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Letters from France

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School

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:27:39 +0100

Dear friends.

Thank you very much for your letter. It was very interesting. What a huge school you have got!

Today we are going to tell you about our school.Its name is Elsa Triolet. Elsa Triolet was a French writer, she was born in Russia in Mocow. She was married to Louis Aragon, a French poet .

Our school is made of bricks, cement, metal and glass. There are many trees and bushes around it. It has only got one floor, twenty classrooms, two workshops, a canteen and a library. There are about 35 teachers and  420 pupils.

Downstairs, there is the hall, the headmaster's office ,the deputy-headmaster's office, the purser's office, the secretary's office. The canteen , the school library, the staff-room are upstairs.

There are young people, aged about twenty, to look after us during the breaks and at lunch -time or when teachers are missing. There is also a social worker who comes to our school once a week, we can go and talk to her about our problems. We have a nurse in our school as well.

We start school at 8 AM every day and we finish at 5.30PM, we have an hour and a half break at lunch-time. This year we are lucky because we do not have school on Monday afternoons and on Wednesdays afternoons either. We never go to school on Saturdays.

We study French(6 hours a week), Maths (4 hours a week), English (4 hours a week), History and Geography (3 hours a week), Biology( an hour and a half a week), Music(an hour a week), Art( an hour a week), Technology( 2hours a week)and careers(half an hour a week). Of course we also have Physical Education( 4 hours aweek).

Eleven pupils in our class can speak Moroccan, one can speak Spanish and all of us speak French and study English.

We do not wear uniforms in French state schools.

There are four grades in our school,the pupils are aged between 11 and 15. Are you in a state school or in a private school? Here ,we are obliged to go to school at least until we are 16.

Our next holiday will be on the 3rd of April, we will have two weeks off, it will be the Easter holiday. Then ,on the 24th of April ,three boys from our class will go on a trip to England. Do you go on school trips too?

Write soon ,please. Goodbye.

Your friends from first form D
College Elsa Triolet Beaucaire
France

El Aid (Ramadan) festival

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:28:02 +0100

Dear key-friends,

Thank you very much for your letter . We are happy to read about your celebrations on the 14th of January .

We are in the first form , we are eleven and twelve . We are twenty pupils in our class : ten boys and ten girls . We have started learning English this year , so our teacher is helping us to write this message .

Thirteen pupils in our class are Muslims ,so today they are not at school because they are celebrating the end of the "Ramadan ". During the "Ramadan " ,that is to say during about one month , people must not eat during the daytime .So , you can imagine it is very difficult for our friends to spend the day at school without eating .

Today , it is "El A�D",so it is a very happy day for Muslims: they eat lots of home-made cakes, they put on their best clothes, they visit their relatives, this is what they do on the Ist day of "EL AϨD" . There will be a second celebration day in about a month.

write soon , please .

The pupils from first form D and their english teacher Marl�ne Diaz.
College Elsa Triolet Beaucaire
France

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