Chez Marcelle et Maurice, le 9 octobre 2014

Autumn in Ecoust, of course. Oct 9th

Marcelle and Maurice received with a dried sausage with red wine !

Today Ruth asks everyone "not a single word" in french !

brainstorming !

News

Currently Danielle has an Australian man in her holiday cottage, with a detector who speak French but very technical; too hard to understand what he means. He loves french coffee.

Today a couple of australians came from Melbourne by London, Paris, then Turkey(to Gallipolli) One person of their family is buried at Tilloy (1914). The man is retired and his wife is secretary.

Themes 

A lot of pictures, you use the auxiliary CAN and CANNOT.

Exemple : I can drive a car but I cannot fly a plane. Then you answer another one the same way...

Look at these

Words ans sentences

dizzy        vertiges  I'm dizzy

recorder    flute non traversière

lawn mower  tondeuse

sparkplug  bougie de moteur

sparkplug wrench clé à bougie

the means to an end les moyens pour arriver au but

Bicycle

Basketball

Car mechanic / repair the car engine

Play Cards

Dive

A leaking Tap or Faucet

Repair a flat tyre (tire)

Play the Flute (or recorder if not trav.)

Golf

Play the Guitar

Ice-skate

Fly a Kite (The kites runners of Kaboul)

Open Oysters

Paint

Play the Piano

Table tennis

Roller-skate

Row a boat

Ski

Speak german

Stand on my hands or head

Surfboard

Swim

Tango dance

Tennis

Weightlifting

Dried sausage !

Recipe
 150g mix hazelnut, 12 Pim's biscuits in quarters, 125g black chocolate, 50g butter, 100g white dry grapes, confectioner's sugar (glace)

Sept 4th. Francine and Michel

1) Let's go for a walk in Hyde Park

Hyde Park

By the lake

Look at ...

The boat, a dog beige or tan with a short tail, and another black tied to the bench (tenu en laisse)

A horse brown  and a second hidden (caché) . Horse back rider, (cavalier)

A girl with a green skirt (jupe)

Some deckchairs (chaise longue), a trash bin (poubelle), bags, not backpack (sac à dos)

A policeman (or bobby) with a helmet (casque)

A few persons in sunbathing (bain de soleil), a man speaking close to a tree

A girl riding a bicycle, red-haired (rousse)

Generally rather young persons but two women on a bench wearing old fashioned hats

(dans l'ensemble gens plutôt jeunes mais 2 dames sur un banc portant des chapeaux démodés)

2) Idioms

Danielle is full of beans, but she isn’t nuts.(pleine d'énergie, pas folle)

Maurice is always pulling someone’s leg.(blagueur)

Marcelle says she is all thumbs when she covers books (maladroite pour recouvrir livres)

But Francine can do it with her arms tied behind her back. (fort adroite, les doigts ds le nez! )

Michel says, “My foot!” He has other fish to fry now that he is the mayor. (d'autres chats à fouetter)

I won’t beat around the bush. (tourner autour du pot) I can smell a rat (il y a du louche)

X is as nutty as a fruitcake (fou, givré comme pas deux)

He/she has bats in the belfry (il/elle est folle.... des araignées au plafond)

their new house costs an arm and a leg ( leur nouvelle maison coute très cher) ; they’re paying through the nose (endetté jusqu'au cou)

to take French leave (filer à l'anglaise)

to have a frog in one’s throat (avoir un chat ds la gorge)

to kick the bucket (mort)

to push up daisies (id)

3) des mots issus ... ou le paraissant !

- de l'anglais : 

camping   camp ground

jogging     track suit

parking     car park, parking lot

- du français :

souvent culinaire ....when cooked

prune     prune (plum) 

veal       veau  (calf)
mutton   mouton (sheep)

TEA TIME

Thank you Francine for that delicious far breton served with a local cider

You enjoyed your Brittany hiking on the GR 34! 

 

See you later ...

Roseline's Garden

We visit the garden of Roseline .

News  
- Our teacher think four weeks is too long for the understanding, although many of us improved !
- During the strike (la grève) Marcelle et Roseline and their husbands were in Lourdes. It has been a nice journey
- Michel et Francine visited Epinal. After the bankrupt of the factory there is now a picture museum.
To see printed shirts, special technics ...

In the Garden
After the slide and the swing (toboggan et balançoire) we enter in a large vegetable garden.

By that nice day, look at flowers, fruits and vegetables

Fig tree

Beautiful flowerbed

Cherry tree

Zucchinis

Currants

Groseille rouges, blanches, à maquereaux    Confiture de groseille
Redcurrant, white currant, gooseberry         Redcurrant jam

Onions

Mind your own business !.... Occupez vous de vos oignons !

Wallnut leaves and immature nuts

Thistle and his blue flower

At the end we can watch the rooster on the belfry (le coq du clocher).

Thanks Roseline for this last evening.

Danielle's May 30th 2014

Chez Danielle 

1) Look at souvenirs in Paul's room. Many things he has brought back from travels.

Max : see Italy , Pise Tower which is tilted (or slanted)
Maurice : a kangaroo boxing on the bed
Francine : see Canada on the pillow(or a cushion) on the bed
Marcelle : in Italy, Colisseum in Roma and the female wolves
Danielle : in India has seen the statue of Boudha
Michel : a mexican hat on the wall
everybody saw the Eiffel Tower

2) At the supermarker, phone another customer for something  

What are you going to buy  Qu'allez vous acheter
look for  sausage, pork, beef, lamb chercher après saucisses de porc, boeuf, mouton
lost  perdu
in a hurry   pressé
taste   gouter
on or off duty   en ou fin de service
turn left   tourner à gauche
hens for the eggs  oeufs pour le poules
cashier  caissier

3) Phonétique :  Accent des mots, l'accent principal et l'accent secondaire

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Chez Marcelle et Maurice

May 1st in Ecoust 

In this day everybody receives a gift :

Sprig of lily of the valley

Past events : april 25th . Each one describes a picture

Bullecourt celebrated the war 1914. There is many people before the town hall at the beginning of the ceremony. Then we move toward the Australian monument digger.

digger       soldat des tranchées   true blue digger trail authentique chemin des soldats

arm band  brassard     school band musiciens d'école

veterans holding flags   les anciens combattants porte-drapeaux

the new mayor making speech with mike le nouveau maire faisant un discours au micro

sky bluish   ciel bleuâtre

bag pipe player  joueur de cornemuse    How this instrument works

very proud of his kilt, red, pink, salmon ... Fier de son kilt (couleurs selon le clan)

the woman giving a speech was Minister foreign affairs

she wear a black coat, she seemed very dignified    très digne, "classe"

the interpretor was a blurry red-headed   chevelure rousse flou

soldiers wore nice patent leather shoes  chaussures vernies

a long weekend   un pont

Vocab. and Phonetic

May Day   Labor day in US(first monday)   Premier Mai
maypole     mat enrubanné

Easter    Pâques   NB attention les R en finale se font oublier sauf si liaison avec une voyelle  
Easter egg hunt   chasse aux oeufs    lots (of) eggs (to) hide ...  NB ( ) ne s'entendent pas
Dover  Douvres  ... pour le R muet

Tea Time

an ice box cake made by Marcelle

Everybody liked it...

See you soon
Best wishes
t wishes