Ken Loach's "Sorry We Missed You"

 

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"Spare" by Prince Harry

A passage from "Spare", by Prince Harry, 2023

I was in a bad, bad place.​

Paps, somehow, knew. Around this time they began hitting me with their cameras, deliberately, trying to incite me.

They'd brush, smack, jostle, or just straight wallop me, hoping to get a rise, hoping I'd retaliate, because that would create a better photo, and thus more money in their pockets. A snap of me in 2007 fetched about thirty thousand pounds. Down payment on a flat. But a snap of me doing something aggressive? That might be a down payment on a house in the countryside.

Got into one scrap that became big news. I came away with a swollen nose, and my bodyguard was livid. You made those paps rich, Harry! You happy? Happy?

No, I said. No, I'm not happy.

The paps had always been grotesque people, but as I reached maturity they were worse. You could see it in their eyes, their body language. They were more emboldened, more radicalized, just as young men in Irak had been radicalized.

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Their mullahs were editors, the same ones who'd vowed to do better after Mummy died. The editors promised publicly to never again send photographers chasing after people, and now, ten years later, they were back to their old ways.

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​Our proposition : 

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J'étais dans une très mauvaise passe. 

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D'une manière ou d'une autre les paparazzis savaient. À cette période, ils commencèrent à me frapper avec leur caméras délibérément essayant de me pousser à bout.

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Ils me frôlaient, giflaient, bousculaient ou carrément me tapaient espérant avoir une réaction, espérant que je riposte, parce que ça ferait de meilleures photos et donc plus d'argent dans leurs poches.

Un cliché de moi en 2007 se vendait pour 30 000 pounds. Un apport sur un appartement. 

Mais un cliché de moi étant agressif ? Ça vaudrait un apport sur une maison de campagne. 

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Je me suis battu une unique fois et ça a fait les gros titres. Je suis revenu le nez amoché et mon garde du corps était livide.

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"- Tu rends ces paparazzis riches Harry! Tu es content?".

"-Non!" ai-je répondu, "-Non je ne suis pas content."

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Les paparazzis ont toujours été des personnes grotesques , mais quand j'ai pris de l'âge, ils devenaient pires.

Vous pouvez le voir dans leurs yeux, dans leur comportement. ils étaient plus engagés, plus radicaux , comme un jeune homme en Irak. Leurs mollahs étaient leurs éditeurs, les mêmes qui avaient juré de faire mieux après la mort de Maman.

Les éditeurs ont promis de ne plus jamais envoyer leurs photographes après les gens, et maintenant, dix ans plus tard, ils étaient de retour à leurs vieilles habitudes.

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Shayane Tle LLCE

Translation workshop

For more than a month, Mrs Bru has come every Friday in our class during two hours to teach us how to make a good translation.

Who is Mrs Bru? She is an official translator . She is recognized by many publishing houses .

Her job is to translate novels and literary texts form English to French .She translated a lot of books as for exemple : "The hate you give" or "Tuff".

She is also one of the 2 official translators of "Spare" the recent book from Prince Harry.

Our lessons with Mrs Bru: When we study with Mrs Bru, we are in groups of 4. We try to translate an excerpt of 5 to 10 lines. Sometimes, it can be a passage from a novel she translated and this is interesting because we can understand her point of view when she translates a novel.

During our translations,  Mrs Bru often comes in our groups to see if we are productives .

At this moment, she can give us a lot of advice to improve our translations.

I think that these lessons are very important for the final exam !!!!

Our new assistant

 Our new assistant is named Autumn. She is from the United -States, she came to France to help French student to learn English and to improve her French. 

She studied English and journalism as her major and Middle Eastern Anthropology as her minor. Her passion his learning languages and reading. She speaks 5 languages. 

Her favorite book is "the goose girl" by Shannon Hale. 

Her favorite food are Italian food and dessert . She has one cat is name is Cooper .

Her favorite movie is "Midnight in Paris". 

We will be working with Autumn this years.

This article was written by the students of Tle ETLV

Snow Canyon highschool, Utah

     Today, our pen pals sent us videos in order to present us their highschool. 

     In this video they told us about their subjects on their timeline and their teacher's name on each subjects, about their habits in the school and they showed us parts of their school. Their classroom seemed to be way bigger than ours and there are way more decorations : drawings, flags of america, posters and more. In the room where they eat there were a lot of christmas trees, there was also a room with all the trophies won by sport teams, a place with vending machines, a huge library, a classroom reserved to music with pianos and another room for guitares and drums and a place where the walkers are put, also the corridors are huge. They have assemblies, clubs, sports connected to the school, they are very orientated, for the sport class they have a uniform and some of them have a seminary class which is outside because they aren't allowed to teach religion in the school.

        About sport teams there are teams for American football, soccer, golf, fishing and also drill and cheer teams who dance, compete against each other and cheer their team when there's a game. 

        American school are so different from ours, they have more freedom and a lot more activities and entertainment, most of the students seem to be in a good mood and to like their school, they also seem to be really close to their teachers. 

        There are a lot of things that I didn't know about American schools, it's always great to learn more about them. ❤

Elurra 2AB

Xmas in the USA

 In the USA, Christmas is an important event and they have a lot of traditions.

To celebrate Christmas, the Americans usually decorate their house, inside and outside, in the days leading up to Christmas. Like the French, they buy a Christmas tree and decorate it with their family.
Sending Christmas cards is an American Christmas tradition that allows Americans to invite their loved ones or simply to wish a Merry Christmas to those who are far away through a personalized paper card.
They also hung woolen socks on the chimney and Santa Claus field it with treats.
For dinner, they eat rosted turkey with green beans and cranberry sauce. For the dessert, they eat different kind of tarts with pumpkin, pecan or apples.
On the 25th of December, they open their gifts and spend the day in family.

Iliana, 2B.

Merry christmas

 Merry Xmas from Snow Canyon Highschool

We received cards from our penfriends for Christmas. In these cards, they told us about their Christmas traditions. I have noticed that some of them have the same traditions as us, like opening their gifts on the 25th of December on the morning with their family, but however some have very different traditions. Also, some of our penfriends sent us gifts like coins or other things. 

Besides, they also told us about Native Americans. Some of our penfriends have already seen a reservation, some of them have already met some, and some of them even have Native Americans friends.

Emilie 2AB