TISSEMSILT UNIVERSIT
The Department of Languages and literature
The French language institute
English Distant Courses for French Language Students
The Second Semester
In charge of the course: RAFA
(Master1 Literature)
University Year 2022-2023
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Make sure you understand at least the meaning of everything you read .
if you cannot understand it , and there is nothing that helps in the notes , put a line
by side of the word or passage and get help from your teacher.
ملاحظة : كل ما هو مكتوب باللون الأحمر (عشرين سؤال تطبيقي في نهاية هذه الوثيقة)، عبارة عن تمرين يتم تنقيطه حيث أن الطالب مطالب بالرد عليه عبرارسال رسالة الى البريد الالكتروني خاص باستاذة المادة الانجليزية. يجب التأكد من استلام الايميل، في حالة عدم الاستلام جوابكم لا معنى له.)
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- Do not insist by asking about something repeatedly.
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is approachable and easy to talk to.
- Avoid using Arabic-French language in your writing.
- Follow the teacher account and the English group for news and updates.
- The sooner you send your answer the disciplined you are online.
- Do not make the same mistakes that you did during the last semester in
written expression.
- Use your own ideas , Do not depend only on the internet
- If you don’t send your answer, you will have a zero as TD mark.
- When you copy your friend’s answer and send it to me, both of you will get a
zero.
- If I don’t write you back when you send your email , this means I did not
receive your answer.
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the
world”.
Peu importe ce qu’on pourra vous dire, les
mots et les idées peuvent changer le monde.
Le cercle des poètes disparus
Introduction:
As you were growing up, you learned to behave in a certain way in certain situations. You learned to feed yourself in a certain way. You learned to tie your shoes, probably with a bowknot. You learned how to conduct yourself in school, how to get along with children, how to behave when being introduced to an adult. We all learned these ways of behaving, and learned them so thoroughly that other ways of doing these same things seem strange to us, if not wrong or downright incredible. As the years went by and the system worked itself deeper and deeper into the set of habits by which you lived, you learned to call that system the English Language. We learned from the loving help of parents, as well as from the ridicule of playmates who gave us no peace until we talked like everybody else. We studied the language every waking hour.
1- Grammar:
Good writing is
not just a matter of correct grammar and punctuation; it is a matter of effectiveness.
Language is the clay of the art of writing, and it can be molded into some strange
and exotic forms. Keep an open mind, but don’t forget the basic conventions of
your language.
Sentence
fragments:
A sentence
needs a subject and a predicate. The sentence has to be about someone or something:
The subject, and something has to be said about that subject (The predicate).
The best
matador in Spain ( Fragment)
Killed by a
bull (Fragment)
The best
matador in Spain was killed by a bull (Complete)
Being an only
child (Fragment)
Being an only child is not easy (Complete)
Tense:
The six principal
tenses are the following:
Present (I see)
to talk about something that is going on now (currently)
Past (I saw)
The past tense expresses actions that have happened in the past
Future (I will see)
used to denote an action that will happen in the future
Present perfect
(I have seen) to indicate a link between the present and the past
Past perfect (I
had seen) refers to a time earlier than before now
Future perfect (I will have seen) to talk about something that will be completed before a specific time in the future.
Parts of Speech:
What is a Part
of Speech?
We can
categorize English words into 9 basic types called "parts of speech"
or "word classes". It's quite important to recognize parts of speech.
This helps you to analyze sentences and understand them. It also helps you to
construct good sentences.
Parts of Speech
Table
This is a
summary of the 9 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on
each part of speech.
2-
Comprehension:
Master 1
Literature:
Surrealism Surrealism was a movement in graphic art and literature that was founded in Paris, in 1924, by André Breton. Inspired by another movement in art called Dadaism, the surrealist movement has been one of the most influential art movements in the 20 th century. It eventually had a worldwide audience, flourishing notably in the United States during World War two. Surrealism focused on the role of the unconscious in the creative process. Surrealist painters, a group that included such famous names as Miro, Dali, and Ernst, displayed a wide variety of style and content. (TOEFL reading comprehension)
There is no
Such Thing as Society:
“I think we
have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to
understand (I have a problem, it is the government's job to cope with it!) Or
(I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!); (I am homeless,
the government must house me!) And so, they are casting their problems on
society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men
and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except
through people and people look to themselves first. "It is our duty to
look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is
a reciprocal business. (Thatcher, Margaret, 1987).
Identity and memory
History cannot be reconstructed without memory. A person without memory is a child. The child has two names, a first and a last name. The first belongs to the child, the second to his father. The opposite of remembering is forgetting. Friedrich Nietshe’s aphorism: healthy is who can’t recall, stands in opposition to the truism that a person who loses his memory loses his identity. Thomas Jefferson, taking the same view of collective memory, wrote at the end of 18 th century that it is unjust for the dead to impose their laws on the living. Today we draw the opposite conclusion: those who repress memories are, or will become, sick. (Katarina Von Bulow, Horst Moller)
The art of
money getting
In the United
States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons
in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many
avenues of success open , so many vocations which are not crowded ,that any person
of either sex who is willing , at least for the time being , to engage in any respectable
occupation that offers , may find lucrative employment. (P.T Barnum)
Personality
We have already seen, in general, that what a man is contributes much to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. What a man is, and so what he has in his own person, is always the chief thing to consider, for his individuality accompanies him always and everywhere, and gives its color to all his experiences. In every kind of enjoyment, for instance, the pleasure depends principally upon the man himself. When we use the English expression “to enjoy one’s self” we are employing a phrase to say: He enjoys himself in Paris, not “he enjoys Paris”. (Schopenhauer. The wisdom of life)
Literature
Literature is
the oxygen of life. I teach literature every day and i realize more just how literature
is our guide to life. It is the mirror to life and we learn about heroes and
vilains, good and bad people, the big themes of love and hatred, conflict and resolution.
Literature is a world of characters, and we are currently living in one long novel.
How it ends is still being written. « Literature always anticipates life. It
does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose ». (Oscar Wilde)
The Pleasure of
The Text
What I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do , with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading. (Roland Barthes) .
American
Literature
When I was a
kid, a father was like the light in a refrigerator. Every house had one, but
nobody knew what either of them did once the door was shut. My dad left the
house every morning and always seemed glad to see everyone at night. He opened
the jar of pickles when nobody else could. He was the only one in the house who
wasn’t afraid to go to the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no
one kissed it or got excited about it. He took a lot of pictures, but was never
in them. When anyone was sick, he got the prescription filled. When I got a
bike, he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I got the hang of
it. I was afraid of everyone else’s father, but not my own. Once I made him
tea. It was only sugar water, but he sat on a small chair and said it was delicious.
Whenever I played house, the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to
do with the daddy doll, so I had him say, “I’m going off to work now,” and
threw him under the bed. When I was nine years old, my father didn’t get up one
morning and go to work. He went to the hospital and died the next day. I went
to my room and felt under my bed for the daddy doll. When I found him, I dusted
him off and put him on my bed. He never did anything. I didn’t know his leaving
would hurt so much. I still don’t know why. (Erma Bombeck)
3- Translation:
To see voir , to look regarder , look after : s’occuper , look
down mépriser , look as if , on dirait que , to gaze at
contempler , to observe surveiller , to watch veiller , English
speaking Anglophone a speech un discours to express oneself
s’exprimer speechless muet to yell hurler to shout
crier likeable agréable, sympathique absent minded
distrait slow minded lent d’esprit to mind faire attention
to grasp saisir pleinement to see the point
voir ce don’t il s’agit to stick to the point
rester dans le sujet to misunderstand mal comprendre to realize
se render compte de to notice remarquer to look for
chercher to investigate possibilities etudier les
possibilités to know savoir , connaitre , to learn
apprendre to assume admettre to suppose supposer a
supposition une hypothèse to believe croire to conclude
conclure to come to a conclusion en arriver à une
conclusion a point une question un point the point at
issue l’objet du débat the basic points l’essentiel
the discussion centres on la discussion tourne autour de excellent
très bien ,excellent fair assez bien tolerable passable indifferent
médiocre poor insuffisant worthless nul.To improve s’ameliorer
dedicated qui se consacre à son travail .
Surrealism
1-What kind of
pictures do you like to take the most using your phone camera?
2-Why is the
Mona Lisa famous in your opinion?
There is no
Such Thing as Society:
3-What do most
of the people want today according to you?
4-What do you
propose as solutions to make our society less nervous in the daily life?
5-Is it better
to wait for society to give you things or you go and draw your own way?
Identity and
memory
6-Can we delete
our memories?
7-What are you
doing to make this world remember you?
The art of
money getting
8-Do you prefer
to sit and wait for a monthly salary or work hard and chase your
dreams?
9- (A salary is
a drug that the company gives you to forget your dreams), explain this sentence
Personality
10-What do you
do to upgrade your life?
11- By the age
of twenty, what is the uncomfortable truth that you’ve learned from
life?
12-Where do you
enjoy yourself the most? and why?
Literature
13-Write about
a book or a movie, or a serie, or an event, or something special that marked
you during the last months of this year
The Pleasure of
The Text
14-What do you
enjoy the most when you read a book?
15-It has been
said, not everything that is learned is contained in books, compare and contrast
knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books . In your
opinion, which source is more important? Why?
American
Literature:
16-Explain the
following sentences using your own English:
1- When I was a
kid, a father was like the light in a refrigerator. Every house had one, but nobody
knew what either of them did once the door was shut.
2- He took a
lot of pictures, but was never in them.
3- When I got a
bike, he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I got the hang of
it.
4- I was afraid
of everyone else’s father, but not my own.
5- Once I made
him tea. It was only sugar water, but he sat on a small chair and said it was delicious.