11 January 2016								Mrs MAYER ⑪

1. Monday 11/1	Arte 20h55-22h55 MURDER ON THE ORIENT-EXPRESS GB, 1974. VM. The book came out in 1934.
Dir. Sidney LUMET. With Albert FINNEY who plays Hercule Poirot, and a train of celebrities.
Arte 22h55-0.40 THE MIRROR CRACK’D (Le miroir se brisa) 1980.
The book came out in 1962, title: ‘The mirror crack’d from side to side’ [Normally it would be written ‘cracked’] It comes from a poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) who was poet laureate during Queen Victoria’s reign. A poet laureate is the King or Queen’s poet, writing for them on special occasions. The very first woman, Carol Ann DUFFY, was elected in 2009 and she said that the men poets were very condescending towards her when she was elected. Elected for 10 years, poet laureates get £5750 per annum and 600 bottles of Sherry (in one go, not every year!).
A very famous quotation from Tennyson:
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’.
Carol Ann DUFFY has written poems about the wives of famous men, eg. Mrs Aesop, Queen Herod, Mrs Gandhi. Her poetry is very accessible. She also teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University (it’s a little bit like an IUT in France). She was born in Glasgow and brought up with a Catholic education and she rebelled against that.
Dir. Guy HAMILTON (who directed a lot of James Bond films)
Angela LANSBURY who plays Miss Marple, was born in Oct 1925 and is still alive. She has a half-sister who married Peter Ustinov.

2. Thursday 14/1 	Arte 20h55-23.55 MEURTRE AU PIED DU VOLCAN. A miniseries. Iceland. VM (1,2,3,4/4)
3. Sunday 17/1 	Arte 20.45-23h25 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAÏ 1957
Dir.David LEAN. The bridge was built to connect Bangkok to Rangoon and is now called ‘Friendship Bridge’.
Normally we say: a bridge ‘over’ a river.
The film was made in Ceylon.

Germs:		microbes
German measles: rubéole
Measles:	rougeole
Chicken pox:	varicelle
Small pox:	variole
Mumps:	oreillons
Whooping cough: coqueluche
Gloomy weather is dark, depressing…

Breast feeding: allaitement maternel ≠ bottle feeding: biberon
HRT:	Hormone Replacement Therapy
Multiple sclerosis:	sclérose en plaques
Misunderstanding:	malentendu

DISCUSS AND DECIDE

1.	Which of the following inventions would earn the most money for its inventor:
a)	A perfectly safe tablet that would enable a person to stay slim without dieting
b)	A safe cigarette
As there are many more cigarette smokers  (about 7 million) than people who are obese (about 2 million), a safe cigarette would earn more money than a safe tablet.

I was a heavy smoker. When I stopped smoking I put on 9 kilos. - To put on weight.
A tape worm:	ver solitaire
Raw:	cru /rare/medium/well done
Fried:	poêlé/ a frying pan/ deep fry: friture