PARIS - City of Lights!!

Bonjour tout le monde,

J'espère que vous avez appris quelque bonne infomation sur la ville de Paris. C'est une ville merveilleuse!!

The "Time Out" link will take you to a website about Paris and the things that there are to do there.

The other is a site dedicated to pictures of Paris. The photos website is really cool with some fantastic black and white shots as well as some photos taken at night time.

I know you are doing a photography unit at the moment with Mr Woody so maybe you will get some good ideas?

http://www.timeout.com/paris/

http://www.photosparis.com/

Countries - les pays

This is just a list of some of the countries we discussed today AND I have done my research and given you a list of some of the more . . . avant garde names you were keen to know about!!

La République de Madagascar - Madagascar
Le Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan (Note that this is masculin!!)
La République des îles Fidji - Fiji
L'Afrique de Sud - South Africa
Les Caraïbes - The Caribbean
La Thaïlande - Thailand

These are just a few . . . It is your homework to research some more country names and I recommend babelfish.altavista.com, freetranslation.com or Wikipedia

C'est super!

YAY we will be back this week... How exciting, feels like ages since we have even stepped foot into Room 5! Will be great to see all your smiley faces again :o)

Just as a little heads up...
This term we will be focusing on French culture, travel and French speaking countries with a few handy phrases and grammar thrown in along the way. It will be sensational!

M.

A question for you to ponder...

We all know that French is spoken in France, but...
Did you know that it's also an official language in 31 countries and is the second most frequently taught language in the world after English?

My question to you is...

Can any of you name some of the places that French is spoken?

Comment on here and tell me your ideas/suggestions! Hope you're all having a wonderful holiday :o)

M.