La fête de la Chandeleur en Bretagne

d’après un reportage à la télévision

C’est le deux février. C’est la fête de la Chandeleur. En Bretagne, à Crozon, il y a une famille d’agriculteurs qui vit dans une ferme.

Yvette est la grand-mère. Elle est agricultrice à la retraite. Elle ne travaille plus comme agricultrice.

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IB Spanish students: social relationships

I teach Spanish language B IB to 5 students this year. I find the programm very interesting as it requires higher level language as well as thinking. However it is quite challenging for my students. One topic we have to cover is about social relationships and it is quite a wide and vague topic,

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The Kon-Tiki expedition

Last night I watched Kon-Tiki which is about the expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in a raft which took place in 1947. Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl wanted to prove that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times,

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