Examen Oral

Question 1

Personnellement, est-ce-que tu t’imagines prendre part à la Résistance contre l’occupation?

Answer 1

• impossible to know
• I imagine that I would if my friends wanted to…
• I would give false directions
• I would be afraid

Question 2

À ton avis, pourquoi des jeunes ont-ils été majoritaires dans la Résistance?

Answer 2

• Fewer financial and family obligations
• revenge for the humiliating conditions of the armistice
• more ideological
• more patriotic

Question 3

Penses-tu que l’attentisme était de la lâcheté?

Answer 3

• it was the most responsible choice
• fear of arrest
• hard to act under shortages

Question 4

Est-ce que l’occupation a affecté tout le monde de la même façon?

Answer 4

• No - those persecuted were affected the most shockingly
• Depended on personal circumstances
• being a child was hard
• being poor

Question 5

À ton avis, est-ce une bonne idée d’étudier cette période de l’histoire?

Answer 5

• yes - not acceptable not to
• in order to criticise similar regimes
• so history doesn’t repeat itself
• exploring one’s own opinions is interesting

Question 6

Parle-moi d’un film que tu as vu et qui t’a semblé particulièrement juste?

Answer 6

• ‘Au revoir les enfants’ - a film by Louis Malle which is semi- autobiographical
• Historically precise
• Not exaggerated
• includes lots of different characters