WORLD WAR II

WORLD WAR II
Compréhension écrite
I.
Complete the introduction below :
This texte is …
It twas written by … in…
It deals with …
II.
Answer the questions:
The sides:
1) who were the allies of the British? Who were their enemies?
2) read the text and find out about the following dates
1939
1940
1941
1944
Black future:
3) who was the British Prime Minister during the war? What was he best at?
America joins in:
4) what pushed the Americans into the war?
The RAF:
5) who were the British heroes of the war? Which plane did they flew in? which airforce was
the most important?
Invasion:
6) what did the British fear? Who had already done this? What was his nationality? When did
it happen?
7) who were the Home Guards
England digs in:
8) what was war like in Great Britain? What did people do? How was life during the war?
The bombing:
9) describe the two pictures
10) what were V1 and V2?
III.
Vocabulary
A. find the words in the text:
déséquilibré:
chasser de:
s’étendre partout dans le monde:
la flotte américaine :
B. find the root of the word and translate
TRANSLATION
ROOT
âgé :
outils de jardin :
renoncer à :
lancer (un missile) :
WORD
Badly
Quickly
Largely
Suddenly
The beginning
The fighting
TRANSLATION
C. pick up all the words related to war and translate
IV.
Translate
England digs in: from ‘City children’ to ‘Years’
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repérez tous les mots connus
repérez les mots transparents
devinez le sens des mots inconnus (utilisez la logique, la grammaire…)
traduire le sens et ne pas faire du mot à mot
relire ses phrases en français et vérifier qu’elles ont du sens