Recap by MP

Topic recap sheet n°7 : the UK & Europe : “I love you !” “me neither …”
Content / Documents :
Pictures : Major Cam cartoon / Newspapers front pages (Brexit)
Video : a tour of the ESA / Will we be toasting with English champagne ?
Texts : Brexit would hurt science / Champagne Taittinger settles in the UK / Translation (in Brussels)
Graphs : the UK and the EU
Civilisation / Culture : Project Fear (scare tactics to influence voters) / Is it safe ? people’s worst fears
a small country in a globalised world ( place of English in the world, diversity of cultures)
Picture(s) (description & meaning)
“I told you” : Cameron threatens to open the „door „ / leave the EU / but he doesn‟t act : just hot air
( paroles en l’air…)
“Major Cam” : He looks anxious because he‟s uncertain of the referendum‟s results. Cameron is on a
spaceship far from Earth, far from the EU, he‟s drifting away…
“Revenant” : He‟s faced with a dilemma, either he leaves the EU : England => , EU => 
Or he stays : England => , EU => 
Graphs (description & meaning)
“Rise of UKip” : Euro-sceptic growth (UK Independence Party) . On the contrary, proEuropean Lib Dems have declined.
“They need each other” : ½ of goods produced in the UK are exported to the EU.
The leave and remain sides are on a par (50/50) : there are almost as many people who want
to leave as people who want to stay
Vocabulary :
English
An exodus
To recruit
sparkling wine
Global warming
Climate change
Home grown
To debate
To enforce
The single market
To veto
The economic and
monetary union
French
Un exode
recruter
Vin pétillant
Le réchauffement
Le changement clim.
Du pays, local
Débattre
Faire appliquer
Marché unique
S’opposer
L’union monétaire et
économique
English
To point out
A contributor
A vineyard
To threaten
French
Amount
Un montant
Membres fondateurs
Zone de libre échange
Sans frontières
Le droit de douane
Le conseil de l’Europe
The founding members
A free trade area
Borderless
Customs duty
The council of Europe
Montrer du doigt
Un donateur
Un vignoble
Menacer
A disaster
Une catastrophe
the damage
The European
parliament
EU membership
Le parlement européen
To pull out
les dommages, les
dégâts
Se retirer de
L’adhésion à l’UE
To thwart someone’s
efforts
Contre carrer les efforts
de…
A dilemma
Un dilemme
An endeavor
Un effort
Recent events, historical & cultural references mentioned in the documents:
- For /Against the EU :

For : UK entered the EU in 1973, if the UK left the EU, it would be a disaster for the
English industry.

Against : less immigration, they will be free (will no longer depend on Brussels) (will
be able to make their own laws and regulation)
Conservatives are divided over that issue: the Prime Minister is campaigning for the UK to
remain in the EU. Recently Ian Duncan Smith (a conservative) resigned from the government
because he doesn‟t agree with Cameron about Brexit. The justice minister is also
campaigning for the Leave side.
- Use of “fear” = scaremongering in each camp.
- President Roosevelt tried to warn politicians and citizens about the danger of giving in to
fear (March 4, 1933, FDR‟s inaugural address, in the midst of the Great Depression)
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself —
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into
advance. This great nation will endure, as it has endured. We will thrive, and will prosper.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EuAZsz_z_U
Key expressions (grammar, syntax, translation...)
- “Together we stand, divided we fall”, Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjmvfRvjTc
-Explanation of the expression “united we stand” :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_we_stand,_divided_we_fall
“L‟Europe est un état composé de plusieurs provinces“, Montesquieu, XVII
“Europe is a state composed of several provinces”
“Britain itself is a floating island which, according to the inflections of its policy moves towards or
away from Europe.”, Alfred Fabre-Luce, 20th century
Document prepared with great care by : Rémi Molaro-Maqua, Victor Pépin & Thibaut Desfachelles