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Group 2: Housing in France-the Interior/the Exterior TASK: Use the attached French documents and other resources to explain what the inside of a typical French home is like and the importance of each room. You must include the French words for the rooms of the house. Include the following rooms: 1. Le salon/le living/la salle de séjour 2. La salle à manger 3. La cuisine 4. La chambre 5. Les toilettes 6. La salle de bains 7. Le jardin

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This is a sound recording of Marie Russier, our French Assistant talking about her house in the south of France. Marie says: Good morning, I live in a home in provincial France. Inside my home I have: A kitchen, decorated in the colours of Provence (floral designs) The table and the doors of the cupboards are wooden. The kitchen is the room where the family meets every evening for dinner. The living room has a library, with ancient books, pieces of furniture, but also a table to share a meal with the family on Christmas or for a birthday. The bathroom is made up of a shower, a tub, a washbowl, a bidet and toilets. It is decorated with tiles all around mirror The bedroom is decorated according to the taste of whom it belongs to. In general the children hang photographs of their friends or posters while the parents put pictures on the wall The bedroom is a personal room as a small "one's own home". There are in general 2-3 toilets in a house: one in the bathroom and the other one used mostly by visitors. Certain houses have a play room where the children can play. THe loft is in general the highest room in a house and is a private room away from the house. The garden makes the house very pretty. There are many different types of flowers in it, such as lavenders, but also bushes of roses etc. The majority of house of province have a swimming pool

Group: Bella, Ruwandhi, Michelle, Caitlin and Alessia 1. Le salon/le living/la salle de séjour is the living room 2. La salle à manger is the dining room 3. La cuisine is the kitchen 4. La chambre is the bedroom 5. Les toilettes is the toilets 6. La salle de bains is the bathroom 7. Le jardin is the garden

References - [|http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/french.shtml]

 La cuisine , or the kitchen, is very small in French houses compared to ones in America. This is where they have breakfast.
 * La Cuisine **

Listed below are some French kitchen utensils: Le fouet - the whisker Le grand bol - the big bowl La mitaine isolante - the oven mitt Le moule à gâteaux - the cake tin Le pot gradué - the pot with measurements Le rouleau pâtissier <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">- the roller <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">La râpe <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">- the grater <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">La spatule <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">- the spatula

Listed below are some parts of the kitchen: <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">L'armoire <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- the cupboard <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Le <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">congélateur - the freezer <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">La <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">cuisinière - the cook <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">L'étagère <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- the shelf <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Le <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">four - the oven <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Le <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">grille-pain - the toaster <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">L'évier <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- the sink <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Le <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">micro-onde - the microwave <span style="color: rgb(255,0,175); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Le <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,175);">réfrigérateur - the fridge BY RUWANDHI


 * La Salle À Manager **

In France few people grow up in a big house with a big grarden located in a major city. Most people move into big cities but rarely live in big houses. Most peope live in apartments,cottages/flats.The apartments/flats usually consist of multiple bathrooms and bedrooms, one kitchen, one laundry, dining rooms and a living room. Meals are eaten mostly at home, and school kids will either walk home and have lunch, or eat lunch at school if it is too far to commute in such a short amount of time. Dinner is the main meal of the day, it is the time where families get together, have a family meal and catch up. The meal consists of a sit down dinner including cold meats, soups, fish, vegetables and a fresh green salad with local produce. Country houses run a little differently to houses located in the cities. Children in the country usaually get up earlier, and have more chores or jobs before preparing for school. The may also have a longer journey to school than city kids. A great French tradition is the Sunday lunch. In the city, the Sunday lunch is more like a small party, or people just go out for lunch at a cafe or resturant. In the country, it is more like a big family affair with a big meal and games. (information from a french book,located in the school library)


 * La salle a manager,** or otherwise known as the the dining room, is very much like an Australian dining room. From the recording, Most french dining rooms include a table in the middle of the room. It also includes a photograph of the family somewhere in the room (the photograph may be of her family at Christmas?). The dining room is where people would gather and have their dinner or lunch. Breakfast would be eaten in the kitchen, la cuisine, unless it was a special occasion. The dining room wasnt always used. It was mostly used on family occasions such as Christmas, birthdays, etc. The dining room and living room are often the biggest/main rooms in the home. This room includes a couch and armchairs, usaually of particular patterns and styles. It also includes other pieces of furniture, like, referring to photos, top chest of drawers and tables and centre pieces that are of old or modern pieces passed down from generations to generations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In the voice recorder Marie Russier comments about dining rooms in france, she says that for meals the kitchen is used for all meals except for special family occasions such as christmas and Birthdays, this room as said above includes a table along with the kitchen/living room. .........- Alessia

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 * Le Salle de sejour- Living room **

The living is one of the most lived in rooms, it is the biggest/main part of the house, through the voice recording from Marie Russier she says that the living room includes a bookcase with a library of books, alongside old, unique armchairs/couches. It also includes a fireplace for the winter months and mostly all wooden furniture; it may also have a table similar to a coffee table. Many French families have ancient pieces of furniture which are pasted on from generation to generation. - Bella and Alessia

<span style="display: block; font-size: 128%; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: left;"> People’s bedrooms are decorated according to their taste. Teenagers in France like to decorate their room with photographs of their friends or posters. In their rooms they listen to music and invite their friends over. Their bedroom like ours is mainly where homework is completed. A bedroom is like our own personal home. Parents usually hang photographs on the wall of their bedroom.
 * La Chambre**

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">la commode **the chest of drawers** le drap **sheet** l’horloge **the** **clock** le lit **the bed** l'oreiller **the pillow** le tapis **the carpet**

By Isabella Clemmens


 * La salle de bains **

In France, the majority of the houses only have one or two bathrooms, so, a young person would have to share the bathroom with their brothers, sister and maybe even their parents. In general, toilets and bathrooms are separate. generallly the toilets and the actual bathroom are separate but they can also be in the same room. Decorative touches are added to bathrooms,through patterned tiles,specially designed basins and baths.Sometimes there may be 2-3 toilets in a house, 1 in the bathroom and the other used by visitors. By Caitlin Damilatis

 Les toilettes – The Toilet Le bain – The bath La Douche – The Shower Le Bassin – The Basin

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<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In France, individual houses are generally encircled by a wall. Inside, there is a small garden often with flowers in spring and in summer. As most French people live in apartments, they don't usually have big gardens. They mainly only have little court yards or pots and small plants on decking. Not a lot of trees are planted because the minimal space doesnt allow big trees to grow. The French really like to cultivate flowers.

By Caitlin Damilatis

For the majority of our research we used the translation website: [|http://translation2.paralink.com/]:)