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28 octobre 2010

About our correspondants


You've got correspondants in different parts of the UK and the USA.
On this page you'll now be able to know about your mail by following the messages I exchange with the teachers of the different schools.

From Anne Dykiel

Newton country Day Shcoll of the sacred heart

Newton, Massachusetts USA

to the students of 4th form Michel

on 24 10 10

Ici pas de break! bonnes vacances à toi et à tes eleves
on attend vos lettres avec impatience
on va vous raconter Halloween

on 28 10 10

merci!
on a reçu les lettres
elles étaient ravies :)
on va te repondre et elles vont raconter leur 'halloween'

From Lynne K. Cruwys Lundi, Février 8, 2010

Blackwood, South wales

"we have received your letters thanks.The class teacher who has that class is working on replies.
Lynne

From Katherine Thomas, on 15/O4/10

Foothill Middle school

Walnut Creek California USA

Dear Nelly,

Thanks for your e-mail.  My students will be sending their e-mails soon, but not all at the same time.  The answers to your sustainability questions will be in English.
So sorry about Paul's disappointment:  it's my fault.  Kaylana dropped French in February, and I forgot to tell you.  I will ask Matt Huang to write to Paul (I don't think Matt has gotten any letters from your students yet, has he?)  Once we're settled into e-mail, I think everything will be easier.  
What is the exact URL of your class's website/blog?  We'd really like to see it, but still have had no luck finding it on our own.  I'm not sure if maybe you sent it as an attachment, but it didn't come through.
Thanks again,
Katherine

On April 26th


Have any of your students received our e-mails?  Students are writing one paragraph in French about their sports and activities, and one paragraph in English with answers to the sustainability questions you asked.  I hope this is OK.  If you'd like me to collect their responses in some other way, I'd be glad to do that.

Hope you've had a good weekend!  Is the volcanic ash noticeable in Lardy, or was it?  Some students had extended cross-cultural visits, due to the airport delays, and though very expensive for someone, there were some positive results, too.

Last week my 8th graders went to a French restaurant for a field trip!  They spoke French quite a bit with our serveur, who was very patient and kind to them.  Two of the chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Giatzis, who hosted Julie Mathon and her family for a lovely evening about a year ago.  We all wish the Mathon family well, and hope there may be more visits between our penpals in the future!

A bientot, Nelly,

From Matthews North Carolina USA on May 4th 2010

Hi Nelly,
   How are you? It has been a while since we last spoke. I wanted to let you know that I sent off another set of hand-written letters in the mail today. Your students and  the students of your collegues should be getting them within the next couple of weeks. We discussed writing through email, however my school does not give the students their own email accounts, and all email websites are blocked from school. Some of them don't have computers or internet at home, and so we realized that it was going to be quite difficult for many of them. We have spent the last several weeks preparing for an end-of-year exam that each student will take starting next Monday, and so we have not yet had the chance to look over the questionnaire you sent us a while back. We will not see the students next week as they take the exams, but I should be able to discuss the questionnaire with them the week after. I'm not sure what the schedule is in France, but we are nearing the end of the school year. After exams next week, we only have 3 weeks left, so I don't believe we will be able to get another set of letters off to you before the end of the year. Anyways, I hope you are doing well, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Take care,
  Erin McGinnis

23 octobre 2010

Last but not least : Mei li's school things presentation

I know it's late for it took me some time to learn how to upload it but it's finally done and it's worth looking at. Enjoy and don't hesitate to leave your comments.

18 octobre 2010

Celebrate Halloween !

It's coming soon, have you got any plans to celebrate it?

Get ready and have a look at this game to start.

If you want to learn more on Halloween go to this interactive book.

To listen to what people have to say about it go there or listen to this

For those want to make something for the class, there are many ideas here, have fun.

Now for invitations click here and for cakes go there 

You can also tell me your plans or send me your best creations or pictures, happy halloween!

14 octobre 2010

Sorry mistake, error !!!

Excuse me I'm extremely sorry but you can't listen to the presentation of the characters of your book. It isn't on your pupil's CD. 

Next lesson is. It's for next time. Don't worry we'll do it tomorrow . Thanks for telling me Kimberley.

Good evening 

12 octobre 2010

Can you find Big Ben on this map?

This is for Etienne and the others who didn't know where it was.

You can see it better on that link.

Have you found it now?

Tell me, where is it located?

Do you know other monuments in London?

11 octobre 2010

Prepare your PPC or PPI with the blog.

Don't forget you are doing your speaking test this week.

Revise with the different articles and pupils'works.

Look at:

Hello and goodbye (6th)

School things, the fifth forms's desk (5th)

Introduce yourself (5th)

Talk about your family (5th)

How to ask questions (4th)

Let's talk about food (6th, April 2nd)

Train on the different situations done in class to get a good mark.

07 octobre 2010

New Earth-like planet discovered

                                                                           Artist's impression of new Earth-like planet discovered by astronomers

The discovery of a new Earth-like planet with conditions that could support life has got scientists really excited.

The planet is about the right distance from its Sun, so it's not too hot or cold for life to survive there.

It means the planet, which is called Gliese 581g, could have water and the right atmosphere.

The find has sparked hope that there are many more planets in space that could be home to living beings. 

To know more about it and to prove your knowledge on space go there

Are you dreaming of living on another planet or meeting aliens? tell me your views on that.

06 octobre 2010

Biodiversity.

As you may probably already know the EDD class, the 5th Chasles started working last week.

Their first theme will be the biodiversity.

To start getting information on the subject, let's be optimistic and look at this page from the BBC

Nearly 200 countries have agreed on measures to protect the world's most threatened wildlife.

On the other hand, Scientists found around 200 new species during their survey of the Nakanai and Muller mountain ranges in Papua New Guinea.

 They found 100 spiders, including this one, the Anelosimus.

To know more about it go there.

Then the Chasles can tell us about what they  found around our school last week, I heard about spiders too, didn't I ?

04 octobre 2010

World Animal day

It's World animal day today! You may have seen the work of the 5th Chasles about it.

Here is what we sent to the Turkish school we're working with : edd_world_annimal_day.odt

This is a good site to learn more about it, try to do the listening activity and fill the blanks in the exercise.

You can also learn a lot on endangered animals here.

03 octobre 2010

Europe and stereotypes

Learn more about Europe here or there 

Choose one country and in pair, write a little dialogue on it.

(One of you will be an English tourist visiting the European country of your choice.

To make it sound funny you can include stereotypes)

For stereotypes look at these :

1 What a perfect european should be.

2 How the americans see Europe

3 Draw or illustrate a person from each country

4 The brits abroad

5 Heaven is when ...

Work well, your work will be recorded

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