. Cocked at just the

right angle at the front of their blond mops3, as you’ve

already guessed, were sunglasses – the kind no one

ever wears over his eyes.

No, this wasn’t a commercial. These guys4 weren’t

grabbing for all the gusto5 they could get. They were

concentrating on assuming ‘cool’ poses and making

sure their sunglasses didn’t fall off. And the girls sitting

around them were neither pretty nor smiling. I was

not only perplexed, but depressed. Even if I were able

to balance a pair of sunglasses at the top of my

forehead, there was no way I could fit in. My hair wasn’t

blond, my stomach wasn’t flat, I didn’t like beer, and

I knew I couldn’t get a tan. As I made my way back

across the beach to my car, I looked back over my

shoulder one last time, […] and thought to myself,

‘Amazing… absolutely amazing.’

What a n anon ymous lif e, th at of a Thou sanduplet.

Many unanswered questions still haunt me. Like what

kind of woman gave birth to a thousand boys? How do

they know they’re in the right apartment at night?

And if t heir sunglasses should fall off and break, ar e

they exiled to Redondo Beach? Oh, the price of

conformity.

Robert J.Ringer, Looking Out for Number One , 1977

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The thousanduplets

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Overture

1. Mention the nameof the brand, the

kind of product

and the name of

the designer.

2. Describe the picture.

3. Explain theexpression ‘Are you

man enough…’

in the catchphrase.

Overview

1. Give the nature and the source of the text.

2. Where does the anecdote take place?

3. The thousanduplets:pick out information about theirfavourite drink, their size,their hair,their looks.

1. trudge = walk with heavy steps

2. weird [wiərd] = strange

3. mops = (here) hair (crinière, tignasse)

4. guys: gars

5. gusto = (here) fun

Zooming in

1. You know what triplets are. Can you guess the meaning of‘thousanduplets’? Does the word really exist?

2. True or false? Justify.

a. A TV commercial is being shot on Manhattan Beach.

b.The narrator really sees a thousand look-alikes (sosies) .

c. These people seem to be enjoying themselves.

d.The narrator feels at home (comfortable) among them.

Over to you

• The thousanduplets (p.46)

1. Why does the narrator call this a ‘social situation’?

2. Are the ‘guys’ looking for anonymity? Explain.

3. Would you be willing to make the efforts suggested here tobe trendy?

4. What is ‘the price of conformity’?

• Green Coca-Cola Bottles

1. Give a general description of the painting.

2. Choose one row of bottles and give a more detaileddescription of it.What do you notice?

3. In what way can the painting be a metaphorof a looks-obsessed society?

Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles , 1962,

Whitney Museum of American Art

• Nouns

appearances

conformity

fashion standards, fashion canons

frustration

identity

• Adjectives

apart

derogatory: désobligeant,péjoratif

frustrated

paradoxical

slight [slat]: léger,infime unconventional

• Verbs

condition = influence, brainwash

denounce, criticize [´krtsaz]

manipulate

notice [´nəυts]

recognize

spot (a difference): repérer

HELP YOURSELF

Are you man eno ugh

to experience a new

dimension in men’s

fashion?

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UNIT

3Prime Time Magazine

Did you say ‘Gothic’? ‘Gothic’ or ‘spooky’?The gothic revivalThe Gothic revival was an architectural movement

of the Victorian Era, which sought to revivemedieval forms in distinction to the classical stylewhich was prevalent at the time and favouredsimple, regular forms in which the artist did notattempt to express strong emotions.

The Gothic is also a literary genre, which

particularly inspired 19th

century British novelists.Gothic novels are characterized by mystery,terror, the supernatural, doom (destin funeste),decay (ruine), old buildings with ghosts in them,madness, hereditary curses (malédictions), etc.

‘I don’t want to view myself as some sort of taste maker. This

isn’t an act – this is me! I think that much of what I’ve done over

the last few years has been grossly misinterpreted by those who

can’t get past the superficial aspects of the presentation. I want

to at least hope there are some people out there that understand

what this is all about. I push things to the limits and take somany chances because I understand that each and every day

could be our last.’

Marilyn Manson, American singer

True or false?Justify your answers.

1. The Gothic and the Classical styles are much alike.

2. The Gothic revival concerns literature only.

3. It voices deep feelings in a forceful way.

4. In The Mysteries of Udolpho the heroine is frightenedby the castle.

5. Gothic literature is a minor movement of the 19th century.

6. Marilyn Manson considers himself as a trend-setter.

7. Never before had anyone expressed the malaise

of their generation like him.8. His eerie make-up and dark clothes convey an

impression of gloom and mystery.

MagazineMagazine

Reasons why students get body art

Speak your mind!

1. Read the grid and say what is beingcompared.

2. What reason is given by most of thestudents to get body art? Commenton the other reasons.

3. Using the information given in the gridabove, comment on this statement :‘The burden of originality is one that most

people don’t want to accept .’ (MarilynManson)

TATTOO

Self-expression 53%

Just wanted one 35%

To remember an event 21%

To feel unique 17%

Independence 11%

BODY PIERCING

Self-expression 48%

Just wanted one 38%

To be different 21%

Beauty mark 21%

Note: Total percentage is higher than 100 because multiple reasons could be selected by respondents.

J. Greif, W. Hewitt, Rutgers University Health Service; M. L. Armstrong, TexasTech University Health Center

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, 1931

Points to consider if you want to have piercings or tattoos done.

Taking a closer look

1. Pick out typicalgothic references /

elementsin the passagefrom The Mysteriesof Udolpho.

2. What is theimpressionconveyed bythe pictures ofFrankenstein’sCreature (opposite)and of MarilynManson (p. 49)?

• Gothic novelists

– Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho– Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Frankenstein or the Modern

Prometheus

– Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), The Fall of the House of Usher

– Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Gothic theorists and architects

– Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860): Palace of Westminster(1836-52)

– Augustus Pugin (1812-52): Nottingham Cathedral (1842)

– John Ruskin (1819-1900), The Stones of Venice

Names to remember

Emily gazed with melancholy awe upon the castle, which she understood to be Montoni’s; for, though

it was now lighted up by the setting sun, the gothicgreatness of its features, and its mouldering wallsof dark grey stone, rendered it a gloomy and

sublime object. As she gazed, the light died away on its walls, leaving a melancholy purple tint, whichspread deeper and deeper, as the thin vapour crept up the mountain, while the battlements above werestill tipped with splendour. From those too, therays soon faded, and the whole edifice was invested

with the solemn duskiness of evening. Silent, lonely and sublime, it seemed to stand the sovereign of thescene, and to frown defiance on all who dared toinvade its solitary reign.

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794

Gothic literatureand architecture

Tintern Abbey, c. 1794, J. M. W. Turner, British Museum, London


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The story takes place in Soutine’s studio where Drioli and his wife Josie have come visiting.

Then [Drioli] began wandering around the room, peeking slyly 1 at the canvasesstacked against the walls.

‘Listen,’ he said at length. ‘I have an idea. […] I have a tremendous 2 idea. Are you

listening?’

‘I‘m listening to Josie.’

‘Listen to me, please. You are my friend… – and to me you are such an artist that

I would like to have a picture, a lovely picture–’

‘Have them all. Take all you can find, but do not interrupt me when I am talking with

your wife.’

‘No, no. Now listen. I mean a picture that I can have with me always… for ever…

wherever I go… whatever happens… but always with me… a picture by you. ‘He

reached forward3 and shook the boy‘s knee. ‘Now listen to me, please.’

‘Listen to him,’ the girl said.

‘It is this. I want you to paint a picture on my skin, on my back. Then I want you to

tattoo over what you have painted so that it will be there always.’

‘You have crazy ideas.’

‘I will teach you how to use the tattoo. It is easy. A child could do it.’

‘I‘m not a child.’

‘Please…’

‘You are quite mad. What is it you want?’ The painter looked into the slow, dark,

wine-bright eyes of the other man. ‘What in heaven‘s name is it you want?’

‘You could do it easily! You could! You could!’

‘You mean with the tattoo?’

‘Yes, with the tattoo! I will teach you in two minutes!’

‘Impossible.’

‘Are you saying I do not know what I am talking about?’No, the boy could not possibly be saying that because if anyone knew about the

tattoo it was he – Drioli. Had he not, only last month, covered a man’s whole belly 4

with the most wonderful and delicate design composed entirely of flowers? What

about the client who had had so much hair upon his chest that he had done him a

picture of a grizzly bear so designed that the hair on the chest became the furry coat

of the bear?... Could he not draw the likeness of a lady and position it with such

subtlety5 upon a man’s arm that when the muscle of the arm was flexed the lady

came to life and performed some astonishing contortions?

‘All I am saying,’ the boy told him, ‘is that you are drunk and this is a drunken idea.’

Roald Dahl, Skin ,1954


Topic

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1. Describe the visual opposite.What does it show?

2. Do you find the resultsartistic / aesthetic?

3. Read the title of the

document and say what kindof story you expect to read.

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Overview

1. Identify the nature of the text.

2. Who are the characters present?

3. How do the two men earn their living?

4. What other people are referred to?

Zooming in

1. What does Drioli want his friend to do?2. What does ‘tremendous idea’ refer to?

3. What is Drioli’s purpose (but) in having the picture tattooed?

4. What does his friend think of that very idea? Why?

5. Choose the nouns that best characterise the men’s opinionson each other’s work:

scorn – praise – dislike – admiration – veneration –

disrespect – esteem – respect.

6. Find funny details that show that Drioli was a very clevertattooist indeed.

Over to you

1. Study the cartoon above: how many characters are there?How are they related to each other?

2. Finish the girl’s sentences. Is she: making a suggestion / asking a question / presenting the man with an ultimatum /

stating her conditions? Justify your answer.

3. Does the man’s reaction meet the girl’s expectations? Why?Why not?

4. Would you say that the two friends in Dahl’s text are trend-setters? Why? Why not?

5. What about the girl in the cartoonabove?

6. Why do some people find it important to transform theirouter aspects?

7. Written work: some 30 years later, the picture tattooed onDrioli’s back is found for sale in an art gallery in Buenos

Aires. As a reporter for The Glasgow Tribune , you tell the

readers how the picture ended up there and what happened

to Drioli.

Skin

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• Nounsblack mail

greed: avidité

murder

• Adjectives

disappointed

untidy, slovenly-looking:mal soigné

weird = bizarre

well-groomed: soigné ! scruffy, sloppy

• Verbs

abduct,kidnap: enlever (qqn)

carve: découper

fall flat

feel bad about oneself: se sentir mal dans sa peau

give in,yield to

long for, hanker for

refuse to enter into an argumenttalk sb into sth / out of sth: convaincre / dissuader quelqu’un

HELP YOURSELF

1. slyly: malicieusement

2. tremendous = fantastic

3. reach forward = try to

touch by extending the hand

4. belly: abdomen

5. subtlety [´stlti]: subtilité

La mise en relief

Ex: ‘Listen to me, please !’. ➜ GREEN PAGES pp. 206-215

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