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CHOOSING
TOMORROW’S
EUROPE
SPECIAL EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: CAN EUROPE’S GREEN PARTIES CONQUER THE E.U. PARLIAMENT,
AND HOW WOMEN HAVE BECOME AN ASSET FOR THE EUROPEAN FAR-RIGHT

ECONOMY
A GREEK
REVIVAL
THE NEW YORK TIMES

SOCIETY
ROYAL BABY
TRADITIONS
THE INDEPENDENT

BOOKS
POSY
SIMMONDS
INTERVIEW
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L’Europe aux urnes  B2-C1 Europe’s Green parties, the new leaders
Entre le 23 et le 26 mai, plus de 350 millions de
of the political left? THE ECONOMIST (UK) .............................................................................. 6
Les Verts pourraient-ils créer l’événement lors des élections européennes ?
citoyens, issus des vingt-huit pays membres de
l’Union Européenne, se rendront aux urnes pour élire  B2-C1
leurs représentants au Parlement européen. Ce grand How the European far-right set its sights on women
THE GUARDIAN (UK) ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
rendez-vous électoral quinquennal est cette année
marquée par une grande inconnue répondant au Dans les partis d’extrême droite européens, les femmes prennent le pouvoir.
nom de Brexit. À l’heure où nous écrivons ces lignes,
la participation du Royaume-Uni au scrutin est plus
que probable mais pourrait être annulée au dernier Société
 B2-C1 Unusual royal baby traditions THE INDEPENDENT (UK) 12
moment si Theresa May parvenait à faire adopter son .........................................

accord à la Chambre des Communes avant le 22 mai. Quelles coutumes lors de la naissance d’un « royal baby » au Royaume-Uni ?

Ces élections s’annoncent donc plus incertaines que  C1-C2 New Zealanders’ self-image after Christchurch
jamais. Outre la saga Brexit, les sondages prédisent THE ECONOMIST (UK) ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
un séisme qui modifierait de manière historique La Nouvelle-Zélande ébranlée par les attentats de Christchurch.
la distribution des sièges au Parlement européen.
D’après les analystes, la grande coalition de centre
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qui domine actuellement le Parlement pourrait Vocabulaire, expressions et astuces pour parler
perdre sa majorité absolue, pour la première fois en comme un anglophone
vingt-cinq ans. Ce morcellement des forces politiques
Les élections européennes / Point de grammaire : Personal pronouns : I, me,
profiterait aux partis eurosceptiques et à l’extrême
myself, my, mine / Jeux de mots
droite, mais aussi, potentiellement, aux Verts.
Du parti d’extrême droite allemand AfD au Ras-
semblement National en France en passant par les  A2-B1 Sur le vif .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Frères d’Italie, beaucoup de partis d’extrême droite
européens ont récemment procédé à un changement
d’image – sous l’impulsion, notamment, de leurs Enjeux
dirigeantes ou codirigeantes féminines. Le but ?  B2-C1 A Greek revival THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) ................................................................................................ 22
Séduire un électorat féminin croissant, qui pour- Athènes séduit les investisseurs étrangers.
rait mener ces partis à la victoire ce mois-ci. Mais
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regain de popularité sans précédent en Allemagne,
aux Pays-Bas ou encore au Luxembourg, sont aussi
susceptibles de créer l’événement. Culture
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Bonne lecture !
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 Grand
angle
ROYAUME-UNI
Londres
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) became
queen aged 18 and ruled over the United Kingdom
for 63 years, longer than any of her predecessors.
Under her reign, which is known as “the Victorian
era,” the British Empire dramatically expanded to
become the greatest of all imperial powers. Britain
also underwent massive social, political, industrial
and cultural change.
to rule over régner sur / dramatically
considérablement / to expand (se) développer,
(s’)étendre / to undergo, went, gone subir, ici
connaître.
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L’actualité en images
THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY (Geof Pugh/REX/Shutterstock/SIPA)
OF QUEEN VICTORIA
Le bicentenaire de la reine Victoria
This month, Britain marks the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth and
many festivities have been planned to mark the occasion. In this photograph,
Queen Victoria’s Stuart Ball costume is being put on display in Buckingham
Palace’s Blue Drawing Room in preparation for the exhibition “Queen Victoria’s
Palace,” which will be held during the summer opening of Buckingham Palace,
from 20 July to 29 September 2019. Two exhibitions will also open in
Kensington Palace, Victoria’s birthplace, on May 24, showcasing objects never
before seen by the public.
Stuart Ball bal donné en 1851 en commémoration de la dynastie des Stuart et notamment de Charles II, roi
qui a marqué cette dynastie / to put, put, put on display exposer / drawing room salon / exhibition
exposition / to be held avoir lieu, se tenir / to showcase présenter, exposer.
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Ceux qui font l'actu

Lori Lightfoot
Last month, Lori Lightfoot was elected Mayor of Chica-
go. She will be the first African-American female mayor
to hold this position. The 56-year-old former federal
prosecutor, who describes herself as an “out and proud
black lesbian,” will also be the first openly gay mayor of
Chicago. She entered the mayor’s race as a reformer and
outsider, pledging to tackle City Hall’s insider corrup-
tion, and she won with an astonishing 74 percent of the
vote. During her campaign, she promised to clean up
city government by implementing a two-term limit on
mayors and a ban on outside employment that conflicts
with city business for elected officials and city workers.

(Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)

Lightfoot is to take office on 20 May.
mayor maire / to hold, held, held ici, occuper / position poste, fonction /
former ancien / prosecutor procureur / out ici, ouvertement homosexuel /
proud ier / race course (ici, à l’élection municipale) / to pledge promettre,
s’engager à / to tackle s’attaquer à, combattre / city hall mairie /
astonishing stupéiant, incroyable (résultat de...) / to implement mettre en
place, instaurer / term ici, mandat / ban interdiction / to conlict with être
contraire à / elected oicial élu / to take, took, taken oice prendre ses
fonctions.
(SIPA)

(SIPA)

Kirstjen Nielsen Felicity Hufman Beto O’Rourke (SIPA)

Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as Trump
homeland security secretary. She took up the
job in December 2017 but had allegedly been in
the hot seat for several months. During her time
as homeland security secretary, Nielsen
implemented one of Trump’s most controversial
initiatives: the separation of thousands of
migrant children from their families on the
southern border last Spring. In her resignation
letter, Nielsen wrote: “I can say with conidence
the homeland is safer today than when I joined
the administration.”
to resign démissionner (de son poste de) / homeland
security secretary secrétaire à la Sécurité intérieure
(homeland aussi patrie) / allegedly prétendument
(ici …serait sur…) / to be in the hot seat être sur la
sellette / to implement mettre en place, instaurer /
border frontière / conidence certitude / safe sûr.
American actress Felicity Hufman, along with
a dozen other wealthy parents, pleaded guilty
in the college admissions cheating scandal
that is currently shaking up the US. She was
accused of paying a consultant $15,000 to
have a proctor boost her older daughter’s SAT
score in order to ease her way into college, and
was charged for conspiracy to commit mail
fraud. Hufman has publicly apologized.
along with ainsi que / wealthy riche, aisé / guilty
coupable / college (US) université / cheating
tricherie, fraude / currently actuellement / to
shake, shook, shaken up ébranler, secouer /
proctor ici, correcteur d’examen / SAT = Scholastic
Aptitude Test (aux États-Unis) examen d’entrée à
l’université / score résultat / to ease sb into sth
aider qqn à intégrer qqch. / to be charged for être
accusé de / to apologize présenter des excuses.
Last month, speaking at the University of
Iowa a few days before the Israeli election,
Democratic White House hopeful Beto
O’Rourke called Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu a “racist” and an
obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Branded
as a Democratic rising star since the midterm
elections last November, the former Texas
congressman announced his presidential bid
in March.
hopeful ici, candidat / Middle East Moyen-Orient /
to brand qualiier (de) / rising star étoile montante
/ midterm elections élections de mi-mandat /
former ancien, ex- / bid ici, candidature.

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The Greens/EFA group, one of nine European Parliament groups, hosts all
environmentalists in the European Parliament. It currently holds 52 out of 751
seats in the Parliament.

THE ECONOMIST

EUROPE’S GREEN
PARTIES, THE NEW
LEADERS OF THE
POLITICAL LEFT?
Les Verts, nouveaux chefs de file de
la gauche en Europe ?
Depuis plusieurs mois, les partis Verts ont la côte chez nos voisins européens, et pas
seulement Outre-Rhin. Depuis juin dernier, la ville d’Amsterdam est dirigée par Femke
Halsema, ancienne présidente du parti Vert GroenLinks, tandis qu’au Luxembourg, le
nouveau gouvernement de coalition ne compte pas moins de cinq ministres écologistes.
Les Verts pourraient-ils créer l’événement lors des élections européennes ce mois-ci ?

L ong known for its bicycles, Amsterdam

is taking recycling to a whole new
level. Last year it began extracting used toilet
paper from sewage plants and mixing it into
asphalt, which helps reduce the noise from
cars. The city is cutting down on cars, too: its
“auto-avoidant city” strategy will make many
streets one-way and raise parking tariffs to
€7.50 per hour. Its coal-fired power plant is
shutting down, and the city plans to eliminate
gas heating in homes by 2040, replacing it
with electric heat pumps and centralised
neighbourhood hot-water systems.
2.This is what it looks like when a Green
party takes power. For decades Amsterdam
was a bulwark of the Dutch Labour Party.
1. long ici, depuis longtemps / to take, took, taken
sth to a whole new level porter qqch à des niveaux
inédits / sewage plant station d'épuration / to cut,
cut, cut down on réduire / one-way à sens unique /
coal-ired power plant centrale au charbon / gas
heating chaufage au gaz / heat pump pompe à
chaleur, thermopompe / neighbourhood (GB) =
neighborhood (US) (de) quartier.
2. bulwark (ig.) rempart, soutien / Dutch Labour
Party parti travailliste néerlandais (PvdA) /
But the city’s demography long ago shifted
away from factory workers towards multi-
cultural yuppies, and last March the Green-
Left party came irst in the municipal elec-
tion.
3. Amsterdam is a harbinger of a wider Eu-
ropean trend. Since last April, GreenLeft has
been the most popular party on the Dutch
left. Germany’s Greens reached the same
milestone in October, overtaking the once-
mighty Social Democrats (SPD). Belgium’s
two Green parties (one French-speaking, one
Flemish) are polling at high levels. In Lux-
embourg a coalition including the Greens
took power in November and promptly
abolished fares on public transport.
to shift away from... towards passer de... à /
factory worker ouvrier / yuppie = young urban
professional jeune cadre dynamique.
3. harbinger signe avant-coureur ici, prélude / trend
tendance / to reach a milestone franchir une étape
décisive / to overtake, took, taken dépasser,
devancer / once-mighty autrefois tout-puissant / to
poll ici, recueillir (votes/popularité dans les sondages)
/ fare (prix du) ticket.
Jesse Klaver, leader of The Netherlands’
GreenLeft party. (SIPA)
HISTORIC CHANCE AHEAD
4. Many Greens see this as a historic chance
to take over the leadership of the European left,
supplanting the social-democratic parties that
held that role for a century. “I think they’re
gone. They’re parties of the past,” says Jesse
Klaver, GreenLeft’s leader. The centre-left, he
argues, betrayed its ideals by embracing auster-
ity during the inancial crisis. The future will
be dominated by issues like climate change,
migration and inequality, where the Greens
represent a clearer alternative to the right.
5. The German and Dutch Greens owe part
of their success to the vicissitudes of politics.
4. ahead ici, devant eux / to take, took, taken over
ici, s'arroger / to argue airmer, soutenir / to betray
trahir / to embrace adopter (avec enthousiasme) /
issue ici, question, enjeu.
5. to owe devoir /

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Deux citoyens britanniques et un citoyen australien vivant en France nous
parlent de leurs attentes et de leurs espoirs à propos de l’Union Européenne.
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In both countries centre-left parties entered
grand coalitions with centre-right ones dur-
ing the inancial crisis, making themselves
targets for anti-establishment voters. And
both countries’ Greens have charismatic
young leaders: Mr Klaver in the Netherlands,
the duo of Annalena Baerbock and Robert
Habeck in Germany.
“POST-MATERIALIST VALUES”
6. But political scientists say there is also a
logic to the Greens’ rise, one that mirrors that
of right-wing populist groups. “Right now
there is a high polarisation around globalisa-
to enter ici, rejoindre / grand de grande envergure,
grand / target cible / anti-establishment
contestataire (establishment classes dirigeantes).
6. rise montée en puissance / to mirror refléter, imiter /
right-wing de droite / globalisation mondialisation /
Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, the new leaders of German party Alliance '90/The Greens. (SIPA)
tion versus nationality, which favours both
the Greens and the radical right,” says Emilie
van Haute of the Université Libre in Brussels.
Where left and right were once divided along
economic lines, she sees a new cleavage over
“post-materialist values” such as cultural
identity and the environment. That explains
results like Bavaria’s regional election in
October, where both the Alternative for Ger-
many and the Greens made big gains.
7. The next big test will come at the Euro-
pean Parliament elections in May. The Green-
European Free Alliance (Greens-EFA) group
is among the smaller groups in the parlia-
to favour (GB) = to favor (US) favoriser ici, profiter à
/ along...lines selon des critères... / cleavage clivage /
to make, made, made big gains beaucoup
progresser.
ment, with just 50 out of 751 seats. But the
election looks likely to shrink the overall share
of the three largest ones: the centre-right EPP,
the centre-left S&D and the liberal ALDE.
Greens-EFA might just end up as kingmakers,
with far more inluence than in the past.
NOT ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE
8.Still, beyond Germany, the Netherlands
and Belgium, there is little sign of a Green >>>
7. out of ici, sur / seat siège (au Parlement) / to look
likely to risquer de / to shrink, shrank, shrunk
réduire / overall total, global / share part ici, nombre
de sièges / kingmaker (fig.) faiseur de rois (to end up
as kingmakers se retrouver en position de force).
8. Not always greener on the other side réf. au
proverbe The grass is always greener on the other
side l'herbe est toujours plus verte ailleurs / there is
little sign of... il y a peu d'indices de... /

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>>> wave. Green parties in the Nordic countries
still lag far behind the established social-
democratic ones. In central and eastern Eu-
rope, the educated urban voters who might
support Greens in the west tend to back
other parties. In Poland and Hungary, where
populist nationalists are in power, urban
liberals generally support the mainstream
centrist opposition. In Romania and Bul-
garia they can back anti-corruption outits
like the Save Romania Union or the Yes,
Bulgaria! party. The Green-EFA strategy is to
recruit such anti-corruption parties, says Bas
Eickhout, a Dutch GreenLeft MEP and one
of the group’s two lead candidates in the
election. (Like Germany’s own Greens, the
European-level group has two co-leaders, one
of each sex.)
9. In southern Europe economic hardship
has made the Greens’ post-materialist values
a handicap. In 1989, 11.5% of Italians listed
environmental protection as an important
issue, nearly as many as in Britain. But by
2008, after two decades of stagnation, that
had fallen to 2.4%, well below most of north-
ern Europe.
wave (ig.) vague, déferlante / to lag far behind être
très à la traîne / to tend to avoir tendance à
(généralement) / to back soutenir / mainstream
traditionnel, classique / outit ici, parti politique / MEP
= Member of the European Parliament député
européen / lead candidate ici, tête de liste.
9. hardship diicultés / to list classer ici, citer.
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Notez le sous-titre (§ 8)
"Not always greener on
the other side"
qui veut dire que les parties
écologistes (Green parties) ont
moins de pouvoir en dehors de
l'Allemagne, des Pays Bas et de la
Belgique.
C'est une référence au dicton "the
grass is always greener on the other
side" (l'herbe est toujours plus verte
ailleurs), "green grass" étant le
symbole de quelque chose de mieux.
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SUPPLÉMENT VIDÉO
Strasbourg, Bruxelles ou le Luxembourg ? Les députés
européens partagent leurs activités entre plusieurs
villes. Découvrez le reportage vidéo sur
www.vocable.fr/videos-anglais
The 2019 European elections in numbers
Europeans will go to the polls from 23 to
26 May to select their representatives in
the European Parliament. MEPs are
elected by European citizens every five
years. A total of 751 MEPs currently
represent more than 512 million people
from 28 member states but this
number will be reduced to 705 because of
Brexit. Each country has a diferent
number of seats depending on its
population: with 96 seats, Germany has
the biggest number of MEPs, while Malta
(SIPA)
has only 6. Proportional representation is
used when electing MEPs. If a party gets
20% of the votes, it will also win roughly 20% of the contested seats, so both larger and smaller
parties have the chance to send representatives to the European Parliament.
to go, went, gone to the polls se rendre aux urnes (poll vote, scrutin) / MEP = Member of the European
Parliament député européen / currently actuellement / roughly environ / contested disputé.
IN FRANCE Macron’s government to meet the goals of the
10. Meanwhile, France’s main Green party, Paris climate agreement. Their explosive spread
Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), has been highlighted the problem that people do not like
hobbled by feuds and by a irst-past-the-post paying for expensive green policies, as opposed
electoral system. The EELV to small-bore ones, out of their
had its greatest success at the own pockets.
European election of 2009,
winning 16% of the vote. But
No Green CAN THEY REALLY
it was hurt by its collabora- party has MAKE IT?
tion with the unpopular gov-
ernment of François Hol-
consistently 12.
No Green party has con-
sistently stayed above 20%
lande, and has struggled to stayed above support in polls. That makes
ind charismatic leaders to 20% support their ambition to lead Eu-
replace earlier ones such as rope’s left seem like a long
Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Over the in polls. shot. But Mark Blyth, a pro-
past two years President Em- fessor of European politics at
manuel Macron’s new party, Brown University, argues
La République en Marche, has sucked up the that with social-democratic parties collaps-
energy of the urban, educated voters to whom ing, European leftists have little choice. “The
the Greens might hope to appeal. left is weak or dead, unless they jump on the
youth and enthusiasm that the Greens at-
11. It is also in France that the latest challenge tract,” he says. l
to the Greens has emerged: the gilets jaunes
(yellow jackets) movement. The protests began
in opposition to a fuel tax introduced by Mr goal objectif / Paris climate agreement accord de
Paris sur le climat (approuvé en 2015 et entré en vigueur
en 2016) / spread propagation, généralisation / to
10. to hobble entraver / feud querelle / irst-past- highlight mettre en lumière, souligner / small-bore
the-post scrutin majoritaire à un tour / to struggle to de petite envergure / out of their own pockets de
peiner, avoir du mal à / to suck up the energy of... leur poche.
voters ici, accaparer l'électorat... / to appeal attirer, 12. consistently constamment / poll (bureau de)
séduire. vote, par ext. urne / a long shot un pari risqué / to
11. fuel tax taxe sur le carburant / collapse s’efondrer / leftist ici, parti de gauche.
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Kester Lovelace est un citoyen européen. Ce Britannique installé à Paris depuis
vingt-cinq ans analyse les raisons qui ont poussé les Britanniques à voter pour le
Brexit et la montée en puissance des partis populistes dans les pays européens.
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Giorgia Meloni (leader of Alice Weidel (leader of Germany’s Siv Jensen (leader of Norway’s Marine Le Pen (President of
Brothers of Italy). (SIPA) AfD in the Bundestag). (SIPA) Progress Party). (SIPA) the National Rally) (SIPA)

THE GUARDIAN ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, KATE CONNOLLY AND ANGELA GIUFFRIDA

HOW THE EUROPEAN FAR-RIGHT

SET ITS SIGHTS ON WOMEN
Comment les femmes sont devenues le point de mire de l'extrême droite européenne
Elles sont jeunes et charismatiques, et aussi à l’aise sous les lashs des appareils photo que devant une assemblée de députés.
Suivant les traces de Marine Le Pen et de la danoise Pia Kjærsgaard, une nouvelle génération de femmes politiques dirige ou
occupe désormais des postes importants au sein des partis populistes européens d’extrême droite. Et elle pourrait bien faire
basculer le résultat des élections européennes...

I t was a chastening lesson for any

woman tempted to join the cut and
thrust of rightwing populism. After Corin-
na Miazga was elected to the German
colleague suggested she would be better
suited to being a pole dancer than an MP.
Miazga did not let it rest, getting her >>>
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE

Dans l'article on parle

parliament in 2017 for the far-right Alterna-
tive für Deutschland (AfD) party, a male
1. chastening qui fait réfléchir / to tempt tenter / the
cut and thrust of sth joute oratoire, jeu d'attaque et
de riposte de qqch. / rightwing de droite /
d'un "male colleague"
to be suited to ici, être qualifié, "taillé" pour / pole (§ 1)
dancer pole danseuse (la pole dance est une danse En anglais, on peut également parler
suggestive autour d'une barre verticale, pratiquée à d'une "female colleague" (collègue
l'origine par les strip-teaseuses) / MP = Member of de sexe féminin).
Parliament, membre du parlement, député / to let,
let, let sth rest ici, laisser passer qqch. /

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Eurosceptic parties are set to win a third of the seats or more, and the far-right is set
to rise from 23% to 28% in May’s European Parliament elections.
(Source: European Council on Foreign Relations)

>>> own back by telling a party conference of

the lewd intervention by fellow MP Petr
Bystron. “An ‘Argh’ went up in the audi-
ence,” she recalls. “No one could quite be-
lieve I’d dared to reveal this.”

FEMALE PARTY LEADERS

2. A surge in rightwing populism across
Europe over the past 20 years has been
largely male-dominated – sometimes char-
acterised as angry white men voting for
angry white men. But this is changing.
Angry white women are emerging as an
important constituency, too. At least half
a dozen women lead rightwing, populist
European parties, such as Alice Weidel, of
the AfD, and Giorgia Meloni, of the Broth-
ers of Italy. They follow the leads set by
Marine Le Pen of the National Rally (for-
merly Front National) and, before her, Pia
Kjærsgaard, co-founder of the rampantly
anti-immigration Danish People’s party,
and Norway’s inance minister, Siv Jensen,
leader of the country’s similarly anti-im-
migration Progress party.
3.A new generation of women aged 20 to
50 are in parliament or local government
in countries including Germany, France
and Italy, follow ing electoral break-
throughs by rightwing populists.
4. Women are taking to the streets, too.
Far-right protests in the UK still tend to be
overwhelmingly male, but in continental
Europe this is changing. At protest march-
es in the eastern German city of Chemnitz
last year (following gatherings prompted
to get, got, got one's own back ici, se venger de qqn
/ lewd obscène, indécent / fellow ici, homologue /
audience public, auditoire / to recall se rappeler / to
dare oser.
2. surge montée, vague soudaine / constituency
électorat / to follow the lead suivre l'exemple / to
set, set, set établir, mettre en place / rally
rassemblement / formerly anciennement / founder
fondateur / rampantly qui gagne rapidement du
terrain (rampant efréné).
3. breakthrough percée.
4. to take, took, taken to the streets descendre
dans la rue, manifester / protest manifestation,
protestation / overwhelmingly très majoritairement /
gathering rassemblement / to prompt provoquer /
Gilets jaunes demonstration in Paris on January 20, 2019. Marine Le Pen’s party is courting the
working-class women who have taken to the streets with the gilets jaunes movement. (SIPA)
by the stabbing of a local man, allegedly
by two immigrants), the neo-Nazi Pegida
group had plenty of women in the rank and
ile. It was similar at a rally last year of
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy. “There is evi-
dence the gender gap is shrinking in some
countries, although it clearly hasn’t disap-
peared everywhere,” says Eelco Harteveld
of the University of Amsterdam.
JOB INSECURITY
5. This raises the question: what do women
see in nationalist populism that was once
so dominated by patriarchal ideology?
Conversations with dozens of European
women – voters, MPs and academics – sug-
gest several elements at play. Many work-
ing-class women feel just as “left behind”
stabbing agression (au poignard) / allegedly
prétendument / rank and ile (dans ses) membre(s)
de base / evidence (inv.) preuve(s); ici, ...on constate
que... / gender gap écart entre hommes et femmes /
to shrink, shrank, shrunk diminuer, (se) restreindre.
5. to raise soulever / once autrefois / academic
universitaire / working-class (de la) classe ouvrière / to
be left behind être délaissé, laissé pour compte /
as their male counterparts. The key predic-
tor of a radical-right vote is the level of a
person’s education. Harteveld says that
although the precarious manual jobs often
associated with far-right voters are still
largely male preserves, there is also pre-
carious work in the service sector – where
women are more numerous. Political sci-
entists in France have pointed to the disil-
lusionment of retail staff and supermarket
cashiers as a case in point.
IMMIGRATION AND FEMINISM
6. But not every female populist sympa-
thiser is from marginalised corners of
society. Probably the most important factor
in rightwing populism among women is
the same as it is for men: attitudes to im-
migration and Islam. “Top of the list is
counterpart homologue / predictor indicateur /
preserve domaine exclusivement réservé à qqn /
numerous nombreux / political scientist
politologue, spécialiste de la science politique / to
point to citer, mentionner / retail staf personnel
travaillant dans la vente / cashier caissier / case in
point parfait exemple.

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In Germany, the AfD has one of the biggest gender gaps on the European far-right.
Only about 13% of the AfD’s 30,000 party members are women. In parliament it
has 10 female MPs and 82 male.

their image in response. Le Pen, who pro-

motes herself as a twice-divorced single
mother, has sought to tone down her
party’s anti-abortion stance, move away
from the traditional view of women as
childbearers and homemakers, and appeal
to gay voters. Jensen, who has warned
about the “sneaking Islamisation” of Nor-
wegian society, last year controversially
won a “gay best friend” award given out
by LGBT activists.

9. With just a couple of weeks to go un-

til European elections that will pick a
parliament to sit until 2024, the female
vote will be crucial to the success of
rightwing populists seeking to build on
the 50-odd MEPs they have in the 751-
seat chamber.

10. Le Pen’s party, currently polling level

with Emmanuel Macron’s La République
En Marche, hopes to harness the fury
unleashed by the gilets jaunes movement
– and court the high number of working-
Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD in the Bundestag (left), and Katrin Ebner-Steiner, at the election party class women who have taken to the
of the AfD in Mamming after the Bavarian state election, October 2018. (SIPA)
streets. These include single mothers and
always a person’s view of immigration,” 7. Leaders such as Le Pen are playing a working mothers on low incomes. In Ita-
Harteveld says. Rightwing populist parties double game. They reject the term “femi- ly, Meloni, has already been savvier at
are speciically targeting women with a nism” because they see it as an instrument appealing to other women. “She attracts
controversial and contested message that of the left, and recoil from equality issues more women as she seems to be the only
immigration, particularly such as gender quotas in one making the battle for women,” says
from Muslim countries, politics. Yet they co-opt the Letizia Giorgianni, who voted for the
brings with it misogynis- Many working- notion of “women’s rights” party last year. l
tic cultures that threaten
women’s freedom in Eu-
class women when it suits, chiely as a
pretext to attack what they
rope – from catcalling feel just as “left claim is mass immigration in response en réaction / single célibataire / to
women in short skirts to behind” as by socially conservative tone down atténuer, tempérer / abortion
avortement / stance position / childbearer ici,
sexual assault. As Le Pen
put it: “I am scared that the
their male men.
mère, procréatrice / homemaker femme au foyer /
migrant crisis signals the counterparts. THE FEMALE VOTE to appeal plaire (à), attirer / to warn mettre en
garde (contre) / sneaking ici, furtif, caché, qui
beginning of the end of 8. Yet radical-right politi- s'immisce sournoisement / award prix, récompense,
women’s rights.” “I believe cians in Europe know that distinction / LGBT = lesbian, gay, bisexual,
we are the only party in Germany who is the stigma and toxic image of a party transgender.
really ighting for women’s rights, because affects whether female voters choose it. 9. to go à attendre; ici...à seulement qqs semaines... /
we point out we’re in danger of losing the Some have sought to modernise or soften to pick choisir; ici, élire / to sit, sat, sat ici, siéger, être
freedoms and rights of women for which en place / -odd environ, et quelques / MEP = Member
of the European Parliament député européen.
we’ve fought for centuries,” says the AfD
7. to recoil reculer, manifester une répugnance 10. currently actuellement / to poll level être au
MP Nicole Höchst.
(devant) / issue question / to co-opt récupérer, coude à coude dans les sondages (poll sondage) / to
s'approprier / to suit convenir, arranger / chiely harness exploiter / fury colère / to unleash libérer /
6. to target cibler, viser / to threaten menacer, mettre principalement / to claim ici, prétendre. to court courtiser, attirer / income revenu / savvy
en péril / to catcall siler (dans la rue) / sexual assault 8. to afect inluer (sur) / whether si (oui ou non), ici… futé, malin.
agression sexuelle / to put, put, put ici, déclarer, dire / inluent sur le choix des électrices... / to seek, sought,
to point out faire remarquer / century siècle. sought chercher (à) / to soften assouplir /

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UNUSUAL ROYAL
BABY TRADITIONS
Traditions insolites à la naissance d'un "royal baby"
La famille royale britannique s’agrandit ! En Angleterre, la naissance d’un « royal baby »
est très codiiée et donne lieu à de nombreuses traditions perpétuées depuis des
générations. Voici quelques-unes de ces traditions les plus étonnantes.

ROYAL GYNAECOLOGIST
The easel outside
1.As per tradition, a royal child is deliv- Buckingham Palace
ered with the assistance of at least one announcing the birth of
royal doctor. The current royal surgeon- Princess Charlotte of
Cambridge, 2 May 2015.
gynaecologist is Alan Farthing, while the (LNP/REX/Shutterstock/SIPA)
royals’ consultant obstetrician is Guy
Thorpe-Beeston. Both medical profession-
als helped deliver the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge’s three children, Prince
Louis, Prince George and Princess Char-
lotte.

2. Sir Marcus Setchell, who was Queen

Elizabeth II's surgeon-gynaecologist and
who delivered Prince George, has since
retired. In his only interview about Prince
George’s birth, Sir Marcus described the
midwifery team as “perfectly wonderful”.
During an interview on Woman's Hour'
BBC Radio 4, the gynaecologist added:
“You just keep reminding yourself that
although it's very important, for the cou-
ple and the about-to-be-born baby, it's just
another healthy young couple giving birth
to a hopefully very healthy baby. And I
constantly reminded myself of that so that
the pressures of the hundreds of media
people outside the hospital didn't affect
me, at least not more than minimally.”

1. as per selon, suivant / to deliver ici, mettre au

monde / current actuel / surgeon chirurgien.
2. to retire prendre sa retraite / midwifery profession
de sage-femme (ici, l'équipe des sages-femmes) / to
remind rappeler (ici, to remind oneself se répéter) /
healthy en bonne santé / pressure pression, stress. Royal fans outside the Lindo
Wing of St Mary’s Hospital toast
for the birth of Prince Louis of
Cambridge, 23 April 2018. (SIPA)

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Meghan Markle, Duchess of
Sussex, expecting her irst
child, January 2018. (SIPA)
Prince William and
Catherine Duchess of
Cambridge with their
newborn son, Prince
Louis of Cambridge, at
the Lindo Wing, 23 April
2018. (Beretta/Sims/REX/
Shutterstock/SIPA)
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen
Elizabeth II) in her christening
gown, circa 1926. (SIPA)
The odds on the name of the royal
baby boy, 23 April 2018. (SIPA)
CUSTODY
3. The parents don’t have custody of their
children. A law enacted more than three
centuries ago means that the Queen has
full legal custody of any child born into
the royal family. The law, called “The
Grand Opinion for the Prerogative Con-
cerning the Royal Family,” was introduced
by King George I in 1717. “George I did not
get along with his son, the future George
II,” explains royal expert Marlene Koenig.
“I believe it came about when the Prince
of Wales [George II] did not want to have
the godparent for his son that his father
wanted - so George I got Parliament to
come up with something.”
4. An annual register published in 1772
states that the then King had the care of
the royal children and grandchildren, and
the presumptive heir to the crown. How-
ever, while law dictates that the Queen
legally has custody of her grandchildren,
Koenig doesn’t think she would ever act
upon the right. “I would doubt that the
Queen would interfere. [It’s] more of a
formality,” she says. “I think the Queen
has let her children raise their kids.”
EASEL
5. A royal birth is traditionally announced
via a bulletin placed on an easel in the
forecourt of Buckingham Palace. The
framed typewritten bulletin, which is
commonly brought out of the Privy Purse
door after it is driven to the palace by car
from the birth, is signed by the medical
team which attends the royal birth.
6. It includes details as to the baby’s gen-
der, time of birth, as well as a status con-
firming the health of the mother and >>>
3. custody garde (d’enfant) / to enact promulguer /
century siècle / to introduce instaurer / to get, got,
got along (bien) s’entendre / to come, came, came
about arriver, se produire / Wales (Pays de) Galles /
godparent parrain/marraine / to get, got, got ici,
faire en sorte que / to come, came, come up with
trouver, proposer (idée).
4. to state indiquer / then ici, de l’époque / care ici,
garde / presumptive heir héritier présomptif / crown
couronne / to dictate dicter, imposer, stipuler / to act
upon agir conformément à / to raise élever, éduquer.
5. easel chevalet / forecourt avant-cour / framed
encadré / typewritten tapé à la machiné,
dactylographié / to bring, brought, brought out of
ici, amener par/via / to attend assister/participer à.
6. status ici, état, bilan /
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The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and The Honourable Artillery
Company ire celebratory Royal Salutes in Hyde Park, London, to
mark the birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge, 24 April 2018.
(Rob Pinney/LNP/Shutterstock/SIPA)

>>> child. Following royal births at the Lindo tice among the royal family not to release course of its 163 years of royal service. It
Wing in recent decades, it has also become
tradition for the new parents to present
their child on the steps of the hospital
ward’s entrance.
NAME
7.The name isn’t announced for days.
Following an appearance outside the
Lindo Wing, it has become common prac-
wing aile (ici il s'agit de l'aile privée du St Mary’s
Hospital de Londres) / decade décennie / hospital
ward unité, service; ici, maternité.
7. appearance apparition / to be common practice
être courant, d'usage /
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
Bon à savoir, si jamais
vous avez besoin de
soins lors d'un séjour en
Angleterre :
a ward (§ 6) une salle d'hôpital
A&E (Accident and Emergency)
les urgences
Call the Paramedics appelez le SAMU
an X-ray une radio
an ultrasound une échographie
the child’s name for several days. After was hand-washed with spring water after
Prince George and Princess Charlotte each christening ceremony and stored in
were born, the public waited two days a dark room until its next use. The last
before learning their respec- royal to wear the original
tive names. However, it was gow n w a s L ady L ou i se
another three days before The original Windsor, Prince Edward and
Prince Louis’ name was an- gown was worn Sophie, Countess of Wes-
nounced on 27 April to the by 62 royal sex’s daughter, in 2004.
world.
babies over the GUN SALUTES
SPECIAL CHRISTEN- course of its 10. It is customary for a birth
ING GOWN 163 years of announcement to be fol-
8. It is customary for the royal service. lowed by a royal gun salute.
royals to pass down a chris- Following Princess Char-
tening robe for the newest lotte’s birth in 2015, volleys
member of the family to wear at their were ired by soldiers in Hyde Park and the
christening. For George, Charlotte and Tower of London to honour her arrival at
Louis’ christenings, the trio each wore a 08:34 BST on 2 May. At 14:00 BST, soldiers
replica of an original robe made in 1841 from The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artil-
for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Vic- lery rode out in a procession from Wel-
toria Adelaide Mary Louisa. lington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace,
to ire 41 shots. The Honourable Artillery
9.
The original gown was made from Company also ired a 62-gun salute at the
white silk with a handmade lace overlay Tower of London. l
and was worn by 62 royal babies over the
over the course of au cours de / spring water eau de
source / to store conserver.
to release ici, communiquer, divulguer.
10. gun salute salve de coups de canon tirés pour
8. christening baptême / gown robe / customary célébrer une occasion particulière (salute hommage) /
traditionnel, habituel, d'usage / to pass down volley salve / to ire tirer / BST = British Summer
transmettre, léguer / replica copie / eldest aîné. Time, heure d'été du Royaume-Uni / to ride, rode,
9. silk soie / lace dentelle / overlay superposition (ici, ridden out ici, sortir (en procession) / shot coup de
… et surmontée de dentelle…) / feu.

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Christchurch

A makeshift memorial to victims of the shooting of the Linwood Mosque, in Christchurch, on March 25, 2019.
THE ECONOMIST (Adam Dean/The New York Times)

NEW ZEALANDERS’ SELF-

IMAGE AFTER CHRISTCHURCH
L'identité nationale néo-zélandaise après l'attentat de Christchurch
En mars dernier, Brenton Tarrant ouvrait le feu sur les idèles de deux mosquées de la ville de Christchurch, en Nouvelle-Zélande,
tuant cinquante personnes et difusant son carnage en direct sur les réseaux sociaux. Ces attentats, perpétrés dans un pays
jusqu’alors considéré comme un havre de paix, ont eu un immense retentissement à l’échelle mondiale. Ils ont aussi
profondément remis en question l’image que les Néo-Zélandais avaient de leur pays...

T his isn’t New Zealand” has become

a national refrain. After a white
supremacist’s attack on mosques in
Christchurch on 15 March, a shocked
Jacinda Ardern, she has displayed leader-
ship and compassion. Wearing a Muslim
headscarf, she stressed that the whole
country is on the side of the victims (many
the alleged assailant grew up in that raw-
edged place across the Tasman Sea, Aus-
tralia. Ms Ardern has suggested that New
>>>

country has been mourning the 50 wor-
shippers he killed. Condolences have been
scrawled in chalk on pavements. White
New Zealanders have pulled Muslim im-
migrants aside to apologise and Maoris
have danced hakas for the dead. Thousands
have gathered for vigils. Florists have run
out of stock. As for the prime minister,
1. attack ici, attentat / to mourn pleurer / worshipper
idèle / to scrawl grifonner / in chalk à la craie /
pavement trottoir / to pull aside prendre à part / to
apologise (GB) = to apologize (US) présenter des
excuses / to gather se rassembler / vigil veillée / to
run, ran, run out of stock être en rupture de stock /
immigrants, some refugees) and their
families. “They,” she said, “are us.” The
perpetrator of the violence most assur-
edly is not.
2.For under attack too was New Zealand’s
own image as a uniquely open and tolerant
place. To many Kiwis it came as a relief that
to display faire preuve de / headscarf voile / to
stress souligner / most assuredly sans aucun doute.
2. to be under attack être attaqué / Kiwi Néo-
Zélandais / to come, came, come as a relief être
vécu comme un soulagement /
alleged présumé / assailant ici, tueur / raw-edged
mal dégrossi, sauvage, rustre /
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
the pavement (§ 1)
En France, les pavés forment la
chaussée mais en Angleterre
the pavement est le trottoir. Aux
États-Unis on dit the sidewalk.
cobblestones/paving stones les pavés
road, roadway la chaussée

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>>> Zealand was a target precisely because of its hunted like vermin. The irst oficial apol- 6. Taika Waititi, a ilmmaker and comedian,
inclusiveness. This image matters hugely to ogy to Australia’s indigenous peoples came claimed last year that New Zealand remains
New Zealanders, and many newcomers only in 2008. “racist as fuck”. Resentment over sharp in-
quickly adopt it. One of the survivors in creases in immigration, and even of Maori
Christchurch was Yasif Hussein, who im- 4. The treatment of Maoris, some say, gives progress where it has taken place, has caused
migrated from Fiji four years ago. He de- a leg-up to other minorities too. Yet since the some among the white majority to think of
scribes lying on the ground, looking straight massacre, New Zealand’s self-image has come themselves as victims. Not long ago Christch-
up into the assailant’s face and thinking his in for scrutiny. There are plenty of blemishes. urch was notorious for its race-baiting skin-
end had come. Yet, having somehow sur- After all, racial ideology long heads. Ms Ardern herself
vived, Mr Hussein says New Zealand has served as the basis of immi- campaigned on curbing the
always “felt like my own country”. gration policy, keeping non- immigration that was widely
whites out. Not long ago believed to be fuelling sharp
FOUNDING MYTH Christchurch rises in property prices. Mi-
3. Like all national narratives, New Zea- RACE RELATIONS was notorious chael Grimshaw of the Uni-
land’s liberal one has a founding myth: the 5. These days you only have versity of Canterbury wor-
Treaty of Waitangi. Signed in 1840 with over to visit run-down neighbour- for its ries that if Brenton Tarrant,
500 Maori chiefs, it established British hoods inhabited by Maoris race-baiting the man accused of the mas-
sovereignty over New Zealand. Crucially,
Britain acknowledged the landholdings of
and other Paciic islanders to
know that race relations are
skinheads. sacre, gets to air his griev-
ances in court, “that is how
New Zealand’s original, Polynesian settlers far from perfect. They are you get your ‘Uncle Barry’
and guaranteed them rights as British sub- hotspots of unemployment, listening.” And Uncle Barry
jects. Since the 1970s a tribunal has served alcoholism and domestic violence. Many may not agree with all of his complaints, but
to provide compensation for the many white New Zealanders blithely pass their he might agree with some of them.
subsequent breaches of the treaty. The treat- lives in a parallel world.
ment of Maoris stands in contrast to Aus- TIGHTER GUN CONTROL
tralia’s towards Aboriginals, who were once 7. No country is all sweetness and light. What
matters is the direction of travel. In America
to hunt chasser / apology excuses. demagogues portray any triling curb on gun
target cible / inclusiveness ouverture, tolérance / to 4. to give, gave, given a leg-up donner un coup de
ownership as a plot against whites. In New
matter avoir de l'importance / newcomer nouvel pouce à (leg up courte échelle) / to come, came, Zealand Ms Ardern has swung even the
arrivant / straight droit / somehow ici, malgré tout. come in for scrutiny ici, être sur la sellette / blemish political right behind tighter gun control. In
3. narrative récit / sovereignty souveraineté / to tache, défaut / long ici, pendant longtemps. Australia a hard-right senator implied that
acknowledge reconnaître (oiciellement) / 5. run-down délabré / neighbourhood (GB) = the Christchurch massacre was the fault of
landholding propriété foncière / settler colon / neighborhood (US) quartier / hotspot zone, secteur Muslims, who should not have migrated to
subsequent ultérieurs, qui suivirent / breach violation / sensible / unemployment chômage / blithely New Zealand in the irst place. In New Zea-
to stand, stood, stood in contrast to trancher avec / allègrement.
land’s political discourse, such a comment is
nearly inconceivable. If the massacre has put
New Zealanders at a crossroads, they still
look to be walking towards their image of
themselves. l

6. to claim airmer / racist as fuck (vulg.) ultra-

Séjours linguistiques raciste / resentment rancune, ressentiment / sharp
individuels, en groupe et ici, fort / notorious tristement célèbre / race-baiting
fait de proférer des injures racistes dans l'intention
formules sur mesure en d'intimider ou de provoquer des pers. / to campaign
réponse à vos besoins, faire campagne / to curb limiter / to fuel alimenter,
pour enfants et adultes. favoriser / property prices prix de l'immobilier / to air
ici, exprimer, déballer / grievance (sujet de) plainte,
Contactez-nous ! grief / Uncle Barry ici, M. Tout-le-Monde / complaint
motif de plainte, grief.
Tél. 03. 20. 63. 11. 00 7. tight ici, sévère, strict / all sweetness and light ici,
info@vivalangues.fr endroit paradisiaque, où règne la concorde / to portray
décrire, présenter / triling insigniiant / curb
restriction / gun ownership détention d'arme / plot
www.vivalangues.fr complot / to swing, swung, swung faire basculer /
hard-right d'extrême droite / to imply laisser
entendre / in the irst place en premier lieu, d'abord /
crossroads carrefour ici, moment décisif.

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Vocabulaire, expressions et astuces pour parler comme un Anglais…

AUGUSTIN HABRAN

Les élections
européennes
Ce mois-ci, les citoyens sont appelés à élire leurs représentants au
Parlement européen. Pour encourager la jeunesse à voter (en 2014 le taux
de participation était de 42,54% seulement), le Parlement européen a
lancé la campagne #thistimeimvoting sur www.thistimeimvoting.eu.
Voici une iche en anglais de vocabulaire sur les élections.

Vocabulaire clé
authority autorité parliamentary group groupe Retrouvez cette fiche de vocabulaire lue sur le CD
ballot box urne électorale parlementaire lecture et son commentaire sur la partie basique du
ballot, election scrutin parliamentary session session CD conversation. CD audio ou téléchargement MP3
be a candidate for, run for être parlementaire
candidat à platform programme électoral
blank vote, blank ballot paper politician homme/femme
vote blanc politique
poll sondage
Bon à savoir
 Les citoyens des 28 États membres sont représentés par 751
campaign campagne électorale
polling place (GB), polling
consent consentement
station (US) bureau de vote parlementaires au Parlement européen.
 Le Parlement européen est dirigé par le président, élu pour 2 ans
debate débat
populist populiste
direct universal sufrage power pouvoir
sufrage universel direct et demi renouvelables. Ce poste est occupé par Antonio Tajani
president président
elections élections depuis 2017.
 Le Parlement européen partage les pouvoirs législatif et
proportional representation
electoral roll liste électorale scrutin proportionnel
European citizen citoyen proposal proposition budgétaire avec le Conseil européen. Les parlementaires
européen proxy vote vote par procuration votent notamment le budget annuel et le rendent efectif par le
European Parliament (EP) rate of abstention taux biais de la signature du président du Parlement. Le Parlement
Parlement européen d'abstention européen a également un pouvoir de contrôle sur les
European Union, EU Union repartitions of seats répartitions institutions européennes.
européenne, UE des sièges  Lors du référendum du 23 juin 2016, 52% des Britanniques ont
institutions institutions right to vote, sufrage droit de voté en faveur du Brexit (retrait de l'Union européenne). La
legistlative législatif vote procédure, permise par l'article 50 du traité sur l'Union
make a speech faire un discours seat siège
européenne de 1992 (Maastricht), est entamée depuis le 29
mandate mandat sovereignty souveraineté
mars 2017.
MEP (Member of the European transnational list liste
Parliament), deputy député transnationale
européen turnout taux de participation
one-round election scrutin à un voter électeur
win the election remporter
Testez-vous
tour
parlementarian parlementaire l'élection
Vrai ou faux ?
T F
1. MEPs have no power regarding the budget
Expressions à retenir of the European Union.  
2. The 2014 elections had a turnout of about
The next European elections will be held on May 26, 2019. Les 42% only.  
prochaines élections européennes se tiendront le 26 mai 2019.
3. The Lisbon Treaty has weakened the power
Following the 2014 elections, the seats were distributed between 8 of MEPs.  
diferent parliamentary groups. Suite aux élections de 2014, les sièges ont
4. Currently, France has 74 seats in the
 
été répartis en huit groupes parlementaires diférents.
European Parliament.
European governments expect a rather high turnout for the upcoming
5. There are about 500 million citizens within
 
elections. Les gouvernements européens s'attendent à un taux de
participation assez élevé pour les élections à venir. the European Union.
MEPs are elected every ive years. Les membres du Parlement européen SOLUTIONS : 1-F ; 2-T ; 3-F ; 4-T ; 5-T.
sont élus tous les cinq ans.

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PRATIC’ABLE / Grammaire

JOAN GREENWOOD

Personal pronouns:
I, me, myself, my, mine
Piqûre de rappel
PRONOUN FUNCTION

I subject

Me object

Myself reflexive / intensity

My possessive + noun

Mine possessive without a noun

À noter
“Me, Myself and I” est une expression
qu’emploient les anglo-saxons pour insister
sur quelque chose qu’ils ont fait tout seul ou
pour exprimer leur solitude. C’est le titre
d’une chanson de la chanteuse américaine
Billie Holiday.
Attention, l’usage est grammaticalement
incorrect !
Retrouvez Yves Cotten sur et-compagnie.blogspot.fr

1 Complétez le tableau pour les autres pronoms personnels.

FUNCTION singular plural

subject I you he she it we you they
object me
reflexive / intensity myself
possessive + noun my
possessive without a noun mine
theirs yours ours - hers his yours mine possessive without a noun
their your our its her his your my possessive + noun
themselves yourselves ourselves itself herself himself yourself myself reflexive / intensity
them you us it her him you me object
they you we it she he you I subject
plural singular FUNCTION
SOLUTIONS :

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2 Complétez les phrases avec I, me, myself, my ou mine.

1. Sally and .................................. are going on holiday together.
2. She’s .................................. best friend.
3. She usually travels alone but she has asked .................................. to go with her this year.
4. Last year I went to New York with another very good friend of ...................................
5. I treated .................................. to a irst class ticket.
6. When we got to the luggage claim I saw someone walking of with .................................. suitcase.
7. I shouted, “Hey, stop! That’s ..................................!”
8. He apologized profusely and gave it back to ...................................
9. With modern technology I can take a photo of .................................. wherever I am.
10. My friend likes visiting museums. I .................................. prefer more sporty activities.
SOLUTIONS : 1. I 2. my 3. me 4. mine 5. myself 6. my 7. mine 8. me 9. myself 10. myself

Soignez votre orthographe

Le saviez-vous ?
1 Corrigez les erreurs d’orthographe. Que ce soit une lettre, un
1. We drank several glasses of bear before going back to the hotel. colis, de la marchandise ou
2. The goods are stored in the where house.
un bébé, on utilise le même
3. The taxi fair was more than we expected.
verbe !
4. I bought a new pare of shoes.
5. We didn’t know witch way to go. The postman delivers
6. The horse is a pure thoroughbread. letters and parcels.
7. He was given a red card for fowl play.
8. His face was taught with anger.
The supermarket can
9. The weather vein tells you which way the wind is blowing. deliver your shopping.
10. Everybody was in a state of choc after the accident. The midwife will help you
SOLUTIONS : 1. beer 2. warehouse 3. fare 4. pair 5. which 6. thoroughbred 7. foul 8. taut 9. vane 10. shock deliver your baby
(voir l’article page 12).
2 Tendez l'oreille.
Indiquez si ie et ei sont prononcés comme un seul son ou deux sons distincts.

deity freight married reiterate niece

friend conscientious forfeit quiet
ceiling homogeneity hygiene diesel
sur www.vocable.fr
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grammaire, d'orthographe et de culture
SOLUTIONS : Un son  freight, married, niece, friend, forfeit, ceiling, hygiene, diesel générale sur notre site internet !

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Jeux de mots
A retenir
1 Trouvez le mot qui correspond aux deux déinitions.
5 mots à mémoriser
1. (a) a mini loaf of bread Answer _ _ _ _ dans ce numéro
(b) to turn over and over
the dogsbody
2. (a) a part of your face Answer _ _ _ _ _
la bonne à tout faire
(b) nerve or insolence
harbinger
3. (a) a timepiece Answer _ _ _ _ _ signe avant-coureur
(b) to look at
economic hardship
4. (a) money for investment Answer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ diicultés économiques
(b) the most important city
stabbing
5. (a) to teach or educate Answer _ _ _ _ _ agression à coups de couteau
(b) a means of transport
to catcall
6. (a) diicult Answer _ _ _ _ siler
(b) rigid
7. (a) to hit Answer _ _ _ _
(b) to do better than someone else in L'expression idiomatique
a competition
8. (a) a place to get water or oil Answer _ _ _ _ to set one’s sights on
(b) happy and ine
something (voir article page 9)
9. (a) to continue to exist Answer _ _ _ _ avoir des vues sur quelque chose
(b) preceding
“Sight” veut dire la vue mais ici,
10. (a) to run or race quickly Answer _ _ _ _
(b) a horizontal line used in punctuation le mot prend le sens de ce que
l’on vise.
SOLUTIONS : 1.roll 2.cheek 3.watch 4.capital 5.train 6.hard 7.beat 8.well 9.last 10.dash
Comparez :
to take sight viser
2 Complétez ces phrases (toutes tirées des articles de ce
numéro) en utilisant toutes les lettres de la grille. to have something in one’s
sights avoir quelque chose dans
1. I couldn’t care .........................
I H K sa ligne de mire
2. to lag far .........................
D E W I C to have someone in one’s
3. irst past the ......................... F R L R T sights avoir quelqu’un dans le
4. she’s getting her own ......................... C B G C E collimateur
5. rank and ......................... E S E S A to set one’s sights too high
6. heir to the ......................... I C S P N viser trop haut
7. to air his ......................... A E V L E
8. it was an economic basket ......................... A O N O S
S N B
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générale sur notre site internet !
SOLUTIONS : 1.less 2.behind 3.post 4.back 5.ile 6.crown 7.grievances 8.case

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e
Brèves d
société

le chifre de la quinzaine

(Istock)
A new study, led by the Cornell Lab
of Ornithology, shows that
between 365 million and a billion
birds die every year in the U.S. by
lying into buildings. Experts
believe that it is mostly the
disorienting allure of artiicial light
that accounts for these deaths.
Chicago, Houston and Dallas are
the cities that pose the greatest

(Istock)
threat to birds travelling at night.
to lead, led, led mener / billion

Passport issue
milliard / allure force d’attraction,
attrait / to account for expliquer / to
pose représenter / threat menace / to
travel voyager; ici, voler.
In the UK, new passports without the words “European Union” on the front
cover have been issued since March 29, the date initially set for Britain’s depar-
ture from the EU. Despite Brexit having been delayed and the UK still being a
member of the EU – at the time of writing –, the passport changes have been
going forward. This angered some British citizens who received the new pass-
ports in April, resulting in the Home Ofice issuing a statement explaining the
redesign process.
issue problème / to issue ici, délivrer (aussi publier) / to set, set, set ixer / to delay remettre à plus tard / to go,
went, gone forward se poursuivre, prendre de l’avance / Home Oice (équivalent du) ministère de l’Intérieur /
statement déclaration, communiqué / redesign refonte.

Street light (Istock)

Amazon in space
Last month, residents of Beckington
Amazon has unveiled its new ambitions
Road in south Bristol organized to
project, named Project Kuiper, for which it
protest against a streetlight
was been posting job adverts in the past
replacement programme set up by
few weeks. Jeff Bezos’ company is
the city council. Some of the
planning to build a network of more than
residents witnessed contractors
3,000 satellites in order to provide a
remove the beloved wrought-iron
high-speed broadband Internet service
lamp-posts from their street to be
from space. The tech giant describes this
replaced by more modern versions,
new venture as a “long-term project that
and feared the lamp-posts were
envisions serving tens of millions of
being displaced to a wealthier
people who lack basic access to
neighbourhood of the city. After the
broadband Internet.”
outcry, Bristol city council decided
(Pixabay)

to back of and leave the lamp- to unveil dévoiler, présenter / job advert (= job
posts on the street. advertisement) ofre d’emploi / network réseau
to set, set, set up mettre en place / city council conseil municipal / to witness être témoin de; ici, voir / / in order to ain de / to provide fournir, ofrir /
contractor entrepreneur (en bâtiment) / to remove retirer, enlever / beloved cher (bien-aimé) / wrought broadband haut débit / venture aventure; ici,
iron (en) fer forgé / lamp-posts réverbère / wealthy riche / neighbourhood quartier / outcry tollé / to back projet / to envision envisager, viser à / to lack
of faire marche arrière. manquer de; ici, ne pas disposer de.

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Enjeux I Économie I GRÈCE I  B2-C1

Athènes

THE NEW YORK TIMES LIZ ALDERMAN

A GREEK REVIVAL
Reprise économique en Grèce

Overview of Exarcheia, where many Chinese investors

have bought up apartments to convert to Airbnbs, in
Athens. (Eirini Vourloumis/The New York Times)

En août dernier, la Grèce retrouvait sa souveraineté budgétaire après dix ans de crise économique et huit ans d’une tutelle
imposée par l’Union européenne et le FMI en échange de prêts colossaux. Aujourd’hui, le pays semble reprendre du poil de la bête,
notamment grâce à un investissement étranger massif dans les secteurs du tourisme et de l’immobilier à Athènes. Comment
expliquer l’intérêt des investisseurs pour la capitale grecque ?

A THENS, Greece — Less than a year

after Greece emerged from a multi-
billion-euro international bailout, Athens is
witnessing an investor boom. Hip new hotels
with Acropolis views are dotting the skyline.
Construction workers are tearing into dwell-
ings owned by Greeks needing cash and
converting them swiftly to short-term rentals,
Airbnbs or fancy new homes for foreigners.
1. billion milliard / bailout sauvetage inancier / to
witness être témoin de, assister à, connaître / hip
"branché", tendance / to dot parsemer, émailler / skyline
ligne d’horizon, proil des immeubles se découpant sur le
ciel, paysage urbain / to tear, tore, torn into détruire
l'intérieur de / dwelling habitation / to own posséder /
to convert transformer, aménager / swiftly
rapidement / short-term (de) courte durée / rental
location / fancy chic, élégant, de luxe / foreigner
étranger.
2. Thousands of visa-seekers, a signiicant
portion of them Chinese investors looking for
bargain real estate, are coming to this capital
city as well as the islands of Santorini and
Corfu in search of homes that will give them
a European base. Local homeowners, pressed
by Greece’s lengthy inancial crisis, are trying
to take advantage of the investor bonanza,
selling apartments or renting their homes to
tourists in a frenzy that is quickly changing
the housing market.
2. seeker demandeur (to seek, sought, sought) /
signiicant important / portion proportion, pourcentage
/ bargain bonne afaire, bon marché / real estate
immobilier, propriété(s) / as well as ainsi que / to press
mettre sous pression / lengthy long / to take, took,
taken advantage of tirer proit de / bonanza aubaine /
frenzy frénésie, engouement / housing logement(s); ici,
(de l')immobilier (to house héberger).
GOLDEN VISAS
3. The newcomers are chasing Greece’s so-
called golden visas, which other crisis-hit
countries like Portugal and Spain have used
for years to lure investors in a bid to stoke an
economic recovery. Spending a minimum of
250,000 euros on a home in Greece secures a
five-year renewable visa. Greece is a late-
comer to the global buying trend — in part
because its debt crisis was so dire in 2011 — but
it has become a hot destination for those with
enough money. The government began offer-
3. so-called dénommé, appelé / to lure attirer / bid
tentative / to stoke attiser, provoquer, favoriser /
recovery ici, reprise / to spend, spent, spent dépenser,
débourser / to secure assurer, garantir; ici, permettre
d'obtenir / latecomer retardataire; ici, pays entré sur le
tard / global mondial / trend tendance, pratique / debt
dette(s) / dire désespéré, catastrophique / hot ici, à la
mode, populaire, prisé / enough suisamment (de) / to
draw, drew, drawn ici, attirer /

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ing golden visas in 2013, also drawing inves-
tors from Russia, Turkey and the Middle East.
4. Yet the turnaround is coming at a cost.
While rising property prices beneit home-
owners, renters are being priced out. Families
still struggling to recover from the crisis are
being pushed from working-class neighbor-
hoods as the wrecking companies move in.
“It’s like what happened in Barcelona, where
everyone was forced from the center,” said
Maria Dolores, a young artist who lived there
before moving to Athens four years ago. She
and three roommates were evicted from a
400-euro-a-month rental in Athens in Novem-
ber as the landlord weighed converting it to
an Airbnb or selling to a foreigner.
5. Carrie Law, chief executive of Juwai.com, a
Hong Kong-based real estate investment
group, said the country that once was an
economic basket case has become a top desti-
nation for China’s middle class because of the
golden visa program. Chinese feel comfortable
going to Greece because big Chinese state-
owned companies, including Cosco, which
owns most of Greece’s Piraeus port, have al-
ready invested, she said.
TOURISM INVESTMENT
6. Property prices in Greece are recovering
from a 40 percent plunge that began in 2010.
Greece nearly crashed out of the eurozone in
2015, but stability has slowly returned, reviving
conidence and tourism, which boomed with
a record 33 million visitors last year. Big inves-
tors, including Thomas Cook and Wyndham
(the) Middle East (le) Moyen-Orient.
4. yet cependant, toutefois / turnaround revirement de
situation; ici, redressement / to come, came, come at a
cost avoir un prix/des conséquences négatives (aussi bien
que positives) / while alors que, même si / rising en
augmentation (to rise, rose, risen) / to beneit
avantager / to be priced out être chassé par des prix trop
élevés / to struggle peiner/avoir du mal à / to push ici,
chasser, évincer / working-class ouvrier, populaire /
neighborhood (US)= neighbourhood (GB) quartier /
wrecking (de) démolition / to move in emménager,
s'installer/établir / to happen se produire/passer /
roommate colocataire / to evict expulser / landlord
propriétaire / to weigh peser (ici, le pour et le contre),
hésiter (entre), réfléchir à.
5. chief executive directeur général / once à une
époque, jadis, autrefois / basket case cas désespéré (ici,
dans une situation économique catastrophique) /
comfortable à l’aise, serein.
6. plunge chute, efondrement / nearly presque / to
crash out sortir avec perte et fracas / to return revenir,
regagner / to revive raviver, relancer / conidence
confiance / to pour investir (massivement), injecter /
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Hotels, are pouring billions into the tourism
sector, and dozens of hotel and resort projects
are opening or underway, according to Enter-
prise Greece, the government agency promot-
ing investment and trade. “We are seeing re-
newed investor conidence in Greece,” said
Grigoris Stergioulis, the agency head.
THE RISE OF AIRBNB
7.Investors have tried to cash in partly by
converting properties to lucrative short-term
tourist rentals, which have
quadrupled in ive years,
reducing the supply of af- Greece’s golden
fordable rental housing for visa program has
average Greeks. A growing
number of tourist rentals
opened its housing
are listed on A irbnb, market — and
prompting the govern- reshaped its pricing
ment to mull restrictions. structure.
8. Argiro Fouraci, 29, re-
cently began renting ive apartments that
have been in her family for years. A teacher
who lost her job during the crisis, she had
struggled to get by until offering the apart-
ments, in the popular Koukaki neighborhood
near the Acropolis, as Airbnbs. She said she
now clears about 400 euros per month on each
apartment, after taxes and management fees.
The earnings help her care for her parents,
who are in their 60s and whose pensions were
slashed. They, in turn, support her brother,
who has opened a vaping store. “Most of my
friends are still unemployed,” she said. “Now
I can have a life and help my family.”
HOUSING CRISIS
9. As Airbnb makes inroads into the country’s
real estate, Greece’s golden visa program has
dozens of (des) dizaines/(une) multitude de / resort
complexe hôtelier / to be underway être en cours /
according to d'après / trade commerce / head directeur.
7. to cash in tirer profit de / supply ici, ofre / afordable
abordable / average moyen, typique, lambda / growing
croissant (to grow, grew, grown) / to list ici, répertorier,
reprendre, proposer / to prompt inciter, conduire (fig.) /
to mull ici, envisager.
8. to get, got, got by s'en sortir (financièrement), joindre
les deux bouts / to ofer proposer, mettre à disposition /
to clear ici, gagner / about environ / fees frais /
earnings revenu(s) / to care for ici, s'occuper de / to be
in one's 60s avoir la soixantaine / pension retraite
(perçue) / to slash réduire (considérablement) / to
support ici, aider (financièrement) / vaping store
magasin spécialisé dans la vente de cigarettes
électroniques.
9. to make, made, made inroads into ici, gagner (fig.) /
opened its housing market — and reshaped
its pricing structure. A scan of property list-
ings shows that many mid-sized apartments
in Athens and Thessaloniki and on Greek is-
lands are priced at exactly 250,000 euros, the
minimum needed for buyers to qualify for the
visa program. The program has drawn about
10,000 investors from China, Russia and
other non-European Union countries, chan-
neling around 1.5 billion euros into Greek real
estate in the past ive years, according to En-
terprise Greece.
10. Activists have warned
that, when combined
with the proliferation of
Airbnb, a housing crisis is
threatening entire com-
munities. Dolores, the art-
ist who had to ind a new
home, said a foreign in-
vestor also bought a
building that housed her employer, a non-
governmental organization. The group,
AMOQA, conducts research and promotion
of arts and studies on sexuality and gender.
“Now, the investment company will turn the
building into apartments,” she said. “Aside
from people and families, collective spaces
and neighborhood networks are also getting
displaced and vanishing from the map. It’s
like a domino effect,” she said. “And the most
vulnerable are losing out.” l
to reshape modifier, influencer / scan ici, étude (rapide) /
mid-sized de taille moyenne / to qualify for remplir les
conditions requises/satisfaire aux critères pour (avoir droit
à) / to channel acheminer; ici, injecter.
10. activist militant / to threaten menacer / to
conduct mener, efectuer / gender genre (hommes et
femmes) / to turn sth into transformer qch en / aside
from en plus de, outre / network réseau, structure / to
get, got, got displaced être chassé/forcé de partir / to
vanish from the map disparaître (totalement) / to lose,
lost, lost out être perdant.
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
"to stoke an economic
recovery" (§ 3)
to stoke alimenter, renforcer, chaufer
Comparez :
to stoke the fire (le feu)
to stoke a boiler (une chaudière)
to stoke fears (des craintes)
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(SIPA)
Historic protest
Last month, hundreds of Cubans held a
march against animal cruelty. On 7 April,
protesters walked in the capital, Havana,
accompanied by their pets, in what is
thought to be the irst independent protest
allowed in the one-party country.

protest manifestation / to hold, held, held ici,

(SIPA)
organiser / to allow autoriser.

Far-right parties alliance

Far-right, populist and Eurosceptic parties from countries across Europe have
formed a new alliance ahead of the EU elections. The new alliance was announced
by Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-immigrant League
party, during a press conference in Milan in April. Parties who have joined the
alliance include France’s far-right National Rally, Austria’s Freedom Party, the
Netherland’s Party for Freedom, Germany’s far-right AfD, the Finns party, and
the Danish People’s Party. They have pledged to sit together in the European Par-
liament to implement their common agenda: ending undocumented migration,
creating stronger European external borders, restoring political sovereignty to

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EU nations and protecting the “European culture”.
far-right d’extrême droite / ahead of avant / rally rassemblement / Netherlands (des) Pays-Bas / Finns party
Les Vrais Finlandais (parti) / to pledge promettre, s’engager à / to sit, sat, sat ici, siéger / to implement mettre Controversial
en place, instaurer / agenda ici, programme / undocumented sans papiers; ici, clandestine / border frontière.
advert
A TV commercial by German home
Château Lapin Impérial improvement store Hornbach has
prompted outrage in Seoul for showing an
A Hong Kong businessman, Chi Keung
Asian woman becoming aroused after
Tong, has recently changed the names of
smelling dirty laundry worn by white men
historic Bordeaux châteaux that he
doing garden work. On social media, many
purchased in the French wine region of
South Korean women have accused the
Bordelais. Château Larteau, in Arveyres,
company of promoting stereotypes against
has now become “Château Lapin
Asian women. An online petition asking for
Impérial” (Imperial Rabbit). Other
a public apology from the German irm and
(Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)

vineyards Chi Keung Tong bought in the

area have been renamed Golden Rabbits
and Grand Antelopes. Chinese investors
own an estimated 150 properties in the
Bordelais region, and China has become
the destination for some 20 percent of
the wine produced in Bordeaux.
to purchase acheter / vineyard vignoble /
area région / to own posséder, détenir.
the removal of the ad was also launched,
securing more than 30,000 signatures in a
couple of weeks.
advert (= ad, advertisement) publicité /
commercial publicité / home improvement ici,
(de) bricolage / store magasin / to prompt
susciter / outrage indignation, colère / to arouse
exciter / laundry linge / social media réseaux
sociaux / apology excuse(s) / removal
suppression / to secure obtenir.

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YOU DO KNOW ACTOR
JASON CLARKE
Jason Clarke, un visage familier
Si le nom de « Jason Clarke » ne vous dit rien, cherchez encore. L’acteur australien, habitué aux seconds rôles prestigieux, a joué dans les
plus grosses productions hollywoodiennes de ces dernières années, de La Planète des Singes à First Man. Avec Cœurs ennemis
(actuellement dans les salles) de James Kent, ilm historique sur l’après Seconde Guerre mondiale en Allemagne, il se voit ofrir un
premier rôle à la hauteur de son talent.
J ason Clarke is one of those actors whose
face you know but you can’t quite place the
name. When you see him, you say, “Oh, yeah, that
guy.” After all, he shows up in at least two to three
feature ilms or TV productions per year and has
played everyone from Ted Kennedy (Chappaquid-
dick) to John Connor (Terminator: Genisys),
George Wilson (The Great Gatsby) to Ed White
(First Man) with turns as a Rhode Island politician
(Brotherhood), a Chicago cop (The Chicago Code)
and a Mississippi farmer (Mudbound) in between.
1. to place the name mettre un nom sur un visage / guy
gars, type, ici acteur / to show, showed, shown up
apparaître / feature ilm long métrage / Chappaquiddick
(VF) Le Secret des Kennedy (de John Curran, 2017) / The
Great Gatsby (VF) Gatsby le Magniique (de Baz
Luhrmann, sorti en 2013, d'après le roman culte de F. S.
Fitzgerald publié en 1926) / First Man (VF) First Man : Le
Premier homme sur la Lune (de Damien Chazelle, 2018) /
turn ici, rôle / cop lic.
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Alexander Skarsgård as Stefan Lubert, Jason Clarke as Lewis Morgan and Keira Knightley as
2. Beginning May 1st, audiences will see him as
an English oficer in post-WWII, occupied Ger-
many in the love-triangle drama The Aftermath,
co-starring Alexander Skarsgard and Keira
Knightley and directed by James Kent (Testa-
ment of Youth).
NO AUSTRALIAN ROLES
3. But what you won’t see very often these days
is him playing his own nationality: Australian. In
fact, it’s probably the case that even many viewers
who can put a name to the face don’t know him
as anything other than American, even though
he hails from the one-stoplight town of Winton
2. audience public, spectateurs / post-WWII dans la
période qui a suivi la Deuxième Guerre mondiale / drama
ilm dramatique / The Aftermath (VF) Cœurs ennemis / to
co-star partager l'aiche avec / to direct réaliser /
Testament of Youth (VF) Mémoires de jeunesse.
3. viewer spectateur / to hail from être originaire de /
one-stoplight town toute petite ville, patelin (stoplight
feu rouge) /
Rachel Morgan in The Aftermath. (David Appleby)
in Queensland, roughly 700 miles as the kooka-
burra lies northwest of Brisbane.
4. Clarke, 49, who began his career in such hit
Australian series as Home and Away and Blue
Heelers, says he doesn’t really care about that. He
just wants to be a working actor and he’ll go
wherever the work takes him. “One of the things
America has given me is the ability to play a much
bigger variety of parts and ilms in scale and
story than a small country like Australia does,” he
says by phone from London. “From First Man to
Terminator to (Dawn of) The Planet of the Apes,
roughly environ / mile = 1,609 km / kookaburra
martin-chasseur géant, originaire d'Australie / as the
kookaburra lies réf. à l'expression as the crow lies, à vol
d'oiseau.
4. hit (à) succès / Home and Away (VF) Summer Bay /
part rôle / scale envergure, ampleur / Dawn of The Planet
of the Apes (VF) La Planète des singes : l'afrontement (de
Matt Reeves, 2014) /
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it’s variety. I haven’t done a full-on comedy yet. I
need one of those.
ADVENTURE DREAMS
5. “I always had a goal that I wanted to make a
living from acting,” says Clarke, who now calls
Los Angeles home. “I come from a very working-
class background. So it’s a job…and I knew that
going to America, you’re going to Rome. That’s
the capital. That’s where it can be a proper career.
Also, I wanted that adventure. I didn’t want to
stay in my back yard the whole time. I want to
tell world stories, meet interesting people and go
to strange places.”
ACCENT
6. But what about conquering and taming the
American accent? Why is it Clarke and his fellow
Aussies — Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson, Hugh
Jackman, Toni Collette, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edg-
erton, Guy Pearce, Rachel Grifiths, Sam Wor-
thingon, the Hemsworths and New Zealand-born
Russell Crowe to name a few — can slip in and
out of American and British regional accents as
easily as Clark Kent slides into cape and tights?
full-on en règle.
5. goal objectif / acting métier d’acteur / working-class
ouvrier, populaire / background ici, milieu, famille / proper
ici, vrai, digne de ce nom / back yard (GB) = backyard
(US) jardin (derrière chez soi), arrière-cour.
6. to tame apprivoiser, maîtriser / fellow ici, compatriote /
Aussie (fam.) Australien / to name a few pour n'en citer
que quelques-uns / to slip in and out ici, alterner / Clark
Kent identité de Superman à la ville / to slide, slid, slid
into ici, eniler / tights collants.
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
Pourquoi appelle-t-on les
policiers des "cops" (§ 1) ?
Plusieurs explications ont été
formulées au cours des années.
1. to cop = to arrest, a copper serait la
personne qui arrête un criminel
2. copper = cuivre, dans le temps, les
policiers britanniques portaient des
casques et des boutons d'uniformes
en cuivre
3. cop = Constable On Patrol (agent
de police)
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7. Necessity, says Clarke, is the mother of linguis-
tic invention. “For most Australian actors, we have
no choice,” he says. “If you can’t (do it), you don’t
work here. As an American, you rarely have to do
that, so the mechanisms of dialect coaching are
set up so that there are a lot of people who teach
different American accents… If you can’t do an
American accent, you’re not going to go far.”
8. For The Aftermath, he had to use a British accent
and it’s exactly the type of movie he would be
hard-pressed to ind in Australia. “As an Austral-
ian actor, to step into a big period piece like this
has been a dream for me,” he says.
UPCOMING MOVIES
9. He will also soon be seen as an American dad
in the remake of Pet Sematary, Russian Grigory
Potemkin in HBO’s Catherine the Great and as a
resident of Appalachia in The Devil All the Time,
the crime story set in mid-century Ohio and West
Virginia, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel. But
7. coaching soutien, cours / to set, set, set up mettre en
place.
8. to be hard-pressed avoir bien du mal / to step into ici,
participer à / period piece ilm d'époque.
9. upcoming à venir / Pet Sematary (VF) Simetierre /
HBO chaîne de télévision payante américaine / to be set se
dérouler /
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Germany, 1946. Rachel
Morgan (Keira Knightley)
arrives in the ruins of
Hamburg to be reunited
with her husband Lewis
(Jason Clarke), a colonel
of the British Forces,
charged with
overseeing the
reconstruction of the
city. A ine German home has been
requisitioned for the couple. But when
Lewis allows its owner, former architect
Herr Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), and his
daughter to remain in residence and live
with them, Rachel is baled.
to oversee, saw, seen superviser / ine beau,
magniique, superbe / to allow autoriser,
permettre à, accepter / owner propriétaire /
former ancien / to remain rester / to be
baled être déconcerté/perplexe.
Clarke says he has no issue with going back to
Australia to work if the character and story are
right. His resumé does include one of the most
powerful Australian ilms of this century, Phillip
Noyce’s Aboriginal-themed 2002 drama, Rabbit-
Proof Fence. And at some point, he wouldn’t mind
migrating into writing and directing. Mostly
though, he just wants to stay busy. l
he has no issue with going back... cela ne le dérangerait
pas de retourner... / resumé CV, curriculum vitae /
Aboriginal-themed sur les Aborigènes / Rabbit-Proof
Fence (VF) Le Chemin de la liberté / at some point à un
moment donné / he wouldn't mind ça ne le dérangerait
pas de... / to direct réaliser / mostly though mais surtout.
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NIVEAU BASIQUE DU SUPPLÉMENT SONORE
Bibi Jacob nous parle de sa passion pour les romans graphiques et nous
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POSY SIMMONDS ON
CASSANDRA DARKE
Posy Simmonds nous parle de Cassandra Darke, son dernier roman
graphique
Posy Simmonds n’a pas son crayon dans la poche. Avec ses premiers romans graphiques, Gemma Bovery (1999) et Tamara Drewe
(2007), librement adaptés des classiques Madame Bovary de Flaubert et Loin de la foule déchaînée de Thomas Hardy, l’ancienne
dessinatrice de presse se livrait à une délicieuse satire de la « middle class » anglaise. Elle est de retour avec un superbe nouveau
roman graphique, Cassandra Darke, publié aux éditions Denoël Graphic. Rencontre.

RENCONTRE AVEC
POSY SIMMONDS
auteure

Vocable: How did you become a newspaper

cartoonist, and then a graphic novel and
children’s book author?
Posy Simmonds: I’ve always liked drawing.
I can remember being three and having a
big fat crayon in my hand and drawing lit-
tle men with buttons on their coats. When
I was a bit older I wanted to be a painter. I
spent some time at La Sorbonne in France,
when I was seventeen. When I came back
to England, I went to the Central School of
Arts and Design, which is now called Cen-
tral Saint Martins, and I did foundation and
three years of graphic design. When I left,
I thought I would work for the press or I
would illustrate. Now students have a web-
site, but in those days you had a big portfo-
lio and you went everywhere and you saw
every editor and publisher that you could
think of. While I was waiting to earn some
money like that, I cleaned houses, I walked
people’s dogs, I babysat... I lived in London.
And one day, I got a phone call from The
Times. Someone had let them down for an
illustration. They said “Could you come into

1. cartoonist caricaturiste, dessinateur

(humoristique) / novel roman / foundation ici, classe
préparatoire / in those days à l'époque / editor
rédacteur (en chef) / publisher éditeur / to earn
gagner (argent) / to let, let, let down laisser tomber /
Cassandra Darke (Denoël/Simmonds)
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the ofice?” and they gave me the article to Cassandra Darke

(Denoël/Simmonds)
illustrate and said “Can you just sit here and
do these ive drawings?”

2. Vocable: So you
had to do that on
the spot?
Posy Simmonds: I
had to do it on the
spot a nd I w a s
trembling. It was
really frightening.
The next day, there
were my horrid little
drawings in the pa-
pers, and I can re-
member buying four
copies of The Times
and giving one to my
mom and one to my
granny. Then, I went
to The Guardian news-
paper, because I knew 4. Vocable: Cassandra Darke is not an
they used a lot of illus- especially likeable character...
trations, and immedi- Posy Simmonds: I wanted somebody who
ately I was given a was rather deviant from what is expected
script; an article to take in women. Someone who couldn’t care less
home to do quite a big about being fat and wasn’t interested in
drawing. This was about What do you like about transposing classic being nice to people. She pleased herself.
1972. I was this sort of dogsbody: if there novels into a contemporary setting? She liked living on her own. And then be-
was a hole in a page that needed illing with Posy Simmonds: Well, some of the work has cause I’d had the idea of A Christmas Carol,
something, I would get a call. So I got used already been done by Flaubert and Thomas of course she became Scrooge. A different
to deadlines. In fact, it was a really useful Hardy... Thank you very much! In fact, it’s kind of Scrooge.
way of developing how I drew, because I sort of by accident that Tamara Drew is
think in college you imitate people that you based on Far From the Madding Crowd. It 5. Vocable: The story of Cassandra Darke is
admire. So it was like that, bit by bit. I was was really because it was in the literary based in London. You portray the two sides
at The Guardian quite a long time and then supplement of The Guardian this time. And of city – both the wealthy and the deprived
the editor asked me to do a strip – half page my editor said: “Are you going to bury an- neighbourhoods. Do you ind London an
– which I did for about twelve years. And other novel in it?” And I said “No, I don’t inspiring city?
then I was asked to do Gemma Bovery. Both think so.” She said “Oh, go on” and it was Posy Simmonds: Yes, I think so. I think cities
Gemma Bovery and Tamara appeared in only when I was thinking of what an ad- are inspiring, in a good and in a bad way.
The Guardian as serials. vertisement for these writers’ retreat would They have everything. ‘Cos I work at home,
look like in the paper, thinking it’s Dorset I have to get out, otherwise you spend the
3. Vocable: Gemma Bovery and Tamara and it’s buried in the countryside, and it’s whole time in. So I walked in London every
Drewe were loosely based on 19th century far from the madding crowd that I thought day. And I was just aware that gradually,
novels. With Cassandra Darke, you are “Oh! Far from the Madding crowd!” And I the rich had got much richer and the richer >>>
reworking Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. re-read the novel and I thought actually
three men in love with the same girl is not
4. likeable sympathique / character personnage / to
a bad plot... But it wouldn’t matter if you expect attendre (de qqn) / ...who couldn’t care less
oice bureau.
didn’t know the book. about ...qui se ichait, se moquait complètement de... /
2. on the spot sur-le-champ / to frighten efrayer /
on one’s own seul / Scrooge réf. au personnage
horrid horrible / paper journal / copy exemplaire /
principal avare et aigri de Un Chant de Noël. À noter que
granny grand-mère, mamie / dogsbody factotum, setting contexte / by accident par hasard / Far from c'est aussi le nom de Picsou en anglais / kind genre.
petite main, pers. disponible pour toutes les besognes / the Madding Crowd (VF) Loin de la foule déchaînée /
hole trou / to ill remplir, combler / deadline délai (ici, to bury enterrer; ici, cacher, dissimuler / 5. to portray décrire, présenter / side côté, aspect /
serré) / college (US) université / bit by bit petit à advertisement publicité / to bury ici, être au in fond wealthy riche, aisé, cossu / deprived défavorisé /
petit / strip bande dessinée / serial série. de / countryside campagne / actually en fait / plot neighbourhood quartier / cos = because / otherwise
intrigue, histoire, scénario / to matter avoir de sinon / to be aware that savoir, être conscient de /
3. loosely ici, librement / A Christmas Carol (VF) Un
l'importance. gradually progressivement, petit à petit /
chant de Noël ou Conte de Noël /

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 Culture I Bande dessinée I
>>> areas had got more much more expensive.
The prices of property had risen. And people
had got poorer as well. Even if they had two
jobs, they often couldn’t afford their rent.
And of course you saw more homeless on
the streets. I think life became grim for
many people. And that chimed with Dickens
as well, with his London, which was full of
the same sort of social fracture.
6. Vocable: What research did you
do for Cassandra
Darke?
Pos y Simm on ds:
First of all, I al-
w ay s d r aw t he
character, what she
wea r s, b efore I
w r ite any t hing.
Cassandra wears a
trapper’s hat, which
to me seemed like a
sort of helmet. And it
isolates her. She can’t
hear so well, and her
big coat sort of iso-
lates her against the
cold and other people.
It’s like her armour. So
having decided what she wore gave me a
sort of entry into her character. Then I chose
the art world because I wanted her to have
a profession that she could do at home. So
she sells mainly prints. And I wanted her
to be quite cultivated. I researched her
background so that it was sort of convinc-
ing. The other thing is that the art market
is also a form of gambling. People think
there is what’s called “blue chip artists”,
which are thought to be very sound. If you
buy one of them, your money is safe. And I
wanted her to rather hate that, which is why
she defrauds her clients – the ones who buy
things by not looking at them but just for
the investment. She cheats these clients. So
she has a sort of morality.
area quartier, zone, secteur / property ici, immobilier /
to rise, rose, risen augmenter / to aford se
permettre (inancièrement); ici, payer / rent loyer /
homeless sans abri / grim triste, déprimant / to
chime être en adéquation avec, correspondre à.
6. helmet casque / armour armure / mainly
principalement, surtout / print gravure, reproduction /
background ici, formation / gambling jeux (d’argent,
de hasard) / blue chip de premier ordre; ici, artistes
que l'on dit être des "valeurs sûres" / sound ici valable,
iable / safe à l’abri / to defraud escroquer / to cheat
duper, arnaquer.
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7. Vocable: Since your irst book, you’ve
created a very unique form of graphic novel
that mixes panels with substantial chunks
of text. How did you come up with this
form?
Posy Simmonds: It’s really because they were
in the paper. It was just the constraints of
the paper. For Gemma Bovery, I was given 3
columns wide 5 of depth, which is weird for
a bande dessinée. I can remember when I
was irst given the space I thought “It’s not
horizontal, what am I gonna do?” But after
a bit I came to rather like it. The other thing
is the paper only gave me a hundred episodes
so it was a hell of a lot of story to squash into
a hundred episodes. It’s more economical
sometimes to write something; sometimes
it’s more economical to have a picture. They
each do different things. And it gives me the
opportunity to have several narrative voices.
8. Vocable: Can you tell us what you are
working on at the moment?
Posy Simmonds: Yes, I am working on some-
thing. It’s still in the stage of my sketch-
books where I work things out. And it might
7. panel ici, illustration / substantial conséquent /
chunk morceau, partie / to come, came, come up
with parvenir à créer, trouver (qqch.) / 3 columns
wide 3 colonnes (unité de mesure utilisée pour mesurer
la largeur (wide) des espaces attribués dans les
journaux) / depth profondeur; ici, hauteur (soit un
espace d'une largeur de 3 colonnes par 5 pouces de
hauteur) / weird étrange, peu banal / bit ici, moment /
a hell of a lot beaucoup, un sacré (qqch.); ici, ...une
sacrée longue histoire... / to squash ici, caser.
8. stage ici, phase, stade / sketchbook carnet de
croquis / to work things out ici, faire des tests/des
essais /
The book
Cassandra Darke tells the story of a
seventy-something mean and selish art
dealer living in a sumptuous home in
Chelsea, London. After being convicted
of defrauding her gallery’s clients,
Cassandra becomes a social pariah.
When she decides to let her basement to
her young niece, Nicki, she has no idea to
what extent her life is about to change.
This is because Nicki is in possession of
something that implies at least violence
and probably a body . . .
mean méchant / selish égoïste / art dealer
marchand d'art / to convict condamner /
basement sous-sol / to what extent à quel
point, dans quelle mesure.
be something about Cassandra because I
did a lot of research about her. But it’s at that
stage where it could go anywhere. And at
the moment there is no particular 19th
century novel – you know, War and Peace
or Anna Karenina – that I haven’t got in-
volved in... l
to get involved in s'impliquer, (s')investir; ici, se
plonger dans.
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
Le language des livres
a novel un roman
a short story une nouvelle
a graphic novel une bande dessinée
(sous forme de livre), à la diférence
d’une bande dessinée dans une
magazine, qu’on appelle a cartoon
strip.
a cartoon un dessin humoristique
a cartoonist un dessinateur
humoristique
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Eurovision
It has been announced that Madonna will
perform two songs during the interval at this
year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will be
held in Tel Aviv on 18 May. One of the songs
will be a new one from her forthcoming
album, due to be released in June. The
performance is expected to cost around

(SIPA)
£765,000. It will be inanced by an Israeli-
Canadian billionaire, Sylvan Adams, who has

Warner Bros. versus Trump

already inanced large-scale events and
concerts in the past, in an efort to support
Israel against boycott movements.
Warner Bros has taken legal action against Donald Trump after he used music to perform se produire (sur scène); ici, interpréter /
from the movie The Dark Knight Rises in a video on Twitter. The two-minute interval entracte / contest concours / to be
video, posted by the American president for his 2020 re-election campaign, fea- held avoir lieu, se tenir / forthcoming prochain /
due to censé (ici ...qui devrait…) / to be released
tured Hans Zimmer’s “Why Do We Fall?” from the 2012 ilm, and was captioned sortir / to be expected to devoir (…devrait...) /
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” In a statement, the entertainment company billionaire milliardaire / large-scale de grande
said: “The use of Warner Bros’ score from The Dark Knight Rises in the campaign ampleur / in an efort to dans le but de / to
support soutenir / movement ici, opération.
video was unauthorised.” It is not the irst time legal action over copyright issues
has been taken against Trump. Numerous artists, including Prince, Pharrell Wil-
liams and The Rolling Stones, have demanded the U.S. president stop using their
music at campaign rallies..
versus contre / to take, took, taken legal action engager des poursuites judiciaires / to feature contenir /
to caption légender / statement déclaration, communiqué / entertainment divertissement / score ici,
musique, bande originale / issue question / numerous (de) nombreux / to demand exiger, réclamer / rally
rassemblement, meeting.

Newton 1861 (SIPA)

American ilmmaker Brian de Palma
is working on an English-language
remake of the French TV series
Un Village Français. The Scarface
director is currently collaborating
with Frédéric Krivine, the co-creator
of the French period drama hit.
Titled Newton 1861, De Palma’s U.S.
adaptation will be set during the Civil
War and tackle slavery.
ilmmaker cinéaste, réalisateur / director
ici, réalisateur / currently actuellement /
period drama ilm historique; ici, série
historique / hit (à) succès / to be set se
dérouler / Civil War guerre de Sécession
(1861-1865) / to tackle ici, aborder (le
thème de) / slavery esclavage.
(SIPA)
Bacon’s screaming
pope
A rare painting by Francis Bacon will be
auctioned in New York this month. Study for
a Head (1952) is part of Bacon’s “screaming
pope” series. The series, inspired by Diego
Velázquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X,
helped to establish Bacon’s reputation in the
1950s. Study for a Head has been exhibited
in public only once before, in Norwich,
Norfolk, in 2006. It will feature prominently in
Sotheby’s upcoming auction on 16 May.
pope Pape / to auction vendre aux enchères /
to exhibit exposer / to feature ici, igurer /
prominently en bonne place / upcoming

prochain.

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SILICON VALLEY’S
QUEST FOR
IMMORTALITY
La Silicon Valley rêve d'immortalité
Voilà des siècles que l’Homme cherche, en vain, à duper la mort. Aujourd’hui,
la pierre philosophale a cédé la place aux thérapies permettant de ralentir
le vieillissement des cellules et aux expériences sur les souris. Et ce sont les
géants de la Silicon Valley, de Google à Amazon, qui sont aux commandes.
Alors, l’immortalité est-elle vraiment à portée de main ?

C hina’s first emperor

ordered his subjects to
search for the elixir of life in a
quest for immortality. In 16th century
France, nobles would drink gold in a bid
to extend their lifespans. Gilgamesh, the
Sumerian king at the heart of humani-
ty’s earliest epic poem, found a magic
herb, but a snake ate it. In 2015, a woman
on the MTV series True Life: I’m Ob-
Scientists and sessed With Staying Young bathed in
entrepreneurs are pig blood.
working on a
range of
techniques, from 2. In 2019, the quest for everlasting life
attempting to is, largely, though not always, more sci-
stop cells aging,
to the practice of entific. Funded by Silicon Valley elites,
injecting young researchers believe they are closer than
blood into old
people. (Istock)
1. in a quest for ici, pour accéder à / in a bid to pour
tenter de (bid tentative) / lifespan durée de vie,
existence / earliest ici, premier / epic poem ici,
Épopée de Gilgamesh, qui raconte la vie de Gilgamesh,
roi d'Uruk, contraint d'accepter sa condition de simple
mortel / to bathe se baigner / blood sang.
2. everlasting éternel / to fund inancer / Silicon
Valley pôle des industries de pointe, près de San
Francisco / researcher chercheur /
ever to tweaking the human body so that
we can finally live forever (or quite a bit
longer), even as some worry about pseu-
doscience in the sector. Scientists and
entrepreneurs are working on a range of
techniques, from attempting to stop cells
aging, to the practice of injecting young
blood into old people – a process de-
nounced as quackery by the Federal Drug
Administration in February.
3. “There’s millions of people now who
won’t see death if they choose,” said
James Strole, the director of the Coalition
of Radical Life Extension, an organiza-
tion which brings together scientists and
enthusiasts interested in “physical im-
mortality”. At present our bodies are built
to last – “if you take perfect care of your
to tweak modiier (ici, génétiquement) / range
éventail / to attempt tenter, essayer / cell cellule /
aging vieillissement / quackery charlatanisme /
Federal Drug Administration (FDA) aux É.-U.,
organisme fédéral de contrôle des produits
alimentaires et pharmaceutiques.
3. care soin /

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body” – 125 years, according to Strole.
The problem is that if someone did live
to be 125, they are unlikely to remain
spry into their final decades. “Who
wants to live in some decrepit state?”
Strole said. “We’ve increased lifespans a
lot, but we haven’t improved quality of
lifespan.”
“SUPER LONGEVITY”
4. That’s where what enthusiasts
called “super longevity” comes in.
A number of billionaires have
pumped money into research that
aims to keep people fighting fit
as they age. Google founders Ser-
gey Brin and Larry Page have
pumped millions into Calico, a
secretive health venture which aims
to “solve death”. Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos and the billionaire Peter Thiel are
backers of Unity Biotechnology, which
hopes to combat the effects of aging. The
idea of never dying might sound like
something from science fiction, but the
experimental techniques are far removed
from a brain in a jar, a body in a freezer
or a heart wired up to a car battery.
TELOMERE THERAPY
5. Sierra Sciences is another company
racing to cheat death. Its focus is on
treatments that can lengthen telomeres
– the “caps” at the end of each strand of
DNA. Telomeres get shorter each time a
cell copies itself. Because our cells copy
themselves throughout our lives, the
telomeres eventually get very short, and
our cells cannot regenerate: we get old.
“If you can get the telomeres back to the
normal state they were at when you were
born, that could reduce your biological
age back to 25,” Strole said. “You wouldn’t
be reversed back to a baby. You stop
where maturity begins and ends.”
to be unlikely to avoir peu de chances de / spry plein
d’entrain, alerte / decrepit state décrépitude.
4. billionaire milliardaire / to pump ici, injecter / to
aim to avoir pour objectif de / ighting it en pleine
forme / secretive secret, mystérieux / venture
entreprise / backer sponsor / to be far removed
from être très éloigné de / jar bocal / freezer
congélateur / to wire up brancher, relier.
5. to race faire la course / to cheat tromper / focus
ici, priorité / to lengthen allonger / cap capuchon /
strand brin / DNA ADN / eventually à terme / to be
reversed back to a baby revenir à l'état de bébé.
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6. Among Sierra Sciences competitors is
BioViva, whose CEO, Elizabeth Parrish,
is so committed to the cause that
If and when these
technologies
became available,
they are likely to
be fantastically
expensive.
she became one of the first humans to
undergo telomere therapy in 2015. Writ-
ing in 2018, she claimed a measurement
of her telomeres showed they had “grown
younger” by roughly 30 years since she
received the treatment – her body was
reverse-aging.
IN ANIMALS
7. Others claim they can already prevent
aging in animals. George Church, a
Harvard professor and the founder of
Rejuvenate Bio, uses gene therapy to add
anti-aging instructions to DNA. Church
says he has succeeded in making mice
live twice as long, and the secretive
company is said to be planning immi-
nent testing on dogs. The discovery by
Calico scientists in 2018 that naked mole
rats – which look exactly how they
sound, except with bigger teeth – es-
sentially do not age fueled further ex-
citement in the quest for immortality.
According to Science magazine the defi-
ance is due to “very active DNA repair
6. competitor concurrent / CEO = Chief Executive
Oicer, PDG / to be committed to ici, être investi
dans / to undergo, went, gone subir, suivre / to
claim airmer / roughly environ / to reverse-age
rajeunir.
7. to succeed in (+ ger.) parvenir à / mouse (pl.
mice) souris / naked mole rat hétérocéphale, rat-
taupe nu / to age vieillir / to fuel further excitement
raviver l'engouement /
and high levels of chaperones, proteins
that help other proteins fold correctly”,
and the hope is that some of the discov-
eries could be applied to humans.
8.If and when these technologies be-
came available, they are likely to be
fantastically expensive. Strole said de-
mand could eventually lower the price,
but plenty of non-billion-
aires could die in the
meantime. Besides that,
everyone living much,
much longer would cause
many other problems.
Where do the children of
these centenarians live?
9. Until workable life-pre-
ser ving technology is
available, immortality en-
thusiasts are also obsessed
with staying healthy – some fast on cer-
tain days, others watch calories, most ex-
ercise – so they are around long enough
to beneit from emerging anti-aging sci-
ence. The aim, as many in the “physical
immortality community” put it, is to: “Live
long enough to live forever.” l
to fold se (re)plier / to apply to (s')appliquer à.
8. to be likely to risquer de / to lower faire baisser /
in the meantime entre-temps / besides that en
outre.
9. workable eicace / life-preserving qui maintient
en vie / healthy en bonne santé / to fast jeûner / to
watch faire attention à / to exercise faire du sport /
emerging nouveau / as... put it selon les termes de....
SUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUE
span = l'espace entre
deux points ou une
durée dans le temps
lifespan (§ 1) durée/espérance de vie
wingspan of a bird or a plane
l'envergure d’un oiseau, d’un avion
the span of a bridge la travée d’un
pont
the span of a girder la portée d'une
poutre
"Span" est également un verbe :
the bridge spans the river
the wars spanned a hundred years
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