Salut, tu peux te servir de ces expressions :
VERBES
To go west = to travel westward
To be on the go= to be on the move
To cross new frontiers
To aim at (verbe + ING)
To reach a goal,
To fulfil a dream
To be keen to conquer / to colonize, to civilize, to urbanize
To go beyond one’s limits = aller au delà de ses limites
To plough = labourer
To grow crops
= cultiver / produire une culture
To overspread the continent
= parcourir le continent
To toil = to work hard
ARGUMENTATION
Expliquer = To account
Paranthèses = Backets
Tableau = Charts
Choisir = Choose
Entourer = Circle
Compléter = Complete
Lier = Linck
Soutenir = To back
Denoncer = To denounce Reveler = To disclose
Insister sur = To emphasize
Mettre en evidence = To ehance
Se concenter sur = To focus on
Faire allusion à = To hint at
Déduire de = To infer from
Signifier = To mean
Remarquer = To remarks
Remettre en question = To question
Représenter = To stand
Témoigner = To testify
Hypothèse = Assumption
Allusison = Hirt
Idée fausse = Misconception
Citation = Quotation
QUOTES
- "So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power
secures political power.”
Frederick Jackson Turner
- "The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization"
Frederick Jackson Turner.
-"All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still
lives in us."
T.K. Whipple
NOTIONS
American progress / American expansion / US expansionism
Town vs countryside
The myth of the Frontier
Baddies, cowboys, outcasts, adventurers, horsemen
Cattle wranglers, Rustlers
Pioneers, Settlers, farmers
Native Americans / Indians / warriors, Tribal lands, Tribes
Barbed wire
Shortage of food / supplies
The cattle roaming wild
Railroad
Wagons, Stage coach, a cart drawn by horses
Telegraph (pole / wire)
‘Go West young man’
Founding commitment
Wilderness, Wild West, Open space, Territory, hinterland
Bows, arrows, hatchet
Harvest
ADJECTIFS
Bold / courageous / Brave
Tough / energetic / muscular
Self-reliant, self-sufficient
Ressourceful, Dynamic, Free-spirited
Ever-widening
Remote
Hungry for lands and profits
Strenuous, harsh, Unspoilt, deserted, wild
Stripped (resources)
Booming (population)
Sparsely populated
