21 March 2016								Mrs MAYER ⑲

1. Sunday 27/3	Arte 20.50-22.40 BODY HEAT 1981 (La fièvre au corps°).
Dir. Lawrence KASDAN. With William Hurt & Kathleen Turner. American thriller.
2. Monday 28/3	Arte 20.55-22.10 ROPE 1948 (La corde). A thriller.
Dir.Alfred HITCHCOCK. The 1st film Hitchcock made in colour. With James Stewart.

Scenery:	décor
Special effects

TELL A JOKE
Fishing for whiskey
"Poor old fool", thought the well-dressed gentleman as he watched an old man fishing in a puddle outside a pub. So he invited the old man inside for a drink. As they sipped their whiskeys, the gentleman thought he’d humour the old man and asked: "So, how many have you caught today?"
The old man replied: "You’re the eighth."

If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask, to be clear, "do you know how reading works?"

A defendant isn’t happy with how things are going in court, so he gives the judge a hard time.
Judge:		where do you work?
Defendant: 	here and there
Judge:		what do you do for a living?
Defendant:	this and that.
Judge:		take him away.
Defendant:	wait; when will I get out?
Judge:		sooner or later.

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
"A laugh a day keeps the doctor away"

What word begins with" e", ends with "e" and has one letter?
Answer: envelope

There are 5 birds in a tree. A hunter shoots 2 of them dead. How many birds are left?
Two birds, the other flew away!
(EnglishClub.com)

A saying:	un dicton
A chum:	un copain
A tenant:	locataire
Landlord/landlady: propriétaire, logeur(se)

Brits abroad
③ Summarize this article
In an article full of irony, Eddie Mair describes his strange experience of a quick and improvised visit to expo Milan 2015 where he is like a shipwrecked sailor on an unknown planet. He’s lost in an enormous and hostile furnace among people queuing outside numerous pavilions, without understanding the real interest because he only observes trouble in there.
In fact this article is a way of criticising his own country-announced by the title itself: ‘Brits abroad’- and the skimpy, conventional image which it offers, cut off from the outside world, like the drawing, illustrating the text, of a shipwrecked man on a desert island who has only one local product to offer. Mair denounces here the lack of imagination and the conservatism of his country, without sparing the organizing country and the principle itself of these big fairs which are of very limited interest to him.

Dual nationality:	double nationalité
To be worked up: être remonté (contre…)