Voici le corrigé Empire et indépendances : chaque réponse est donnée dans l’ordre des items, avec une explication quand une erreur est fréquente. Compare d’abord ton travail sans regarder les explications, puis relis-les.
La correction détaillée
Corrigé Empire et indépendances : réponses et explications
Correction de l’exercice 1 : associer les mots- a settler → d (un colon)
- to rule → f (gouverner)
- a legacy → b (un héritage)
- a subject → g (un sujet de la Couronne)
- to gain independence → c
- civil disobedience → h
- the mother country → a (la métropole)
- a freedom fighter → e
- colonise (verbe après « decided to »)
- colony (nom singulier après « a British »)
- colonial (adjectif devant « period »)
- colonists (les personnes, au pluriel)
- colonisation (le processus, nom)
- The East India Company is founded (1600).
- Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India (1876).
- Gandhi leads the Salt March (1930).
- The Quit India movement is launched (1942).
- India and Pakistan become independent (1947).
- Ghana becomes independent (1957).
- ruled
- boycott (après « to », base verbale)
- non-violent
- arrested (passif : were arrested)
- oppressed
- gained
- She was twelve.
- She remembers the fireworks in Delhi and the new flag on every balcony.
- They had to leave for Pakistan and she never saw them again.
- She studies history in London.
- The Partition is rarely taught in British schools.
- She recorded her grandmother’s memories and shared them online.
- Thousands of people listened and many wrote to her with their own family stories.
- True : it started with the East India Company in 1600.
- False : Gandhi used non-violence and civil disobedience.
- False : the Salt March took place in 1930.
- True.
- False : Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African colony to become independent.
- True (1958).
- India became independent first, in 1947.
- Nigeria gained independence in 1960.
- Jamaica.
- Sixteen years (1963 − 1947).
- Ghana (1957) and Nigeria (1960).
- The settlers took the land of the farmers. (« colon » n’est pas un colon en anglais.)
- India became independent in 1947. (orthographe en -ent)
- Gandhi was born in 1869 and he died in 1948. (prétérit)
- The British ruled a huge empire. (majuscule aux nationalités)
- India gained its independence from Britain.
- Millions of people were displaced during the Partition. (people est un pluriel)
- India gained its independence in 1947.
- Gandhi believed in non-violence.
- The settlers took the best land.
- The English language is a legacy of the Empire.
- Thousands of people joined him during the march.
- The United Kingdom ruled Kenya until 1963.
- L’empire sur lequel le soleil ne se couche jamais.
- Gandhi a défié la loi sur le sel.
- De nombreuses familles ont été déchirées par la Partition.
- Les écrivains postcoloniaux racontent l’histoire de leur propre point de vue.
- Le vent du changement souffle sur l’Afrique.
- Queen Victoria
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children)
- Gandhi
- Nehru
- Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
Exemple de paragraphe modèle (115 mots environ) :
Mahatma Gandhi was the leader who guided India towards independence from Britain. His method was based on non-violence and civil disobedience: instead of fighting with weapons, Indians refused to obey unfair laws. In 1930, for example, he led the Salt March and picked up salt on the beach to defy the British monopoly. This simple gesture showed the whole world that a peaceful protest could be stronger than an army. That is why he inspired Martin Luther King in the United States and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. However, his dream of a united India was broken by the Partition. In my opinion, his legacy is still essential today, because it proves that courage does not need violence.
Comment progresser après ce corrigé
Si tu as fait des erreurs de vocabulaire, recopie le tableau du cours sur une fiche et teste-toi dans les deux sens. Pour les dates, construis ta propre frise et ajoute une phrase en anglais sous chaque date. Enfin, relis ton paragraphe en vérifiant trois points : les verbes au prétérit, les majuscules des nationalités et la présence d’au moins deux connecteurs.

