This B1-level article will introduce your pupils to the Rockwell and Roosevelt Four Freedoms Exhibition (Caen Mémorial, June-October 2019). It focuses and expands on a very specific passage from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union speech delivered in January 1941 in which he put an emphasis on freedom, or rather freedoms: freedom from fear, from want, freedom of religion and of speech. As the U.S. entered WWII, Rockwell gave shape to these concepts in four paintings that are now world-famous and the subjects of an exhibition in Caen celebrating the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Vocabulary and structures
- war : allies, raging, war
- politics : State of the Union speech, terms, president
- religion : worship, God, pray
- present simple vs be+ ing : describing paintings
- past : preterite
- past hypothesis : must /may / might / can’t have +V-EN
Pronunciation
- Roosevelt
- Understanding a speech
Rockwell and Roosevelt: the Four Freedoms
Mémorial de Caen
10 June-27 October 2019
Information about class visits
Copyright(s) :
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), "The Problem We All Live With 1963". Oil on canvas, 91,4x148,1 cm. Illustration for "Look" 14 January 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection .
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Tag(s) : "art" "art et pouvoir" "Caen" "d-day" "exhibition" "FDR" "Franklin D Roosevelt" "human rights" "Norman Rockwell" "painting" "U.S. history" "united nations" "WWII"