Anglais - CM

CM - Anglais

Info for the test:

Questionary (answer in sentences in English) (ex: what is britishness?)

Text (list of texts on arche-moodle)

Basics of the course on a small slideshow

Don’t forget to have a look at the online course!

Type « michel » in the searchbox or « civilisation britannique » (CM L1 AES L1 ECO L1 DROIT anglais)

Keys values: Patriotism/Nostalgia/Stability/Continuity

BRITAIN:

Keywords:

PM: PrimeMinister

Constitutional monarchy

MP: Members of Parlement (work in Westminster parlement in London)

Parliament= Westminster

10 Downing street=working place of the PrimeMinister, iconic place: represent Britain

Holyrood (use to be a resident of the king of Scotland)= One of the parlement in the UK: Parlement of Scotland.

Buckingham (One of the home of the queen)= Official residence of the queen.

David Cameron (Brexit referendum), British= Euroscepticism, Cameron lost referendum=

Theresa May: second minister of Westminster.

British dont like revolution and like values of stability/continuity/patriotism, like Japan (Empire), no political power.

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Wikipedia is good for basic information.

Dictionaries:

wordreference.com

thefreedictionnary.com

linguee.fr

News: BBC.co.uk

British civilisation:

Britishness: examples (pictures and videos)

The four nations of the UK

An urban population: British cities

London

The North/South divide (not same life)

Parliament and 10 Downing Street

The British economy

Stereotypes: Mr Bean

Old-fashioned suit

Morris car (very British car)

Urban landscape (iconic)

(brick walls, buses, mailboxes…)

Conservatism (« keep things as they are »)

Contrast: Stiff attitude (coded society) // Eccentricity

Handshake: first meeting (please to meet you).

President Chirac: (touch the queen in the back): « Don’t touch our queen » in news papers.

Boris Johnson: (l’alcool est un problème dans la politique, plus qu’en France, en bcp plus chez les jeunes: stupid thinks)

Big cities / natural areas

Many peoples lives in big cities (80%), towns: small / cities: big

LONDON: Oxford Street

(Red double-deckers, Black cabs (taxi), Victorian buildings)

L’espace est rare et cher dans ce pays: entassement.

À l’exception d’Edinburg, Bath, York (caché médieval).

Cities: Huge conurbations

80% of the population

(UK: 68m)

London: 7.5 m inhabitants

Birmingham (977.000 inhabitants)

Newcastle (260.000)

Manchester (392.000)

=Country of Cities, not country of towns.

Rural Britain: « Merry old England »:

(a traditional cottage)

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Shakespeare’s birthplace (16thC)

Stonehenge: prehistoric Britain (2600 BC)

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SUPERPOWER COUNTRY:

WATERSHED: (victorian era): 1853-1901

Industrialisation

Urbanisation

Middle-Class

Colonisation

QUEEN AND COUNTRY:

« the Queen reigns but she does not rule »

REIGNING: A SYMBOLIC POWER

Representing the British Nation

(Weddings, commemorations, trooping the colour…)

RULING: ACTUAL POWER

making decisions; using laws

(Prime Minister, Parliament, Law Courts)

QUEEN ELIZABETH II:

Representing the Nation

« glamour and pageantry »

(magnificence)

Constitutional monarchy

(defence of British institutions)

« Head » of the Royal Family

Some « Royals »

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Charles (waiting to become the king) (The Prince of Wales) (Heir (héritier) to the Throne)

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