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Séquence 9 · Back to the land? Dreams of nature

Why do city dwellers dream of nature, and can we really live in harmony with it?

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Dans cette séquence de anglais, tu vas chercher à répondre à la grande question écrite en haut de la page. Elle se fait en 3 séances. Pour chaque séance : lis la consigne, étudie les documents, réponds aux questions sur ta feuille ou sur l'ENT, puis recopie l'essentiel dans ton cahier. Tu peux imprimer cette page avec le bouton « Imprimer ».

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Les mots importants

will / shall for intentionssound devices: alliterationrewilding, biodiversityconcession: even though, despite

Ressources de la séquence

Les notions, les repères et les pistes pour aller plus loin, utiles pour toutes les séances.

Les notions à maîtriser

Alliteration
Repetition of a consonant sound: lake water lapping with low sounds.
Concession
even though + subject + verb; despite + noun: Despite the noise, he hears the lake.
Rewilding
Letting an area return to a natural state, sometimes by bringing back animals (beavers, lynx…).

Repères

DateÉvénement
1854Thoreau publishes Walden, which inspired the young Yeats.
1890« The Lake Isle of Innisfree » is published in the National Observer.
1923Yeats receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Pour aller plus loin

Sources et bibliographie

Mon parcours : je choisis mon rythme

Séance 1 · Escaping the city?

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

Why do so many people dream of leaving the city?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Intentions: will, be going to

To talk about intentions: be going to (a plan already decided), will (a decision now or a promise): I'm going to move to the country. I will grow my own vegetables. In older English, shall is used with I/we: I shall have some peace.

Document 1 · Three city dwellers

Testimonies written by the teacher (fictional characters).

Jade, 34, London. « I'm going to leave the city next year. I want to hear birds, not traffic. »

Sam, 52, Manchester. « I love my city, but I've started an allotment: a small garden where I grow beans and tomatoes. »

Priya, 27, Birmingham. « Moving to the country? No way. But I will fight for more parks and trees in my street. »

Source : teacher's synthesis (fictional testimonies).

Pour bien lire ce document :

allotment: a small piece of land rented to grow vegetables; no way: absolutely not.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What is Jade going to do?
  2. What is an allotment?
  3. What will Priya do?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Will or be going to?

  1. I've decided: I ___ (move) to Wales.
  2. Look at the clouds: it ___ (rain).
  3. OK, I ___ (help) you plant the trees.
  4. We ___ (create) a garden next spring; it's planned.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Record 1 minute 30: present the three points of view and react to them (no personal details required). Sentence starters: Jade wants to… whereas… / Sam has found a compromise:… / I find Priya's idea… because….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

allotmentnature

Some people dream of leaving the city; others bring ______ into the city, like an _________.

Séance 2 · « I will arise and go now »

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

How does Yeats make us hear and feel nature?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Sound devices

Read the poem aloud. Listen to the alliteration (lake water lapping with low sounds), the repetition (I will arise and go now) and the long, slow lines. The last stanza reveals where the speaker is: on grey pavements, in the city.

Document 1 · W. B. Yeats, « The Lake Isle of Innisfree »

Poem, 1890 (public domain).

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Source : W. B. Yeats, « The Lake Isle of Innisfree », 1890 (text on Wikisource).

Pour bien lire ce document :

wattles: woven sticks; glade: open space in a forest; linnet: a small bird; lapping: making small soft sounds against the shore; core: centre.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What will the speaker build and grow?
  2. What will he find there?
  3. Where is he really?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Find in the poem.

  1. an example of alliteration
  2. a repeated line
  3. two colours
  4. two animals

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (written)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Write 120 to 150 words: comment on the last stanza and the contrast between the city and the lake. Sentence starters: In the last stanza, we discover that… / Even though he stands on…, he hears… / This contrast shows….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

lakepavements

Yeats is on grey _________ but hears the ______ in his heart.

Séance 3 · Debate: should we rewild Britain?

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

Is rewilding the best way to live in harmony with nature?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Concession: even though, despite

To concede and argue: even though + clause (Even though beavers can flood fields, they help biodiversity), despite + noun / -ing (Despite the costs), admittedly, nevertheless.

Document 1 · Rewilding: two views

Texts written by the teacher.

For. Beavers have returned to some rivers in Scotland and England. Their dams slow down water, reduce floods downstream and create wetlands full of life. Rewilding also attracts visitors.

Against. Some farmers worry: beavers can flood fields, and big predators could attack sheep. They say decisions are often made in cities by people who do not work the land.

Source : teacher's synthesis.

Pour bien lire ce document :

dam: a wall that stops water; wetland: wet area such as a marsh; predator: an animal that kills others to eat them.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. How do beavers reduce floods?
  2. Why do some farmers worry?
  3. What do farmers criticise about decisions?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Combine with even though or despite.

  1. Beavers flood fields. They help biodiversity.
  2. The costs. The project continued.
  3. The rain. We went for a walk by the river.
  4. Living in a city. He loves nature.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Record a 1 minute 30 argument for or against rewilding, with two concessions. Sentence starters: Admittedly,… / Even though…, I believe… / Nevertheless,….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

evennoun

To concede, I use ______ though + clause or despite + ______.

Fiche à trous · je complète

Complète le texte avec les mots de la banque (sur papier ou dans le document de l'ENT).

alliterationLondonnaturethough

Yeats wrote the poem in ______, dreaming of a lake in Ireland.

« lake water lapping with low sounds » is an example of ____________.

Rewilding means giving land back to ______.

Even ______ the city is grey, the speaker hears the lake.

Ce que j'ai appris

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