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Contents
Acknowledgments....................xiii
INTRODUCTION About the Transcriptions....................xv
How to Use the DVD and Workbook....................xvi
Outlining the Course by Video Segment....................xvii
CHAPITRE 1 La Ville, la banlieue, la province Segment 1 (00:00:00) Prepositions of place....................1
Segment 2 (00:01:05) The "passé composé"....................3
Segment 3 (00:01:49) The use of "on"....................5
Segment 4 (00:02:33) Impersonal verbal expressions....................6
Segment 5 (00:04:07) The omission of "ne"....................8
CHAPITRE 2 La Francophonie Segment 1 (00:04:55) The present indicative....................10
Segment 2 (00:06:03) Prepositions with names of countries....................12
Segment 3 (00:06:33) Adjectives indicating nationality....................13
Segment 4 (00:07:08) Agreement of adjectives....................15
Segment 5 (00:08:05) The passive voice....................17
CHAPITRE 3 La Maison Segment 1 (00:10:05) Past tenses....................20
Segment 2 (00:11:32) Personal pronouns....................22
Segment 3 (00:12:05) Infinitives after verbs and impersonal expressions....................24
Segment 4 (00:13:15) Placement of adverbs....................26
CHAPITRE 4 Le Travail (1) Segment 1 (00:14:12) Contrasts between the "imparfait" and the "passé composé"....................28
Segment 2 (00:15:02) Professions....................30
Segment 3 (00:16:13)The partitive....................32
Segment 4 (00:17:03) The plural of nouns ending in "-al"....................34
Segment 5 (00:17:31) Relative and demonstrative pronouns....................35
CHAPITRE 5 Le Travail (2) Segment 1 (00:19:00) The varied meanings of "on"....................37
Segment 2 (00:20:11) The relative pronoun "ce qui"....................39
Segment 3 (00:21:41) Acronyms....................41
Segment 4 (00:22:23) The use of "depuis" with the present and past tenses....................43
Segment 5 (00:23:23) The verbs "rentrer" and "retourner"....................44
CHAPITRE 6 Les Loisirs Segment 1 (00:25:48) "Faire du sport"....................47
Segment 2 (00:26:15) Agreement of the past participle with a preceding direct object....................49
Segment 3 (00:26:57) Agreement of the past participle with a verb conjugated with "être"....................50
Segment 4 (00:27:48) "En cours de"....................52
Segment 5 (00:28:10) "La journée"....................53
CHAPITRE 7 Le Sport Segment 1 (00:29:02) Collective numbers....................55
Segment 2 (00:29:41) Reflexive verbs used to avoid the passive voice....................57
Segment 3 (00:31:10) "Au travers"....................59
Segment 4 (00:32:03) The subjunctive of "être"....................61
CHAPITRE 8 Le Cinéma Segment 1 (00:33:23) The past conditional....................64
Segment 2 (00:33:46) Placement of adverbs....................65
Segment 3 (00:34:39) "Être au courant"....................67
CHAPITRE 9 La Lecture Segment 1 (00:35:27) The relative pronoun "dont"....................69
Segment 2 (00:36:08) The partitive with plural adjectives preceding the noun....................71
Segment 3 (00:36:43) The partitive with plural adjectives preceding the noun....................72
Segment 4 (00:37:24) The demonstrative adjective....................73
Segment 5 (00:38:08) The definite article used in a general sense....................75
CHAPITRE 10 La Mode Segment 1 (00:38:51) The imperfect with habitual past actions....................77
Segment 2 (00:39:24) The imperfect with habitual past actions....................79
Segment 3 (00:40:36) The pronunciation of final consonants....................81
CHAPITRE 11 La Cuisine et le vin Segment 1 (00:41:22) Relative pronouns....................83
Segment 2 (00:42:14) The partitive....................85
Segment 3 (00:42:48) The retention of the indefinite article after a negation....................86
Segment 4 (00:43:11) The partitive....................88
Segment 5 (00:43:38) Adverbs....................89
Segment 6 (00:45:26) The pronoun "on"....................91
CHAPITRE 12 L'Éducation nationale Segment 1 (00:46:15) "Jusqu'à"....................93
Segment 2 (00:47:08) "Il s'agit de"....................95
Segment 3 (00:47:53) Acronyms....................97
Segment 4 (00:49:17) The superlative of "bon" and "bien"....................100
CHAPITRE 13 La Technologie Segment 1 (00:51:39) Agreement of the past participle....................104
Segment 2 (00:52:34) "En" used as an indication of time....................106
Segment 3 (00:53:43) "Par contre"....................108
Segment 4 (00:54:30) The sequence of subjunctive tenses....................110
Segment 5 (00:55:19) "Faire faire"....................112
CHAPITRE 14 La Famille Segment 1 (00:56:15) Disjunctive pronouns....................114
Segment 2 (00:57:09) "C'est moi qui"....................116
Segment 3 (00:58:15) "Chez moi"....................117
Segment 4 (00:58:41) "Il y a" with past tenses....................119
Segment 5 (00:59:38) "Manquer à"....................120
CHAPITRE 15 La Situation de la femme Segment 1 (01:00:19) The plural of compound nouns....................122
Segment 2 (01:01:37) "Par rapport à"; "vis-à-vis de"....................124
Segment 3 (01:03:00) Conditional sentences....................126
Segment 4 (01:03:44) "Ne ... que"....................127
CHAPITRE 16 La Vie politique Segment 1 (01:04:49) "De nouveau"....................129
Segment 2 (01:05:33) The use of "depuis" with the "passé composé"....................131
Segment 3 (01:06:15) "N'importe quel"....................133
Segment 4 (01:07:02) "Peut-être"....................135
Segment 5 (01:07:55) The plural of nouns and adjectives ending in "-al"....................137
CHAPITRE 17 Des Problèmes sociaux actuels Segment 1 (01:09:06) The present participle....................139
Segment 2 (01:09:41) Transportation....................141
Segment 3 (01:10:19) "Nous autres"....................142
Segment 4 (01:11:09) "Un peu"-French understatement....................144
Segment 5 (01:11:44) "Dont"....................146
CHAPITRE 18 Les Différences linguistiques Segment 1 (01:12:49) Special uses of the conditional tense....................148
Segment 2 (01:13:09) Agreement of adjectives....................149
Segment 3 (01:14:02) Slang....................151
Segment 4 (01:14:45) Creole....................153
CHAPITRE 19 Les Souvenirs Segment 1 (01:16:03) The sequence of tenses in the subjunctive....................155
Segment 2 (01:17:09) "Revenir"....................157
Segment 3 (01:18:00) "Se rendre compte"....................158
Segment 4 (01:18:58) The imperfect tense with habitual past actions....................160
Segment 5 (01:19:34) "Le samedi"....................161
CHAPITRE 20 L'Avenir Segment 1 (01:21:02) "Trucs"....................164
Segment 2 (01:21:33) The future perfect....................166
Segment 3 (01:22:16) The conditional....................168
Segment 4 (01:22:48) "Chacun"....................169
Segment 5 (01:23:36) The conditional of "devoir"....................171
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reviewed La France et la francophonie on August 28, 2016
La France et la francophonie
“Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?â€
Out of all the poetry I have read, these four lines are amongst my favourite. They have stuck with me over several years and seem to resonate within me. I’ve even considered having them tattooed onto my arm. Why these lines? You may ask.
It’s simple really: they say so much. Different readings can be made here, but the one I see most strongly is man talking to nature. Man questions it; he asks if he is the same as nature and if nature is the same as him. Is not the fly equal to him? Is not the fly’s life just as valuable as his own? All life is precious, and what I read here is a man coming to the realisation that this is so. Nature is valuable, and no matter how high man may place himself all life remains the same; it is the same force: the same energy. It could also be a bourgeoisie facing a member of the lower class and realising the same thing, but I prefer to stick with the human to animal relationship.
Nature is huge, the ecosystem is huge. And, again, no matter how high man may place himself he is still just another cog on an ever turning mechanism. In the modern world he has damaged the system, the environment, but he is still part of a greater whole. And his part is no more important than that of the rest of the cogs. What I read in Blake’s words is an ideal, a projection of a semi-paradise; one man can perhaps reach if when he has gained experience he remembers where he came from: his innocence.
Blake’s poetry is marvellously deceptive; it appears so simple, but that’s the beauty of it. Hidden behind the seemingly innocent childlike songs is a sense of irony, sarcasm and genius. The speakers of the poems describe the world as they see it; it is a mere reflection of their own limited perceptions; they see the world through a childlike and predetermined state. In essence, they see what they are meant to see, and nothing beyond that. Well, not until they gain experience and look back on their own folly. Even at this stage, Blake portrays the duality of the human soul; the two states coexist and inform each other. From this collection of poetry I’m left with the impression that these two stages are necessary for human development, but not exclusively so; it’s like Blake is suggesting that one should be able to see the world as an aspect of both.
Throughout the poetry Blake also questions the meaning of standard religion and proposes his own ideas of a more natural approach to divinity. He believed that the gods existed within the bosom of man, and not in an exogenous limited interpretation. In this, he is a true Romantic poet. The more poetry I read in this age, the more I come to appreciate this idea. Blake’s poetry stands out amongst the crowd though. He used a completely unique style to get his the two states of the human soul across to the reader. But, again, he reflects the movement; his poems have a heavy emphasis on the freedom of self-expression and can only really be appreciated in conjunction with the plates he engraved them on. He was a true artist:
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
Indeed, for me, the comparison between the “Lamb†and the “Tyger†cannot be appreciated without looking at the images. The two poems are not simply about different animal types. They are about good and evil; they are a comparison of the badness and benevolence of humankind. The lamb represents the most profound sense of inexperience; it is innocence and pure: it is docile and vulnerable in its infancy. In this it is comparable to the Christian saviour: it is the best degree of humanity. The Tyger, on the other hand, has a corrupt heart. He represents the negative aspects of humankind, and can be interpreted as part of industrialisation, commerce and power. Through this comparison the narrator of the poems questions how a creator could forge two opposing states. What is the purpose of such a thing?
When the experience section has been read, it is vital to go back and look at innocence. It changes the nature of the poems, as the implicit becomes explicit. The layers of meaning are multiple and complex. I could spend a day pondering over some of them, but for me the most memorable one is “the fly†for the reasons I discussed: it will always stay with me.
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