11 april 2011									
Arte:		TWIN PEAKS: a SERIES by DAVID LYNCH

BETTER THINGS
She DIED OF AN OVERDOSE.
DRUG ADDICTS.
His son was very UPSET: bouleversé, so he didn’t go to the funeral.
They decide TO GO CLEAN and buy methadone to try to stop.
Another girl is AGORAPHOBIC. She has a psychologist who comes to visit her. Her grandmother is ill and is STUCK IN HER BED because she’s very old, and she is CLAUSTROPHOBIC.
She was UNFAITHFUL TO him: elle lui a été infidèle.
Their vocabulary was a bit limited.
There’s hope in this film because there is AN IMPROVEMENT (amelioration) for the agoraphobic girl. At the end of the film she goes outside.

A SHOOTING STAR:	étoile filante.
LINK:			(internet) lien
He’s inundated with corrections.
It was not the same theme.
A PLASTER CAST:	un plâtre
UNHEALTHY :		malsain
FLIPPERS :		palmes
If your suitcase is OVERWEIGHT it’s very expensive.
In the USA, they take your FINGER PRINTS, they SEARCH you (they do a BODY SEARCH): fouiller.
SURROUNDINGS:	les environs
IT’S HUMID IN THE SUMMER.
MARSHLAND/MARSHES: marécages.
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP(S): bourse de recherche
A PIECE OF RESEARCH:	un travail de recherche.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE→to ask for a period of absence: demander une disponibilité
A PERK(S) is something extra that your boss gives you to encourage you to work harder: avantages (en nature).
REWARD:		récompense.
TO REWARD (FOR):	récompenser (de).
They have to give seven days’ notice before they go on strike: un préavis de sept jours.
WITHOUT NOTICE:	sans préavis.
JET LAG→TO SUFFER FROM JET LAG: décalage horaire.
LAG :			retard-(also: LAG BEHIND), rester en arrière, traîner; rester à la traîne.
THE TIME DIFFERENCE : le décalage horaire
THE HOLD :		la soute.
IT’S TOO LONG AGO :	ça fait trop longtemps.
ABROAD :		à l’étranger
TO PUT AWAY:		ranger
TRANSLATE

1.	Ils n’ont pas encore réussi à le convaincre.
They have not yet succeeded in convincing him.
They haven’t succeeded in convincing him yet. Spoken form
They have not yet managed to convince him. ‘Managed’ Spoken English

2.	Nous avons bien failli perdre nos passeports.
We (very) nearly lost our passports.
[Not ‘almost’ because it’s more positive. Ex: we almost succeeded]

3.	C’est tout juste s’il sait leurs noms.
He hardly knows their names. (= “c’est à peine”try to find a synonym for the French).
	the only thing he knows

4.	Il est allé jusqu’à dire que nous l’avions insulté.
He went so far as to say (that) we had insulted him.
He actually said

5.	Je me demande comment il est parvenu à tromper les douaniers.
I wonder how he managed to deceive (trick/fool) the customs officers.
I wonder how he succeeded in fooling/ tricking/ deceiving

ALMOST/NEARLY fell/told him: j’ai failli tomber/lui dire
SCARCELY, HARDLY, BARELY: adv de modalité. À peine
HARDLY:		ne…guère négatif.
To be only just able to do: pouvoir tout juste faire.
TO DECEIVE:		tromper, duper. ‡to disappoint: décevoir.

THE YOUNG ELITE
To afford:		avoir les moyens d’acheter, se permettre.
Fees:				droits d’inscription, frais de scolarité.
Boarding school: 	internat, pensionnat.
To enable sb to do:	permettre à qqn de faire, donner à qqn la possibilité.
To devote:		consacrer.
Survey:				enquête,étude,rapport.
Bishop :		évêque.

1.	Why is ‘public school’ not a good name for these schools?
STATE SCHOOL ‡ PUBLIC SCHOOL
A public school is an independent secondary school.
The most famous Public schools are:
 ETON founded in 1440 by King HENRY VI (1421-1471) and he also founded KING’S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE in 1441. At the time the public school was for very poor schoolboys →a charitable institution for male scholars from poor backgrounds. Henry VI was a very pious man and his idea was to train these boys for the Church- 70 scholars-
At the same time he was King of France (from 1422 to 1453). His mother was French and his father Henry V beat the French at AGINCOURT (near Arras) in 1415. It was the ‘Hundred Years’ War’. He was a peaceful man. He suffered from periods of insanity.
	Eton is near Windsor, and is not a university but a secondary school.

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