Conflits sociaux et greves

Sequence 2, Semaine 5

Aujourd’hui : un jeu de l’intrus, un vrai/faux, un texte chronometre de 25 minutes, et une comprehension globale.

Le texte du jour : Asda hires autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering.

Trouve l’intrus

Trois mots signifient ‘sans remuneration’, un seul signifie le contraire.

Unpaid

Voluntary

Free of charge

Well-paid

‘Unpaid’, ‘voluntary’ et ‘free of charge’ signifient tous que quelque chose n’est pas remunere. ‘Well-paid’ signifie au contraire bien remunere.

Trois mots decrivent une attitude froide et meprisante, un seul decrit une attitude chaleureuse.

Dismissive

Cold

Uncaring

Warm

‘Dismissive’, ‘cold’ et ‘uncaring’ decrivent tous une attitude froide, meprisante. ‘Warm’ signifie au contraire chaleureux.

Vrai ou faux ?

Teste tes connaissances sur ce texte (d’apres des faits reels).

Compte rendu chronometre

Asda hires autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering

Lis ce texte comme a l’examen. Demarre le chrono, prepare mentalement (ou sur brouillon) ton compte rendu en francais.

25:00

Asda hires autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering

An autistic man who was let go as an unpaid shelf stacker at a Waitrose supermarket despite volunteering there for years has been offered a job at Asda.

Tom Boyd, 28, had worked in the Cheadle Hulme Waitrose store since 2021 with a support worker, as his mother, Frances Boyd, said the role gave her son « a sense of purpose and belonging ».

In a Facebook post last Friday, she wrote that her « autistic son has been treated so unfairly, and we feel deeply let down » by Waitrose. She said the supermarket declined to give him a paid job despite him offering more than 600 hours to the store.

Boyd added that they had only asked for a few hours of paid work « not as charity, but as recognition for all the time, effort, and heart » Tom had given to the store, and that she and her family were « shocked by how dismissive and cold » the management’s response was, and that Tom was asked not to return.

The post also claimed that Waitrose had not made any reasonable adjustments for Tom, who has limited communication skills, despite it being mandated by the Equality Act 2010, and that he received « no apology, no thanks, and no recognition for his commitment. Just silence. »

The post led to an outpouring of support for Tom, with Boyd telling the BBC on Thursday that she had been « overwhelmed » by people’s responses and that her son had been offered a job by another supermarket.

« We’ve had some great news, Asda have offered him two five-hour paid shifts a week, » Boyd said. « It’s overwhelming and they are flexible to say if at any time he is struggling they are fine. How amazing that a company could do this. » As well as support, Boyd’s Facebook post also led to intense criticism being directed towards Waitrose with some customers claiming on social media that they would no longer visit the store.

After the backlash, Waitrose offered Boyd his job back in a paid capacity, but it is understood this offer was declined.

(Raphael Boyd, The Guardian, 23 October 2025)

Comprehension globale

Comprehension 1/4

Pourquoi Tom Boyd a-t-il ete renvoye de son poste chez Waitrose ?

Waitrose a refuse de lui donner un poste remunere malgre plus de 600 heures de benevolat, et lui a demande de ne pas revenir.

Comprehension 2/4

Que reclamait la famille de Tom aupres de Waitrose ?

La famille demandait seulement quelques heures remunerees, pas de la charite mais une reconnaissance de son engagement.

Comprehension 3/4

Quelle a ete la consequence du post Facebook de la mere de Tom ?

Le post a genere un elan de soutien important, menant a une offre d’emploi remunere chez Asda.

Comprehension 4/4

Comment le texte presente-t-il finalement la reaction de Waitrose ?

Face a la polemique, Waitrose a propose un poste remunere, mais la famille a decline l’offre.

Semaine terminee

Tes resultats

Vrai ou faux

0 / 5

Comprehension globale

0 / 4

Pour finir

Recapitulatif du vocabulaire

Consigne 1 : recopie ces 6 mots dans ton cahier de vocabulaire, avec leur traduction en francais.

shelf stacker………………….
unpaid………………….
reasonable adjustments………………….
outpouring (of support)………………….
dismissive………………….
overwhelmed………………….

Consigne 2 : pour chaque mot, invente une phrase originale en anglais qui fait le lien avec l’actualite economique du moment (une entreprise, une annonce, un evenement recent que tu as vu ou entendu parler).

Bien joue ! On se retrouve la semaine prochaine pour la derniere semaine de cette sequence.