RABBITS

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Rabbits live for about 10 years. They are rodent animals. They can eat hay, granules, vegetables, fruit and herbs. They drink water. They breed between three and twelve baby rabbits.

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There are different sorts of rabbits : Common rabbits, Angora rabbits, Rich rabbits, Dwarf rabbits and a lot other species.

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Rabbits can be of different colours : white, brown, black, beige, grey but they can also be multicoloured : white and beige, black and white, brown and beige … Rabbits are between 15 cm and 30 cm tall. They weigh between 0,5 and 8 kg.

Rabbits are very cute aren’t they ?!

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1) Who’s the Simpsons ?

 » The Simpsons  » is an American TV series directed by Matt Groening. The Simpsons is a special family composed of Homer-the father ; Marge-the mother ; Bart-the son ; Lisa-the daughter ; Maggie-the baby ; Patty-the aunt ; Selm-the other aunt and Abraham-the grand-father. They live at 742, Evergreen Terrace in Springfield ( U.S.A ).

Identity cards of the main characters

Name : Simpson

Firstname : Homer

Age : 38 years old

Characteristics : He loves donuts and beer. He works in a  radioactive airwaves company.

Name : Simpson

Firstname : Marge ( Marjorie )

Age : 37 years old

Characteristic : She has long blue hair and she is a housewife. She has two sisters : Patty and Selma Bouvier.

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Name : Simpson

Firstname : Bart ( Bartholomeo )

Age : 10 years old

Characteristics : His best friends is Milhouse Van Houten and his teatcher is Mrs Krapabelle.

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Name : Simpson

Age : 8 years old

Firstname : Lisa

Characteristics : She’s very intelligent and her best friends is Jany Powell.

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Name : Simpson

Firstname : Maggie ( Margaret )

Age : 2 years old

Characteristics : She always has her dummy in her mouth.

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Name : Bouvier

Firstname : Patty

Age : 41 years old

Characteristics : She smokes and she is single. She is Selma Bouvier’s twin.

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Name : Bouvier

Firstname : Selma

Age : 41 years old

Characteristics : She smokes too and she has a daughter : Ling. She is Patty’s twin.

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Name : Simpson

Firstname : Abraham

Age : 88 years old

Characteristics : He lives in a retirement home and his wife is Mona Simpson.

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Brief presentation of minor characters

Milhouse Van  Houten : Is Bart’s best friend and is Belgian and Italian.

Sherry and Terry are twins and friends with Lisa.

Seymour and Agnes Skinner : Seymour is Springfield Elementary School headteacher.

Mrs Edna Krapabelle : She is Bart’s teacher.

Charles Montgomery Burns : He’s the boss of the radioactive airwaves company and he’s a millionaire.

Waylon Smithers : He’s Monty Burns’s personal assistant.

Barney Gumble : He’s one of Homer’s friends and a alcoholic.

Moe Szyslak : He’s the barman at Moe’s Tavern.

Ned Flanders : he’s Homer’s neighbour. He had a wife called Maude but she died and they had two sons called Rod and Todd.

Dr.Hibbert : He’s the doctor of the Simpson’s family.

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon : He’s the owner of a little market. He has got a wife called Manjula and eight children.

Mayor Quinby : He is the mayor of Springfield.

Ralph Wiggum : He is in the same class as Lisa and he is strange.

Lenny and Carl : They are Homer’s best friends.

Kent Brockman : He is a journalist and the TV presenter of the show called  » Eye on Springfield « .

Otto : He is the school bus driver.

Nelson Muntz : He is in CM1 and he’s 10.

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Elizabeth Ist

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I) Elizabeth’s girlhood

Elizabeth Ist  was born on the 7th of September, 1533, in Greenwich. She was the daughter of the king Henry VIII and of his second wife Anne Boleyn .When her mother died, Lady Margaret Bryan took care of Elizabeth. Elizabeth was raised with her half-sister, Mary Tudor, who was 17 years older than Elizabeth. Elizabeth had a half-brother too, Edward VI, who was the son of Henry VIII and of Jane Seymour.

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II) Elizabeth’s Reign

Before the reign of Elizabeth, it was her half-sister, Mary I ,who reigned. She was a Catholic queen and she killed several hundreds of Protestants because she wanted everybody to be Catholic in Britain.

Elizabeth reigned during 44 years from 1558 to 1603. She spoke various languages : English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin.

She was nicknamed « The Virgin Queen » because she never married even if she had several lovers.

Elizabeth was very different from Mary Ist. She gave the Protestants the right to practise their religion.

The era of the reign of Elizabeth is nicknamed the Elizabethan era and during her reign, she had many castles built.

Elizabeth reigned during 44 years from 1558 to 1603.

When Elizabeth died, it’s her cousin, James VI who reigned because she had no children.

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The Chronicles of Narnia :

Author : C.S Lewis

There are seven volumes :

- « The Magician’s Nephew »

- « The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe »

- « The Horse and His Boy »

- « Prince Caspian »

- « The Voyage of the Dawn Treader »

- « The Silver Chair »

- « The Last Battle »

I) « The Magician ‘s Nephew » :

Two children, Polly and Digory, live in London and they are neightbours. They don’t like their lives in London because there aren’t any special events happening to them. They dream of magic and of adventures.Their dreams come true when suddenly they find themselves transported to a magical word.

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II) « The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe »

Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy are 4 brothers and sisters who live in London. During the war, they find refuge at an old professor’s. While they’re playing hide and seek,  Lucy, Peter, Edmund and Susan enter a wardrobe. The wardrobe is a passage to a magic world where they meet the witch and a Lion Aslan.

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III) « The Horse and his Boy »

Shasta, a boy who lives in Calormen, leaves the country on his horse : Bree. On the way, he meets Aravis : a Young girl who is fleeing a forced wedding. They take the road of Narnia. After many adventures, they arrive at Narnia and Shasta discovers the secret of his family.

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IV) « Prince Caspian « 

Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter return to Narnia thanks to a magic hunting horn. When they arrive at Narnia, they discover a ruined castle. One hundred years have passed since their departure fromNarnia. It has changed a lot. They meet the prince Caspian who asks  the four children if they can help him to win the war against his uncle, Miraz.

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V) »The Voyage of the Dawn Treader »

Lucy and Edmund go on holidays with their unbearable cousin Eustache. They discover a magic painting which takes children to Narnia near prince Caspian’s boat. Caspian and the children are looking for seven lords who disappeared at sea. There begins a magificient adventure towards the end of the earth.

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VI)  »The Silver Chair »

Eustache returns to Narnia with his friend Jill Pole. They meet the Lion Aslan who asks them to find prince Caspian’s son. The children see a strange character called Puddlegum. Puddlegum helps the children to find prince Caspian’s son who is held prisoner by a witch.

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VII)  »The last battle »

Shift is a monkey who wants to have absolute power. He disguises himself as a donkey, Puzzle, with the skin of a lion. Puzzle was made for Aslan by Shift the monkey. The war breaks out when Jill Pole and Eustache return to Narnia. The Narnians along with Jill and Eustache, fight the Calormens army. The Calormens obey Shift and Puzzle because they believe of  he is  their god.

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Now enjoy the books!

Article written by Victoire and Alexane

Leatherback sea turtle

The leatherback sea turtle is the biggest turtle in the world. It’s a marine turtle. Since 1981, it has been an endanged species because we built hotels or attractions for tourists on beach where turtles lay. And we capture them to make oil and eat their meat.

The turtle is the biggest reptile in the world. It can weigh more than 900 kg. It has a specific shell. The soft-shell has lines and it is dark blue with white spots . When they are born, the baby turtles are really small (10 cm). When they reach their adult size they can be up to 2,50m long and 3,5m wide.

The leatherback sea turtle usually live between 30 or 40 years but some turtles can live up to 60 years.  It can go 900m deep and can stay under water for an hour.

We can find it in the tropical areas and on the beaches of America, Africa and Oceania.

Like all the turtles, the leatherback turtle hasn’t got any teeth. The turtle eats limp animals and some plants. But its favourite meal is jellyfish. It eats about 15kg of jellyfish per day .

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Table of Contents

1) The Eiffel Tower                                                            2) The Louvres Museum

3) The Triumph Arc                                                            4)  Notre-Dame of Paris

5) The Sacré-Coeur       

 1) The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is the most famous monument in Paris. It is 300 meters tall. It is on the Champ-de-Mars in Paris. The Eiffel Tower was built for the Universal Exposition in 1889. It was built in two years.

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2) Louvres Museum

In the Louvres Museum, there is the Mona Lisa, paintings by Picasso, Da Vinci and others … This museum used to be a castle who belonged to the kings of France. In front of the Louvres, there are three little glass pyramids. There are thousands of paintings, sculptures … The Mona Lisa dates back to 1503. It represents Mona Lisa. She’s famous worldwide because she has mysterious eyes.

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3) The Triumph Arc

The construction of the Triumph Arc started in 1806 but the construcion stopped. It  started again in 1825 and the construction finished in 1836. On November, 11th, 1920, the  Unknown Soldier’s flame was installed. Now, it leads to the famous street called the Champs-Elysées.

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4) Notre Dame of Paris

The construction of  Notre-Dame of Paris started in 1163 and finished in 1345. It’s a gothic cathedral. It’s from the cathedral that all distances in France are calculated.  Notre-Dame of Paris is on the limit of the Ile de la Cité. The cathedral is also where the famous legend of Quasimodo come from.

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5) Sacre-Coeur

The construction of the Sacre-Coeur started in 1870 and finished in 1872. It’s located on a road called « road of the knight with the bar ». It has another name : the Sacre-Coeur of Montmarte. There is the largest mosaic of the world and the largest bell of France.

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There are ten books relating the adventures of Alex Rider written by Anthony Horowitch. They are about a young spy. Eigth stories have been published. The first story Stormbreaker was published in 2000 in the United Kingdom.

Who’s Alex Rider ???

Name: Alex Rider
Age: 14 years
oldAppearance: Alex is well-built, with short fair hair and brown eyes.
Early Life: A few months after his birth, Alex’s parents, John and Helen Rider, were killed in a plane crash. Alex was then raised by his uncle, Ian Rider. They travelled widely throughout the UK, Europe and the USA ; Alex learned many of his special skills during these trips, such as rock climbing, scuba diving and foreign languages.

Current status: Alex lives in London with his legal guardian, Jack Starbright . He attends Brookland School.
Likes and dislikes: Alex is a supporter of Chelsea FC and a keen sportsman.

Stormbreaker

Alex Rider is a 14 years-old orphan. He learned that his oncle died. Alex learned that his uncle was a spy for the MI6 (British Secret Services). Alex was recruited by the MI6 (during all his life his uncle trained him to be a spy). The MI6 obliged Alex to work for them. He was hired by Felix Lester-a computer fan-to test a computer called the  » Stormbreaker « . The Stormbreaker is a computer that will be offered to every school of the UK  Alex learned strange things. He made research at the library and he found that his uncle had made research about viruses. What will happen ???

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Point Blanc

The MI6 called Alex for a new mission. He was hired by Alex Friend and Sir David Friends’ son,  a very rich manager of supermarket. He had to go to a boarding school called Point Blanc to discover if there was a connection between the death of Michael J. Roscoe-the manager of a very big company in the USA called Roscoe electronics- and  Viktor Ivanov the manager of the Russian Secrets Services  M. Roscoe’s and M. Ivanov’s sons were in the same school. Alex stayed for one week in the Friend’s house in Lancashire (region in the north-south of England). After Eva Stellenbosh came to bring Alex to Point Blanc,  they stopped in Paris  E.Stellenbosh put a sleeping pill in his drink and photograhed Alex.

The following day, Alex arrived to Pointe Blanc. He became friends with James Sprintz, a banker’s son. He also met Hugo Vries, Tom McMorin, Nicolas Marc, Cassian James and Joe Canterbury.

How could the director of Point Blanc transform children with problems into little angels ???

Skeleton Key

Alex went to Wimbledon. He discovered that a Triad wanted to fix Wimbledon games. The MI6  obliged Alex to work for the CIA because he may be assassinated in Europe. He went to Cuba. But Tom Turner and Belinda Troy (the 2 CIA agents) were not really happy to work with a teenager. Tom and Belina were watching Alexei Sarov,-one of the most important generals of the URSS.  He possessed an island next to Skeleton Key. Alex learned that they were looking for radioactives airwaves. Alex, Tom and Belinda took a boat and the two CIA agents dived into the sea to get in Sarov’s island by an underwater cave. But after two hours waiting, Alex decided to dive too. He found the cave but the two adgents weren’t there. A shark was turning around Alex. It was a white shark, the most dangerous shark. The shark entered the cave and it was torn into pieces. Alex returned to the boat and he began talking to Garcia (the skipper of the boat) but the old man didn’t answer. Alex saw that he had a dagger in his back. He heard a voice and felt a sting. When Alex awoke, he was tied and he was Alexei Savov’s prisonner. Alexei asked him questions. First Alex didn’t want to answer but he ended up revealing his cover.

What’s going to happen ??? What is Sarov going to do ???

Eagle Strike

Relaxing in the South of France with his friend Sabina Pleasure and her family, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider finally wants to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old.

Alex thought that Damian Cray-a celebrity, human rights campaigner and the creator of the Gameslayer video game, could be a criminal. It seems Damian forced real people to experiment his video games, which was illegal.

One day, while he was coming back from Damian Cray’s party, Sabrina’s father was hurt in a terrible car crash. Alex is convinced Damian had something to do with it. He is determined to track down his friend’s attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it’s a path that will lead him to a long buried secret and a discovery more terrible than anything he could imagine.

What’s Damian Cray going to do ???

Scorpia

In the first story Alex had met Yassen Gregorovich who was a shooter. He was the man who killed his uncle in Eagle Strike.  In Scorpia he met Yassen again. Before he died, Yassen said to Alex that he knew Alex’s father and that he was working with him. He said to Alex to go to Venice and find « Scorpia ». How did Yassen know his father ???

Then, Alex met Julia Rothman who was Scorpia manager (Scorpia was an underground criminal organization). She asked Alex to make a choice : either to continue working for the MI6 or to join Scorpia to get his revenge because the MI6 had manipualted him. To join Scorpia he had to kill Mrs Jones (the Deputy Head of Special Operations)

Will Alex join Scorpia ???

Ark Angel

Alex Rider was in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him. Alex saved Paul Drevin, millionaire Nicolei Drevin’s son,  who was kidnaped by eco-terrorists. He reluctantly accepted a mission to infiltrate the group of deadly eco-terrorists. They wanted to destroy a space hotel called Ark Angel.

Nicolei Devin invited Alex on holidays to see the inauguration of the Ark Angel Hotel.

Will the eco-terrorist destroy the Ark Angel Hotel???

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Snakehead

Alex was splashing down off the coast of Australia when he found himself sucked into another adventure. This time he was working for ASIS-the Australian Secret Service-and his target was the criminal underworld of South East-Asia : the ruthless world of the Snakehead directed by the terrifying Major Yu. He worked with his godfather Ash. He was taken for an Afghan refugee.

Faced with an old enemy and troubled by the shadows of his own past, Alex was caught between two secret services, with no one he coud trust and this time he needed all his wits to survive…

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Crocodile Tears

Alex had to investigate for the MI6 about a laboratory who grew genetically change plants. He discovered that  pastor Desmond McCain-the manager of charitable works- wanted to create a chemical calamity to collect money and keep it. Alex was kidnaped by MacCain and his bride Myra Bennett. They brought him to Kenya and kept him captive in a tent.

Alex had only 24 hours to save millions of lives.

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Howard Carter

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Howard Carter was born on the 9th of May in 1874 in London.  He was the youngest son of eight children. He grew up in a little town in the Norfolk county in England. He didn’t go to school but he learned how to read and write basically. His father was a wildlife painter, he taught him drawing.

Carter was 17 when he decided to make watercolor copies of tombs frescoes in Egypt. Carterwas immediately charmed by Egypt.  After he met Gaston Maspero in 1899, Maspero advised him to take the job of general inspector of the monuments of High-Egypt. In 1905, Carter was excluded from the antiquity service because of a fight with tourists.

He met Lord Carnarvon, who was doing researches as an amateur but he didn’t find anything exeptionnal. They worked as associates but in 1922 they hadn’t found anything. In 1922, Lord Carnarvon wanted to stop research but Carter asked him to continue for one more year. Lord Carnarvon accepted.

On the 3rd of November, the Egyptian workmen removed stairs. At night, Carter was in front of a door. Howard Carter had to wait for three weeks before entering the tombs, because Lord Carnarvon, who was staying in London, wanted to be there with his daugther Lady Evelyn Herbert. So Carter had no choice, he waited for months before entering the room of treasures.

On the 17th of February around 4 p.m., Carter broke the second plaster block and made one of the most important discoveries of the 19 h century : the tomb of King Tutankamun. The treasure was exeptionnal : 4 000 precious antiques. There were more than 2 000 kg of gold.

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The medias related a malediction after the death of Lord Carnarvon. One of the last survivor of the expedition confessed that Carter invented this malection to take away the loot. Howard Carter died on the 2nd of March in 1939 in London.

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article written by Marion

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Black Butler is a mystical manga. The main characters are Sebastian Michaelis (as the butler) and Ciel Phantomhive (as the earl). The minor characters are Finnian (as the gardener), May Linn (as the maid) and Bardroy (as the cook).

Summary

Sebastian is a butler for Ciel Phantomhive who is the heir of English aristocratic family. As far as knowledge, education, cooking and discretion are concerned, he is perfect! Ciel Phantomhive lost his parents in the fire that destroyed their manor. He called out for a demon but has he signed a contract with the devil? People say he’s not human. He answers he is just a devil’s butler…

Don’t try to look for Sebastian or we will find his genuine nature!!!

We are crazy about mangas in general but we love this one because it is really mystical. There are a lot of adventures in it and it is very impressive…..

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 article written by Noémie and Wendy

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) invented Sherlock Holmes in England. He wrote nine Sherlock Holmes adventures. One of his most famous novels is The Hound of the Baskerville.

Sherlock Holmes was born on the 6th of January in 1854. He has got a big brother, Mycroft, and a little sister, Enola. 

In a lot of books, Sherlock Holmes looks for clues about a crime.  Sherlock Holmes has got a pipe and a green and brown hat. He often has a magnifying glass. He’s got an assistant called Dr Watson. With his help, he always finds the criminal at the end.

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Article written by Louise