Compréhension de l’écrit

Doc. 1 Moving back to Africa

Doc. 2Building a house in the home country

1 Doc. 1 et 2. Fill in the following table:

2 Doc. 1.  a. How do the other people react to the protagonist’s decision?

b. Find two quotations from the text which best illustrate their reactions.

3 Doc. 2. “Then everyone who matters to you can see you’ve made it in America.” (l. 8-9). Explain this sentence in your own words.

Seuls les candidats de la série L LVO traiteront la question 4.

4 Doc. 1 et 2. What have the protagonists of texts 1 and 2 achieved by coming to the United States?

5 Doc. 1 et 2. In the two texts, the protagonists make surprising decisions.

What other decision(s) could have been expected? Answer briefly.

6 Doc. 1 et 2. a. What could have motivated their decisions?

b. What do these decisions reveal about their relationships to their native countries?

Seuls les candidats de la série L LVA traiteront la question 7.

7 Doc. 1. et 2. To what extent do these surprising decisions (question 4) differ from the usual ideas associated with the american dream? (Give 4 elements)