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Riz ahmed class vocab
- 1. Riz Ahmed’s addressingthe British Parliament: Write here all rhetorical repetitions used in the speech: Important / pressing / urgent questions Seen / heard / represented Narrative / story / history What is the leitmotif of the presentation/address? REPRESENT (the concept is mentioned more than 15 times throughout the video) We both have a big hand in shaping culture... A role to play in structuring / composing culture
- 2. we've been takinglarge strides in the right direction, find other nouns collocating with "in the right direction" steps ☐ sometimes too incremental, as opposed to exponential, one step at a time sometimes not really seizing the bull by its horns same thing in French and Spanish but we have fallen short of the mark... narrowly miss / fail ☐ They retreat to other fringe narratives... separate from
- 3. mainstream / marginalnarratives: stories ☐ As thousands of qualified doctors and nurses huddle on our shores as refugees... se blottissent les uns contre les autres sur nos plages… ☐ back to our tried and tested formula of all-white éprouvé, qui a fait ses preuves period drama... historical fiction ☐ a new national story that embraces englobe and
- 4. empowers givespower to as many of us as possible rather than excluding us and alienating large sections of the population... ☐ swimming against the current, going against the grain... nager à contre- courant, à rebrousse-poil What other rhetorical device is he using here? and here: paraphrasing it's an added extra, a frill frou- frou / volant, a luxury. ☐ a benchmark reference against which everything is measured ☐
- 5. political polarization, economic disenfranchisement désintérêt… ☐ systematic scapegoating désigner comme bouc- émissaires of certain minorities ☐ In their gender neutral mind everyone thinks they're the good guy. ☐ number two on the list of grievances griefs, reproches was the depiction la façon dont ils sont dépeints / how they are depicted or portrayed of Muslims in the media. ☐
- 6. ...hero or heroinetaking on a massive challenge relevant un défi, insurmountable odds avec d’infimes possibilités de gagner right? Through a steep learning curve processus d’apprentissage relevé/raide/pentu, some hard lessons and noble sacrifices it's just about making it through (réussir), save the day sauver la situation ☐ The power of stories to allow us to relate to s’identifier à experiences that don't resemble our own is phenomenal and...
- 7. ☐ Our community coheres is coherent / works together only within the bounds (limits or frontiers) of our imagination, as far as our imagination will stretch. I believe we really need to step up to the plate (asumir responsabilidades / recoger el testigo / prendre les devants), and to push our imagination to be as broad as our community actually is. ☐ What it showed is that if black minority ethnic professional workers were afforded / granted promotion at
- 8. the same rateand with the same frequency as their white counterparts (homologues / peers) it could add 24 billion pounds to our economy each year. ☐ I think we need to take a leaf out the book of prendre exemple sur our music industry. Drum & Base, Grime, Dubstep: these are world- conquering musical genres, that are only possible by tapping into connecting to our multiculturalism. ☐
- 9. this is aboutthe bottom line (profits): the creative industries make up constitute 7% of our GDP, second only to (juste derrière) the financial services industries... ☐ got into a private school, on a scholarship grant, bourse d’études, where my acting was nurtured enrichi, encouragé... ☐ West End theatre producer Thelma Holt saw me in a play in Oxford, offered to pay, make up for compensate some of that gap (écart) in fees (frais d’inscription). I'm indebted redevable to her to
- 10. this day ☐ That's abig run of luck buena racha, and I shudder to think je tremble à l’idée que… about all the people who felt it was just one of those hurdles haies, obstacles ☐ It's only when government steps in intervenes to set the rules of the game that you will foster fomenter true innovation... ☐ ...and it brings a massive boon a timely and unexpected benefit to how we're seen around the world ☐
- 11. We're at thiscritical moment, let's not allow future generations to look back and judge us when centrifugal forces were threatening to tear us apart, because they really are. ☐