19164 - | | |   21487 -  Reply from Dominique (France) - 2007-10-06
| Hello,
We are French pupils from Saint-Exupéry primary school in Talence next to Bordeaux. We are beginners in English (3 years of English learning) and we look for English-speaking pen friends. We are 24 pupils 9/11 years old in our Cm class, the last year of the junior level. We’ll go to the secondary school in next September.
We are living in south-west of France, next to Bordeaux (Gironde), in a kind area where there are many an varied landscapes: fluvial valley (Garonne and Dordogne rivers), calcareous plateau with caves, a long sandy coast with lot of dunes and pines forest, a very large estuary (la Gironde), a famous wine land, the biggest forest of Europe (Forêt des Landes). People has been living here for few hundred thousand years (prehistoric settlements).
Bordeaux is an old fluvial harbour on the Garonne river, near the Gironde estuary. It’s a very big town, it’s the capital of the Aquitaine region. More than 450 000 inhabitants are living into this built-up area.
Talence is a sub-urban town (30 000 residents about) in south of Bordeaux. We are living in a new district in south of Talence where they are big blocks of flats beside the highway and near the swimming-pool.
We should be pleased to start our project with postal mail or the net. It could be kind corresponding with you in English (or little bite French maybe…). If our suggestion is a bit difficult for your class, could you tell other school about this pen pal project ? Thank you very much.
Our projects areas are about:
Geography, History, Sciences, Citizenship, Heritage, Culture, Legends, Way of life… (we got in touch for few years with north American Natives but not with pupils from the other side of the Hearth) … We will work about the sea and the climates this year. We will sail during a week in spring in the Oleron island.
We hope for your reply and suggestions.
Friendly,
The CM2 class of Saint-Exupéry school and his teacher.
Mr Dominique MILLET
Postal address :
Ecole élémentaire Saint-Exupéry
Classe de Cm1 / Cm2
Rue Eugène Delacroix
33400 – TALENCE
France
e- mail : ccl1.03332574U@ac-bordeaux.fr
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