Into the Wild Extract 3 PDF

Into the Wild – extract 3 KEY TO THE Listening and reading comprehension exercises I- Listen to the Chris’s voice-over commentary at the beginning of the clip (0’41’’1’01’’) and correct the mistakes in the following transcript: Chris (voice-over): “It could not...

Into the Wild – extract 3 KEY TO THE Listening and reading comprehension exercises I- Listen to the Chris’s voice-over commentary at the beginning of the clip (0’41’’1’01’’) and correct the mistakes in the following transcript: Chris (voice-over): “It could not be denied that being footloose1 has always exhilarated2 us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome3 obligations. An absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.” (quoted from The American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner.) II- Translate the paragraph above into French. On ne pourrait nier que la vie sans attaches nous a toujours enthousiasmés. Nous l’associons mentalement à une délivrance vis- à-vis de l’histoire, de l’oppression, de la loi et des contraintes agaçantes. Une liberté absolue. Et la route a toujours mené vers l’ouest. III- Listen to the transcript of Carine’s voice over at the end of the clip (3’26’’ 5’09’’) and unscramble the missing words: Carine (voice-over): Toward the end of June, Emory had mailed our parents Chris' final grade report4. Almost all A's. A in apartheid in South African society. A minus5 in contemporary African Politics and the food crisis in Africa. And on it went6. Clever boy, my brother. But by the end of July, we hadn't heard anything from him and my parents were becoming unsettled7. Chris had never had a phone, so they decided to drive down to Atlanta and surprise him. When they arrived at the apartment8, there was a "For Rent" sign up and the manager said that Chris had moved out at the end of May. Manager: “Oh, yes. He left two months ago”. So when they got home, I had to hand them all the letters that they had sent Chris that summer, which had been returned in a bundle9. Chris had arranged for the post office to hold them until August 1st, to buy himself some time. Walt : Did you know about this? Carine: He didn't say anything. 1 )fxtlu:s  free from obligations, free to go wherever one wants and do what one wants. 2 q)gzqlFreqtqd  exhilarate sbdy = make sbdy happy & excited, thrill sbdy 3 )E:ksFm  irritating, tiresome. 4 = relevé de notes 5 A- (A moins) => note légèrement inférieure aux deux notes maximales : A+ et A. 6 = And it went on like that / And it continued like that … (to go on = continue) 7 Here : worried, disturbed. 8 US English for a flat. 9 package, bunch Carine (voice-over): I understood what he was doing. That he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious10 duty of graduating from college, and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents and material excess, the things that cut Chris off from the truth of his existence. IV- Translate the last paragraph of Carine’s voice-over above into French. Je comprenais ce qu’il faisait : il avait passé quatre ans à s’acquitter de la tâche absurde et fastidieuse de décrocher son diplôme universitaire, et il s’était maintenant affranchi de ce monde d’abstraction, de fausse sécurité, de parents et d’excès matériel, toutes ces choses qui éloignaient Chris de la réalité de son existence. 10 )ti :dqFs  boring, tiresome, uninteresting