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I didn't understand what you said, but it's okay. - It's okay!
Welcome to my channel, I am with my friend Elisa.
Hello!
Do you want to present yourself? - My name is Elisa and I'm 10 years old.
That's it?
You like horses. - Yes.
Yesterday we went to a Horse show. - Exactly,
at a Horse show. It was cool. - Yes.
So Elisa wanted to do a video with me,
and we thought we could speak about
school life in France. - Yes.
If you agree, I will ask you a couple of questions. - No, I will go now!
Because it's not necessarily the same as in New Zealand for example
or somewhere else, but first,
you to school in which departement? - In the Gard.
And where is it, the Gard? - In Provence.
You like school? - Yes. - Yes?
A lot or so-so? - At the moment it annoys me
because we learn some boring things, but otherwise I like it.
Otherwise, generally you like it. Ok.
Which subjects are taught at school?
We have maths, French, EMC,
sport,
fine arts, science, history, geography,
music and that's all. - Ok, so you have French?
You learn a little bit... - And yes, I'm learning English too! - English too!
A little bit.
Do you want me to test you? - No. - It's ok, it's ok!
Ok, the EMC,
what is it exactly? - It's civil and moral education.
Civil and moral education.
What does that mean?
At the moment, we're working on school bullying.
Ok. Bullying,
otherwise we did empathy. - Okay.
And also when we're talking for example
about war, world wars and when we say that,
when there are some events that we should celebrate, that is EMC.
Ok, basically it's how
to be a good citizen. - That's right.
- It's cool. - You found the words I couldn't find.
Could you please describe me the different classes, because
I didn't understand anything, CM1, CM2,
I really didn't understand anything.
So, there is preschool, nursery,
and Kindergarden. Preschool, it's
from 3 to 5 years. That's right.
The nursery is for
3 year-old kids, kindergarden for 4 year olds. - And it's compulsory.
Yes, and it's compulsory. - Okay.
After that we have Elementary school, where we have CP (first grade),
after we have CE1 (second grade)
it's called 'class' na na na 1
and CE2 (third grade), it's called 'class' na na na 2,
CM1 is middle class 1 (fourth grade) and CM2 middle class 2 (fifth grade).
And you are CM2 (fifth grade), right? - Yes.
After we have the sixth grade. - Okay.
We are in Middle school now. - Yes.
- So, we are 12 years old. - 11 years.
Okay.
sixth grade, seventh, eighth and nineth grade
after we go to High school. - Ok.
and I think that we're 15 years old.
where we do tenth, eleventh and twelfth
and after there's faculty, and after the work, and after the retirement.
Basically that's it. - Basically that's the life. - Can you explain us
the gradation system in school, how does it work in France?
So, A - Excellent, B - Good. - Okay.
C - Satisfactory, but not good.
And D - Fail.
- Ok, so you have the system A, B, C, D
now? - Yes.
Because before it was like 10/20, 15/20.
That kind of things. - Yes. - Why did that change?
Because it depreciated the pupil.
Yes, because it was a little bit too hard?
Yes, because I think that if you get a C,
You're like ok, you're not very sad,
but if you're like: ''Oh I got 5/20'', it's...
You're disappointed, more disappointed than if you got a C. - Okay.
I can understand, it's a big change
in France, because... - Yes, but I think that for Middle school,
there are middle schools that still use that system. - That's possible.
And the marks, are they shared or not?
No, but if I want to tell
to a friend or to someone else, I can, but after
but after the debate starts: you, you got a C, you, you got a D, you got an A.
That's great. - Ok, it's something personal
and if we want to keep it... - Yes.
What is your typical day at school?
So, we, for example, on Monday,
we often have French first, sorry, English
for about half an hour, a quarter. - So you say:
''Good morning!'' - That's right.
After that,
we have French class,
until the break at 10:30,
and then we have maths,
and in the afternoon we have
fine arts, EMC,
science, history, geography.
And on Mondays and on Thursdays we have sport.
What sports do you play? - On Monday,
I play basketball, but we have changed it
and we will go to the swimming pool. And on Thursday I do gym,
and we will change soon, but I don't know what are we going to do.
During the day at school, are there any breaks? - Yes.
It's from 10 o'clock and it's 15 minutes,
but in summer it's 1 hour break.
The next one is from 11:30 to 13:30. - Okay.
That's the lunch break. - And after at 15 o'clock
and it depends.
From 15:00 to 15:30. - That's right.
And at 8:30,
from 8:20 to 8:30 we arrive at school
and after we leave from 16:30
to 16:35. - Okay. - In fact, when there are no more parents
they close. - You go to school
from Monday to Friday? - No, actually,
I'm at school on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
And where's Wednesday? - We don't go to school!
We are not working that day.
Just chilling, enjoying. - Yeah, that's right.
But we have one-hour homework on weekends. - Ah yeah.
And 15 to 30 minutes not on weekends.
Tell us more about homework in France.
I have one-hour homework on weekend,
basically that's around two hours.
Two hours of homework per week. - Yes.
And can you talk us about the school outing?
We have a lot of sport activities
walks and things like that, otherwise right now
we see a lot of shows. - Okay, what for example?
Recently we watched Peter Pan.
- Cool. - We have already seen some things
in Bulgarian.
Ok, cool. - And we have matches with other schools
we play badminton, basketball and all kind of stuff.
How many holidays per year do you have?
So, on the Saint's day, in October, beginning November.
- Ok, so two weeks? - Yes, two weeks.
After on Christmas, we have two weeks. - Okay.
After in February, two weeks.
Then in April, two weeks of holiday.
And we have summer holidays for 2 months. - Two months?
Two months, that's huge!
Yes, but it goes by so fast! - It goes by so fast!
What's your favorite subject?
Maths and Science.
It depends what we are learning on class. - Wow!
And what work would you like to do? - Vet.
- Ve - te - ri - na - rian. - Veterinarian.- Yes, that's it!
I adore animals.
And you would like to treat them. - Yes.
I prefer dogs, cats, rabbits and that kind of animals,
because if it's a cow or a horse, you have to put a very big glove
and put the arm
in the cow's ass.
It's gross. - And what do you eat every day at school?
Everyone says,
on the radio they say, it's normal
kids don't like the canteen because it's balanced.
and blah, blah, blah.
Yes, sure, the other day they made us
especially when they give us meat every day, it's very balanced!
But you eat, with the meat,
I suppose that you eat vegetables,
salad... - No. - No, not really.
Potatoes, maybe? - Yes, potatoes are good.
But then,
the other day as an appetizer we had grated carrots, that's really good,
Yes, it's very good. - Except the fact that we got mayonnaise with it.
And we got three time more mayonnaise in comparison to grated carrots.
You can't eat that, that's fatal!
And what do you eat for dessert, after?
A yogurt, fruits?
It depends, we get pears and apples
a lot of times, I don't know why, they are really into apples. - Okay.
They are into it, every three days we have apples.
Thank you a lot
for watching this video,
Ok, goodbye!
Next video is every Wednesday, we leave you now and we send you big kisses.
See you soon!
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