Corrigé migrations : exercices d’anglais première

1. host country → d) pays d’accueil
2. to settle → g) s’installer
3. to seek asylum → f) demander l’asile
4. citizenship → h) citoyenneté
5. to be deported → c) être expulsé
6. to fit in → b) s’intégrer
7. homeland → a) pays d’origine
8. landing card → e) fiche de débarquement

1. emigrant : vu du pays de départ.
2. refugee : il a obtenu une protection.
3. asylum seeker : sa demande est en cours.
4. immigrant : vu du pays d’arrivée.
5. newcomer
6. undocumented migrant
7. expatriate (expat)
8. migrant : le terme le plus général.

1. False : “the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, near London”.
2. True : “most of whom had come from the Caribbean”.
3. False : “they were citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, free to live and work in Britain”.
4. False : “some landlords refused to rent rooms to Black tenants… the newcomers often faced open hostility”.
5. True : “some of these people… who had lived legally in Britain… had been told they were in the country illegally”.
6. False : “the Home Office had destroyed their landing cards in 2010”.

1. b : 1948, arrivée du Windrush.
2. c : 1962, Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
3. f : 1971, Immigration Act.
4. d : 2010, destruction des fiches.
5. e : 2012, hostile environment.
6. a : 2018, démission de la ministre de l’Intérieur.

1. They lived in a refugee camp in Jordan for three years.
2. A group of five families from a small town in Ontario sponsored them.
3. They paid the family’s rent for a whole year.
4. They cooked a meal and filled the fridge, drove them to English classes and helped her father find a job in a bakery. (deux éléments suffisent)
5. Because she spoke Arabic at home but was “the new girl” at school: she lived between two cultures.
6. It shows a hyphenated identity: she feels both Syrian and Canadian and does not have to choose.

1. newcomers
2. asylum
3. citizenship
4. settled
5. homeland
6. belonging
7. border
8. deported

1. migration (et migrant pour la personne)
2. belonging : a sense of belonging.
3. settlement (l’action, l’installation) et settler (la personne)
4. deportation
5. citizenship
6. integration

1. They left their homeland to find work.
2. Canada welcomes hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year.
3. Many newcomers felt torn between two cultures.
4. She was granted British citizenship in 1975. (ou She became a British citizen in 1975.)
5. Some were deported although they were living in the UK legally.
6. Multiculturalism is part of Canadian identity.

1. Le Royaume-Uni avait besoin de travailleurs pour reconstruire le pays après la guerre.
2. On décrit souvent le Canada comme une mosaïque culturelle plutôt que comme un creuset.
3. Les nouveaux arrivants ont subi des discriminations quand ils cherchaient un logement.
4. Des milliers de simples citoyens ont parrainé des familles de réfugiés.
5. Les frontières peuvent séparer les gens, mais elles peuvent aussi rapprocher les cultures.

1. Although : suivi d’une proposition.
2. However : en tête de phrase, suivi d’une virgule.
3. whereas : oppose deux situations dans la même phrase.
4. Despite : suivi d’un nom.
5. Admittedly : concède un point avant de le contrebalancer.
6. On the other hand : présente le point de vue opposé.

Exemple de réponse modèle :

1. I’d like to talk about the Windrush scandal, which shocked Britain in 2018.
2. After the Second World War, thousands of people from the Caribbean came to Britain to help rebuild the country; as citizens of the Empire, they had the right to settle there.
3. In 2018, journalists revealed that many of them had been treated as illegal immigrants because they had no papers and the Home Office had destroyed their landing cards.
4. Some lost their jobs, their homes or their access to healthcare, and a few were even deported; the Home Secretary resigned and the government apologised.
5. In my opinion, controlling immigration is legitimate; however, this scandal shows that a state must never forget the people who helped build it.