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Monday, December 31, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Margaret Thatcher's role in plan to dismantle welfare state revealed | Politics | The Guardian
Au Royaume-Uni, un certain nombre de documents officiels (par exemple les procès verbaux des réunions du gouvernement) restent secrets pour une période de 30 ans. A la fin de chaque année, les journalistes découvrent ces documents datant d'il y a 30 ans. Il y a trente ans, en 1982, Margaret Thatcher était premier ministre. Voici certaines des découvertes.
Margaret Thatcher's role in plan to dismantle welfare state revealed | Politics | The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher's role in plan to dismantle welfare state revealed | Politics | The Guardian
Thursday, December 27, 2012
M1 Enseignement last lectures 2012
If you click here, you can listen again to lecture number 12 (I think) which is the second part of the subject "Liberty, empire and decolonization".
And if you click here you can listen again to lecture number 13 (I think) which is concerned mostly with questions of immigration and immigrants' rights.
And if you click here you can listen again to lecture number 13 (I think) which is concerned mostly with questions of immigration and immigrants' rights.
LEA L1 civilisation britannique - cours sur l'Irlande 2
If you click here, you can listen again to the last lecture in the series, which was the second one about the Republic of Ireland.
L3 Britain since 1945 - lectures on Cameron's times
You will find here the last two lectures in the series.
click here to listen to the first lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012
click here to listen to the second lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012
Do be sure to read some history books. And when it comes to exam time, whatever period the question deals with, make sure you make links to some events from other periods : the aim is to show what you know.
click here to listen to the first lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012
click here to listen to the second lecture on Debates and issues in Britain in 2012
Do be sure to read some history books. And when it comes to exam time, whatever period the question deals with, make sure you make links to some events from other periods : the aim is to show what you know.
PM orders new minorities push to stave off Tory election crisis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
La situation concernant les minorités ethniques et le racisme est en constante évolution au Royaume-Uni. Le premier ministre Conservateur s'inquiète du fait que son parti recueille très peu de voix chez les non-Blancs.
PM orders new minorities push to stave off Tory election crisis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
PM orders new minorities push to stave off Tory election crisis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
2011 census data - key points | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Le nouveau recensement britannique est arrivé!
2011 census data - key points | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, December 23, 2012
The IoS's Great Britons 2012 - News - People - The Independent
The Sunday newspaper IoS writes about the twelve people it believes are the greatest Britons of the year.
The IoS's Great Britons 2012 - News - People - The Independent
Saturday, December 22, 2012
A Decade To Remember - The Sixties 1 - YouTube
This three part documentary on the sixties in Britain is nostalgic, simplistic and superficial. However, it does allow you to see some of the images of events in the sixties which had some importance.
A Decade To Remember - The Sixties 1 - YouTube
A Decade To Remember - The Sixties 1 - YouTube
Friday, December 21, 2012
M1 Enseignement épreuve commentaire
C'est définitif: après plusieurs changements dus à des oraux des uns et des autres,
l'épreuve de commentaire dirigé a été placée le mercredi
9 janvier à 8h en salle 211 i1.
John Mullen
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Radio programmes about history BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History
In particular CAPES students will benefit from choosing a few of these radio programmes to listen to. you can download them in MP3 format and listen to them in the metro! There are over a hundred subjects to choose from! Just click on the link
BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History
BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: History
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
L1 Bloc 2 administrative information
If you have not yet handed in your homework, the details are here
the brochure de textes is on Eprel here.
and you can hand it in in my "casier" on the first floor in the "salle des professeurs" until Thursday.
JM
the brochure de textes is on Eprel here.
and you can hand it in in my "casier" on the first floor in the "salle des professeurs" until Thursday.
JM
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Scarman report - feedback on the text commentary
The text commentary on the Scarman report, given by Slimane
It’s obvious that you did a lot of work on this document.
You correctly explained the reasons for the riots (*not*, as is often said,
simply « race riots »). You explained the police reaction with Swamp
81 and so on. You gave examples and statistic s- for example about housing
shortages. And you pointed out some of the longer term results of the Scarman
Report in terms, among other things, of police recruitment. Your English was fluent and interested.
You needed to centre more around the document, and keep
coming back to it. You should never leave the document for more than two
paragraphs. Some of the details you gave
were not necessary : the date of birth and death of Lord Scarman do not
help us understand this document and so should be omitted.
It would have been good to give some of the longer histories
within which the Scarma report resides. It is one key moment in the history of
disaffection among Black and other youth. You could have mentioned others – a comparison
with the riots of 2011 would have been useful, or a reference to the Stephen
Lawrence scandal which in the 1990s led to another report about the police and
race relations which was far more scathing.
There wre quite a lot of words which were not correctly
pronounced, including the following : law, stabbed, riots, injured,
inquiry, interesting.
And you have picked up the strange habit of saying « nineteen
sixty first » instead of « nineteen sixty one » !
Saturday, December 15, 2012
LEA L1 Civilization : Britain and Ireland
The last lecture in the course is next Tuesday at the usual time.
But the place has changed : it will be in "amphi B4 à la faculté de droit".
JM
But the place has changed : it will be in "amphi B4 à la faculté de droit".
JM
LEA L1 Civilisation: Grande Bretagne et Irlande powerpoint
You will find here the last powerpoint, which I used in the last two classes, concerning the Republic of Ireland. Remember that the powerpoint does not include everything I talked about, and it may well be worth your while to listen to the Mp3 files too.
M1 enseignement marks for exposés etc
Exposés : oral text commentaries
Here are some of your marks : more soon ;
Cosette 12,5
Sarah 13
Wendy 10,5
Charline 11
Claire 12,5
Imène 15
Nina 12,5
Antonaeta 14,5
Ferdaws 13
Mélody 16
Aurélie 13
Samy 14,5
Miassa 13
Chloé 11,5
Charlène 10,5
Albert 14.5
Eloise 10.5
Rose Laure 13
Wendy 10,5
Charline 11
Claire 12,5
Imène 15
Nina 12,5
Antonaeta 14,5
Ferdaws 13
Mélody 16
Aurélie 13
Samy 14,5
Miassa 13
Chloé 11,5
Charlène 10,5
Albert 14.5
Eloise 10.5
Rose Laure 13
The marks are in connection with our demands
for Master students, and naturally are not supposed to represent equivalent
marks for the CAPES.
On another point, thank you for the course
evaluation you filled in. The question « how many hours do you spend on
this subject outside class time » gave very varied answers. Certainly, if
you answered « one or two hours » you will need to step this
up over the next few months.
Friday, December 14, 2012
M1 enseignement lectures
Click here for the last lecture in the series about campaigning for rights in Britain
Click here for the lecture on Liberty, Empire and decolonization.
Click here for the lecture on Liberty, Empire and decolonization.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Scarman report videos : L3 Britain since 1945
Suite à l'exposé de lundi dernier sur le Scarman report, Slimane m'a envoyé les liens ci-dessous
V
oila les liens pour voir les vidéos pour mieux comprendre le SCARMAN REPORT.
TO EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THE DEATH OF 13 BLACK YOUTHS IN THE PARTY .
TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT SWAMP 81 AND WHAT RESULTED.
RIOTS IN BRIXTON .
Sunday, December 09, 2012
M1 enseignement lecture on history of welfare in the UK
If you click here you can listen again to the class from the 6th December, in which I traced the history of the poor law and subsequent "welfare" measures from 1601 to the 1920s at least.
L3 britain since 1945 text commentary on Thatcher's speech
Text commentary by Hyann on Thatcher’s speech before she was
Prime minister. die
Your text commentary began well, your pronunciation is good
and your English is fairly fluent. However, the second part of your text
commentary was purely paraphrase and you did not really show you knew what her
ideas were in detail, or how she was trying to get them across in her rhetoric.
You quoted too often from the document, often without
showing that you understood what you were quoting. For example, when she
denounces « others, under the shelter of our education system » she
is talking about (in her view) dangerous left-wing teachers. You do not show
you understand this.
You do not give examples of the nationalizations she
denounces or of the debate which surrounded them.
At some points you made some excessively naive statements
like « We can see she is completely against communism » (everybody
knows this). Or you said « She thinks it is important to remain
free ». This last sentence is extremely problematic. First of all, who are
the politicans, or indeed anyone else, who would say in public « it is
important not to remain free ». Now, when everyone declares attachment to
a value such as freedom, we learn nothing specific about Thatcher by hearing
that she claims attachment to freedom. You need to explain : what did she
mean by freedom ? What did her opponents mean by freedom ? Freedom
for whom, and to do what ?
A little later you said « Her main aim is to create
wealth and better services for those in need ». Well this is certainly
what she says is her main aim. But if every political leader clearly stated, in
an objective fashion, their main aim, we wouldn’t need political debate or
historians !
Language problems.
Confusion between « what is important » and
« which is important ».
You do not always pronounc ethe « s » at the end
of a word.
The structure « she is not agree » does not exist.
L3 Britain since 1945 text commentary
Clovis’s text commentary on Arthur Scargill’s speech.
First the good points. You defined well who Scargill was and
what he represented (the most influential leader of the most powerful trade
union), and you explained correctly the significance of the date. Thatcherism
was generally correctly characterized, and the employment acts well summarized.
You also remembered to look at the details of Thatcher’s most recent election
victory (noting that the majority of voters did not vote for the Conservative
party). There was some measuring of Scargill’s rhetoric.
To go further, you might have noted that Merthyr Tidfil is a
very specific place : aplace where Scargill knew he was among enthusiastic
supporters of his political positions and trade union leadership. During the
miners’ strike, Scargill, to the miners, was a genuine hero, much more sot han
any trade union leader had been for decades. Far from remaining in his office,
Scargill was to be seen on the picket lines, and was famously sent to hospital by a blow from a
policeman’s baton.
Because he is speaking to people who agree with him,
perhaps, he allows himself some rhetorical hyperbole. Very few commentators
really think that Thatcher’s successful attempts to weaken trade unions could
be compared to Hitler’s decision to ban them and imprison their leaders, or
kill them. The numbers given by Scargill for the unemployed, and his dire
predictions of imminent social disaster are no doubt somewhat exaggerated.
Exaggeration is part of political discourse, and the aim of Scargill’s speech
is to encourage combativity in his supporters, not to give an exact description
of the situation in society. You should have mentioned his objective in giving
this speech.
One or two references were imprecise. Although Scargill was
close to communist members of his trade union such as Mick McGahey, he was not
a member of the Communist Party, but of the Labour Party until, frustrated with
what he saw as the rightwards drift of the Labour Party, he left the party and
formed a new party with a group of his fellow-thinkers : the Socialist
Labour Party. Forming a new Left party is a very rare event in British
twentieth century politics, and should merit a mention.
Finally, the date of the speech is also three years before
the poll tax conflict will fatally damage Thatcher politically ; so
although she appears extremely powerful at the date of the speech, social
revolt does help to put her out of Number ten fairly shortly afterwards.
Language problems :
A few difficulties with the present perfect : you musct
not say « ‘In 1983 Thatcher has been re-elected ».
Structure difficulties : it is not correct to say
« He accuses Thatcher to let people suffer. »
It is also incorrect to say « She wanted to prevent
trade unions to be too powerful ».
Finally, the word « évoquer » is rarely
translateable as « to evoke ».
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