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Correction de la fiche de travail BD Heroes
«Betty» chapter 39
Reading Comprehension
This document is a comic strip (une B.D.)
A/ Easy questions (Answer in English )
1) The story takes place in an American high school (lycée)
2) The scene takes place at the ladies (= in the girls’ toilets )
3)
The story takes place “not long ago”, nowadays (de nos jours), probably during the break.
4)
The heroin’s name is Betty
5)
She is about seventeen years old
B/ Right or Wrong ?
(Dire si ces affirmations sont vraies ou pas et justifier chaque réponse en citant le texte)
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1)“ The heroin loves her name” WRONG :”I hate my name”/”I’d love to change it, get a new one” /
2) “She doesn’t appreciate her school and her fellow students” RIGHT:“ I hate the place, too many fakes”
3) “The heroin is very popular” WRONG : “she is completely disgusting” “Betty…the new term for loser”
“loser of the worst kind”
4) “The three girls know that the heroin is in the same room” WRONG : “if they knew I was here…”
5) “ The heroin is new at school” WRONG: “she is not that new, she’s been here since last year”
C/ Tricky Questions
* Answer in English in your copy book
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( a ) First the three girls criticize another woman, a student or a teacher because of her clothes.
They think she looks old-fashioned. “Did you see what she was wearing !” “She’s got the ghost of
fashion sense”.
( b ) The three girls criticize Betty’s look and physical appearance .They say she is “disgusting”
that she needs a make over. They call her “a loser” and they make fun of her extra kilos
( c ) These three girls have negative personalities. They spend their time gossiping about (dire du mal)
people. They are cruel and superficial. They are only interested in appearances.
They don’t try to get to know Betty. They are vain, they are engrossed in looking at themselves
in the mirror
( d ) The heroin is lonely and sensitive. She tends to be pessimistic because she is treated
as an outcast. She sounds more mature than the rest of the girls.
( e ) Betty is different. She has a super power. She has the ability to create realistic illusions.
( f ) This story belongs to the fantastic genre.
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( a ) Les bulles en noir correspondent aux pensées non exprimées de Betty.
La couleur noire représente le côté tourmenté de Betty.
( b ) Un « loser » est un terme très fort pour désigner une personne qui n’a aucun talent, un raté
( c ) « law of the jungle » se traduit par la loi de la jungle. Dans le contexte de l’histoire seuls ceux
qui sont beaux et riches sont acceptés, reconnus dans au sein du lycee.
D/ Vocabulary
1) dans la B.D. 5 mots transparents : change/place/doubt/serious/diet/exercise/jungle/danse/perfect/different/genius
2) specificity
physically
morally
The three girls
The Heroin
Attractive, sexy ,slim
Fat, ugly
Bad, Conceited, cruel, hardhearted,Immature ,stupid,
superficial, vain
Intelligent, lonely, mature , pessimistic
sensitive, different