Black mirror

1. Use the web, explain in your own words what Black Mirror is about and pick out what “black mirror” refers to.

black mirror a Netflix series depicting the vices of the future society thanks to the technologies that are shown and one can also see a nefarious evolution of mankind. As in the episode presented where humans can give each other notes and the higher the note, the more privilege they have in society and those with the lowest marks have fewer privileges or even forbidden places

2. Imagine the meaning of the word “Nosedive”, split it into two syllables. Write down what you expect to find then check its meaning in a unilingual dictionary.

Nose dive. Nose qui sinifie le nez et dive qui signifie plonger

A story about swimming The story of the breakdown of a person

3. Match a word to its definition.

a satire ⃝

⃝ uneasy, controlled and not authentic

please everyone ⃝

⃝ obtain a bad mark

value ⃝

⃝ cause to be happy to everyone

tightened and false ⃝ ⃝ (a piece of) writing etc. that makes someone look foolish

be marked down ⃝ ⃝ the importance of someone or something

4. watch the video: pick out the words used by the creator of BM to describe ethe episode “Nosedive”

the creator of the episode speaks at the beginning of the satire of the company ending by saying this is in the world we live in

5. Find information about Bryce Dallas Howard and the character she portrays.

Dallas Howard is an American actress director and producer born March 2, 1981 in Los Angeles she has starred in major films such as Spider-Man 3 Jurassic World and Twilight. in the episode of the series she plays the role of a woman who is addicted to this rating to have much more privilege to be able to participate in the wedding of her friend as a bridesmaid of course all this out of interest because her friend has better swim than she is we are jealous

6. Explain Charlie Brooker’s conclusion about “Nosedive”

Charles Brock explains in his episode the vices and problems of this utopia by highlighting the social injustices encountered by people with the best marks against those with the lowest marks there is a difference in treatment between these two categories of citizens

7. Tell the story of the episode in your own words in French or English.

Cette histoire se déroule dans un monde où tout le monde réduit la note de tout le monde de 0 à 5, et la personne la mieux notée peut obtenir un meilleur service. Lacie ne vit que pour élever son score à 4,2 et essaie de quitter l'appartement qu'elle vit avec son frère (ce dernier méprise le système de notation) afin d'avoir un meilleur cadre de vie. Par conséquent,

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