Ever increasing circles
Parts II & III (03/24/2007)
Document summary:
Saturday we studied the following parts of an article form the Guardian (which is a British newspaper), issued on 09/21/2001.
It deals with the method of drawing (or making) crop circles and with the circle believers.
We divided this texts on 3 parts :
-The authors (who the journalist considers as artists sepcialising in fieldworks)
-Required. Equipment + method: You need a tractor (l.18). A tape measure is necessary (l.18). It takes several hours to make a crop circle (l.19). You can't do whitout skteches. It takes a team of 4 men to make a crop circle (l.19).
-public : The circle believes can't help believing in supernatural causes of the crop circle.
Vocabulary :
ft : feet : pieds (la mesure)
a light (N) : une lumière
a light bulb (N) : néon, ampoule
(to) beg: supplier
(i'm begging you : je t'en supplie; cf. song by Ayo : "down to my knees I'm begging you)
(to) issue : publier, distribuer
(to) specialise in sth : se spécialiser dans qqch
Grammar:
Nous avons vu comment exprimer la notion de besoin:
•(to) need + N
•(to) be necessary
- """"""" required (++)
- """"""" needed
•(S +) can't do without + N / + Ving
•it takes + N + to + V
•(S +) can't help + Ving (ne pas pouvoir s'empêcher de)
Lesson recap by Caduv & Mabat
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