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LES CONTES CLASIQUES Quand la télévision n'existait pas encore, comment rêvaient les enfants ? Ils s'asseyaient, le soir, devant la cheminée, et leur grand-mère ou leur grand-père leur racontaient de belles histoires. Ces histoires ont franchi les siècles. Elles fascinent toujours les enfants. QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST UN CONTE? « Le conte est un récit qui par l’universalité de son propos, parle de façon symbolique à ce qu’il y a de plus intime chez l’enfant.  C’est une rencontre qui va non seulement toucher, mais l’aider à construire, à avancer, à grandir . » (Revue Acropolis nº202  janvier-février 2008) "Le conte est difficile à croire ; mais tant que dans le monde on aura des enfants, des mères et des mères-grands, on en gardera la mémoire."  [Charles Perrault / Extrait du conte Peau d'Ane]  « L e conte merveilleux a une place importante dans l’apprentissage de la maturité chez l’enfant  en s’adressant simultanément à tous les niveaux ...

Ordering food at a restaurant At the Restaurant Waiter:   Good evening sir, welcome to Stanley's, can I help you? Jason:  Can we have a table for two, please? Waiter:  C ome this way, please. Ordering food Waiter:  Are you ready to order now? Jason:  Yes, we are. Can we have the Sunday roast with vegetables and chicken salad, please? Waiter:  Would you like anything to drink with your meal? Jason:  Two glasses of white wine, please. After the Meal Waiter:  Would you like to see the dessert menu? Jason:  No thanks, can we have the bill? Waitress:   Hello, I will be your waitress today. Can I get you  anything to drink? Paul:    Yes. I would like an iced coffee, please. Jane:   And I will have the same please. Waitress:   OK, two iced coffees, here you are. Are you ready to order now or would you like a few more minutes? Paul:    I...

The ancient Egyptian calendar The ancient Egyptians were the first civilization to create a calendar which organised the year into 365 days . This calendar is believed to date back to the 3 ͬ ͩ millennium BC. The year consisted of 12 months of 30 days each one plus five holy days. The months were divided into three weeks of ten days each. The Egyptian year was divided into three seasons of four months. These seasons were: The season of Akhet (Inundation) The season of Peret (Growth-Winter) The season of Shemu (Harvest-Summer)   The Egytian calendar was known to be imperfect as it was almost a quarter of a day shorter than the true solar year. Image representing the sky and the constellations The ancient Greek calendar The Greek calendar includes a variety of dating systems used by the several city-states in the time of classical Greece . There was no uniform calendar imposed upon all of the Hellenic territory. Each polis had i...

The English Pub     The Pub is a traditional part of English life.  This is not surprising. In all societies, places where people can have a drink together are part of social life. They are places where people go to talk to each other, to find companionship, to gossip and catch up on news. The French have their cafés, Americans their fast foods, and the British their pubs.  The English pub is a place with an important social function - a meeting place, somewhere to relax, a place where people drink, talk and traditionally play games like cards or darts or even billiards. Sociological surveys show that the pub is the only place where the English, who are usually very reserved, willingly begin a conversation with a stranger! The names of the pubs     The word " pub " is short for "public house", which means a historic kind of community centre. In many English pubs, the large majority of consumers ...