Live footage from the 9/11 attacks + translation

05.01.2012

Hey guys,

today we first watched the live report about the attacks on the WTC back in 2001 and you had to confront the text we were studying with the testimony of the two eye witnesses upon that day.

Here are some of the comments you made about the document:

WTC attacks:

This document is a report of the events that happened on 9/11/2001. There is a journalist asking questions to two eye witnesses. The 1st woman says that she was returning home from school with her daughter when she heard a loud noise. She mimics the sound of an airplane. Then she saw a fireball and an enormous fire. There was also a huge smoke. She also describes the events happening live. She can see a plume of confetti fallling down from the tower. The 2nd eye witness is more shocked as she understands that this is not an accident. She can see, hear, and feel the shock waves of the explosion.

Then we continued working on the correction of the translation:

...de ses inquiétudes à propos des poisons qui flotttaient dans l'air. Et puis elles dormirent. Elles dormirent, dormirent et dormirent du sommeil de l'épuisement et peut-être du soulagement d'être loin de là-bas, de l'endroit où ça s'était passé. Mais le dimanche, quand Inga demanda à Sonia ce qu'elle avait vu depuis la fenêtre de sa classe ce matin-là, la jeune fille se contenta de secouer la tête, le regard vide et la mâchoire crispée.

and we summed up some of the techniques and important points that you needed to think about when in front of your translation:

"to be written by Jason / Joyce"

HW:

- j'ai oublié de vous dire que vous auriez un contrôle de vocabulaire Mercredi sur l'ensemble de la séquence incluant le texte "Heart of Darkness" + un devoir de fin de séquence Jeudi (2 heures: comprehension / expression / translation)... oops... ... faites passer le message. Merci.

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