Niveau B1- B2:
Classes Terminale Bac pro / 1è Technologique
  
FOR ? or AGAINST ? Give your pros and cons. 

[Pour ? ou contre ? Quels sont vos arguments ?]

1. A gap year is definitely*  useless* for a student.
2. General subjects are not useful* in vocational* schools.
3. It's high time men ceased to regard women as second-class citizens*.
4. World governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking.
5. Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday.

 

1. What is happiness*, except doing the job you like?
2. The younger generation knows best.
3.  Wages* are too low.  
4. Only stricter traffic laws* can prevent* accidents.
5. World governments should conduct serious campaigns against global warming*.

 

1. Only stricter laws can prevent* drug addiction.
2. Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays*.
3. School education should be stricter nowadays*.
4. Advertisers perform a useful service to the community.
5. Pop stars certainly earn* their money.

 

1.  Dangerous sports should be banned* by the law*.
2. The only thing people are interested in today is earning*  more money.
3. Compulsory* military service should be re-established.
4. Childhood* is certainly not the happiest time of your life.
5. Stars should pay more taxes.

 
  1. World governments should conduct serious campaigns against globalization*.
  2. The internet should be censored*.
  3. All delinquents should be put in jail (prison).
  4. Mobile phones are not useful*.
  5. People should be rewarded* according to ability*, not according to age and experience. 

1. Only a madman would choose to live in a large modern city.
2. Books, plays and films should be censored*.
3. Violence can do nothing to  solve problems.
4. We have too much leisure*.
5. Capital punishment (Death penalty) is the only way to deter* criminals.

   
1.  Quote : “All animals are equal*, but some are more than others”
                    (parody by  George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 10)
2. Quote : “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life
                        he leads*?”   (Albert Camus)  

Aide lexicale:

definitely : absolument – useless : inutile – useful : utile – vocational school : école professionnelle – citizen: citoyen – happy-> happiness : Bonheur –
wages : les salaires – law : loi – prevent : empêcher - global warming: réchauffement de la terre – nowadays : de nos jours – earn : gagner (argent) – compulsory : obligatoire – childhood : enfance - globalization : mondialisation – censored : censuré – rewarded : récompensé – ability : compétence- lead : mener - leisure : loisirs - to deter : empêcher - equal : égaux - lead : mener.

published by I.MT. for MyTiclass blog