Friday, 18 January 2013

Some French Expressions made with Vegetables and Fruits



Faire le poireauTo wait without moving



En avoir gros sur la patate To be deeply upset or to bear a grudge
 

Tomber dans les pommesTo faint
 

Ramener sa fraiseTo intervene during converstion without justification

      S’occuper de ses oignonsTo mind its own business
 

Ne plus avoir un radis To be broke
 

C’est la fin des haricotsThe end of everything
 
Etre haut comme trois pommesTo be small
                               

 Etre rouge comme une tomateTo be blushful or flushed  


 
Avoir les jambes en compoteTo have aching legs after long walk for example
 
 
 Couper la poire en deuxTo find a compromise

 

Avoir un cœur d'artichautTo fall easily in love
 

Avoir la ligne haricot vertTo be a tall and slim
 

 
Être un cornichonTo be an idiot
 
 
La cerise sur le gâteauThe best of everything
 


Mettre du beurre dans les épinardsTo improve one’s quality of life
 
 
Raconter des saladesTo tell lies
 
 
 
Se fendre la poireTo laugh heartily



Une purée de poisA very thick fog
 


Saturday, 12 January 2013

Make Learning French Your New Year Resolution


The New Year is two weeks old. Have you thought of your New Year’s Resolution yet? Well, if not, why don’t you consider learning French? It could be a great choice to include in your New Year resolution. Yes, there are plenty of things that you can do to fulfill your New Year resolution, but to think about learning something new is much better and wiser.

An evident reason why learning French could be a great choice for New Year’s resolution is that it could help you to communicate with other people who know how to speak it. Similar with other kinds of language you take benefit from, learning French can help you to understand people from many countries. This certainly includes those people you get to meet when you are travelling and also the people within your community. Your journey going to another destination will be impressively improved in both easily communicating and your friendliness if you know how to speak the language of the person you are talking to, especially French.

Speaking the language of other people shows how much you respect their culture and almost every individual in each country much prefer it whenever tourists exert an effort to speak their local language, even if it is just very basic words. Furthermore, learning French could also help you in communicating with the populations of local immigrant at home.

Learning French could really be a great idea since speaking it, would further acquaint you with the lifestyle and the customs of France. Learning a new language such as French could open your mind gathering new concepts and new approaches on how to look at the world.

Say for an instance, you will be able to translate your own words into French and get to use these words to describe the world with a much deeper meaning. Since there are really plenty of words that differs your language from French it will be helpful if you will learn about them little by little. Not only will you communicate with other people but there are plenty other things you can benefit from if you know how to speak the language. If you know how to speak French, you will be able to enjoy French literature, watch French speaking films without having to read on the subtitles. Furthermore, you may also get to understand and appreciate the forms of music that have French lyrics. It is very hard for a certain translation to be the perfect replica of its original; hence the best possible approach in order to understand what an author really meant of his/her writings is to personally read what actually the author had written.

If you choose learning French as your New Year’s resolution, you may also get the chance to increase your ability to market. Knowing how to speak French will help you to talk with potential associates and customers. This is one of the best arms of a businessperson who wishes to grow within the field of business. Therefore, if you want to have a resolution that is worth doing then choose learning French as it will surely demonstrate the worth you are after.
 

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

It is Giveaway Time.

I am celebrating the new year by giving away some freshly made worksheets!!!
 





This month you can pick up a new set of French Primary Worksheets from this blog






 
 





All you need to do is to email me (my email address is on My Contact page)







You will receive the worksheets by email on an attached document within 24 hours

 


 
These worksheets are ideal for homeschoolers as well as in the classroom.