Bonjour je dois faire ça pour demain merci de m’aider

I femelu decided to stop faking an American accent on a sunlit day in July, the same
day she met Blaine. It was convincing, the accent. She had perfected, from careful
watching of friends and newscasters', the blurring2 of the t, the creamy roll of the r,
the sentences starting with "So", and the sliding response of "Oh really", but the accent
5 creaked with consciousness, it was an act of will. It took an effort, the twisting of lip,
the curling of tongue. If she were in a panic, or terrified, or jerked awake during a
fire, she would not remember how to produce those American sounds. And so she
resolved to stop, on that summer day, the weekend of Dike's birthday. Her decision |
was prompted by a telemarketer's call. (...)
"May I ask who I'm talking to?" "My name is Ifemelu." He repeated her name with
exaggerated care. "Is it a French name?" "No. Nigerian?" "That where your family came
from?" "Yes. (...) I grew up there." "Oh, really? How long have you been in the US?"
"Three years." "Wow. Cool. You sound totally American." "Thank you." Only after
she hung up did she begin to feel the stain of a burgeoning shame spreading all over
15 her, for thanking him, for crafting his words "You sound American" into a garland
that she hung around her own neck. Why was it a compliment, an accomplishment,
to sound American? (...)
Her fleeting victory had left in its wake a vast, echoing space, because she had taken
on, for too long, a pitch of voice and a way of being that was not hers. And so she
20 finished eating her eggs and resolved to stop faking the American accent.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, 2013 |



1. Read the text and pick out elements related to places, people and nationalities

Places
People
Nationalities

2. Use these elements to explain Ifemelu's situation. (the elements from question 1)
Ifemelu is from.....She started to....... She decided to.....

3. In your own words, reformulate what happened on that day.
It started with.... Then he said......He made her feel.....

4. Explain her final decision and what it shows about her personality
At first she.... Then she........ Later on she decided. Finally....

5. Imagine the reasons why Ifemelu had started faking her accent

Merci de m’aider !!