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  Interviews with our foreign visitors and penpals

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  Now, we are surrounded with English : it’s present everywhere, in every form. The question that comes up to my mind is what does English bring people, and what points of view do they have about France ? To answer this question, I decided to ask my pals Luis, from Spain, and Christina, from China, plus our English-speakers assistants, Pascale, from Canada, and Pierre, from England. How do they deal with English ? Pascale was raised with both English and French. In her family, both languages were spoken and because she lives in the English-speaker part of Canada, she had to use English in everyday life. Pierre moved to England when he was young, but before he was living in France. When he first moved to England at the age of 9, he really struggled to learn English. He learnt it very quickly by reading a lot of books and got used to watch the news a lot to pick up the English (...)
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  What is the destiny of a frog eater in the Far West ?

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  My first presentation will by on an international topic, so I am going to tell you the story of my extraordinary trip in the USA. first I’ve made a contact with the family who would host me. After a couple of e-mails and many phone call they told me that they would be very happy to accommodate me in their home. Note that I didn’t ask an organization to find a family for me , I wanted to do my own trip ! To tell you all, my host family is a longtime friend of my family. My Mom met them twenty years ago. What’s nice is that they have three children and one boy is nineteen years old like me, so we were partner all along my trip. To start with, I’ve flown for 10 hours to reach Seattle and finally discover the United-States, but, in spite of my enthusiasm I could not do my first activity on this day because the length of the flight and the jet lag were too tiring for me. During my (...)
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  Do you, as J. Gatsby did, believe in the green light ?

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  What’s a green flash ? A green flash is an optical phenomenon, such as a mirage, but it is not an optical illusion. You can see it at sunset or sunrise. It is a sudden moment (it does not last more than one second or two), when a part of the sun suddenly changes color from red/orange to green/blue so that’s why we describe it as a flash due to the ability of the air to separate the colors of the light. It is a rare phenomenon, and we can also observe it with the moon. It usually occurs on the horizon, when it is unobstructed : if there are clouds, ships, haze or anything that can avoid you to clearly see the horizon line. It is so sudden that when I had the chance to witness one, I didn’t see it, actually I was taking photos of a sunset in Mauritius and it is only when I watched my photo afterwards that I realized I had caught a green flash. The different kinds of green flashes (...)
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  Smoke alarms

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  How can we prevent a family from dying in the fire of their house ? In France, there are about 12,000 victims of smoke inhalation from fires per year. So a law has been passed in 2010 in France, making smoke detectors mandatory in all private housing by March 8, 2015. There are three different types of smoke detectors, the most widespread in the world are : The optical or smoke detector - The ionization smoke detector, which is banned in France especially because it contains a radioactive source. The linear smoke detector. Optical sensor The photoelectric (or optical) smoke detector is the only type of detector authorized in France. It is the newest and best suited for home fires as it reacts to slow progression fire that may smolder for several hours before we can see the first flames appearing. These fires with slow evolution are also the most many and the most dangerous (...)
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  Interviews with our foreign visitors and penpals

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  Now, we are surrounded with English : it’s present everywhere, in every form. The question that comes up to my mind is what does English bring people, and what points of view do they have about France ? To answer this question, I decided to ask my pals Luis, from Spain, and Christina, from China, plus our English-speakers assistants, Pascale, from Canada, and Pierre, from England. How do they deal with English ? Pascale was raised with both English and French. In her family, both languages were spoken and because she lives in the English-speaker part of Canada, she had to use English in everyday life. Pierre moved to England when he was young, but before he was living in France. When he first moved to England at the age of 9, he really struggled to learn English. He learnt it very quickly by reading a lot of books and got used to watch the news a lot to pick up the English (...)
  En savoir plus
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  Do you, as J. Gatsby did, believe in the green light ?

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  What’s a green flash ? A green flash is an optical phenomenon, such as a mirage, but it is not an optical illusion. You can see it at sunset or sunrise. It is a sudden moment (it does not last more than one second or two), when a part of the sun suddenly changes color from red/orange to green/blue so that’s why we describe it as a flash due to the ability of the air to separate the colors of the light. It is a rare phenomenon, and we can also observe it with the moon. It usually occurs on the horizon, when it is unobstructed : if there are clouds, ships, haze or anything that can avoid you to clearly see the horizon line. It is so sudden that when I had the chance to witness one, I didn’t see it, actually I was taking photos of a sunset in Mauritius and it is only when I watched my photo afterwards that I realized I had caught a green flash. The different kinds of green flashes (...)
  En savoir plus
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  What is the destiny of a frog eater in the Far West ?

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  My first presentation will by on an international topic, so I am going to tell you the story of my extraordinary trip in the USA. first I’ve made a contact with the family who would host me. After a couple of e-mails and many phone call they told me that they would be very happy to accommodate me in their home. Note that I didn’t ask an organization to find a family for me , I wanted to do my own trip ! To tell you all, my host family is a longtime friend of my family. My Mom met them twenty years ago. What’s nice is that they have three children and one boy is nineteen years old like me, so we were partner all along my trip. To start with, I’ve flown for 10 hours to reach Seattle and finally discover the United-States, but, in spite of my enthusiasm I could not do my first activity on this day because the length of the flight and the jet lag were too tiring for me. During my (...)
  En savoir plus
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  Smoke alarms

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  How can we prevent a family from dying in the fire of their house ? In France, there are about 12,000 victims of smoke inhalation from fires per year. So a law has been passed in 2010 in France, making smoke detectors mandatory in all private housing by March 8, 2015. There are three different types of smoke detectors, the most widespread in the world are : The optical or smoke detector - The ionization smoke detector, which is banned in France especially because it contains a radioactive source. The linear smoke detector. Optical sensor The photoelectric (or optical) smoke detector is the only type of detector authorized in France. It is the newest and best suited for home fires as it reacts to slow progression fire that may smolder for several hours before we can see the first flames appearing. These fires with slow evolution are also the most many and the most dangerous (...)
  En savoir plus