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Harry looked nothing like the rest of the family. Uncle Vernon was large and neckless, with an
enormous black moustache; Aunt Petunia was horse-faced and bony; Dudley was blond, pink and porky.
Harry, on the other hand, was small and skinny, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was
always untidy. He wore round glasses, and on his forehead was a thin, lightning-shaped scar.
This was this scar that made Harry so particularly unusual, even for a wizard. This scar was the
only hint of Harry’s very mysterious past, of the reason he had been left on the Dursleys’ doorstep
eleven years before.
At the age of one, Harry had somehow survived a curse from the greatest dark sorcerer of all time,
Lord Voldemort, whose name most witches and wizards still feared to speak. Harry’s parents had died
in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow – nobody
understood why – Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he failed to kill Harry.
So Harry had been brought up by his dead mother’s sister and her husband. He had spent ten years
with the Dursleys, never understanding why he kept making odd things happen without meaning to,
believing the Dursleys’ story that he had got his scar in the car crash which had killed his parents.
And then, exactly a year ago, Hogwarts had written to Harry, and the whole story had come out.
Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous…but now the
school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a
dog that had rolled in something smelly.
Extract from Chapter 1, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling. The book was
published in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1998 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 2 June 1999 by Scholastic Inc. The film
adaptation of the novel, was released in 2002.
4e Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1)
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Compréhension Globale
1. Type of text? □ dialogue □ description □ monologue
2. Characters and relationships
Relève tous les noms propres du texte et classe-les dans le tableau suivant :
Personnages cités dans le texte
Relation entre les personnages
(2 réponses à la forme génitive)
3. VOCABULARY
a) Remets dans le bon ordre les mots du texte dont l’image ou la traduction est
donnée.
S A C D I W A Z R NIGIT LGNH R
___________ __________ ________________
MALEDICTION = C R E S U ECHOUER = A F L I
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b) Relève tous les mots transparents du texte, puis essaie de les traduire sans dictionnaire.
Compréhension Détaillée
1. PARAGRAPHE 1 : PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Classe par catégorie grammaticale les indices qui décrivent le physique des
personnages. Puis amuse-toi à les dessiner.
Harry Potter
Dudley
Uncle Vernon
Aunt Petunia
Nouns
Adjectives
2. RIGHT or WRONG ? (Cite le texte pour justifier tes réponses)
a) Harry Potter is eleven years-old. R / W
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b) His parents were killed in a car accident. R / W
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c) He lived with his family all year long. R / W
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d) He is a magician and goes to Wilberg School to practice his magic. R / W
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e) Harry Potter is very unhappy with his family. R / W
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