With concrete exemples, explain how “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art” (Andy Warhol, 2008).
May 24, 2010
Cameron Becomes U.K. Prime Minister as Labour Bows Out
(LONDON) — Conservative leader David Cameron has become Britain’s youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years, after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
The 43-year-old Cameron visited Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, May 11, and was asked to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II — less than an hour after Brown tendered his resignation to the monarch.
Brown resigned with a brief, emotional statement Tuesday, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government and paving the way for Conservative David Cameron to become the country’s next leader.
Nearby, the parties of Brown’s two chief rivals — the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats — had been trying to seal a coalition deal after the country’s inconclusive election last week.
Standing outside 10 Downing Street alongside his wife Sarah, Brown announced he would travel to see Queen Elizabeth II to resign — allowing Cameron to take office, possibly as part of deal with Nick Clegg, leader of the third-place Liberal Democrats. “I wish the next Prime Minister well as he makes the important choices for the future,” said Brown. “Only those who have held the office of Prime Minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good.”
Brown said he had “loved the job not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony, which I do not love at all.”
“No, I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous, more just — truly a greater Britain,” he declared.
Cameron, 43, will become the youngest British leader in nearly two centuries.
After his brief statement, the 59-year-old Brown walked hand in hand with his wife and young sons John and Fraser down Downing Street, where a car waited to take him to the palace.
Brown spent about 15 minutes inside the palace and was then driven away — no longer Britain’s leader. Minutes later he arrived at Labour Party headquarters, where he was greeted warmly by cheering staffers.
In a carefully choreographed dance, Cameron arrived at Buckingham Palace shortly after Brown left.
Brown’s resignation ends five days of uncertainty after last week’s general election left the country with no clear winner. It left Britain with its first hung Parliament since 1974, when no one party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
Britain’s Conservatives won the most seats — 306 out of the 650 seats in Parliament — but fell short of a majority, forcing them and the Labour Party to woo the Liberal Democrats.
Negotiators for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats met for several hours Tuesday but emerged without confirming whether a deal had been struck. Conservative deputy chief William Hague said only that the atmosphere had been “positive.”
Brown’s departure follows three successive election victories for his center-left Labour Party, all of which were won by his predecessor Tony Blair, who ousted the Conservatives in 1997.
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May 18, 2010
advice for “version”
| VOCABULAIRE | Version 1 | Version 2 | Version 3 |
| Rigueur dans l’apprentissage de voc | |||
| Lecture plus consciencieuse des articles | |||
| Fais vivre ton vocabulaire appris | |||
| TECHNIQUES DE TRADUCTION | |||
| Reegardez le texte avec une distance critique | |||
| Traduire des idées et non des mots | |||
| Ne pas oublier le titre! | |||
| faire une pause après la première traduction | |||
| ne pas se jeter sur les mots compris!! C un ensemble | |||
| TACTIQUE | |||
| Bien s’imprégner du contexte: LIRE ENTIEREMENT LE TEXTE | |||
| Analyse stricte des structures grammaticales | |||
| Signez le détail et la précision | |||
| Soignez le style et RELISER | |||
| Rigueur dans les structures grammaticales | |||
| LA VERSION N4A RIEN DE SECURISANT: take it easy!!! |
May 18, 2010
Subordonnées de souhait/regret/PRETERIT MODAL
WISH
La subordonnée de SOUHAIT/REGRET la plus courante suit le verbe WISH.
Observez les exemples ci-dessous :
1 – I wish she were here.
Je souhaiterais qu’elle soit là.
Je regrette qu’elle ne soit pas là.
2 – I wish you had accepted.
J’aurais bien voulu que tu acceptes.
Je regrette que tu n’aies pas accepté.
On remarque que la subordonnée est au PASSE dans les deux cas, avec en 2 l’aspect accompli accompli: Matérialisé par HAVE + Participe passé dans le groupe verbal, il indique que le locuteur attribue (rôle de HAVE) l’accomplissement du procès (rôle du participe passé) au sujet de la phrase. . Le passé exprime la non-réalité et HAVE+PP l’antériorité. En d’autres termes on a affaire à un prétérit modal passé: Par son emploi, le locuteur affirme qu’au moment de l’énonciation (now) la relation Sujet/Prédicat n’existe plus (passé temporel) ou est du domaine du non-réel (passé modal). en 1 et à un pastperfect modal en 2. (Ce n’est qu’un souhait, pas une réalité).
Le verbe WISH est au PRESENT, puisque le locuteur exprime un souhait au moment de l’énonciation.
Le français marque la période de temps à laquelle se réfère le souhait par la conjugaison du verbe principal (souhaiter/vouloir bien), alors que l’anglais dissocie le moment de l’énonciation (ici le présent; d’où le présent de WISH) du souhait (prétérit modal = non-réalisation actuelle du procès Procès: Action ou état exprimé par le verbe.; pluperfect modal: non-réalisation du procès Procès: Action ou état exprimé par le verbe. dans le passé)
Les modaux WILL (sens radical = volonté du sujet) et CAN (possibilité) sont fréquents dans cette tournure :
I wish you would come.
Je souhaiterais que tu viennes.I wish I could draw as well as this :
J’aimerais bien savoir dessiner aussi bien que ceci :
REMARQUES IMPORTANTES :
1- N’employez pas THAT après WISH.
2- Le sujet de la principale et celui de la subordonnée peuvent être identiques. Ils figurent alors deux fois dans la phrase.
3- le prétérit modal de BE est WERE à toutes les personnes. On emploie néanmoins (très) familièrement WAS au singulier.
I wish I were you.
Je voudrais bien être à ta place.
4- WISH peut être au passé si le souhait a été formulé dans le passé.
I wished I hadn’t accepted.
Je regrettais d’avoir accepté.
WOULD RATHER
La préférence est très proche du SOUHAIT. Elle peut s’exprimer par une subordonnée après :
– WOULD RATHER/WOULD SOONER :aimer mieux
– WOULD AS SOON : aimer autant
I ‘d rather/as soon you called him now.
J’aimerais mieux/autant que tu l’appelles maintenant.
I’d sooner you had come with me.
J’aurais mieux aimé que tu vinsses (viennes) avec moi.
Si la principale et la subordonnée ont le même sujet, on retrouve le système habituel des MODAUX.
I’d rather go with you.
J’aimerais mieux aller avec toi.
IT IS TIME
Les expressions :
It is time: Il est temps que…
It is high time: Il est grand temps que…
It is about time: Il serait temps que…/ Il commence à être temps que…
peuvent se construire de deux façons :
1 – avec un passé modal :
It’s high time you took a decision.
Il est grand temps que tu prennes une décision.
2 – avec une infinitive :
It’s high time for you to take a decision.
IF ONLY
Une tournure intéressante où la principale reste sous-entendue correspond à l’expression française “si seulement”.
If only I knew !
Si seulement je savais !If only I had known !
Si seulement j’avais su !
Enfin, on peut ajouter la traduction de “Plût au ciel que…”
Would to God he were still alive !
Plût au ciel qu’il soit encore vivant !
May 15, 2010
Week 5-17
1) Version 2006
2) An essay: do natural disaster impact economic growth?
3) Step 3
4) Review of everything you did
GOOD luck….
MY WORK
1) Making clear the génitif and preterit modal
2) Posting a list of vocabulary and my summary for CSR/ business/marketing ethicq
3) Preparing you on politics in the UK and the rest of Europe…
May 12, 2010
theme ecricome 2006
Green: structure
Red: vocabulary
Blue: grammar
belonging to the [E1] American show biz’s stars and top names have been [E2] was faster than George W.Bush, his government and any amount of all the US senators [E3] togetherof the United States: They have arrived in Louisiana right from the start since the first days[E4] . The ones, that the humourist Jon Stewart slightly ironically called calls “groups of Beverly Hills [E5] “, have overcame[E6] the regular Marines in order to jump on their private plane and rescue the victims of the hurricane victims. The actor Sean Penn has consequently run into [E7] the flooded streets of New Orleans on a small boat, saving rescuing victims on from[E8] roofs or in the houses’[E9] upper-rooms/attics, while Julia Roberts was bringing pampers delivering diapers and kissing children in Alabama. The most powerful/influential woman on television [E10] , Oprah Winfrey, did not hesitate to bring her famous friends on board in order to help and sustain/support her Black Americans community, angry and tearful [E11] at the same time.
Surprisingly/in a more ambiguous way, John Travolta arrived in a plane full of food supplies but given by the Scientologic Church Church of Scientology, the sect he belongs to. Quick, the stars took off immediately their chequebooks; one million dollars was (the less accepted)/the bottom line. They have accepted to be involved in all the TV shows events in order to raise funds.
1) Review structure of nouns
2) Use of preterit
3) Number
[E1]Notion d’appartenance = gérondif
[E2]Utiliser le passé pour des faits
[E3]Formation de nom
[E4]It means depuis les premiers jours =/= dès les premiers jours
[E5]Gérondif : the Beverly Hills brigade
[E6]Good ! also beat
[E7]Sailed up and down
[E8]Notion de provenance
[E9]Pas de gérondif pour les noms
[E10]Tu peux faire un gérondif
[E11]Better to use adjectives than names in English
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