Arquivo de Novembro, 2010

Salut!

Posted: 30 de Novembro de 2010 in Sem categoria
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        Aujourd’hui, on peut dire qu’«il fait un froid de canard». Savez-vous ce que veut dire cette expression? Non?

     Et bien, on dit qu’«il fait un froid de canard» quand il fait très froid…

     Il semblerait que l’origine de cette expression provienne des chasseurs. En effet, l’ouverture de la chasse aux canards s’effectue généralement à la fin de l’automne ou au début de l’hiver. Les chasseurs expliquaient leurs “coups manqués” par le fait qu’il faisait tellement froid qu’ils n’arrivaient pas à rester immobiles face à leurs cibles.

    

 Sur ce, je vous laisse.

À bientôt!

GIVING THANKS

Posted: 7 de Novembro de 2010 in Festivities
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Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday in November. It is a federal holiday, so schools, banks, post offices, and government offices are closed. Thanksgiving was the first holiday celebrated in America. It was first celebrated in the autumn of 1621 when the Wampanoag Indians and the pilgrims got together for a three-day feast and festival of fun.

Today, families celebrate Thanksgiving by eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, corn, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. In 2010, Thanksgiving will be on Thursday, November 25.

Pilgrims

What is Thanksgiving?

  • It is a federal holiday that is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. 
  • The first Thanksgiving was in 1621 when the pilgrims invited the Indians to a three-day feast to celebrate the autumn harvest.

 

Mayflower Ship

Who were the pilgrims?

  • The pilgrims were a small group of people who sailed to North America in order to start a new life. They sailed on the Mayflower ship and landed on Plymouth Rock. 

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE THANKS FOR?

Guy Fawkes Day

Posted: 2 de Novembro de 2010 in Festivities
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Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Night, Cracker Night and Fireworks Night, is a British annual celebration on the evening of the 5th November. It celebrates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, in which a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Robert Catesby, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on the evening of 5th November 1605.

It involves fireworks displays and the building of bonfires, on which ”guys“, or dummies, representing Guy Fawkes, the most infamous of the conspirators, are traditionally burnt.

Remember, remember

on the 5th of November,

the Gunpowder plot.

We see no reason

why the gunpowder treason

should ever be forgot.