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Daily Life/Lifestyles:
Sample reading and responding task answers
Task 1
Le forum du sommeil: les rêves
- What sort of information is Cécile seeking? (1 mark)
Cecile is interested in pursuing a career as a psychoanalyst and would like to know what academic/study path to follow (HSC studies, University).
Je m'intéresse… métier de psychanalyste… j'aimerais connaître les filières (BAC.ETUDES.FAC) - Why does Stephanie need to understand the reason we dream? (2 marks)
She is doing research on dreams.
…je fais une recherche sur les rêves
She cannot work out why we dream.
et je n'arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi nous rêvons…
She does not understand how the process of dreaming works.
je ne comprends pas le fonctionnement
Her assignment/project/presentation is due next week
car mon exposé est la semaine prochaine
(need all 4 points for 2 marks) - According to Hugo what phenomenon seems logical in dreams but not in reality? (3 marks)
Hugo feels that, in dreams, there appears to be a logical link in the fact that we jump from place to place (e.g. we may be in a street and all of a sudden in a train)
… on l'impréssion de sauter de lieu en lieu… Dans le rêve je ressens un lien logique du passage d'un lieu à un autre…
When we wake up, however, it no longer seems to make sense.
mais quand je me réveille, je ne vois plus cette continuité.
He thinks that we may have several different dreams in the course of one night/because we have several sleep cycles.
Peut-être parce que l'on a plusieurs cycles de sommeil et donc plusieurs rêves différents en une nuit… - What problem does Nathy think would be solved by dreaming about her father? Give details. (2 marks)
Nathy's father died when she was 5 years old and she still misses him terribly.
… mon père est décédé lorsque j'avais 5 ans. … et il me manque terriblement.
She has only dreamt about him two or three times in 28 years.
… je n'ai rêvé de lui que 2 ou 3 fois, en 28 ans.
She thinks that if she dreamt about him more, it could help fill the gap (of not having him around).
… si je rêvais de lui, ça pourrait peut-être combler ce manque. - What connection is this person trying to establish between dreaming and daytime activities? (3 marks)
This person would like to know if people who feel they have a lot of visual images while they dream are also the sort of people who use and create a lot of mental images in their daily activities.
… qui estiment rêver beaucoup en utilisant des images visuelles pendant leur sommeil… …ont également l'habitude dans leurs activités quotidiennes éveillées d'utiliser, de fabriquer beaucoup d'images mentales…
On the other hand, he wonders if people who have few dream images at night are people who use few visual representations to work out their daytime activities.
… inversement, si des gens qui ont peu d'images oniriques durant la nuit, utilisent peu un mode de représentation visuelle pour penser leurs activités diurnes. - Why is this man concerned about his ability to dream about himself? (2 marks)
He thinks that there should be a simpler means of communication (than dreams) for the sub-conscious to be able to talk/to say something to his consciousness.
Si mon subconscient voulait parler, dire quelque chose à mon conscient, ne pourrait-il pas trouver un protocole de communication plus simple?
This is because he has not dreamt of himself for three days and doesn’t know how to interpret what is within his subconscious.
Je n'ai pas eu de rêve de moi la nuit dernière ni la nuit d'avant ni celle d'avant avant…quelle interprétation dois-je retirer de mon subconscient?
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