16 November 2015								Mrs MAYER ❺

Magnifying glass:	loupe
There are different shifts/An 8 hour shift
To work shifts:	travailler en équipe
To be on shifts:	faire les trois-huit
Earplugs:		bouchons d’oreilles; boules Quiès
It’s like a funfair where you have bumper cars:	fête foraine/autos tamponneuses
We’ll see when the tunnel is finished:	nous verrons quand le tunnel sera terminé
That’s the big question mark!
When heavy rain is forecast they close the tunnel
It was demolished:	démoli
Cracks:		fissures/ we filled in the cracks
Wallpaper:		papier peint
repainted:		repeint
To dig:			creuser / a digger
I saw a report on television
I asked the police (not "to")
In England they’ve managed to stop hooligans
Eventually:		par la suite
Split in two:		brisé en deux
Parking spaces
Parking place:		place de stationnement
"Parking" is an adjective or a present participle
Car-park:		parking
"Brushing":		brossant
A blow-dry is a brushing (french)
It’s a long way from the harbour
A war memorial:	Monument aux Morts
I was brought up by my grandparents
Turtles eat jellyfish: méduses
Venum:		venin
Wasp (guêpe)/ bee → sting : piqûre/et dard
Take a raw onion (cru) & rub (frotter, frictionner) it on the sting
Mosquito/snake/spider → bite
A flea:			puce
Ant:			fourmi
A pharmacist/chemist: pharmacien
The windshield:	pare-brise

Subtitles in french
1. Monday 16/11 	Arte VM 22h15-0h10 FRENZY GB, 1972
Director: Alfred HITCHCOCK. (His last British film). In London.
Anna Massey, Billie Whitelaw, Alec Mc Cowen, Jon Finch.
			Arte 20h55-22.15 HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT Fr. USA, 2015
When Truffaut published his book Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock, after he & Hitchcock met in 1962 in Hollywood.

2. Thursday 19/11 	Arte 20h55-22.25 A new series: OCCUPIED. A Norwegian thriller.Eur.VM Season 1(1-2/10)

3. Sunday 22/11 	Arte 20.45-22h35 THE EMERALD FOREST (La forêt d’émeraude) GB, 1985 VM
Dir. John BOORMAN

TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH

1.	Le fameux Docteur Johnson ne pouvait souffrir les Écossais.
The famous Doctor Johnson couldn’t stand the Scots.
                                                                  bear(more literary)

*Samuel JOHNSON 1709-1784. Very famous in England because in 1755 he published THE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
He had a house which is near Fleet Street (famous for its newspaper publishers), DR JOHNSON’S HOUSE, in Gough Square in London.
James BOSWELL 1740-1795 wrote a LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON IN 1791. He was Scottish and went to Scotland with Samuel Johnson. There are many humorous quotations of Dr Johnson about the Scots.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, was published 150 years later, in 1905.

2.	Y a-t-il quelque chose qui ne va pas ?
Is there something /anything wrong?
*Something→ if you suppose the answer will be yes
  Anything	→ answer could be yes or no
Would y like some coffee? Yes please.
Would y like any coffee? Yes please/ No, thank y (Y don’t really want to offer coffee)