Fiche à imprimer : Rosa Parks : le boycott des bus (4e)

Anglais	Français
segregation	la ségrégation
She refused to give up her seat.	Elle a refusé de céder sa place.
The driver told her to stand up.	Le chauffeur lui a ordonné de se lever.
She was arrested.	Elle a été arrêtée.
the Montgomery bus boycott	le boycott des bus de Montgomery
It lasted 381 days.	Il a duré 381 jours.

Le 1ᵉʳ décembre 1955, à Montgomery (Alabama), où les Noirs devaient laisser leur place aux Blancs dans les bus, Rosa Parks, couturière et militante, refuse de se lever. Elle est arrêtée. En réaction, les habitants noirs de la ville boycottent les bus pendant 381 jours, avec à leur tête un jeune pasteur, Martin Luther King. En 1956, la Cour suprême déclare la ségrégation dans les bus contraire à la Constitution. Discours indirect : The driver told her to stand up. She said that she was tired of giving in.

Mise en situation : l'exposé

Ruby : In 1955, in Montgomery, buses were segregated. Black passengers had to give their seats to white passengers.

En 1955, à Montgomery, les bus étaient ségrégués. Les passagers noirs devaient céder leur place aux passagers blancs.

Teacher : What did Rosa Parks do?

Qu'a fait Rosa Parks ?

Ruby : The driver told her to stand up, but she refused. She was arrested.

Le chauffeur lui a ordonné de se lever, mais elle a refusé. Elle a été arrêtée.

Leo : Was she just tired after work?

Elle était juste fatiguée après le travail ?

Ruby : No! She said later that she was tired of giving in. She was already an activist.

Non ! Elle a dit plus tard qu'elle en avait assez de céder. Elle était déjà militante.

Teacher : And then the Black community boycotted the buses for more than a year.

Et ensuite, la communauté noire a boycotté les bus pendant plus d'un an.

À retenir

segregation, a seat, a passenger, a driver, an activist, a boycott, civil rights, the Supreme Court.
Discours indirect : told her to..., She said (that)..., asked her to... ; refused to ; was arrested.

Exercice 1 : Le boycott des bus : exercice 1 (QCM)

Rosa Parks a refusé de céder sa place en...
1. 1855
2. 1955
3. 1995
Cela s'est passé à...
1. Montgomery
2. New York
3. Chicago
« la ségrégation »
1. segregation
2. separation of races
3. segregate of
« Elle a refusé de céder sa place. »
1. She refused to give up her seat.
2. She refused to give up his seat.
3. She refused giving up her seat.
« Le chauffeur lui a ordonné de se lever. »
1. The driver told her to stand up.
2. The driver said her to stand up.
3. The driver told to her stand up.
« Elle a été arrêtée. »
1. She was arrest.
2. She arrested.
3. She was arrested.
Le boycott a duré...
1. 10 ans
2. 3 jours
3. 381 jours
Le boycott était mené par...
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Martin Luther King
« Elle en avait assez de céder. »
1. She was tired of giving in.
2. She was tired to give in.
3. She was tired of give in.
« un militant, une militante »
1. an activist
2. an actor
3. an active

Exercice 2 : Le boycott des bus : exercice 2 (à compléter)

Buses were .......................... .
The driver told her to stand .......................... .
She .......................... . (refuse)
She was .......................... .
She was tired of .......................... in.
She was already an .......................... .
The Black community .......................... the buses.
It lasted 381 .......................... .
She said that she .......................... tired. (be)
Black passengers had to give their .......................... to white passengers.

Exercice 3 : Le boycott des bus : mise en situation

Les bus étaient ségrégués.
1. Buses were segregated.
2. Buses segregated were.
3. Buses was segregated.
Les passagers noirs devaient céder leur place.
1. Black passengers had to give there seats.
2. Black passengers must gave their seats.
3. Black passengers had to give their seats.
Qu'a fait Rosa Parks ?
1. What Rosa Parks did?
2. What did Rosa Parks do?
3. What did Rosa Parks did?
Le chauffeur lui a ordonné de se lever.
1. The driver told her to stand up.
2. The driver told her stand up.
3. The driver said her to stand up.
Elle a refusé et a été arrêtée.
1. She refused and she was arrested.
2. She refused and she arrested.
3. She refuse and she was arrested.
Elle était juste fatiguée ?
1. Was she just tired after work?
2. Were she just tired after work?
3. She was just tired after work?
Elle a dit qu'elle en avait assez de céder.
1. She said that she was tired of giving in.
2. She said that she is tired of give in.
3. She told that she was tired to giving in.
Ils ont boycotté les bus pendant plus d'un an.
1. They boycotted the buses since more than a year.
2. They boycott the buses for more that a year.
3. They boycotted the buses for more than a year.
Il lui a demandé de bouger.
1. He asked her to move.
2. He asked to her to move.
3. He asked her move.
Elle est devenue un symbole.
1. She became a symbol.
2. She become a symbol.
3. She became a cymbal.

Corrigé

Exercice 1

1. b) 1955 · 2. a) Montgomery · 3. a) segregation · 4. a) She refused to give up her seat. · 5. a) The driver told her to stand up. · 6. c) She was arrested. · 7. c) 381 jours · 8. c) Martin Luther King · 9. a) She was tired of giving in. · 10. a) an activist

Exercice 2

1. segregated · 2. up · 3. refused · 4. arrested · 5. giving · 6. activist · 7. boycotted · 8. days · 9. was · 10. seats

Exercice 3

1. a) Buses were segregated. · 2. c) Black passengers had to give their seats. · 3. b) What did Rosa Parks do? · 4. a) The driver told her to stand up. · 5. a) She refused and she was arrested. · 6. a) Was she just tired after work? · 7. a) She said that she was tired of giving in. · 8. c) They boycotted the buses for more than a year. · 9. a) He asked her to move. · 10. a) She became a symbol.