Anglais Bac Pro : "Stolen car" : la voix passive
STOLEN CORVETTE
OBJECTIFS : rebrasser la voix passive, enrichir le vocabulaire de l'automobile. Ce thème peut convenir à une classe de baccalauréat industriel (maintenance, mécanique automobile).
1. Warming up : expression orale à partir de la photo.
Do you know this man ? Who do you think he is ? What sort of car is this ? Imagine why he is posing in this car. Perhaps he is a race car champion. Perhaps he has won it. Perhaps it's an advertisement.
2. Compréhension écrite : texte n° 1
Activité n° 1 : remplir la grille suivante :
Man's name :
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Type of car :
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Country :
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Problem with the car :
Activité n° 2 : retrouver dans le texte l'équivalent des expressions suivantes :
- sa voiture avait été retrouvée
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elle n'est pas à vendre
depuis, il avait déménagé
on était en train de la charger sur un porte-conteneurs à destination de la Suède
une voiture ancienne
il avait renoncé à tout espoir
nous avons parcouru des dossiers
des modèles identiques sont vendus aux enchères
Activité n° 3 : associer dates et ce qu'elles représentent :
Jan. 17, 2006 - 1968 - Jan. 22, 1969 - 10,000 - 80,000 - 5,000 - 6,000 - 50,000 to 100,000 -
... is the price of the car in 1968.
... is the price a man in Sweden paid for the car.
... is the date when the article was written.
... is the number of cars stolen in New York City in 1969.
... is the date when the car was made.
... is the number of records the police examined.
... is the price a car can be sold on the Internet.
... is the date when the car was stolen.
Activité n° 4 : voix passive : relever les formes passives du texte et indiquer le temps employé.
Activité n° 5 : Alan Poster constate que sa voiture a subi des transformations. Utiliser les verbes suivants à la voix passive:
to repaint - to change - to replace - to add - to steal -
Ex : My car has been repainted. The wheels have been changed. The engine has been replaced. An automatic transmission has been added. The tank has been stolen.
Activité n° 6 : reconstituer l'histoire de mémoire en utilisant les formes verbales suivantes :
bought - was stolen - was bought - was loaded - looked through - has recovered - will be restored then given
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STOLEN CORVETTE RECOVERED AFTER 37 YEARS Jan. 17, 2006 - Alan Poster's Corvette was a brand new 1968 blue classic car when it disappeared 37 years ago. Now he's been reunited with his dream car. The Corvette was stolen from a New York garage on Jan. 22, 1969. In November the car was identified as stolen as it was being loaded onto a container ship bound for Sweden. The car had recently been bought for $ 10,000 by a man in Sweden who did not know it had been stolen nearly forty years before. "This is a miracle," Poster said excitedly when police told him that his car had been recovered. He had since moved to California and had given up hope long ago of seeing the car again. A strange journey Poster had owned the car only for two months when it was stolen from the garage -one of nearly 80,000 stolen cars in New York City that year. The New York Police Department played a big role in the Corvette's recovery. "We went through about 5,000 records over the course of four days here to locate this report,", a detective said, which led them to Poster. When detectives called, Poster didn't believe it was actually the NYPD. He was very surprised. He thought it was a joke at first. No one knows where the Corvette has been all this time. It was apparently never registered or insured, or the vehicle identification number would have revealed it had been stolen. The car is now silver with a red interior. The original 327-cubic-inch engine has been replaced by a 454 big block Chevy engine. The car has a stolen automatic transmission that wasn't introduced until the mid-1980s, and the gas tank is missing. The car's classic design, however, has survived. Today the car that cost $6,000 in 1968 is a classic. Similar models are auctioned on Web sites for $50,000 to $100,000. But Poster said his Corvette is not for sale. "I plan to restore it and keep it", he said. He also plans to give it to another young driver with the same name- his teenage daughter.
Adapted from ABC News |
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