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. I don’t remember the name of this village but the church’s interior is just fantastic !
238.Our friends Susan and Tennant are flying home on Tuesday, May 13th.
239.Why didn’t you try to get in touch with his family all these years ?
240.My neighbour told me you had gone round his place last week.
241.Trois couvreurs travaillent ce matin sur le toit de la ferme du Père Robert.
242.Par temps de pluie, les bœufs du voisin se rassemblent tous sous un arbre.
243.Avez-vous déjà vu des rats ou des petites souris dans votre jardin ?
244.Avez-vous du pain ?
245. Il y a-t-il quelque chose que je puisse faire pour vous aider ?
246.Y a-t-il beaucoup de touristes dans la région.
247.J’ai vu quelque chose bouger derrière l’arbre.
248. Les voleurs seront jugés prochainement.
249.Mon ami Johan travaille comme cuisinier dans un pub en Angleterre.
250.Les loups se déplacent la nuit pour attaquer les troupeaux de moutons.
251.Il n’y avait pas beaucoup de vent.
252.Y avait-il beaucoup de gens ?
253.Il y a peu d’hôtels dans cette île.
254.Nous allons dans ce pays là tous les ans.
255.Je n’aime pas ces gens-là.
256.Il y avait plusieurs livres sur l’étagère.
257.Nous ne l’avons vu nulle part.
258.Il y a-t-il des cinémas dans la ville ?
259.Nous n’avons écrit à personne pendant les vacances
260.Avez vous compris quelque chose ?
261.It is not very cloudy today. It may be nice.
262.We went for a walk by the beach yesterday. We got some sun tan.
263.How many potatoes did you peel this morning
264.We must take this road. It is going to lead us straight home.
265.I don’t understand these people. They criticize everything and everybody.
266.We only have little time between the two trains
267.We looked for him everywhere and found him in front of the tv.
268.There are just a few people interested in learning English in that region.
269.We came accross a few strawberries in the market this morning.
270.Were there many people in Deauville this week-end ?
TEXT
I met someone recently. I knew her from the past –she used to live close to my place in a small town
between Caen and Lisieux in Normandy. The name of the place is Mézidon. A place where half the
population was small shopkeepers and the other half mainly working for industries such as the SNCF
(National French Railway Society) or the ‘Biscuiterie Normande ‘(a biscuit factory) or the ‘usine
plastique’ (a plastic factory) and where sport was almost the only way out for kids to get away from the
everyday rythme of social violence.
I had never had the opportunity to talk to her much. We weren’t the same age nor doing the same
things, but I had unconsciously kept her in mind because from where my wife and I were living, we
were seing her often as she was running up and down to the stadium between 6 and 7pm.
From what I heard, she wasn’t the kind of girl to talk much. She was quite reserved when happy and
excepted the fact that she mainly had male friends-who were calling her Dédé ; a name sort of saying
that she was ‘one of the boys’- she was also going to church regularly and was known in the village as
someone who was collecting medals and when we were not physically seeing her, we could follow her
news in the Pays d’Auge’ paper when reading it at the week-ends. She was blue belt in Judo,
champion both in the regional education authority in basket ball and in athleticism where she used to
beat her college records every race competing under the ASSU flag in the Hélitas stadium in Caen
before participating to the French championship in Alès and Périgueux the following year.
She was esthetically remarkable. Not the prettiness that we see in beauty magazines but one that
draws attention. Known to be clean, polite and also for loving people, she compelled respect.
Although her parents had built their house just before I first saw her and had a spacious garden at the
back, it was heard in the village that no one there had the chance to live a peaceful life. The old man
was very authoritarian leading to perpetual familial arguments and these conflicts affected her
performances at school. She was totally unable to keep quiet and to concentrate enough to listen
properly. So, later on, as soon as it was possible, she took the first opportunity to vanish. This led her
to England and later on, to work as a ‘GO’ in a few Club Med villages for instance (...)
And the funny thing is that, I recently ran into the same girl. She now lives at the same distance from
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238.Our friends Susan and Tennant are flying home on Tuesday, May 13th.
239.Why didn’t you try to get in touch with his family all these years ?
240.My neighbour told me you had gone round his place last week.
241.Trois couvreurs travaillent ce matin sur le toit de la ferme du Père Robert.
242.Par temps de pluie, les bœufs du voisin se rassemblent tous sous un arbre.
243.Avez-vous déjà vu des rats ou des petites souris dans votre jardin ?
244.Avez-vous du pain ?
245. Il y a-t-il quelque chose que je puisse faire pour vous aider ?
246.Y a-t-il beaucoup de touristes dans la région.
247.J’ai vu quelque chose bouger derrière l’arbre.
248. Les voleurs seront jugés prochainement.
249.Mon ami Johan travaille comme cuisinier dans un pub en Angleterre.
250.Les loups se déplacent la nuit pour attaquer les troupeaux de moutons.
251.Il n’y avait pas beaucoup de vent.
252.Y avait-il beaucoup de gens ?
253.Il y a peu d’hôtels dans cette île.
254.Nous allons dans ce pays là tous les ans.
255.Je n’aime pas ces gens-là.
256.Il y avait plusieurs livres sur l’étagère.
257.Nous ne l’avons vu nulle part.
258.Il y a-t-il des cinémas dans la ville ?
259.Nous n’avons écrit à personne pendant les vacances
260.Avez vous compris quelque chose ?
261.It is not very cloudy today. It may be nice.
262.We went for a walk by the beach yesterday. We got some sun tan.
263.How many potatoes did you peel this morning
264.We must take this road. It is going to lead us straight home.
265.I don’t understand these people. They criticize everything and everybody.
266.We only have little time between the two trains
267.We looked for him everywhere and found him in front of the tv.
268.There are just a few people interested in learning English in that region.
269.We came accross a few strawberries in the market this morning.
270.Were there many people in Deauville this week-end ?
TEXT
I met someone recently. I knew her from the past –she used to live close to my place in a small town
between Caen and Lisieux in Normandy. The name of the place is Mézidon. A place where half the
population was small shopkeepers and the other half mainly working for industries such as the SNCF
(National French Railway Society) or the ‘Biscuiterie Normande ‘(a biscuit factory) or the ‘usine
plastique’ (a plastic factory) and where sport was almost the only way out for kids to get away from the
everyday rythme of social violence.
I had never had the opportunity to talk to her much. We weren’t the same age nor doing the same
things, but I had unconsciously kept her in mind because from where my wife and I were living, we
were seing her often as she was running up and down to the stadium between 6 and 7pm.
From what I heard, she wasn’t the kind of girl to talk much. She was quite reserved when happy and
excepted the fact that she mainly had male friends-who were calling her Dédé ; a name sort of saying
that she was ‘one of the boys’- she was also going to church regularly and was known in the village as
someone who was collecting medals and when we were not physically seeing her, we could follow her
news in the Pays d’Auge’ paper when reading it at the week-ends. She was blue belt in Judo,
champion both in the regional education authority in basket ball and in athleticism where she used to
beat her college records every race competing under the ASSU flag in the Hélitas stadium in Caen
before participating to the French championship in Alès and Périgueux the following year.
She was esthetically remarkable. Not the prettiness that we see in beauty magazines but one that
draws attention. Known to be clean, polite and also for loving people, she compelled respect.
Although her parents had built their house just before I first saw her and had a spacious garden at the
back, it was heard in the village that no one there had the chance to live a peaceful life. The old man
was very authoritarian leading to perpetual familial arguments and these conflicts affected her
performances at school. She was totally unable to keep quiet and to concentrate enough to listen
properly. So, later on, as soon as it was possible, she took the first opportunity to vanish. This led her
to England and later on, to work as a ‘GO’ in a few Club Med villages for instance (...)
And the funny thing is that, I recently ran into the same girl. She now lives at the same distance from
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