Sequence 1 — Me, Universal Landmarks and Outstanding Figures › Listen and consider
Listen and consider : Describe landmarks using specific information (architectural, cultural, geographical)
- الاستماع إلى مرشد سياحيّ يصف مَعْلَما، واستخراج المعلومات الدقيقة من كلامه
- تمييز الأنواع الثلاثة للمعلومة الوصفيّة : المعماريّة والجغرافيّة والثقافيّة
- ملء بطاقة تعريف معلَم (fact file) انطلاقا من نصّ مسموع
- التعبير عن المقاييس بالإنجليزيّة : its diameter is … · it is … metres high
- وصف معلَم جزائريّ وصفا دقيقا : أين هو ؟ ما شكله ؟ ما مقاييسه ؟ ولماذا يُزار ؟
- المضارع البسيط لوصف ما هو قائم الآن : it is · it has · it stands
- قراءة الأعداد الكبيرة والأعداد العشريّة بالإنجليزيّة
- الاستماع مرّتين : الفكرة العامّة أوّلا، ثمّ التفاصيل الرقميّة
Before you listen
The recordingThe recordingنصّ المسموع. ⛔ لا تفتحه قبل أن تستمع وتجيب.
On a plateau above the coast — Nadia, a tourist guide, with Mr and Mrs Brown Nadia: Good morning. I hope you've spent a good night. Would you like to visit the Mausoleum this morning? Mr Brown: Yes, please. What is the first sight we are going to see? Nadia: The Royal Mauretanian Mausoleum. It stands on a green plateau, and from up there you can see the sea on the horizon. Mrs Brown: Is it a building, like a house? Nadia: No. It is round — a great circle of stone, built in steps, one above the other. And all around it runs a colonnade: sixty columns are set into the wall and sustain the monument. Mr Brown: Sixty! And how big is that circle? Nadia: Its base circumference is one hundred and eighty-five point five metres, and its diameter is sixty point nine metres. Walk once round the monument and you have walked more than one hundred and eighty metres. Mrs Brown: This is just what I expected. Great! Nadia: Below us, on the right, you can see the red roofs of the houses. And open your map: it is the whole wilaya of Tipaza. It has four neighbours — Alger, Blida, Aïn Defla and Chlef. Mr Brown: And after the Mausoleum, where will we stop next? Nadia: At the Roman columns and the ancient arch. Look at the top of the columns: the capitals are carved, and you will find flowers cut in the stone. Mrs Brown: I'm fond of old stones. How do you like it here, after all these tours? Nadia: I'm mad about it. And if you had more days, I would take you south, to the Hoggar. There are cave frescoes there — pictures of animals and hunters, painted on the walls of the caves by the people who lived in them. Mr Brown: Paintings, in the desert? What a pity we only have three days. Nadia: The desert did not use to be a desert, Sir. The Sahara used to be a green land, with large rivers and big lakes full of fish, and large forests. That is why some people say the word “Sahara” does not come from the Arabic Sahra, which means desert, but from a Sanskrit word, Sagara — big sea. Mrs Brown: A big sea in the Sahara. Terrible! We are leaving on Thursday.
First listening
1. Who are the three speakers, and where are they?1. Who are the three speakers, and where are they?من المتحدّثون الثلاثة ؟ وأين هم ؟
Nadia, a tourist guide, and two visitors, Mr and Mrs Brown. They are on a plateau above the coast, in front of the Royal Mauretanian Mausoleum, in the wilaya of Tipaza.
2. What is the first sight, and what will they see next?2. What is the first sight, and what will they see next?ما هو أوّل معلَم ؟ وماذا سيزورون بعده ؟
First: the Royal Mauretanian Mausoleum. Next: the Roman columns and the ancient arch, with their carved capitals. ⟹ Notice that Mr Brown asks the two questions himself: “What is the first sight?” and “Where will we stop next?” They are the two questions every visitor asks a guide, and a guide answers them with names, never with “a monument” or “an old thing”.
3. Write down every number the guide gives. What does each one measure?3. Write down every number the guide gives. What does each one measure?دوّن كلّ عدد ذكره المرشد، وحدّد ما الذي يقيسه.
- 60 — the number of sustaining columns set into the wall of the monument.
- 185.5 metres — its base circumference: the distance all round the bottom of it.
- 60.9 metres — its diameter: the distance straight across it.
- 4 — the number of neighbouring wilayas: Alger, Blida, Aïn Defla, Chlef.
Four numbers in a short conversation, and not one of them is decoration. Take them away and the monument becomes “very old and very beautiful” again.
4. Why does the guide say that the desert did not use to be a desert?4. Why does the guide say that the desert did not use to be a desert?لماذا يقول المرشد إنّ الصحراء لم تكن صحراء ؟
Because the Sahara used to be a green land: large rivers, big lakes full of fish, large forests — and people who lived in caves and painted animals and hunters on the walls. And she uses that fact to explain a word: some say “Sahara” does not come from the Arabic Sahra (desert) but from the Sanskrit Sagara, “big sea”. ⟹ Look at what the guide just did. She did not describe the Hoggar with adjectives — she described it with a history and a name. That is the third kind of information, and it is the one tourists remember.
Second listening — three kinds of information
Sort what the guide said into three kinds: architectural, geographical, culturalSort what the guide said into three kinds: architectural, geographical, culturalصنّف ما قاله المرشد في ثلاثة أنواع : معماريّ، جغرافيّ، ثقافيّ.
| Kind of information | From the recording | The question it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Architectural | round · built in steps · a colonnade · sixty sustaining columns · 185.5 metres · 60.9 metres | What does it look like, and how big is it? |
| Geographical | on a green plateau · the sea on the horizon · the red roofs below · the wilaya of Tipaza · Alger, Blida, Aïn Defla, Chlef | Where is it, and what is around it? |
| Cultural | Roman columns and their carved capitals · an ancient arch · the cave frescoes of the Hoggar · Sahra and Sagara | Who made it, when, and why do we still go and see it? |
⭐ Read the third column again. A complete description answers three different questions, and most pupils answer only the first one. The guide moves from one kind to the next without warning you — that is exactly what makes her description feel full.
Now it is your turn
a. Choose a landmark you have really seen: a mosque, a fort, a gate, a bridge, a park, a ruin. b. Fill in this fact sheet. Leave a line empty if you do not know it — do not guess a number. Location … · Shape … · Height … · Doors … · Material … · Built by … · Famous for … c. Now write six to eight lines for a tourist who has never come. Give at least two figures, one geographical detail and one cultural detail. ⛔ Do not write a single measurement that you have not checked. A description with an invented figure is not a description, it is an advertisement.
A model — the same method applied to the monument of the recordingA model — the same method applied to the monument of the recordingنموذج : المنهجيّة نفسها مطبّقة على المعلَم الذي سمعته.
Write yours first. This model uses only the facts of the recording, put back into the order of the fact file — so that you can see the method, not copy the content.
The Royal Mauretanian Mausoleum stands on a green plateau, in the wilaya of Tipaza. From the monument you can see the sea on the horizon, and the red roofs of the houses below. It is round: a great circle of stone, built in steps. Its base circumference is 185.5 metres and its diameter is 60.9 metres, and sixty columns are set into the wall and sustain it. Not far from it there are Roman columns and an ancient arch, with flowers carved in the capitals. Come and walk once round the Mausoleum: you will have walked more than one hundred and eighty metres, and you will have walked round history.
Check the model against the three kinds: architectural (the shape, the two figures, the sixty columns), geographical (the plateau, the sea, the wilaya, the roofs), cultural (the Roman columns, the arch, the carved capitals). Three kinds, three short paragraphs — and the last sentence is the only one where the writer speaks to the reader.
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