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Monday 23/5 M6:		THE INCREDIBLE HULK -2008- 20.45-22.45- VM. Director: Louis LETERRIER. With Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt.
Sunday. 29/5 Arte: 		MAYERLING 1968-20.40-22.55 -VM.Dir. Terence YOUNG. With Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason.

HOMO FABER/ PREDICTABLE: prévisible.
CHESHIRE is a county just south of Manchester
CASINO: it has aged badly.
You have a good hand/ or a bad hand/ when you play cards.
TO RIG:				truquer.
Machines are rigged:		truquées..
One-arm bandit:		bandit-manchot.
Three times on the run:		trois fois de suite.
Three days on the run:			trois jours de suite.
To make/score six runs (in cricket):	marquer six points.
To have a run of luck:		être en veine.
A run of cards: 			une suite
A run of bad luck:		une suite de malheurs.

FRACTAL:	a curve or geometrical figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole (Oxford Dictionary of English)
TO TILE:	carreler
M O C A:	Museum of Computing Art
H F T:		High Frequency Trading
A scale invariant.
What’s the length of the Brittany Coast? There is no answer because it depends on how you look at it.
An ANT:	fourmi.
Spontaneously
It’s applied technology
SHADES of colour (color=American English): 	nuances.
A BALL OF WOOL:	une pelote de laine.
THE AVERAGE:		la moyenne.
You TOSS A COIN to say ‘HEADS OR TAILS’: pile ou face.
THE WEATHER FORECAST: la météo.

THE YOUNG ELITE

2. What other strange things do you know about England ?
Christmas pudding.
A CAKE TIN/ an AIR TIGHT CONTAINER: hermétique.
 VACUUM-PACKED:	 emballé sous vide.
JELLY. Bright colours in a shop window are very attractive.
RULE BRITANNIA. - LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY. Patriotic songs
OVERDONE (adj.):	trop cuit(e) (vegetables, steak). Surfait (exaggerated)
The Queen has to stand out :( be prominent)	ressortir
COLLECTOR’S ITEM:	pièce de collection.
CASH DESK:		caisse.
TILL:			caisse (enregistreuse)
A MAKE:		une marque
Black cats: lucky to meet a black cat they are featured on many good luck greeting cards and birthday cards in England.
School uniforms.

TRANSLATE

11	Je me suis borné à dire ce que je savais.
I just said what I knew
I merely said what I knew.
/I only said

12	Ils avaient bel et bien l’intention de le tuer.
They well and truly intended/meant/ to kill him
They really/actually/ intended...

13	Avez-vous réussi à traduire le texte ?
Did you manage to translate the text ?
Did you succeed in translating the text?

14	Elle avait l’impression qu’elle allait mourir.
She felt as if she were/ was/ going to die. [‘were’: very elegant language]
She felt as she was about to die.
She had the feeling she was going/about/ to die. [If you have a noun in French, it’s better to translate with a verb]

15	Le hasard voulut qu’il n’y eût personne pour l’entendre.
There happened to be nobody to hear him →NEUTRAL
As luck would have it, there was nobody/no-one (more elegant)/ to hear him.