When discussing immigration and migration, there are inevitably factors of both push and pull at play; the push factors are things happening at home that are making people want to leave, or pushing them to do so, and the pull factors entail what is happening elsewhere that is pulling or drawing people to want to go there. In French, rather than use the words push
(pousser)
and pull
(tirer)
, the concepts of repulsion and attraction are used, by referring to
les facteurs de répulsion et d'attraction.
To reinforce this concept of push and pull factors with students, we can put factor vocabulary on cards or on the board and ask students if it is a
facteur de repulsion
or a
facteur d'attraction.
(13) Later, when the class is role-playing and writing letters we can point to reasons people give for leaving and ask students the same question.