L1 Histoire
Anglais
Semestre 2
Commemorating Jamestown : NPR Morning Edition
Pre-listening : Vocabulary : match the following words with their
synonyms
a settlement
town.
a representative of a borough, of a
a burgess
someone who has to work for someone for a certain
amount of time before being free.
nebulous
a colony
to seek
something that’s unclear, not well-defined
to have a stake in something
to take something into account
an indentured laborer
to look for
to factor in
to have personal interest or involvement in something
Part 1 : 0:47’
1. Why is the Queen visiting Virginia?
2. Write down what you learned about Jamestown:
Date :
Is special because:
Key names:
3. Bob Deans describes Jamestown using which words?
4. What was the proportion of colonists who died within their first year?
Part 2 : 1:56’
1. Why did the settlers come? What were they looking for?
a.
b.
2. Complete the following sentence :
They found _____________ on the banks of the James River, and they didn’t begin to
make any __________ until ______________, when John Rolfe began growing
______________.
L1 Histoire
Anglais
Semestre 2
3. What elements show that the beginnings of democracy were in Jamestown?
And astoundingly the ________ of American democracy were ______ side by side with the
______ of American slavery, because just three weeks after that general assembly adjourned
in August of ________, up the river came the first Africans to arrive in English America in
______.
Part 3: 2:36’
1. How did the first slaves arrive in Virginia? Tick the most appropriate answer:
□ A Portuguese man-of-war (navire de guerre) had stolen them and traded them for
provisions.
□ They were stolen by a Dutchman who exchanged them for food.
2. True or false?
a. Some slaves worked to buy their freedom.
b. Slaves could not buy other slaves.
c. Black and White indentured servants were treated the same.
Part 4 :
1. What are the defining conflicts at the origin of the American Nation? Fill in the gaps:
The conflict between ________________ ___________ and ___________
____________, the conflict between a free and __________ people and American
___________, and the _______________ of creating government by the people where we
reflect the will of the ___________ but respect the will of the ____________..