Write Mon école in french 100
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Explanation:
Pierre, a French high school student, and his class have been paired with another class in the US, so that each class can practice with their French or their English. Pierre and his classmates have been assigned a video project to tell their American peers about their daily life at a French school. Pierre starts by describing his morning school routine. Let's see how he gets to school.
French English
Le bus (pronounced /büs/) 'The bus'
L'école (pronounced /ay-kol/) 'The school'
Le cours (pronounced /koor/) 'The class'
La cour de récréation (pronounced /koor duh ray-kray-ah-seeohn/) 'The playground'
La salle de classe (pronounced /sahl duh klas/) 'The classroom'
In the video, Pierre starts by saying Le matin, je prends le bus à 7.30. ('I take the bus every morning at 7:30') and J'arrive à l'école à 8.00. ('I arrive at school at 8:00.') Pierre then says Mon premier cours est à 8.30, donc je passe du temps dans la cour de récréation avec mes amis. ('My first class is at 8:30, so I spend some time on the playground with my friends.'). Pierre finishes by saying Nous entrons dans la salle de classe à 8.20. ('We enter the classroom at 8:20.')
Translation: Pierre arrives at school at 8:00 and enters the classroom at 8:20.
la salle de classe
Types of Schools
For the purpose of the lesson, we are locating the action in a high school (un lycée), but here is the vocabulary for the institutions that correspond to the different stages of education in the French system.
French English
L'école maternelle (pronounced /ay-kol mah-tehr-nehl/) 'Pre-school/Kindergarten'
L'école primaire (pronounced /ay-kol pree-mehr/) 'Elementary school'
Le collège (pronounced /koh-lehzh/) 'Junior high'
Le lycée (pronounced /lee-say/) 'High school'
L'université (pronounced /ü-nee-vehr-see-tay/) 'University'
The English expression 'to attend school' is translated by aller à, followed by the type of institution. For example:
Mon fils va à l'école primaire. ('My son attends elementary school.')
Je vais au collège. ('I attend junior high.') → Here, à becomes au because collège is masculine, and it is grammatically incorrect to say à le in French. Instead, we do what is called une contraction ('a contraction'), where à le becomes au.