Francine and Michel's Home, december 18th

Francine and Michel's Home, december 18th

Nice holidays Michel

The Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Two turtle doves, 

And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Three French hens, 

Two turtle doves, 

and a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas, 

my true love sent to me 

Four calling birds, 

Three French hens, 

Two turtle doves, 

And a partridge in a pear tree. 

On the fifth day…

five gold rings

On the sixth day…

six geese a-laying

On the seventh day…

seven swans a-swimming

On the eighth day…

eight maids a-milking

On the ninth day…

nine drummers drumming

On the tenth day…

ten pipers piping

On the eleventh day

eleven ladies dancing

On the twelfth day

twelve lords a-leaping

Share our Christmas menus ....

For the different cooks here are many courses : 

Main course
goose foie gras (nb : liver or Med: hepar adiposum)
smoked salmon saumon fumé
scallop coquilles st Jack, coquilles St Jacques gratinées
seashells  fruits de mer
roasted chicken or beef poulet ou boeuf roti
fishes poissons
goose oie
white sausage boudin blanc

Vegetables (you'll see what you you find ! )
mushrooms champignons
zucchini squash courgette

Dessert
chestnut cake roll gateau roulé aux marrons
ice cream log buche glacée
nougat cake

Phonétique

"about the difficulties of pronunciation", thanks Ruth for the recording !

http://cinco.ly/!AMwCBsi7POpL
(poussez le son à fond SVP)

BRUSH UP YOUR ENGLISH

(Hints on pronunciation)

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough.

Others may stumble, though not you,

On hiccough, thorough, trough and through...

Well done!  And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of  less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead  : it's said like bed, not bead --

For goodness' sake, don't call it "deed"!

Watch out for meat and great and threat --

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose,

(Just look them up) and goose and choose,

And cork and work, and card and ward,

And font and front, and word and sword,

And do and go, and thwart and cart...

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language ?  Man alive,

I'd mastered it when I was five!

Tea Time   Cheers !

Awesome ginger bread with champagne !  Thanks Michel and Francine

Singing Christmas Carols

Silent Night

Silent night, holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Virgin Mother and Child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

Hark! The herald angels sing,

"Glory to the newborn King!

Peace on earth and mercy mild

God and sinners reconciled"

Joyful, all ye nations rise

Join the triumph of the skies

With the angelic host proclaim:

"Christ is born in Bethlehem"

Hark! The herald angels sing,

"Glory to the newborn King!"

O Come All Ye Faithful

O Come All Ye Faithful

Joyful and triumphant,

O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

Come and behold Him,

Born the King of Angels;

O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him,

Christ the Lord.

Joy to the World

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room,

And Heaven and nature sing,

And Heaven and nature sing,

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Deck the Halls

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, 

Fa la la la la, la la la la. 

Tis the season to be jolly, 

Fa la la la la, la la la la. 

Don we now our gay apparel, 

Fa la la, la la la, la la la. 

Troll the ancient Yule tide carol, 

Fa la la la la, la la la la. 

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Best wishes everyone