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dimanche 18 août 2013
mardi 18 juin 2013
Chez Ruth et Max
News
Laurence saw the ARMADA in Rouen, nice Old Town, the great cathedral ...Do you like boats in general ? There were sail boats, very old boats.
Max is very exciting about his own house; he describes the roofs with their (clark!) gables, like the steps gables in Bruges. Also tells us window spirales and walls of concrete (like stone)
Ruth at the Médiathèque read "Alice in Wonderful":
mad hatter chapelier fou
flavour saveur
fragrance parfum or perfume for its name
Exercice
Each one choices a picture and describes it using the following terms :there is/are
I can see
It looks as if
I think ...
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| Marcelle in Reunion Island work in orchard picking fruit, basket empty nice balance between lady, men, background and foreground |
I (don't) like this picture because ...
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| Maurice in mountains bags and ski poles in foreground a few clouds or little cloudy in the sky NB Sorry for the other descriptions, but is difficult remember of all ... You can write in comments ... |
Tea Time
lemon cake with dough, crust pie, filling ... 20 mn in the ovenmardi 4 juin 2013
Chez Marcelle et Maurice
News
Laurence saw in Namur
She is very lucky !
Danielle went in Ault . She had walked eleven kms in the morning
with Michel Guidez and their coach, and so six kms in the afternoon. They saw birds, ducks, swans
On rappelle que ... en anglais, les petits enfants sont grands :
grandson/daughter/children
mais, great uncle/aunt ...
et ne pas dormir dans un cheap hotel car mal fréquenté !
Exercice with 3 words : with 2 verbs that Ruth supplies
sometimes simple present
often
usually simple past
Marcelle on Friday, usually her fish monger honks his horn at the quarter to eight- it's rather early, no possible to oversleep! (son poissonnier klaxonne à 8h moins le quart, pas question de faire la grasse mat) à signaler aussi : rug salesman(marchand de tapis)
Maurice last Thursday plaid tennis in Arras with two substitute partners ( or fill-ins ... bouche trous)
Roseline every Thusday visits sick people (ill est toujours utilisé en attribut : all family is ill). Sick est souvent utilisé pour malade dans le sens de indigestion, nausées ...
These people are in difficult pregnant (pregnancy : état de grossesse). attention à pregnant silence = "silence assourdissant". In a hospital : differents places = maternity's ward, children's ward, geriatric's ward. But she goes also in Croisilles at the old people's home (Ephad).
Another day she went to see chimney insert in Belgium for heating
Att à prononciation de Heat et eat : le H en position initiale ressemble un peu au H aspiré du français mais il faut expirer.
Att à prononciation de Heat et eat : le H en position initiale ressemble un peu au H aspiré du français mais il faut expirer.
Danielle this Tuesday didn't go to English course because she had a backache (mal de dos); a sudden back pain (un tour de rein).She took an effective medecine (and no -efficient- used for : persons, devices (mat technique)
Ruth aborde pour terminer la particularité du rythme et accent des phrases. On en reparlera ...
car " The english people have lots of trouble with french prononciation, but the opposite is also true"
Tea Time
Very appreciate cakes of Marcelle, brown sugar and brownie cake, baked in a slow oven.
Volume measurements of recipe :
a teaspoon
one cup = about 0,23 liter
two cups = 1 pint
two pints = 1 quart
four quarts = 1 gallon
Enjoy your meal !
samedi 18 mai 2013
Chez Francine et Michel Guidez
Chez Michel et Francine
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| Very nice ornamental goldfish lake |
News
Roseline is every Thursday at the Maison de Retraite de Croisilles. She makes often ironing.
Saturday she's going to Calvados with Marcelle and Maurice for a week.
Ruth today at the library read The bit rabbit at children, a story with a thief ; a book fair
On Angoulême she had seen an expo The five senses .....
Some words
Attic grenier empty an attic un vide grenier
gobelet gobelet why not pourquoi pas
shape texture asparagus asperge
yard sale in your own property
loft for the hay grenier à foin
barn grange like the guesthouse of Danielle was.
caster sugar boite à sucre
piggy bank tirelire (enfant)
Some birds
parrot perroquet
sparrow moineau
crow corbeau
wren roitelet
black bird merle
robin (redbreast) rouge gorge
et quelques mots de construction semblable (rapportés au cours CM en biblio) :
kitty chat
bunny lapin
piggy bank tirelire (enfant)
Some birds
parrot perroquet
sparrow moineau
crow corbeau
wren roitelet
black bird merle
robin (redbreast) rouge gorge
et quelques mots de construction semblable (rapportés au cours CM en biblio) :
kitty chat
bunny lapin
mummy Mamie
floppy souple ... diskette
mop balai à franges
elderly viellissant ... Elderly people are difficult to walk
stapler agrafeuse staple foods nourriture basique like chestnuts châtaigne
table
fable
le son WAR
warn avertir warning lights (don't forget stop it)
barn grange
bark aboyer
car ... devinez ?
farm ...
le son O
born né
torch torche
form aspect mais aussi formulaire
le son O après un W
worm ver
work ( :3 ) weurk
worse pire

hold up the plate tenez l'assiette
(mais attention ce n'est pas un hold-up)
sustain soutenir son point de vue
warm chaud lukewarm tiède
See you soon
floppy souple ... diskette
mop balai à franges
elderly viellissant ... Elderly people are difficult to walk
Phonétique le son A like APPLE
stapler agrafeuse staple foods nourriture basique like chestnuts châtaigne
table
fable
le son WAR
warn avertir warning lights (don't forget stop it)
barn grange
bark aboyer
car ... devinez ?
farm ...
le son O
born né
torch torche
form aspect mais aussi formulaire
le son O après un W
worm ver
work ( :3 ) weurk
worse pire
Tea Time
some drinks (cider, orange juice) with chocolate chip cookies, straight from the ovenhold up the plate tenez l'assiette
(mais attention ce n'est pas un hold-up)
sustain soutenir son point de vue
warm chaud lukewarm tiède
See you soon
vendredi 19 avril 2013
Chez Laurence
News and Events
Roselyne is back from the South of Spain, she was seeking the sun. ( to seek, sought )
It is very near France :" two-hour" flight !
In the hotel, don't leave any valuables in the room (ne pas laisser de choses de valeur)
à l'opposé : worthless- sans valeur; it's worth a lot nothing
It's worth missing an English lesson! ça vaut la peine de rater une leçon

Then Roselyne tells about the next april 25th, commemoration Australian battles in Bullecourt in 1917.
The Centenary is near ...
You dream or your nightmare rêve ou cauchemar
- Ruth had the nightmare of her leg covered with earth worms (ver de terre)
- After Jules mow the lawn, Rosy, the night before going to Australian VIP, dreamt (or dreamed is also correct) that the grass had grown already and it was necessary to start over (recommencer).
NB: diff move and mow(déplacer et tondre le gazon), et aussi to shave pour raser la barbe ou le mouton(sheep)
- Laurence only dreams if she is in quaint places (endroit charmant, pittoresque ...)
Anatomy
* Face
hair ... not curly (bouclé) needs a comb ...
eyes ... two !
ear .... pierced with a earing (boucle d'oreille)
nose .... big !
cheek ... joue
mouth and lips, inside the tongue
chin ... menton (chin up : courage!)
neck ... cou
throat ... gorge
* Hand
the wrist ... poignet
thumb ... pouce
fingers .... doigts
* Arm shoulder (the Platters sang "put your head on my shoulder)
elbow ... coude
Tea Time
Laurence offer to us cider, grape or orange juice.
She made one pound cake (4/4) very sponge. Ruth signale l'expression figurée "the child sponges up very quickly" (l'enfant apprend vite, s'imprègne, ... éponge)
Also the time of a few words :
mould ... moisissure, mouldy moisi
cows graze in the meadows ... vaches paissent dans les prairies
his marks have gone down ... ses notes ont baissé
her eighteenth birthday celebration .. fêter son 18éme anniversaire
mainly, chiefly .... principalement ... main street, grand rue
if the dog licks the candle, he will burn its tongue ... (si le chien lèche la bougie il se brulera la langue)
Roselyne is back from the South of Spain, she was seeking the sun. ( to seek, sought )
It is very near France :" two-hour" flight !
In the hotel, don't leave any valuables in the room (ne pas laisser de choses de valeur)
à l'opposé : worthless- sans valeur; it's worth a lot nothing
It's worth missing an English lesson! ça vaut la peine de rater une leçon
Then Roselyne tells about the next april 25th, commemoration Australian battles in Bullecourt in 1917.
The Centenary is near ...
You dream or your nightmare rêve ou cauchemar
- Ruth had the nightmare of her leg covered with earth worms (ver de terre)
- After Jules mow the lawn, Rosy, the night before going to Australian VIP, dreamt (or dreamed is also correct) that the grass had grown already and it was necessary to start over (recommencer).
NB: diff move and mow(déplacer et tondre le gazon), et aussi to shave pour raser la barbe ou le mouton(sheep)
- Laurence only dreams if she is in quaint places (endroit charmant, pittoresque ...)
Anatomy
* Face
hair ... not curly (bouclé) needs a comb ...
eyes ... two !
ear .... pierced with a earing (boucle d'oreille)
nose .... big !
cheek ... joue
mouth and lips, inside the tongue
chin ... menton (chin up : courage!)
neck ... cou
throat ... gorge
* Hand
the wrist ... poignetthumb ... pouce
fingers .... doigts
* Arm shoulder (the Platters sang "put your head on my shoulder)
elbow ... coude
Tea Time
Laurence offer to us cider, grape or orange juice.
She made one pound cake (4/4) very sponge. Ruth signale l'expression figurée "the child sponges up very quickly" (l'enfant apprend vite, s'imprègne, ... éponge)
Also the time of a few words :
mould ... moisissure, mouldy moisi
cows graze in the meadows ... vaches paissent dans les prairies
his marks have gone down ... ses notes ont baissé
her eighteenth birthday celebration .. fêter son 18éme anniversaire
mainly, chiefly .... principalement ... main street, grand rue
if the dog licks the candle, he will burn its tongue ... (si le chien lèche la bougie il se brulera la langue)
lundi 8 avril 2013
4 th April 2013 Mary's
News and Small talk In a long cold winter
Suddenly Ruth sighs a few times .... no panic .... elle veut nous expliquer la prononciation du H !
Ex : happy : il faut le prononcer lors de l'expiration, hand, hunter ...
How do you say or What is x in English ?
Harmony, the dog, heard the bell
Easter egg hunt in the garden for children la recherche des oeufs de Pâques
Yesterday last week
otherwise autrement
lace dentelle (Calais, Caudry) for a night gown, a wedding gown
art history histoire de l'art (est une discipline)
The conversation : Collective story
http://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-68389.php
de go, went
come, came
see, saw
take, took
buy, bought
sit, sat
hear, heard
Exemples :Yesterday I walked my dog for two miles
Wednesday, Mary helped at the library for the mother's aids
La méthode préconisée est de démarrer par fortunately, pour rebondir par unfortunately ...
Max starting :
I saw last morning a horse alone ...
the weather was foggy
the fog lifted
the horse jumped to the side of the road
he slipped on dog dirts
(other sort of droppings : horse dung, dog do)
! that stinks
Phonetic
tak(e) ei sad x et tirer les joues
lace cat
came bad
side ai sit I
site kid
live sin
time live
give
fine, like
note ou not o
tone dog
bone fog
tune ju: fun ^
cute club
cut, cup
Suddenly Ruth sighs a few times .... no panic .... elle veut nous expliquer la prononciation du H !
Ex : happy : il faut le prononcer lors de l'expiration, hand, hunter ...
How do you say or What is x in English ?
Harmony, the dog, heard the bell
Easter egg hunt in the garden for children la recherche des oeufs de Pâques
Yesterday last week
otherwise autrement
lace dentelle (Calais, Caudry) for a night gown, a wedding gown
art history histoire de l'art (est une discipline)
The conversation : Collective story
- with days, months, seasons .... click here for more
http://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-68389.php
- with the Past (verbe à utiliser pour une action effectuée)
de go, went
come, came
see, saw
take, took
buy, bought
sit, sat
hear, heard
Exemples :Yesterday I walked my dog for two miles
Wednesday, Mary helped at the library for the mother's aids
La méthode préconisée est de démarrer par fortunately, pour rebondir par unfortunately ...
Max starting :
I saw last morning a horse alone ...
the weather was foggy
the fog lifted
the horse jumped to the side of the road
he slipped on dog dirts
(other sort of droppings : horse dung, dog do)
! that stinks
Phonetic
tak(e) ei sad x et tirer les joues
lace cat
came bad
side ai sit I
site kid
live sin
time live
give
fine, like
note ou not o
tone dog
bone fog
tune ju: fun ^
cute club
cut, cup
vendredi 15 mars 2013
Chez Roseline le 14 mars 2013
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Ruth commence la séance en nous détaillant l'énorme liste des ustensiles de cuisine que se devait de posséder sa grand mère, en tant que minimum pour s'installer à cette époque ...
Interro à la prochaine séance, tout le monde a reçu le grandmother cook book.
Laurence went in Egypt : sunbathe and snorkeling, look that!
Ruth & Max walked in Angoulême
Roseline en famille à La Roche Foucault, a visité - a castle in ruin, restored a little each year - et vu une très belle bibliothèque - bookshelves in a library, war maps.
Marcelle et Moi : winter holidays : snow shoes for us, ski for children.
Get out of s'échapper s'extraire de quelque part
Get away se sauver
Get away with something arriver à ne pas être puni pour un méfait, voire a murder
Get over an illness se remettre de maladie
Get once's point over communiquer, faire passer un message
Where is the nearest ---------
Is there a -------- nearby
How can I get to -------- from here or the ------
With the words : bakery, bookshop, pharmacy, grocery shop, hospital, hairdresser's, postoffice
Using the expressions :
stop sign s'arrêter au signal
straight ahead tout droit
roundabout rond point
crossroads carrefour
cross over traverser
turn right tourner à D
turn left tourner à G
traffic lights aux feux
follow suivre |
Where is the postoffice nearbynear à côté, près de
close to à côté ( prononcer closs)
close fermer ( . . . cloz)
next to à côté de (+ proche)
in Croisilles à Croisilles
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