You did it! 6e (Bordas) Propositions de références et d'extraits littéraires pour : We are family!

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Aujourd'hui : ce sont des extraits de The Jungle Book de Kipling.

📌 Excerpt n°1

Mowgli's Brothers

Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. “Augrh!” said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.”

Topics: starting point of the story. Family life (wolves).

Grammar: prétérit, affixation.

📌 Excerpt n°2

“A man’s cub. Look!” Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk— as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf’s face, and laughed. “Is that a man’s cub?” said Mother Wolf. “I have never seen one. Bring it here.” A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf’s jaws closed right on the child’s back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs. “How little! How naked, and— how bold!” said Mother Wolf softly. The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.

Topics: starting point of the story. Mowgli and his new Woolf family.

Grammar: prétérit, génitif, could.

📌 Excerpt n°3

"Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man’s cub among her children?”

“I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time,” said Father Wolf. “He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot. But see, he looks up and is not afraid.”

Topics: starting point of the story. Mowgli and his new Woolf family.

Grammar: prétérit, génitif, could, verbes à particules.

📌Excerpt n°4

He grew up with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child. And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat’s claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man. When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep again.

Topics: Mowgli and his Woolf family.

Grammar: prétérit, prétérit -ing, génitif.

📌 Excerpt n°5

Kaa’s Hunting

Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place indeed.

“All that Baloo has said about the Bandar-log is true,” he thought to himself.

“They have no Law, no Hunting Call, and no leaders—nothing but foolish words and little picking thievish hands. So if I am starved or killed here, it will be all my own fault . But I must try to return to my own jungle. Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.”

Topics: Mowgli's story

Grammar: prétérit, plu perfect, present perfect, affixation, will, must.

📌 Excerpt n°6

“Tiger! Tiger!”

And Mowgli had not the faintest idea of the difference that caste makes between man and man. When the potter’s donkey slipped in the clay pit, Mowgli hauled it out by the tail, and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara. That was very shocking, too, for the potter is a low-caste man, and his donkey is worse. When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua’s husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed.

Topics: Mowgli's story. Castes in India.

Grammar: prétérit, superlatif, génitif.

📌 Excerpt n°7

The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morning, and bring them back at night. The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses. So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle.

Topics: Mowgli's story. Indian custom.

Grammar: would, present.