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If you could go and spend Christmas in the UK, what would your choice be?
Go and read about the 12 best places to spend Christmas there.
If not this year, the next?
https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/blog/best-christmas-towns-uk/
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I don't know why poetry is often associated with spring. In France we have this annual event called "Le Printemps des Poètes". It's an initiative I appreciate and I'm not the only one! In schools, colleges, high schools, it's an important time when teachers focus on poetry. It is vital.
But autumn also inspires me. The colours, the light, the visible changes in nature make me want to write and paint.
Click on this link, and you will read 6 beautiful poems. https://bookriot.com/autumn-poems/
And I offer you a seventh one, which was given to me by Joan Robinson, who was the librarian of the school with which the Lycée Chagall had an exchange for many years. She was a generous woman and so involved in her work! Every November I think of her. This year, even more of us will be thinking of her.
No ! by Thomas Hood
No sun—no moon!
No morn—no noon—
No dawn—
No sky—no earthly view—
No distance looking blue—
No road—no street—no "t'other side the way"—
No end to any Row—
No indications where the Crescents go—
No top to any steeple—
No recognitions of familiar people—
No courtesies for showing 'em—
No knowing 'em!
No traveling at all—no locomotion,
No inkling of the way—no notion—
"No go"—by land or ocean—
No mail—no post—
No news from any foreign coast—
No park—no ring—no afternoon gentility—
No company—no nobility—
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!Read more : https://poets.org/poem/no
* Virginia Woolf
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This lesson has most certainly already taken place. In any case, it is one of the themes that has the most to say. And a little revision doesn't hurt, even during the year!
So listen, and imagine what you would have answered.
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A useful website to know what happens in France, but in English. It seems to me some information are given here that I can't find in the French media so easily !
And what about English schools?
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*J F Kennedy
Next time you stay in London, rent a bike, keep fit and see a lot !
https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/nine-ace-bike-rides-in-and-around-london
Read this article. It will tell you about nine ideal scenic routes to discover London.
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Let's hope 2021 will be less stressful than 2020 and we will at last see the end of all these restrictions in our daily life.
I can't wait to be able to travel again and visit my friends in England. But due to Brexit, the rules have changed.
Click on the photo to discover all you have to know to go to the UK in the coming months or years.
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Right now you can't visit Britain, but you can travel though. Your thousand-mile-long journey can start with the hour's walking you can take every day of course, but also with all the visits and discoveries you can experience on the net.
Whether you are a student or a teacher,
here are two pages you CAN'T do without !
The British Council in Paris
https://www.britishcouncil.fr/
If you want the British Council help you learn or improve your English.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
And when you can enjoy a day in Paris again, go and pay them a visit !
Paris Invalides. British Council, 9 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris.
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I recently read an article on the BBC website which I loved because it describes and analyses our behaviour, the French way, with humour and clear-sightedness. But perhaps you will not agree. Read it and comment it !
WHY THE FRENCH LIKE TO COMPLAIN
by Emily Monaco - 1 September 2020
"To complain" means "se plaindre", but what it is all about here is also "to grumble". Perhaps this could be an opportunity to search for vocabulary to speak more accurately about our art of conversation.
* Billy Sunday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sunday)
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Rules are changing in. Every day it seems we have to get informed, because new rules appear.
We're not the only ones in this case. You want to know where our British friends stand? Go THERE and read!
The notion of necessity concerning the businesses that reopened first says a lot about the lifestyle of the people and the culture of the country.To travel to the UK at the moment, the rules are not necessarily as strict as the media tell us. There are many countries for which quarantine measures do not apply, including France.
But it is strongly advised to be careful, and you will be asked for a signed paper giving the details of where you will be staying.
If you want details and not to make mistakes when travelling, read THIS SITE!
And of course keep in mind that these rules can be changed overnight. Read the news every day, check this site every day.*Lailah Gifty Akita
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