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Séquence 10 · Remembering to move forward

How can a country learn from the dark pages of its past?

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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

should have + past participlememorialrepetition and the rule of threeremembrance

Ressources de la séquence

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

Les notions à maîtriser

Memorial
A monument or place built to remember people or events.
Rule of three
Three words or phrases in a row make an idea easy to remember.
should have + past participle
Regret or criticism about the past: The country should have abolished slavery earlier.

Repères

DateÉvénement
1861-1865American Civil War.
1863Emancipation Proclamation (1 January) and Gettysburg Address (19 November).
186513th Amendment: slavery is abolished in the United States.
1922Inauguration of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Pour aller plus loin

Sources et bibliographie

Mon parcours : je choisis mon rythme

Séance 1 · Why build a memorial?

75 min

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

La question du jour

Why do societies build memorials?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Regret about the past: should have

To criticise or regret the past, use should have + past participle: They should have listened. / They shouldn't have waited. Useful words: to remember, to honour, to commemorate, a memorial, a lesson.

Document 1 · The Lincoln Memorial

Text written by the teacher.

The Lincoln Memorial stands in Washington, D.C. It was opened in 1922 to honour Abraham Lincoln, the president who led the country during the Civil War and fought to end slavery. Inside, a giant statue of Lincoln sits in front of the words of two of his speeches. In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous « I Have a Dream » speech on its steps. A memorial is not only about the past: it is a place where people come to ask what the past means for them today.

Source : teacher's synthesis.

Pour bien lire ce document :

steps: stairs outside a building; to honour: to show respect.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. Why was the memorial built?
  2. What happened there in 1963?
  3. According to the text, what is a memorial for?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Complete with should have or shouldn't have + past participle.

  1. Slavery (abolish) ___ much earlier.
  2. People (forget) ___ the victims. (negative)
  3. The government (protect) ___ all citizens.
  4. They (wait) ___ so long. (negative)

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Record 1 minute: describe a memorial in an English-speaking country and say why it matters. Sentence starters: This memorial is in… / It was built to… / It reminds us that….

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.

lessonremember

A memorial helps people ________ the past and learn a ______ from it.

Séance 2 · « A new birth of freedom »

75 min

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

La question du jour

How does Lincoln turn a battlefield into a lesson for the future?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Rhetoric: repetition and the rule of three

Lincoln's speech is very short. He moves from the past (Four score and seven years ago = 87 years ago, 1776) to the present (the cemetery) and the future (a new birth of freedom). He uses the rule of three: of the people, by the people, for the people.

Document 1 · Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (extracts)

Speech, 19 November 1863 (public domain).

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

[…]

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

[…] that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Source : Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863 (text on Wikisource).

Pour bien lire ce document :

four score: 80; brought forth: created; conceived: born; perish: die, disappear.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What does « four score and seven years ago » refer to?
  2. What idea is the nation « dedicated » to?
  3. Find the rule of three.

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Find in the text the time markers.

  1. the past
  2. the present
  3. the future
  4. a verb meaning « disappear »

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Learn and record the last sentence of the speech, then explain it in 30 seconds. Sentence starters: Lincoln means that… / The rule of three shows… / For the future, he wants….

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.

democracyfuture

Lincoln goes from the past to the ______; his rule of three defines _________.

Séance 3 · A speech for remembrance

75 min

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

La question du jour

What would you say to make people remember and act?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Writing a speech

A good speech: addresses the audience (Dear friends), explains why we are here, uses repetition and a rule of three, ends with a call to action (Let us…).

Document 1 · Model speech

Model text written by the teacher.

Dear friends, we are here today to remember the men and women who fought for freedom. They did not ask for glory; they asked for justice. We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it. Let us remember, let us respect, let us act. Because freedom is not a gift: it is a promise we keep every day.

Source : teacher's model text.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read the model and answer.

  1. Find the call to action.
  2. Which sentence links past and future?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Turn into « Let us + verb ».

  1. We must remember.
  2. We should listen to the victims.
  3. We must protect freedom.
  4. We must never forget.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Write and record a 45-second speech for a remembrance day at school. Sentence starters: Dear friends,… / We cannot change the past, but… / Let us….

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.

audienceLet

A speech addresses the ________ and ends with a call to action: ______ us…

Fiche à trous · je complète

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

1863havememorialthree

A ________ helps people remember an event or a person.

Lincoln gave his speech in ______, during the Civil War.

« of the people, by the people, for the people » is a rule of ______.

To express regret about the past, I use should ______ + past participle.

Ce que j'ai appris

Les 3 idées que je retiens :
Une phrase en anglais que je veux retenir :
Ce qui reste difficile pour moi / ma question pour le professeur :