Before you watch the British Museum video presentation, answer the following questions.
1.What is a museum?
2.What can we find there?
3.Who are the people who visit museums?
4.What are the most famous museums in the world?
5.What are the museums you know?
6.Why was this concept invented? What is its purpose?
7.Is it useful?
8.Do you go to museums? Which ones? On what occasion?
The British Museum - Vidéo
Extraits étudiés : jusqu'à 0:52 ;de 1:54à 2:48.
The British Museum - Questions
1.Watch the British Musem video and try and answer those first four questions.
- Where are we?
- Who is the man speaking?
- What can we find in this museum?
- What type of video is it? What is its purpose?
2.Watch the first 20 seconds.
- When was the museum created?
- What makes it special? What is its specificity?
3.Now watch until 0'52. The Enlightenment Gallery: What can we find in this specific part?
4.Now watch from 1'54 until 2'05. Pick out all the numbers/figures. What do they correspond to?
5.Now watch until the end. How does he define the role of the British Museum? Pick out all the verbs.