Millthorpe School Languages Blog

French Clichés

This is a funny video about how french people are seen! They actually are some true facts ...!

 

Archimède - L'été revient

 

Jenifer - Je danse

 

Ycare - Lapdance

 

Tal - Le Sens de la vie

 

Frohe Ostern! - Happy Easter!

Easter holidays are just around the corner and the Easter bunny, in German der OSTERHASE, is getting ready to hide some Easter eggs, OSTEREIER.

Bald sind Osterferien und der OSTERHASE macht sich bereit, um die OSTEREIER zu verstecken.

                                                

OSTERN = Easter 

OSTERHASE = Easter bunny 

OSTEREIER = Easter eggs

 

A German Easter tradition is decorating hollowed out eggs and hanging them on an Easter tree

Save your breath - you will need it! 

The following steps will help you produce your hollow Easter egg: 

Hold the egg firmly but gently and pierce a hole in the top and the bottom of the egg using the needle. Ensure that one hole is a bit bigger than the other one. Pass the needle through the larger hole and, breaking the yolk inside, stir the contents. Blow into the smaller hole so that the contents come out of the large hole and drop into the bowl. Run a little water through the large hole to clean out the egg. Gently shake the egg as you rinse until the egg is completely clean. Otherwise it will begin to smell after a while. Let dry on a paper towel. After the egg has dried, you can put a few drops of glue over the holes to protect the egg from further cracking. Now it is ready to decorate.

                       

                       

                             

Germans love their compounds, indeed!

Mark Twain once said about the German language with its long words: “Some German words are so long they have a perspective”. Indeed, Germans love their long words. The longest compound word in the German language is

Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft

This 80 letter word is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest word of the German language.

Mark Twain hat einmal über die deutsche Sprache mit ihren langen Wörtern gesagt: “Manche deutschen Wörter sind so lang, dass sie eine eigene Perspektive haben”. Und ja, die Deutschen lieben ihre langen Wörter. Das längste Kompositum der deutschen Sprache ist

Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft

Mit 80 Buchstaben ist dieses Wort im Guinnessbuch der Weltrekorde als längstes Wort der deutschen Sprache.

 

German music - MIA.

 

MIA. is a German band from Berlin. Their songs vary from rock, pop to electronic music. One of their most famous songs is “Hungriges Herz” (=Hungry Heart).

MIA. ist eine deutsche Band aus Berlin. Ihre Lieder reichen von Pop, über Rock zu Elektro. Eines ihrer bekanntesten Songs ist “Hungriges Herz”.

 

 

Interactive maps of France

Mr Winston and Mrs McNulty have used these maps with their year 9 French GCSE groups to show some more detail about the geography of France. Unfortunately only the first 5 maps linked still work, but they are fantastic.

Interested? Have a look by clicking this link.