4 January 2016								Mrs MAYER ⑩

1. Monday 4/1	Arte 20h55-23h10 DEATH ON THE NILE GB, 1978. VM. Based on a novel by Agatha CHRISTIE who died in 1976. This is Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, and filmed on location (en extérieur) in Egypt.
Dir.: John GUILLERMIN. With Peter USTINOV, Jane BIRKIN, Mia FARROW, David NIVEN, Maggie SMITH.
Arte 23h10-1.10 EVIL UNDER THE SUN (Meurtre au soleil) 1981
Dir. Guy HAMILTON. With Peter USTINOV, Jane BIRKIN.
Based on a novel by Agatha Christie.
2. Wednesday 6/1	Arte 20h55-22h35 PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (Peggy Sue s’est mariée) 1986, USA. Dir.: Francis FORD COPPOLA. With Kathleen TURNER, Nicolas CAGE.

Dock leaf/Nettle/ River Stour Canterbury
Weeping willows:	saules pleureurs
To weep: very poetic =to cry, pleurer
To cry: poetic =to shout (modern), crier
Windscreen wipers:	essuie-glace
Did you oversleep?→ se réveiller(trop) tard
Domestic flights
Return ticket
If you book well in advance
Great granddaughter:	 arrière petite-fille
The reindeer:		renne
In England they put mince pies and a glass of sherry on the table for Santa Claus
To set the table
Raisins & currants:	raisins secs & raisins de corinthe
Mincemeat:	hachis de fruits secs (minced meat = viande hachée)                                                           
Beetroot soup:	soupe de betteraves
A light meal
Scrambled eggs:	oeufs brouillés
Mass:		messe. We went to mass
The beggars:	les mendicants
A body search:	fouille corporelle
A buckle on a belt
It depends on the company
Goose: oie / turkey: dinde / capon: chapon
Bog(e)y-man:	Père Fouettard; croquemitaine
The Three Wise Men : les Rois Mages
Sugared apple
Barley sugar:	sucre d’orge
Sweet & savoury:	sucré-salé  / Spicy: épicé
Savouries:	amuse-gueules
Lace:		dentelle
Fir tree:	sapin
Christmas crib: crèche
Candelmas:	la Chandeleur
Winter solstice

DISCUSS AND DECIDE

1.	Which of the following would be of the greatest benefice to mankind:
a)	A means of controlling the weather
b)	A cure for cancer
c)	A universal language

First I told myself that it would be extraordinary if we could succeed in controlling the weather. Such progress could avoid natural disasters and save millions of people from drought (sécheresse), and also hunger, and all the diseases linked to malnutrition, but also from forest fires and their repercussions on humans and flora and fauna, from earthquakes, tsunamis, all kinds of storms, flooding and so on…
But on the other hand I heard that a real danger exists with climate manipulation. For US Intelligence officials, climate manipulation tools devised (imaginés, conçus) precisely to combat the damaging effects of climate change can also be used for the opposite purpose: to  create flooding, drought, to ruin…
In the Daily Mail, they state that the CIA consulted a professor in New Jersey to see if it was possible to know if someone was controlling the global climate trend.
Such interventions could, once revealed, lead to a new global conflict. This professor said: "If one country wants to control the climate and another doesn’t want to, or if they try to shoot down planes…the consequences could be terrible."
The weather can be turned into a weapon and this happened during the war in Vietnam when American scientists sowed (ensemencer) the rain clouds to slow the advance of enemy troops. In Cuba, the CIA did the same for rain, to ruin sugar-cane harvest and thus, the economy of the island.
So, climate control could be the most dangerous weapon of mass destruction: why invade a country when you can flood it or create drought to destroy it?