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DOCUMENT 1: The Cadillac Ranch
The Cadillac Ranch
Keywords p.48
Toolbox p.49
1. Describe the photo.
Use the vocabulary provided in the keywords p.48 and Toolbox p.49
EXTRA VOCABULARY
a work of art / car bodywork (carrosserie de voiture)
to lie (=be situated) along a Texas highway / to stand face down in the earth / to spray-paint / to be splashed with paint / to cover with graffiti
battered (=cabossé)
2. The Cadillac Ranch, which lies along a Texas highway, was built in 1974. In your opinion, what was it supposed to symbolize at that time?
Penser à exprimer la probabilité au passé:
(précis grammatical p.178)
On utilise le modal suivi de l'auxiliaire HAVE et du participe passé du verbe
(modal MIGHT / MAY / COULD / MUST +HAVE+participe passé)
- +
Exemples:
You may have left it in the car.
(Il se peut que tu l'aies laissé dans la voiture)
He must have changed his mind.
(Il a dû changer d'avis)
3. The Cadillac Ranch, which lies along a Texas highway, was built in 1974. In your opinion, what was it supposed to symbolize at that time?
Penser à exprimer la probabilité au présent :
(précis grammatical p.178)
On utilise le modal suivi de la base verbale (avec les verbes d'état):
Exemples:
You must know her.
(Tu dois la connaître)
He may not want to stay.
(Il se peut qu'il ne veuille pas rester)
La forme BE+ING est possible avec les verbes de processus (actions) et impossible avec les verbes d'état (BE, HAVE, KNOW, WANT, etc)
Exemples:
I must be dreaming!
(Je dois rêver !)
She may be sleeping.
(Il se peut qu'elle soit en train de dormir.)
EXTRA VOCABULARY
wrecks / to scratch one's initials and different sayings on...
bodywork
splashed with paint
covered with graffiti
Cadillac Ranch by Bruce Springsteen
Songwriters: JONES, CHARLES H. / WATERS, CHRIS
Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch
Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
James Dean in that Mercury `49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night
You're my last love you're my last chance
Don't let `em take me to the Cadillac Ranch
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away
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