Go English n°106 - January – February 2021

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• Publié par: Editions Entrefilet
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2021
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 34 Mo

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(1858-1947)

The Taj Mahal, Agra, India

The great British curry BOOST YOUR ENGLISH! The story behind Monopoly

Idioms connected to children and babies

Life as Art: Arundhati Roy, the G odof S mall t hinGS

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n 6 o 10 January-February 2021 E-gOE nglish :maGazINe NuméRIque noUvEAU ! + audIO SImultaNé SuR GOeNGlISH.fR contents

nEWs 4-5 In the News C1 5 Press Clippings B2 C1 6-7 The News in Depth B2 C1 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

LAngUAgE 8-10 Words & Culture C1 C2 The dark interpretations  of popular nursery rhymes 11 What to Say B1 How to welcome a newborn baby 12-13 ueiqsT&nhcespiT 1B2 B Conversations with and around children and teenagers 14-15 The Grammar Point to B1 C2 Putting ‘the’ in its place 16-17 Did You Know? C1 Idioms connected with children and babies 10 Words 18 B2 C 1 Words with Indian origins

TrAvELAnDCULTUrE 20-21 Life as Art B2 C1 Arundhati Roy,T hE G odof s mall T hinGs 22-23 Prole B2 C1 Malala Yousafzai, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Travel Time 24-27 C1 The British Raj Talking to 29-31 C1 C2 Florian Zeller, Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman aboutT hE f aThEr

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Ha é ppy New Year! Let’s get the year off to a good start by dito travelling through time and go to British India. We all know how Gandhi brought to an end the British sovereignty, but we don’t necessarily know how it all began. We take a close look at the British Raj, which was the rule of the subcontinent by the British between 1858 and 1947. We visit the magnicent Taj Mahal, meet with two important personalities of today’s India and Pakistan, discover the real story behind the Monopoly game, welcome newborn babies and explore the origins of British curry, among other topics. May 2021 be lled with health, happiness, love and kindness!

Valérie Hyenveux,rédactrice en chef

BUsinEss 32-33 On t he Job B2 Dilip Barot, a successful real estate entrepreneur 34-36 In dustry Focus C1 C2 The story behind Monopoly 36 Numbers Talking B1 B2 37 Business News B2 C1

LiFEsTYLE 38 Trendy Places B1 Taj Mahal, Agra, India 40-41 Insights C1 The dabbawallas: Delivering lunchboxes in Mumbai 42-43 What’s Up? C1 B2 44-45 World of Food B2 C1 The great British curry

FUnAnDgAMEs 46-47 Quiz B2 Do you know the British Raj? 48 Just Kidding! C1 C2 48 Tongue Twisters B2 C1 49 Next Issue & Answers

How to welcome 11 a newborn baby

LIfe As ArT: 20 Arundhati Roy

© DR TrAveL TIme 24 The British Raj

INdusTry fOcus: 34 Monopoly

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The articles range fromlevel B1toC2of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. B1 Intermediate B2 Upper Intermediate C1 Advanced C2 Prociency

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in ThE nEWs Article by Ruth Adam

nowhere to make up for recreational ights

nulle part compenser des vols ludiques

FlIGHtS tO NOwHeRe In an effort to make up for 2020’s nancial losses, Qantas, an Australian airline company, was one of the rst airlines to introduce recreational ights. The jet ies low enough so that passengers can see famous landmarks (some are even happy just to see clouds!), and then, after a few hours, it returns everyone to the same airport that it departed from. Tickets sell out rapidly, and though it’s hard for some of us to imagine, the people who book these trips are nostalgic for the airport experience: the queues, check-in, dragging their bags around! One man said he hadn’t realised how much he missed ying until he was strapped into his seat and the captain’s welcome aboard and safety announcement came over the speaker.

a landmark to sell out to drag

vIOleNt cRIme RateS fall aS RIVal GaNGS wORK tOGetHeR

In its lockdown , the South African government imposed tough quarantine rules, including banning alcohol and cigarette sales, which hit both businesses and criminal gangs hard. Finally, the gang leaders called a pastor in the Cape Town community, and simply said, “We are starving ." The pastor thought that if these guys were starving, the rest of the community must be in serious trouble. So, he devised a plan that not only met people’s instant needs, but also gave these young men a new sense of purpose . Gang members who would normally be trying to kill each other worked together with the common goal of providing food and vital supplies to those in need. And interestingly enough, violent crime fell by 75%.

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lockdown tough to ban to be starving to devise a sense of purpose

un connement dur, pénible interdire mourir de faim concevoir, imaginer un sens du devoir

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un monument être complet, tout vendre traîner

to miss

to be strapped

manquer, être nostalgique de être attaché

THe Old StORy Of tOwNIeS GOING OutSIde tHeIR cOmfORt zONe

During the summer of 2020, a small town in the US state of Vermont saw its population swell by about 10,000, as people arrived from New York, where the Covid-19 pandemic was at its height . The local government hopes that many of them will put down roots and rejuvenate the town, and the townspeople are keen too, but it wasn’t always easy for them. That’s because they had to deal with the newcomers ’ sometimes imperious learning curve : their impatience with bucolic ways, an abysmal grasp of recycling rules, and the endless hysterical calls if they saw a bear just ambling around . Could they shoot it? Well yes, if it was in the kitchen. No, not if it was in the yard. However, many of the New Yorkers got used to a commuter- free life and have since bought houses in the area, so they might well be there to stay.

a townie to swell

at its height to put down roots to rejuvenate

to be keen

a newcomer

un citadin augmenter, goner à son comble s’enraciner redynamiser, donner un coup de jeune être motivé, avoir envie un nouveau venu

imperious a learning curve

abysmal a grasp endless a bear to amble around

a commuter-free life

impérieux un grand nombre de choses à apprendre (ici) épouvantable une compréhension sans n, interminable un ours marcher tranquillement une vie sans trajet pour aller au travail

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© DR “it’S eaSIeR tO buy a GuN tHROuGH tHe maIl tHaN ORdeR wINe fROm aNOtHeR pROVINce!” Séverine Pinte, a French winemaker in British Columbia, makes wine that now ranks alongside the best of Bordeaux or the Napa Valley. The industry there comes with its own set of challenges : Canada’s alcohol ban wasn’t totally repealed until the late 1940s, and to this day there are lingering problems for individual consumers who want to order wine produced in other provinces. A smaller problem was the need to warn grape pickers not to smoke marijuana near the vines. And a constant challenge for winegrowers is the obviously discerning bears that love Chardonnay grapes, and crash about gobbling up whole rows . But Ms Pinte has no intention of returning to France. The soil in British Columbia is a palette, she says, from which she can make art.

a winemaker to rank a set of challenges to repeal lingering to warn a grape picker discerning to gobble up a row

un vigneron, un viticulteur classer une série de dés abroger persistant, durable prévenir un vendangeur (ici) connaisseur engloutir un rang, une rangée

AfteR wINNING tHe Battle Of haStINGS IN 1066…

…William the Conqueror amassed vast areas of land which to this day belong to the Crown Estate. Each monarch owns the land for the duration of their reign, and they cannot sell off parts or pocket its revenues. Only a quarter of the estate’s prot goes towards the royals’ income (however, this is 25% of £345 million). So, in spite of central London’s 2020 rental losses, the royal purse will only be reduced by a meagre 3 or 4 million. With Covid-19, the demand for ofce space changed dramatically, as working conditions became more exible, and even huge retailers had to shut down and renegotiate contracts – a rent, for example, based on commercial turnover rather than location .

to sell off in spite of meagre a retailer

liquider malgré, en dépit de piètre, maigre un commerce

to shut down

turnover a location

fermer (dénitivement) le renouvellement un emplacement

PrEss CLiPPings Article by Ruth Adam

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Jacinda Arderndoes aCtually have ConstItuents who hate heR; they thInk of heR as phoney and espeCIally hate the speeChes wheRe she asks people to be kInd to eaCh otheR. As foR the Rest of the woRld… many wIsh she was In ChaRge of theIR CountRy, and have a haRd tIme wondeRIng what Could possIbly be bad about a CombInatIon of stRength and kIndness In a polItICIan.

People feel that ARdeRn doesn’t pReaCh “ at them; she’s standIng wIth them. ” heleN ClaRK, new ZealaNd’S pRIme mINISteR fROm 1999 tO 2008

HeR Coolness undeR pRessuRe, self-dIsCIplIne a “ nd the deCIsIveness of heR goveRnment’s Response to the CoRonavIRus pandemIC has led some to Call ARdeRn the most eFeCtIve natIonal leadeR In the woRld. ” ANdReI AlexaNdeR Lux, LectuReR IN LeadeRSHIp, EdItH COwaN UNIVeRSIty Law DepaRtmeNt, WeSteRN AuStRalIa

ARdeRn Is sImIlaR to BaRaCk Obama I “ n that she’s polaRIzIng at home whIle populaR abRoad [but] she doesn’t peddle In mIsInfoRmatIon; she doesn’t blame-shIft and she tRIes to manage eveRyone’s eXpeCtatIons at the same tIme. ” vaN JacKSON, fORmeR DefeNSe DepaRtmeNt OfîcIal duRING tHe obama admINIStRatION

Undoubtedly paRt of the InteRnatIonal “ JaCIndamanIa Comes fRom the faCt she Is a young left-wIng woman who gave bIRth In oîCe and took mateRnIty leave . That Is all wondeRful but It has no beaRIng on polICy aChIevement. gReG sHeRIdaN, FOR ” eIGN EdItOR ASIa SpecIalISt fOR T hE a usTralian

ARdeRn’s wIn has an ImpoRtant lesson foR “ polItICIans heRe: to wIn eleCtIons, one Can ChaRm voteRs by puRsuIng woRthy , not neCessaRIly populaR, Causes foR the well-beIng of soCIety. ” EdItORIal IN tHei ndia E conomic T imEs

a constituent phoney kind strength to preach to stand with coolness decisiveness to polarize to peddle blame-shift expectations undoubtedly to give birth maternity leave to have no bearing on worthy the well-being

un administré hypocrite, bidon gentil la force faire la morale, prêcher être aux côtés de le côté cool l’esprit de décision diviser colporter inverser la responsabilité les attentes, les espoirs sans aucun doute, indubitablement donner naissance à un congé de maternité être sans rapport louable, méritant le bien-être

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