For Baranduda Primary School

Bonjour to everyone at Baranduda Primary School,

Thanks for your emails.  Here are some answers to your questions, some interesting facts about life in France and some pictures.

The French flag has vertical stripes of blue, white and red.

The French Prime Minister is Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy.

There are snakes in France, but we haven't seen any.

We have two hours for lunch at school and we sit down at tables and get served a three course lunch - see the menu.  We start school at 9am, finish at 5pm and have Wednesdays off.

Most of our school friends speak only French.  Some speak a few words of English.  We have an English language class at school once a week and we are the best in the class - of course! This is some of Yvette's home work - learning verb conjugations!

At school we use funny paper and we have to do running writing - even the little kids.  It looks 

There are flexi tellers here.  About two Australian dollars buy one euro. Most things are pretty expensive. 

Some good French words to know are:

Salut! (hi or see ya)

Bonjour (good day)

S'il vous plait (please)

Merci (thank you)

Bon nuit (good night when going to bed)

Trottinette (scooter)

Glace (ice-cream)

Bon bon (lolly)

Ca va? (How are you?) but also you can also answer 'Ca va!' (I'm good or I'm okay - depending on how you say it).

Je m'appelle ...... (My name is .....)

Je voudrais ....... (I would like ....... ) eg: Je voudrais une baguette.

Au revoir (Good-bye) from Justine and Yvette