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The European Commission

Presentation

The European Commission is, with the European Parliament and the European Union Council, one of three main institutions of the European Union. The building on the photo is the Berlaymont, the seat of the European Commission, located in Brussels.

Role

The Commission acts independently from the members states , but has to report any case to the European Parliament which can censor it. Its mandate is of five years.

The Commission has three principal roles:

* To safe guard the treaties
* To make suggestions
* To carry out instructions

Composition

The Commission includes 20 police commissioners, appointed for 5 years. Approximately 25 000 persons work for it. Its current president is the Portuguese José Manuel Barroso since November 22nd, 2004.

The European Union Council

Presentation

At least twice a year the heads of state or the heads of government of twenty seven member states of the European Union and the president of the European Commission gathers the European Council.

The building on the right is the seat of the European Union Council, it’s Justus Lipsius and it’s located in Brussels.

Composition

The council has a President and a General Secretary. The presidency of the council is exercised during six months by every Member state, by rotation.

The composition of the council varies depending on the subjects dealt with, for example:

* General business and external relations
* Environment
* Transport, telecommunications and energy…

Role

The council decides, along with the Parliament in certain cases, on the proposition of the Commission. The Presidency of the council is alternately entrusted to every Member state during 6 months.

A Pancake

To cook you need (for 6 people from 20 to 25 pancakes) :

o 500 grammes of flour
o 1 litre of milk
o 6 eggs
o 2 pinches of salt

Instruction:

1. In a big bour, mix the flour with milk into smooth batter mixture
2. Add the eggs as if it were an omelet and salt
3. Allow to settle from 1 to 2 hours
4. About the cooking, it’s 30 seconds side
5. Then, you can savour your pancakes with sugar, nutella and lots ofreceipe. If you want some ideas of receipes, we can tell you some ones of them.

Language at our school

Exchange with Culford.

Culford school is situated from 15 minutes from Cambridge by car, in England? The school welcomes pupils from 6 to 18 years. It is composed of many buildings. The main one is situated at the antrance all. Inside, there are some classrooms a library, a theater and some studyrooms.
There is alse a sport building. Here you can practise swimming, handbaal, football, basketball, tennis, dancing… All the other buildings are fot classromms except two wich are the dormitories.

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Culford

One of them is especially for the boys from 15 to 18, and there is a lot of things to do.
We went to Culford School from the 3rd March to the 11th March 2007. The pupils of JEAN XXIII who were at the bording school were Tracy, Jade, Marie, Lisa, Xavier and Pauline.
During the week we visited Mr Tussaud’s museum, Cambridge, London and Bury St Edmond.

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Cambridge

Goethe Institut

Goethe Institut is an organisation to promote the German language and Culture. It is financed by Germany, and it costs 278 Millions €. The institut has 3300 employees for 144 institutes. This organisation used to be called Deutsche Akademie, it was in 1925. Goethe is the name of a German poet and writer.
Goethe Institute is the only thing who can give the certificate of German language. There are 13 Certificates.
In our school, we can take fit 1 und 2. We have already pass Fit 1, and now we can take Fit 2. There are 18 who want to pass Fit 2 in our school. There isn’t a Goethe Institut in Metz, and they must go to Nancy.
The fit 2 is composed of 4 thing: oral comprehension; writer comprehension; speaking in German; writing a text.
It isn’t very difficult.

European Classes

The English and Spanish European classes are used for the motivated pupils to improve the selected language, to discover new civilization, new countries and to express themselves better.

Our English European class contains 35 pupils. There is a good atmosphere but sometimes it is too noisy as there is too much chattering… We do group work and all is well: work is shared. We have a great solidarity.

Last year, we went to Culford where it was really fantastic, where we could improve our spoken English… We discovered a new country with beautiful landscapes.

In the Spanish European class, the pupils are 27. There is a good atmosphere even if some group were formed.

They already went twice to Spain and their trip was super with some exceptions.

To finish, the European classes have a good school level.

KET : Votre navigateur ne gère peut-être pas l’affichage de cette image.

The Ket is an exam from the University of Cambridge representing a general basic ability in English. Pupils who take the Ket are tested on spoken English for 10 minutes, Reading and Writing 1h10 and Listening for 30 minutes. It costs 63 euros to take the Ket consequently it’s not compulsory. Pupils from different classes can try to get it. This year it will take place at our school. Finally, if you pass it, the indications are: pass or pass with merit.

The Ket is a great experience to assess your skills on English.

European mention on the Bac :

When we take the high school diploma and pass it we get the “European” Distinction provided. You get 12/20 or more for the language’ test and 10/20 or more on the spoken test. You must be in a European’ class during your secondary school’ years to get this distinction. You must comment on a history document in the language you have chose during the Bac.

You can be assessed in English, Spanish, German or Italian.

It’s an opening on the world and an advantage to be able to speak fluently in other countries.

Raffle tickets:

Every year in our school there’s a tradition: the raffle tickets. Usually it’s when the open door day of the school approach. Our principal teacher gives us one tickets book by pupils and we are supposed to sell them in our village or city to our neighbours, family, friends etc. one ticket costs one euro. The draw lot takes place during the open door day and the peoples who have bought tickets can win a great prize or a consolation prize.

Sport:

At the open day 3 sports were presented at the school. The archery, the climbing and the table tennis.

Archery: it took place at the back of college.

It was teached by Aurélie Chazeaud: she’s a champion of France (of the 13-14 years old).

The game was free; you could shoot 3 arrows with Aurélie’s help.

The targets were 10 meters away.

Climbing: it took place at the artificial wall of the school. There were different levels of difficulty starting from the easiest (left of the wall) to arrive to the hardiest (right of the wall).

You could climb in a total security because of the help of the other students.

The wall is 8 meters high and you could have a great pleasure climbing it.

Table tennis: it was set in the gymnasium. The handicapped Champion: Maxime Thomas was here. He was playing against the students strangely, nobody wined.

« Flambé » Pancake

• First, you bake the pancake ;

• After that, you put sugar on it.

• You add on the pancake some alcohol ( you can choose the alcohol, it’s just to blaze the pancake )

• Finally, you light a match and set fire to the pancake :

• And you give it to your parents to eat. ( alcohol…)

Le Restaurant « Maire »

We have chosen this restaurant because we think that it’s the best in Metz.

The Menu in French…

Menu Epicurien 49 €

Sushi de thon rouge aux pousses de soja, coriandre et gingembre frais, quelques quartiers de pamplemousse rose
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Dos de sandre doré, rizotto à l’essence de truffes et son émulsion
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Pièce d’agneau en croûte d’herbes servie avec un caviar d’aubergines
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Nage de clémentine aux épices, glace vanille

The Menu in English…

Menu Epicurien 49 €

Red Tuna sushi with Soja sprouts, fresh coriander and ginger, some sections of pink grapefruit

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Roasted zander’s back, rice with truffels’ essence

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Piece of Lamb served in a herb crust with aubergine caviar

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Clementine with spices, Vanilla ice-cream

The Restaurant…

By : Delaitre Marie, Didier Callisto, Casciola Elodie, Poinsignon Claire-Emmanuelle, Gruszewski Marion.

Rugby Worldcup

Rugby World Cup

Stadium for Rugby in Paris

I/ The last winner of the last Worldcup

a) The last winners of the lasts Worldcup

In 1987, New Zealand won 29-9 again the French team. The match was it Auckland.
In 1991, Australia won 12-6 again England. The match was in London.
In 1995, South Africa won 15-12 again France. The match was in Cardiff.
In 2003, England won 35-12 again Australia. The match was in Sydney.
In 2007, South Africa won 15-6 again England. The match was in Paris.

b) The Results of WolrdCup in France in 2007

Firsts Matches

Group A: There are England, South Africa, Samoa, U.S.A and Tong Island. South Africa and England were qualified for Quarterfinals.

Group B: There are Autralia, Walles, Fidji Island, Canada and Japan. Australia and Fidji Island were qualified for quarterfinals.

Group C: There are New Zealand, Scotland, Italia, Roumania and Scotland. New-Zealand and Scotland were qualified for quarterFinals.

Group D: There are France, Ireland, Georgia, Namibie and Argentina. Argentina and France were qualified for quarterFinals.

Quarters Finals

England won against Australia: 12-40
France won against New Zealand: 20-18
South Africa won against Fidji Island: 37-20
Argentina won against Scotland.

Semi Finals

England won againstFrance: 14-9
South Africa won against Argentina: 37-13

Match For The Third Place

Argentina won against France 34-10

Final

South Africa won against England 15-6

II/ Game’s rules, rugby’s field, the position of the players on the field

a)The foot game :

A player is allowed to kick the ball with his foot. He can clear it out of play to put danger far from his half or to come closes to the opponent’s goal line.
He can also try an up and under ; this means kick the ball very high and run after it to catch it before your opponent.

b)The scrum :

Decided by the referee after a forward pass, the scrum puts eight players of the two teams head to head, shoulder against shoulder. The scrum half of the no guilty team introduces the ball in a tunnel betwenn the two teams. The hooker tries to touch the ball with his foot and make it roll out.

c)The tackle :

To stop the ball carrier, we must tackle him. The opponent can be held anywhere on the body except the throat and the face (high tackle) then you make him fall. The tackled player must immediatly release the ball or pass the ball for the play to go on. If he doesn’t, there will be a penalty try.

d)The 15 players and their part :

In front we find the pack (the strong ones) : they have to break into the opponent’s half. You can find 2 prop forwards, one hooker, two second-rows, 2 third-rows placed on the side and a center third row. Behind we find the three quarters ; they use moves and often run fast to take their opponents by surprise.
We also find a scrum half and a stand off half, two three quarter enters two three quarter wing and a fullback.

E) Vocabulary

Prop forwars : pilier
Hooker : talonneur
Second-row : deuxième ligne
Third-row : troisième ligne
Center third row : troisième ligne centre
Three quarters : trois quart
Scrum-half : demi de mêler
Stanf off half : demi d’ouverture
three quarter centers : trois quart
centrethree quarter wing : trois quart
fullback : arrière

III/ Rugby items

In the rugby is it just like every sport, we can buy items and they are really expansive!

The official tee costs 22€ (81 Z.) and the official polo cost 45€ (165 Z.). We can too buy some accessories for example:
keyring 10€
shoulder bag 18€
official cap 18 €

And kids can buy a replica of the ball (30€) or a black clock for 8.4€. The women have every thing what have men but in others colors. The items are not only for french, we can buy everything of country of the world.
The All Black jersey’s costs 70€, the same price like Argentina. Italia’s jersey costs 59€ and the Ireland jersey’s costs 78€.
Dieux du Stade is a calendar where we can see our french team, nacked, and it costs 28€.

Dieux du stade’s Picture

Clément B; Nicolas H; Didier D; Julien L; Antoine R.

A receipe

Recipe of the Quiche Lorraine

Ingredients
1 roller of puff pastry
3 eggs
30 cl of « fresh cream »
25 cl of milk
300 grams of chopped bacon
150 grams of grated Swiss cheese
Salt, pepper

Equipment :
1 Salad bowl
1 whip
1 pie plate

For the pastry:
170 g plain four
85 g unsalted butter

To make the pastry, sift the flour into a large mixing bowl. Rub in the butter, using your fingertips, until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in enough ice-cold water to make a soft but not sticky dough. Wrap in ding film and chill for 10 minutes. Set the oven at 180C°. Roll the chilled pastry out on a lightly floured work surface to a large circle and line the tin. Lightly prick the pastry, and bake “blind” for 15 minutes. Leave to cool.
Take bacon and fry in very hot frying pan then drain, in a sieve remove the fat having melted, the purpose being to bring out more flavour.
Take the salad bowl and break 3 eggs there then pour the « fresh cream » over the eggs.
Mix eggs and the fresh cream with the whip.
Add the salt and the pepper.
Put bacon over the precooked pastry in a harmonious and regular way then pour the egg mixture over the bacon.
Sprinkle in a regular way the Quiche with the Swiss cheese.
Put in preheated oven (180°C). At the end of 25 minutes, prick with a knife the Quiche to check if it’s ready.

Enjoy !

The “Arenes” of Metz

Two years after the fire of the old Sport Center of Metz, the “Arenes” is built in 2001. It was conceived by the architect Paul Chemetov. This building was built on the old Roman amphitheater. It’s a modern building situated in the east of the town in “Quartier de l’amphitheatre”. It’s a fabulous place if you want to have a nice walk along the river with the park linking the swimming pool and the sports center.

It’s a sports complex, where can welcome national or international sport and art, event like music and festival. In the Arenes you can pratise a lot of sports like gymnastics, handball, dance… This is also a place of meetings. October, we can see the Open of Moselle (a tennis competition) during two weeks, and in December the world competition of Handball for girls. We can go to the “Arenes” to look some shows of celebrities like Dany Boon….

The building can welcome 4500 visitors to look matches and support their teams. There are three levels in this building and the “Arenes” measure 16 580 m2.

Gabriel MAROT, Xavier HITTINGER, Thomas CASANOVA, Victor PETRY, Simon BAUMANN

A Quizz

Level 1 : easy

1 who is it ?
 Jacques Chirac
 Léonard de Vinci
 Nicolas Sarkozy

2 Where is our capital ‘’Paris’’
 1
 2
 3
 4

3) what is this monument ?
 Eiffel tower
 The learing tower of Pisa
 Babel tower
 Chirac tower

4)What is the name of holiday we celebrate during winter ?:
 Christmas
 All saints day
 Saint Valentine

5) what is the name of the sea south of France ?
 Indian sea
 Indiana sea
 Mediterranean sea
 France sea

Level 2 : Medium level :

6)France is well known for :
 Carrots
 Meat
 Chocolate
 Cheese

7)What are the colours of the French flag ?

 Blue, red and white ?
 Green, black and blue ?
 Red, blue and white ?
 Blue, white and red ?

8)How many inhabitants live in France ? :
 About 60 000 000
 About 30 000 000
 About 90 000
 About 200 000 000

9)What is the name of the most famous king in France ?:
 King Louis II
 King Johnny Hallyday
 King Louis XIV
 King Jean le Père

10) What is the highest mountain in France ?
 Mont rose
 Everest
 L’aiguille du midi
 Mont blanc

.Level 3 : Hard

1)Who is the prime minister ?
 Lionel Jospin
 François Fillon
 Jacques Chirac

2)What is the name of the men who built the Eiffel tower ? :
 George Eiffel
 Gustave Eiffel
 Gustave Tower

3)Where was Napoleon born?
 In Metz
 In Ajaccio
 In Paris

4) Who is the symbol of France ?
 Marianne
 Juliette
 Jeanne d’ Arc

5) What is the surname of Jeanne d’ Arc ?
 La pucelle d’Orléans
 La Guerrière de Paris
 La tueuse de Domrémy