Mots du jour du Vendredi

Directions1. Read the sentence aloud with the class to

make sure you pronounce the words correctly.

2. Make a 4 square table (approximate. Lines don’t have to be straight.

1. Write the sentence

2. Write definition

3. Use an English synonym (at home)

4. Draw a picture (at home)

• Top of table = Write the sentence and writing the definition to be done in class ( or from the Wiki at home)

• Bottom of the table = drawing and synonym to be done at home for review. Must be available by the following Friday.

1. At first, the aristocrat firmly opposed his daughter’s prospective marriage into a

bourgeois family.

If General Braddock had listened to Georges Washington, his clairvoyant young subordinate, he would not have been caught in an ambush.

It would be gauche for a host or hostess to begin eating before their guests have been served.

I am amazed that you can be so nonchalant about the coming quiz when everyone else is so worried.

A strong Bourgeoisie contributes to a nation’s prosperity

• The violonist performed with rare ECLAT.

• Because the cast had rehearsed with such Elan, the director had few apprehensions about the opening- night performance

• You too might suffer from ennui if you had to spend months in a hospital bed.

• You are naïve if you believe implacable foes can be reconciled easily.

• Our new supervisor is clever in many matters in which his predecessor was maladroit

• The headwaiter was debonair with the guests but firm with the waiters

The employees showed extraordinary esprit de corps when they

volunteered to work Saturdays for the duration of the crisis.

After the late, heavy supper, he experienced a

feeling of malaise.

The adroit prosecutor conducted the cross-

examination with admirable finesse.

• The quarterback’s sangfroid during the last tense moments of the game enabled him to call the winning play.

• You need both capital and Savoir–faire to be a successful entrepreneur.

• A timely Billet-doux patched up the lovers’ quarrel.

Poésie du coeur et de l'âme, à travers les couloirs du temps. Entre passé et présent, nous sommes les plumes de demain... une invitation aux émotions, sentiments qui régissent la vie.

• This helpful brochure explains the procedures for obtaining a driver’s license.

• It took a public appearance by the monarch to silence the canard that he had been assassinated.

Two clichés that we can easily do without are “first and foremost” and “last but not least”

En francais: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwesF9UEvY

En Anglais: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERD2TnMNH98