Broadways Terminales – page 46 - Worksheet on ‘A magical ride’
The novelist (name – SURNAME): ______
Nationality : ______
Source: ______
Type of narrative : ______
The setting : The action takes place ______
The period : ______
The narrator : ______
Information about the characters ( when possible)
How many are present? ______
How do they relate to each other? : ______
Their first names: ______
Their nationality : ______
Who do the following names refer to? Match the two columns
(l. 5) Big Bill Baggins
(l. 6) Kroc
(l. 6) Betty
(l. 6) Tekoa
(l. 7) Jimi Hendrix
(l. 7) The Star-Spangled Banner
(l. 8) Woodstock
(l. 25) Custer
(l. 38) CNN
(l. 50) Elvis Presley
a large rock music festival in August 1969
a listener
a local radio station
a radio host
a US general who fought the Indians
a US pop singer (a.k.a. the King)
a US television company
an African-American guitarist
an American town
the American national anthem /flag
Pick out the following information
Four wars mentioned in the passage:
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The connection between the song and the topic of the conversation: ______
What the narrator lost in the first Gulf War : ______
What he complains about : ______
His father’s philosophy : ______
True / False / I don’t know
The tone of the introduction is very serious.
The two men hate each other.
The father doesn’t like the song they’re playing on the radio.
The narrator’s ‘complaint’ about his generation living in peace makes his father angry.
The language register of the father is very colloquial.
He deliberately distorts the name of the first Gulf War.
He would like his son to fight for their country.
The two men are Native Americans.
Vocabulary from the text – Find the words then translate them into French
(lines 1 to 8)
the opposite of drunk :
a familiar synonym for people :
a piece of music :
(lines 9 to 16)
a road between two towns :
a vehicle to clear the roads after a snowstorm :
what you hold to manoeuvre a car :
(lines 17 to 28)
what your fingers touch when you play the guitar :
a number of notes played at the same time :
finished :
(lines 29 to 38)
the opposite of ‘cry’ :
a metaphor for ‘rich people’ :
(lines 48 to the end)
I imagine :
appearing :
I think :
Translate the passage from ‘My father smiled ...’ (l. 9) to ‘... and function.’ (l. 16)
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