Vocable All English – 18 Octobre 2018

édito sommaire N° 458 / Du 18 au 31 octobre 2018

Grand angle ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

On parle d'eux ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

À la une

 C1-C2 Obama is stumping for Democrats

THE ATLANTIC ONLINE (US) ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6

The former U.S. president campaigns for the Democratic Party.

 B2-C1 Why the 2018 midterm elections feel so epic

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (US) .............................................................................................................................................. 9

High stakes for the upcoming American midterm elections.

 A2-B1 Sur le vif .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Société

 B2-C1 Naked Europe covers up THE ECONOMIST (UK) .......................................................................... 13

The decline of naturism in Europe.

 A2-B1 Ma ̄ ori has gone mainstream THE GUARDIAN (UK) ............................................................ 15

Revival of the Ma ̄ ori language in New Zealand.

PRATIC’ABLE ................................................................................................................................. 17

Vocabulaire, expressions et astuces pour parler

comme un anglophone

Au il du temps et des heures / Point de grammaire : Le pluriel / Piège : les

prépositions et postpositions / L'expression idiomatique

 A2-B1 À 360° ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21

Enjeux

 B2-C1 Bigger than MTV THE GUARDIAN (UK) ............................................................................................................ 22

Can video games save the music industry?

 B2-C1 Alex Salmond is a distraction THE ECONOMIST (UK) ....................................................... 24

The former Scottish National Party leader is in trouble.

 A2-B1 Les échos ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25

Culture

 B2-C1 Claire Foy on First Man NEW YORK M AGAZINE (US) ................................................................ 26

Interview with the British actress Claire Foy.

 C1-C2 Pink isn’t what it used to be THE GUARDIAN (UK) ........................................................... 28

An exhibition to see la vie en rose.

Découverte

 C1-C2 Trawling for plastic in the Paciic THE ECONOMIST (UK) ................................... 30

System 001, an ingenious device to clean up the Paciic Ocean.

Bons plans .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33

Les sorties .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34

Photo de couverture : Kyle Grillot/The New York Times Le dessin ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 35

Return to the ballot

box

With only a few weeks to go before the American

midterm elections (6 November) tensions are

rising. This vote is to elect all seats in the House

of Representatives and one third in the Senate.

And, unlike previous midterms, this one has

been in preparation for a long time. The reason...

Donald Trump, whose presidency has divided

the country and unleashed an unprecedented

fever of political activism. If the Democrats man-

age to take over the House of Representatives, as

many polls indicate they could, Trump’s agenda

will be compromised, and maybe even steps to

impeachment taken. This election is clearly a

referendum of the Trump presidency.

With this in mind, the campaign budgets, as

of mid July, have already surpassed former

midterm elections, with political parties spend-

ing over a billion dollars on TV advertising

alone. Former president, Barack Obama, has left

retirement to campaign for the Democrats. After

lending his support to 81 candidates this sum-

mer, he gave speeches vigorously denouncing

Trump’s policies in September. This is a battle

of two very different kinds of presidency, and

ideologies, symbolised by Trump and Obama,

in these elections.

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