Wednesday, December 22, 2010

White Sheets Turned Yellow



A hint of civilization
When the song higher voice (continued)

Four songs, four perspectives

We chose four songs that will open many doors to civilization. Three of them come from France, one of the 70, Hexagon and the other two 2000s, crisis and Education . The fourth comes from Francophone Africa, Nothing surprises me .
exploitation does suggest that we will focus on that civilization. That is to say, everyday life, current events, history ... An interesting work can be done at certain levels, the registers of language and on the phonetics of French costing, e lapsed, "Patterns , links, etc..
It is obvious that the image of France that these songs convey a few points of contact with the still shots often in fashion, culture, perfumes, fashion ...
These songs can be used to trigger debates in which the teacher will play a mediating role without taking sides on any issue. They may also become the subject of class group projects that will lead students to do research on a specific theme, Education in France, the situation in Africa, Ivory Coast, research that will lead to an exhibition or a presentation.
Renaud
son of a German teacher, author of detective novels, of Protestant background, and a mother from a family proletarian North Renaud Sechan raised in Paris. Few studies focused on it quickly abandoned, however it is early interest in politics. By 1968, an anarchist like his father, he composes and performs his own songs between the barricades. After that, he wants to be an actor and joined the company five months of Romain Bouteille where Coluche and Miou Miou . Referred to the bookstore where he worked, he made the inning with a friend and that's Paul Lederman, producer of Coluche, noticed. They will play at dinner theater, the 'Caf'Conc', but Renaud soon finds himself alone on stage to sing his own compositions. A producer noticed it and began his career with his first album in 1975, Amoureux de Paname . Reaching the pinnacle of his success in the '80s, with albums by turns tender and committed, he confirmed until 1997, when the departure of his wife sank into alcohol and depression. Even if the fans will always go up, it's hell Boucan in 2002 which is the true new success. He published several books and a picture book. In 2006 he released the album Red blood . In a typical slang, Renaud humorously embodies rebellion, love, poetry of life and sets itself up against The Bobos , satirical song hit the end of 2006.
His latest disc, Molly Mallone, Irish tour, was released in 2009.

Hexagon - Renaud (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRakmBRukQ
Hexagon Renaud, written and recorded in 1975, presents a dark picture of France. Whether we agree or not, references to the news of the day or history are of great interest.
other hand, Despite his 35 years, was taken over by the heads steep and the reception it receives from the public, we show qu'Hexagone not too old.
The song, released on the album Amoureux de Paname , scroll through an entire year the average French man. Each verse is devoted to a quarter and reviews the flaws that Renaud attributed to his countrymen. His sarcastic tone, and very hard, "said qu'Hexagone was banned airplay on France Inter.
Although the portrait of the French track that Renaud is not very encouraging, we believe that there are sufficient elements of civilization to operate in mainland France in order not to leave out with learners of a B2-C1 of the CEFR.

They kiss in the month of January,
because a new year begins, but for ages

has not changed France 's very.
Spend the days and weeks,
merde / Someone is changing scenery,
mentality is the same:
all losers, all of the stool.

They are not heavy in February
remembering Charonne
of thugs sworn
fignolèrent that their work,
France is a country of cops,
at all street corners y'en 100,
to law and order
they murder with impunity.

When running in the month of March,
the other 'side of the Pyrenees, an anarchist
the Basque Country, to teach him to
s'révolter,
they cry, they cry and they resent the
this vile killing, but they forget
qu'la guillotine
also still works with us.

Being born under the sign of the hexagon is not
c'qu'on made better c'moment,
and the king of idiots on his throne,
j'parierai not that it is all'mand.

They said, in April, to
TV, in newspapers, of
not find a thread,
that spring was coming soon,
the old principles of the sixteenth century, and old traditions
deficient,
they apply to all letter, there
m'font pity these fools.

They remember, in May,
a blood flowed red and black, a failed revolution

who nearly upset in history, I do not remember
especially those of sheep, afraid
Liberty
away from voting by the millions
for order and security.

They commemorate the month of June
landing of Normandy,
they think the brave soldier Rican
what v'nu being killed far from home, they forget that
the bomb blast, the French
shouted "Vive Pétain"
they were well stashed in London
what was not much of Jean Moulin.

Being born under the sign of the hexagon,
is not fame, in truth,
and the king of idiots on his throne,
not tell me he is Portuguese.

They are celebrating the month of July,
souv'nir in a revolution that never

eliminated poverty and exploitation, they
drink of dances,
of fireworks and blaring, they think
forget the beer
they are governed as pawns.

In August it was freedom, after a long year
factory
they shout: "Long live the paid leave,"
they forget a little machine,
Spain, Greece or France ,
they will pollute all the tracks, and their only
presence
damage all landscapes.

When in September is assassinated,
a people and a freedom
the heart of Latin America,
they are not likely to yell, a
ambassador boils,
he is greeted with open arms,
fascism is
gangrene in Santiago and Paris.

Being born under the sign of the hexagon,
is really not easy,
and the king of idiots on his throne,
he is French, that I'm sure. Gone

the harvest in October, the grapes ferment in
tons
they are very proud of their vineyards, their
"Cotes du Rhone" and "Bordeaux"
they export the blood of the earth a little
anywhere abroad
their booze and pie
is their only glory to these nerds.

In November, in Room l'auto,
they will see thousands
the latest model Peugeot,
they could never afford,
the car, the TV, tiercé,
c ' is the opium of the people of France,
remove him is to kill,
is a drug addiction.

In December it is the apotheosis
the great food and the little gifts,
they are still bleak, but there
of joy in the ghettos,
Earth can stop the run ,
they rat'ront not their supper;
J'voudrais all see me die, smothered
turkey with chestnuts.

Being born under the sign of the hexagon, we can not say
qu'ça
is horny idiots if King lost his throne, there would
50 million suitors.

And here's the 2004 version of the stiff heads:
http://www.esnips.com/web/hexagonetetesraides/

Glossary
The hexagon
: Phrase that means France by drawing its approximate borders.
slacker :
first meaning: bad horse
figuratively: A person unable
Fake ass :
first meaning: that women wore padding under their dresses to increase the apparent volume their posterior.
figuratively: Nobody hypocritical.
Charonne : February 8, 1962, at the invitation of the PSU and the PC, a demonstration for peace in Algeria and against the OAS is organized Place de la Bastille.
The rally was banned by the prefect Maurice Papon. Is violent police repression. The SRC task the demonstrators who are engulfed in a subway station, Charonne. 8 people died crushed against the railings.
PSU: Socialist Unity Party
PC : Communist Party
OAS: The Secret Army Organization was a French organization politico-military clandestine supporter of maintaining the status quo of French Algeria
Maurice Papon : Politician and high-ranking French civil servant, sentenced in 1998 for complicity in crimes against humanity for acts committed when he was secretary general of the Gironde prefecture between 1942 and 1944 under German occupation.
Prefect of Police in March 1958 he was also involved in the bloody suppression of the demonstration on February 8, 1962, in protest against the OAS, known by the name of the case of the subway station Charonne.
CRS : Republican Security Company.
is performed in March : March 2, 1974, the Catalan anarchist (and non-Basque) Salvador Puig Antich i was executed in Spain.
The death penalty was abolished in Spain in 1978, while in France it was in 1981.
"In April you do not discover a thread." Through this old saying, Renaud introduced the idea of traditionalism of the French. The
May : reference to the events of May 68 and the 1969 elections which gave victory to the right. The subject of
June is the Allied landings in 1944 and some French collaboration, dont Maurice Papon, prêtèrent à l’occupant.
Il faut cependant préciser que la plupart des Français ne furent ni résistants ni collaborateurs. Ils étaient trop occupés à essayer de survivre.
Pétain : Formé à l'école militaire de Saint-Cyr, jeune général au début la guerre de 14-18, Pétain organise la défense de Verdun en 1916. Commandant en chef des armées françaises en 1917, il est élevé à la dignité de Maréchal de France en 1918.
Après la débâcle française, Pétain est appelé à la présidence du Conseil le 16 juin 1940. Il demande l'armistice, et obtient du Parlement, held in Vichy, full power July 10, 1940. He founded the "French state" and urges France to a policy of collaboration with Germany.
At the Liberation, he was tried and sentenced to death. Her sentence was commuted to imprisonment perpetuated by General de Gaulle. He died on the Ile d'Yeu, where he was imprisoned after his trial.
Jean Moulin : Figure flagship of the French Resistance during the Second World War, Jean Moulin has shown courage and determination, boundless in his fight.
His work led to the establishment of the National Council Resistance (CNR) which is the first president. Victim of a betrayal, he was arrested by the Gestapo. Tortured, Jean Moulin died July 8, 1943 in the train that took him to Germany, without ever having spoken.
July 14: Day Revolutionary Paris, became a national holiday, July 14 combines today the formal military parades and the conviviality of street dances and fireworks. The storming of the Bastille in 1789 was commemorated in France since 1880.
Paid leave: vacation periods during which the employee is paid by the employer prior to due to a legal obligation. This
social legislation is linked to the advent of the Popular Front in France in 1936.
On September 11, 1973: General Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile after a bloody coup in which one victim was President Salvador Allende. Renaud particularly critical foreign policy of France relative to dictatorships.
Pinard (pejorative) common wine. By extension, any kind of wine.
horny (Familiar) attractive, charming.

If you want to go a bit further than the documents of civilization, both Hexagon as crisis, that comes immediately afterwards can become a good excuse to work intonation and phonetics, especially the "e" obsolete, even in these songs marked with an apostrophe ('s very, corner 'street, under the sign ...).
Regarding insults, or as they are still called "bad words , we suggest not to resort to paraphrases but to translate into their mother tongue in the same register of language. Learners will know how we should use them with moderation and not in all circumstances!

crisis - The man speaks (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7OIyTDeEjs

Man speaks is a group of alternative-rap song of Nimes. Their album, the daily Activists appeared in June 2009.

One day, one day, one day the growth will come
One day my boss say to me
Go, I also increases
But today j'vous dismisses
Thanks to pros waffle
Thanks to stingy millionaires
Add parts Yellow Carla
For us it comes out of the galley
Thank banks lawless
The buying power we know not
The only good enough for scholarship I
is one that I touch the end
So to all the hypocrisy
A big thank you to Sarkozy
Thanks to you we say
Good god what a world we live in?
Chorus:
From IMF RMI ISF to SDF
Departments to misery
From CGT MEDEF
From gutter to the head of the State Retirement
hat the RSA
From France to the top of the bottom
There is not a
So we dance S
ur world music
And the waltz begins
Still on the same tempo
So we dance
On the world into pieces
After all how important
For us it is not new
Life is full of surprises
Especially for those who know Crisis
I raise my glass to your health
Before we will make every jump
me in life I do not
I eat pasta for every meal
kiss for me Family
While my brothers cry to the famine
Thanks for all your good Monsanto GMO Thanks to McDonald's and Quick
To sell us the food we love
The race Consumer Product
idiots without warning
And you find any horrible
I say together, anything is possible
It's okay, we forgive you
lead the world to ruin
course gives you the
We will be with the remains
I resumed a share of crap for dessert
I know thee're tired but there it remains cheap
I will not throw Stone
You who worked like crazy
To get us out of the galley
After all I voted for you
The Love Boat while we wallow in the mud
Excuse me I abuse, I'm in deep shit
[Chorus]
Me The Crisis, she touch me
And yes I saw the hook at the State
I do not care, I can pitch my Company
We will turn the printing
Without parachute crash is assured
Unless you are a good pal to Keyboard
The fact of the king became law
And it happens just down home
Thanks to the ministers of the opening
Who have made France a caricature
Thanks to all of us prove
What you are all in one basket
I wanted to be a socialist
If j listen to my childhood dreams
But all these fine names on the lists
are in the elephant graveyard
are working hard in summer and winter
There's no season the galley
For the holidays we stay home
At the price of gasoline? Should be crazy!
Tell me you at the head of state
J'comprend not I have not done Sciences Po and ENA
Thanks to powerful for the 1%
J 'not so much as wondering
My RSA waiting
Anyway what does that there may
We are poor before being old
Take the the bright side
We Live what you want better
[Chorus]
Mhhmmm ... (background)
purchasing power at half mast must boost investment havens Tax havens and banking Disconnected from reality Especially do not give in to pessimism ...

Glossary:
Radin : pejorative miser. Other
: Professionals
wood Language: Language frozen, cut off from reality, and that vehicle, so Artificial message intentionally rigged. Among his many
'utilities', it hides the truth, to answer the question side of a walnut or lack of thought or knowledge of a subject under a barrage of rhetoric.
Galerius : Old warship with oars and sails.
condemnation to the galleys amounted to a death sentence as the conditions on board vessels were difficult
figuratively: Event, painful activity.
IMF: International Monetary Fund
RMI: Revenu Minimum d'Insertion
ISF : Wealth tax
homeless: Homeless
CGT: Confédération générale du travail. Union organization founded in 1895.
MEDEF: Mouvement des entreprises de France. Employers' association.
Gutter : Canal drainage, placed on either side of a roadway. By extension the bottom of the ladder.
Retirement hat: A hat-retirement plan is a supplementary retirement benefit plans. This is a parallel compensation to statutory retirement that corresponds to a percentage of salary end of their careers and whose payment is spread throughout the retirement of the beneficiary. These schemes are reserved for executives and business leaders, especially during their dismissal.
RSA : Income of active solidarity. It replaced my RMI.
Monsanto : Originally a chemical company, its name is synonymous with that of Agent Orange heavily used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Holds a patent on glyphosate herbicide it markets under the name Roundup, is also one leading producer of genetically modified seeds.
GMO: genetically modified organism. Quick and McDonald
: McDonald's (McDonald) is an American fast-food chain, the largest in the world.
In 2008 there were 1135 restaurants in France (31,600 worldwide).
Quick is a French fast food chain, McDonald's rival.
parachute or golden parachute : A golden parachute is a severance in the form of a contractual agreement between an officer of a company and the company that employs him. It sets the compensation paid at a foreclosure following a layoff, restructuring, merger with another company or even during a scheduled departure of the individual. When
Forgeard left EADS in July 2006, the golden parachute of € 8.5 million paid to him caused a scandal.
Keyboard: Christian Clavier, French actor friend of Sarkozy. In August 2008 activists of Corsican nationalists invaded his house, the case was highly publicized.
opening Ministers: Ministers of "openness" are men and women belonging to the political left, have agreed to enter in government Sarkozy / Fillon.
Elephants: The elephant expression of PS is always pejorative. It is a way to designate those who occupy or monopolize all positions at the expense of a new generation that would have less archaic ideas.
Sciences Po : Political Science
ENA: Ecole Nationale d'Administration. That is where are the senior managers of the French administration. The 1%
: Participation of employers in the construction effort, known as the "1% housing" or "1% employers' is mandatory in private sector nonfarm at least 10 employees.

crisis was the official song of the European campaign of Ecology Europe. It listens on lipdub that party. It shows Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Eva Joly and Bove among many others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpK80HQhxU
A lipdub designates a playback video made by individuals generally intended for broadcast on the Internet or other networks. Made in the workplace, more especially that of communication, these videos show generally good mood that prevails in a team or company.
lipdub The Ecology of Europe is also subtitled in French!

We used this lipdub learners with level A1-A2 for their work to the description of the characters. After viewing all the video by explaining what it was, we put the break when he appears an interesting character and are asked to make the description.

We concern ourselves not so long de la francophonie. Francophone Africa is fertile ground bound for the song.

Tiken Jah Fakoly, whose real name Doumbia Moussa Fakoly, was born June 23, 1968 in Odienne north-western Côte d'Ivoire. Born into a family of blacksmiths of Guinea, he discovered early reggae music and formed his first group, Djelys in 1987.
Concerned by the social and political evolution of his country, Tiken Jah incisive texts written on the electoral situation which followed the death of Houphouet-Boigny in 1993, which earned him great popularity among the youth .
Since 2003, Tiken Jah Fakoly living in exile in Mali because of threats of death.
He obtained the Victory of music in the 2003 Reggae Album category for the album Françafrique .
Tiken Jah Fakoly plays music for " raise awareness." The lyrics of his songs are about many injustices suffered by people in his home country, but especially the African people.
is to cancel the debt of African countries, and approached the global justice movement.
Tiken Jah Fakoly has launched a campaign in 2009 entitled "A concert a school." It has already financed the construction of a school in the village of Touron, located 30 km from Odienne in his native region and also a college Dianka Mali (near Timbuktu).
alterglobalism : social movement composed of very different actors who offer essentially a set of values "social" and environmentally friendly as the engine of globalization and human development, as opposed to what they analyze as " economic logic of neoliberal globalization .

Nothing surprises me
Tiken Jah Fakoly (Mug Shot, 2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot420w5f6_8
They shared the world, nothing surprises me!
Nothing surprises me!
Nothing surprises me!
If you leave me Chechnya
Me, I'll leave Armenia
If you leave me in Afghanistan
Me I would leave the Pakistan
If you do not leave Haiti,
Me I depart for Bangui
If you help me to bomb Iraq
Me I Kurdistan suits you.
If you leave me uranium
Me, I'll leave the aluminum
If you leave me your deposits,
me to help me to hunt the Taliban
If you give me a lot of wheat,
Me I make war on your side
If you let me pull your gold,
Me I help put out the general.
They shared Africa, without consulting us
They are surprised that we are disunited.
Part of the Mandingo Empire
Se found in Wolof.
Part of the Mossi empire,
Found in Ghana.
Part of the empire Susu,
found himself in the Mande empire.
Part of the Mandingo Empire,
Se found in Mossi.I
ls shared Africa, without consulting us!
Without ask us!
Without us know!
They divided the world, nothing surprises me !
Nothing surprises me!
Nothing surprises me!

Glossary:
If you give me a lot of wheat : slang for a lot of money
Empire or Manding Empire of Mali : African empire of the Middle Ages. It was created in the thirteenth century by Sundiata Keita and reached its apogee in the fourteenth century.
The Mali empire extended between the Sahara and the rainforest, the Atlantic Ocean and the Niger Bend is on the current Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and a large part of Côte d'Ivoire
Wolof : ethnic group living mainly in Senegal, where they represent nearly half the population and rank third in the Gambia with 15% of the population and constitute about 9% of the population Mauritania. The Mossi empire
: It was founded in the fifteenth century by invaders from northern Ghana, today the Mossi are the largest tribe in Burkina Faso. The number of two million, they are the only people in the region to have a centralized government, led by Zaksoba or emperors. The Susu
: ethnic group of West African owned much to the Mandingo community. They created powerful kingdoms through trade in Guinea pepper, palm oil and slavery.

Grand Corps Malade
Fabien Marsaud
aka Grand Corps Malade slam is a born July 31, 1977 at Blanc-Mesnil in Seine-Saint-Denis.
In July 1997, following a bad dip in a swimming pool when he was host of a summer camp for the city of Saint-Denis, Fabien Marsaud moves vertebrae and learns that he would never walk again.
In 1999, he finds the use of his legs after a year of rehabilitation. In reference
this painful experience that he took the pseudonym Grand Corps Malade.
In October 2003 he made his first slam in a Parisian bar. Subsequently, one of his friends (S Petit Nico) offered him to translate his songs into music, hence the creation of 27 March 2006 his first album Midi 20, whose title is that of a piece it reduces life to the scale of a day.
He evokes his hometown, Saint-Denis , his love of life, a heartache, but also the pain of his injury.
This first album was highly publicized and allowed the French public to discover the slam.
Sometimes a capella often accompanied by a minimalist melody in the background, her songs are recited with a voice perfectly natural and understandable.
Great importance is given effect to the narration, mixing humor and winks to the figures of speech.
Two albums followed, Child City (2008) and third time (2010).
Slam: Beauty of spoken poetry. By extension: stage on which said a slam. The
Slam is a performance form of meetings and tournaments poems. Founded in Chicago in the 80s, he has aroused popular interest and media attention she allows it to spread worldwide.

Grand Corps Malade
Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi05d9sb6h8
My name is Moussa, I am 10 years old, I'm in Epinay CM2
City 93 where I grew up and where I was born
My school is cute even if the walls are not brand new
In each room there are plenty of noises, I in my class it is 29
There's not many students models and then we are somewhat allayed
I think we are what we call pupils
Me I'm in math not terrible but it's not worse than dictation
What I prefer is 16h, I found large in my neighborhood
But my mistress I like it, it can be hard but she is patient
And if I ever get it, she explained again, it is not boring
It always full of ideas and full of plans to release
But we only have 2 cars per year that are loaned by the mayor
I think my school is poor, there was no computer lab
We only have the yard and court to do gymnastics
On TV I saw that the classes were golf EPS
We did it as carpets, hoops and distress of our mistresses
So if everything is played at school, it's time to hear SOS
Do not let the gap widen a 2-speed education
the middle rounds, there's too many pawns in the game school failure
Do not let our mad kings in dramatic defeats
Education in France goes wrong, nobody can deny the truth
priority education zones are not a priority
Classes are not overcrowded as the pay of teachers undermined
And it removes the workforce in schools already apnea
On the contrary, need to add teachers and other professions who take over
In neighborhoods most in a galley, create classes 15 students
Add positions or assistants who help with homework
Who know the parents and children accompanying the latest in
Education in France goes wrong, the State does not have enough money
Some reforms to 2 balls not to see the most urgent
A school with no real way is powerless
How can we make savings on the future of our children
Education in France is not bad because it makes people equal
Weaker pull the alarm but it stifles their echo
The public school is bad because it's head under water
There is no national education, there has the means to survive local
So continue to tell the little brothers that school is the solution
But give them the right tools for their future because attention
Academic achievement in some areas might remain a mystery
And Equal Opportunity, a concept of ministry
So if everything is played at school, it's time to hear the SOS
Do not let the gap widen a 2-speed education
the middle rounds, there's too pawns in the chess school
Do not let our mad kings in dramatic defeats
My name is Moussa, I am 10 years old, I'm in Epinay CM2
City 93 where I grew up and where I was born
It's not my fault if I less likely to have the tray
It's just because I live where my future is a dead
Education (3rd time, 2010)

Glossary:
CM2 : Average second-year, fifth and last class of elementary school.
Epinay-sur-Seine : joint department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93) and the Ile-de-France.
The 93 or 9 / 3 (nine to three) : In a nineteenth century industrial revolution, the north-east of Paris was chosen as settlement area polluting factories and dangerous because the west wind prevents harmful fumes and foul smells to infest the city. In recent decades, this backyard of Paris will become the first European industrial pole. And hell, as the mortality rate is high, people crowded into slums, poor sanitation and massive pollution. Following the story is as disastrous. Involved, the ineptitude of political decisions that lead to the ghettoization of entire populations, urbanization dehumanizing designed at lower cost, de-industrialization that will leave poorly managed soils and archipollués workforce with little or no qualified discarded.
" The 9 / 3 is a territory sacrificed. The state has orchestrated a social ghettoization, the offices of HLM, an ethnic ghetto. The city policy has been a total failure. A huge scam . " Yamina Benguigui, director of 9 / 3: An Inconvenient Truth .
Boring : very boring
EPS: Physical Education and Sports
priority education zones (ZEP) : areas which are located in schools (schools or colleges) with additional resources and greater autonomy to deal with challenges at school and social life. In galley
: distressed
2 balls: 2 cents, nothing, nothing much

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