Idea of progress : to what extent is the 1960s a decade representative of progress ?

The swinging sixties

 To  what extent is the 1960s a decade representative of progress  ?

Idea of Progress

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  It’s a magazine front cover of an american weekly magazine. It represents England in 1966. [pic 15]

 There is :

- big ben

-bingo

- red double-decker

- union jack

- the crown

- rolls royce

- Aston Martin

- tea

- conservative England

- casino

- round glasses

- disco

- colored and short clothes

- people probably high

- horseguards

- flare trousers

The front cover could be divided in two part, the England in the 1960s and the Traditional England.

Activity A

1.  Private radios were so attractive because they played rock’n’roll that was not broadcast on official radios. The BBC only broadcast music 6 hours a week

2. Ondes → airewaves

émettre → broadcast

spots publicitaires → commercials

présentateurs → broadcaster

3.

4. British Broadcasting Corporation

5. at the beginning → at the dawn

were the property of → were owned

tasteless and boring →bland

almost → all but

forbidden→ banished

6.

7. illicit (l.12), pirates (l.19), rebellious (l.8), out of British authorities legal reach (l.15), crime (l.25), unlicensed (l.26)

8. they were based on shups anchored in the international waters (the Channel^[1])

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