30 MAY 2011										
TV : following week
Monday 6/6 Arte :		L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être 1987- 20.40-23.25- VM. 
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 
Director: Philip KAUFMAN. With Daniel Day-Lewis,Juliette Binoche
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Thursday. 9/6 Arte: 		It’s a free world 2007-20.40-22.15 –VM
.Director :  Ken LOACH

Holiday reading

 Débarquement 1944  - Quand vous serez en France – Instructions aux soldats britanniques
(French and English version in the same book)
Préface de Pierre Assouline
Editions les Quatre Chemins, 2006
The booklet was given to English soldiers. Instructions for British servicemen in France prepared by the political warfare executive and issued by the Foreign Office. London 1944
(There are quite a few printing errors in this book)

 A Better Quality of Murder Ann Granger 2010 Headline Edition
Detective story which takes place in Victorian London. Well written and quite easy to read.
Ann Granger is a very successful writer, she has written a lot of detective stories

Vocabulary

The pain got worse and worse
Physiotherapist : kinésithérapeute
Backache : mal de dos
My back aches : j’ai mal au dos
Straight : droit
Aches and pains : douleurs (worse than aches)
I've got a pain
Arthritis
Remedy : remède
Stem cells : cellules souches
Wheelchair : fauteuil roulant
To call on sb = to pay a visit to sb : rendre visite à quelqu’un
To call sb = to phone

THE YOUNG ELITE

It goes in one ear and comes out the other !
Subject : matière
Pass or fail : réussir ou échouer
Do the class again : redoubler
Degree : licence
Timetable : emploi du temps
Private lessons in English
Sick note : arrêt maladie
To be behind (i n your studies) : être en retard
Subsidy : subvention
Disabled : handicapé
Mail order company : société de vente par correspondance
Varnish/veneer (fig) : vernis

TRANSLATE

16	 Il se trouvait que je les avais remarqués
I happened to have noticed them

17	J’ai  failli me tromper de chapeau
I nearly took the wrong hat

18	ll se trouva que nous étions les seuls Français à bord
We happened to be the only French people on board

19	Ils se sont bornés à dire qu’ils repasseraient le lendemain
They only/just/ merely said (that) they would come back/return/call again the next day/ the following day

20	Sauriez-vous par hasard pourquoi ils ne sont pas venus ?
Do you happen to know/ do you know by any chance why they haven’t come/didn't come (depends on the context)