Roland Garros

The Sunday 30 may 2010 I went to Roland-Garros. It is the French Grand Slam international tournament of tennis, in narrow Parisian suburb. It’s near to the Peripheral Highway Auteuil ’door. Famous players participated at this tournament (Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal, Jo Wilfrid Tsonga, Fernando Verdasco, etc...). I was very lucky to see Verdasco so close (see below).

A lot of players enjoy Roland-Garros tournament because they can visited Paris ‘monuments and the Parisian ‘way of life. There are twenty five tennis’ courts. In 2016, Roland-Garros will be must be near Gonesse, in north of Paris.  

(Julien Bénéteau and Mickaël Llodra)

CASTLE

Hi everyone,

I'm really sorry I couldn't be here today but my baby son fell sick (est tombé malade) and I had to stay (rester) with him.

Voici le script de ce qu'il dit:

No he didn’t know anything about how to reverse the curse but I decided it’s OK.

I was just over-reacting. It’s like you said, the chance of actually being a curse are none-existant.

Oh! That was weird, the elevator just stopped. Mother…?

Ok, No reason to panic

The light goes out

A small reason to panic. Hello?! There is no curse, curse….

The elevator moves

Alright, what do I do if the elevator falls? I think I’m supposed to jump in the air. No! Lay on the ground.

Vous vous télécharger la worksheet en cliquant ici: http://dl.free.fr/ayfwfjueC

I. Find this vocabulary

Une malediction:______________ Exaggérer:______________

C’est bizarre:________________Paniquer:________________

Un ascenseur :______________S’allonger par terre :_________

II. Questions :

1. Who was Castle calling ?____________________

2. What was he talking about ?___________________

3. Did he believe in the curse?(quote)______________________

4. Why did he panic? (3 reasons)_________________________

III. Make a summary using the past tense

The Beatles

The beatles is a group of music which was born in 1960 in Liverpool, consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Georges Harrison and Ringo Starr. It stays, in spite of its separation in 1970, one of the groups rock the most popular in the world. In ten years of existance, and eight years of sound recording career, the Beatles recorded twelve albums and composed 200 songs. The Beatles stay the artists having sold the largest number of disks in the world. The last published figure (in the 80's) stated more than 1 billion 200 million sound supports sold through the planet. This english pop music band was very important in the 60's because it influenced a lot the music which we listen to now. John Lennon summarised the debuts of the group as: " there were once four young boys named John, George, Ringo and Paul. " ! Certains songs appeared in film adaptations, often telling the life of Beatles through the music : Help, Hard day's night...

I love the Beatles songs because they entail me in the British universe which I knew when I lived in England for 3 years, and my father is very fan of the Beatles!

The songs of the Beatles are very good for dancing, singing and to have fun! Certains songs are now famous as Lady Madonna, All You Need Is Love,Ticket to Ride, but you should not forget No Reply, If I Feel, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Di who are less known but funny songs! There are also the ballades as Hey Jude, Something, Let It Be which are beautiful songs !

A History of Rap

In this video, Justin Timberlake and the very famous American TV presenter Jimmy Fallon are singing rap songs. I love it because it shows us (nous montre) the evolution of Hip Hop since it was born in the 80's.
I also love it because they're singing the songs live with a band (en direct avec un groupe).

Justin Timberlake is a very talented guy (un type talentueux), not only (non seulement) is he a good singer but he also acts. His last movie is called The Social Network. A movie about the creation of facebook!
Check the trailer (bande annonce):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4
Mr Espinasse

"Le donjon de Naheulbeuk" is a French parody, created by John Lang alias "Pen of Chaos", of the classic medieval-fantastic stories.

In the beginning, he created the first two seasons in audio episodes (that you can download here : http://www.penofchaos.com/warham/donjon-telecharge.htm) and in comics books. Then, he published the third and fourth seasons in books and he's actually writing the firth.

Synopsis of the first seasons : A group of stereotypical adventurers composed of a ranger, a dwarf, a thief, an enchantress, a barbarian, an elf and an ogre have to steal in a dungeon the last of the 12th statuettes of "Gladeulfeurha" for achieve a mysterious prophecy.

I advise you to listen at least the thirst three episodes; personally, I think all the episodes are very funny.

Official website : http://www.penofchaos.com/warham/donjon.htm

Ireland July 2010.

I spent twelve days in Athlone ( Ireland ) in a host family. I had a big bedroom just for me. I went to school every day to study during four hours. The afternoon my class and I visited the city. We went to the swimming pool. It was very funny. The first saturday We went to Dublin by car. In the morning we visited the National Museum and in the afternoon we visited Trinity college. After we made shopping, girls were very interresting. This day was wonderful.

During my hollydays a Spanish student arrived in my family. His name is Rodrico. He is 17 years old. He was very kind.

That is my host family's house.

That was my bedroom.

That is the garden of my host family. The chairs aren't stand up because in Ireland the weather isn't beautiful ant it's always windy.

That is the National Museum in Dublin.

That is the Trinity College.

That is a bouncy castle. That was the last sunday. I played in this castle with my host family's small sons. That was great.

That was my plane to return in France.

That were my hollydays.

CLEMENT D.

Animations

Hi guys!
Have a look to the cartoons created by the 1ères S1:

http://lacomp1.blogspot.com/search/label/Sit Com




Thanks to Aurore and Léa for their article.
See you all on Thursday
M Espinasse

MARION COTILLARD

Marion Cotillard or The french Mermaid is my favorite actress and also she was born the same day as me 30th september 1975, she's 35 years old.

She's a french actress very famous in France and USA too.

Daughter of actors, Marion started acting in small roles for children.

She became famous through the film produced by Luc Besson's Taxi, which reveals to the public and won her first César nomination.

In 2002 she played with Guillaume Canet in Jeux d'Enfants, since 2007 whose Guillaume is her boyfriend.

In 2007 she took the role of Edith Piaf in La Môme translates in USA: La Vie en Rose.

She began a Hollywood career in 2009 with the film Public Enemies where she played withJohnny Depp. The film is a great success. The same year she also turns Nine.

And recently she played with Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception whose she was the main character's wife: "Mall"

Marion won several awards.

I love Marion because I think she's a very good actress and it's since I was young I always love Marion Cotillard!

Léa

Générique de Gossip Girl.

Auriane.

Gossip Girl.

Gossip Girl it's my favorite series. It's the story of lot of rich who are young. I don't know to explain, but this series is very really too much. There are Blair Waldorff, Serena Van Der Woodsen, Chuck Bass and Nate Archibal, which are the key players in this series. They are all rich.

It's a story of a girl or man (Nobody's knows who he is) who knows a life of everyone and who tells it on a blog. Everyone receive a message she publishes a new article on this blog about a person from in high school (Because at first they are still in high school) and there is a queen of high school. Is Blair, and she hates when Gossip Girl publishes a article who speaks her viciously. All girls want to be the queen of high school except they are not all so rich that Blair. Serena is her best friend, and at first, Nate her boyfriend. After, that will be Chuck her boyfriend. There are too Jenny and Dan Humphrey. Dan is a boyfriend of Serena (at first) and Dan's father is loves Serena's mother. Finally, is it complicated. But I love this series, really so much.

This is my favorite series because I really love history and this series really makes me dream.

Auriane.