CONTENTS:
Introduction
1 Healthy eating
2 Parts of the body
3. Circus school
4 Mini-beasts
5 Zoo
6 Morocco
7 Going to school
8 Seasons
9 Past & present
10 Out and about
11 Cinderella

• Talking Point - Mining disaster
• QUIZ

What you will learn with film 9

Summary

This section is about comparing past and present, making simple statements in French about what a place is like now, and at some time in the past.

It looks at saying the year in French, and at some key dates in French history and in famous french peoples' lives..

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Talking Point: 1906 Mining disaster at Courrières

 This part of Northern France used to be a coalfield; thousands of miners worked long hours underground digging out the coal.

Gas explosion underground
Nothing illustrates the dangers of the miners' lives than the Courrières disaster, in a mine close to Béthune. A gas explosion trapped hundreds of men underground. All of France looked on, waiting to see how many could be rescued - but very few were brought out alive.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courrières_mine_disaster

There are more pictures in the French article at:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_de_Courrières

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How well did you do? Try this chapter's QUIZ

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