Welcome & enjoy English

Read through those five letters (click to enlarge the letters) and choose your favourite penfriend. Read his/her letter again. Copy the following table on a piece of paper and complete it before your mission. Remember to bring your table with you for your mission!

Penfriend 1: Georgie  

Me and my friend Julia. I’m the girl on the left.

Penfriend 2: Shira

This picture was taken in our school with two of my classmates. I’m the girl standing in the middle. 

Penfriend 3: Andrew

Me at school (on the left), and me playing hurling, an Irish sport. I’m the guy on the right hand side, with the yellow T-shirt.

Penfriend 4: Judie

Me and my horse Jazzy

Penfriend 5: Ranjit 

Here is a picture of me with my mum and my sister in a restairant in Jaipur.

A British independent school 

Durham School is one of the oldest schools in Britain. It is a co-educational independent

boarding-school which welcomes between 450 and 500 pupils in senior school and 160 in junior

school who are aged from 3 to 18 years old. Pupils learn in small classes and they have to wear a

uniform composed of a dark blue jacket, a white shirt, a tie and blue trousers for boys. Girls

wear a skirt.

In the boarding-school, they are separated in single sex houses and they have to go to sleep at

9 pm.

They can do almost any type of extra-curricular activities like music, drama, singing or sports.

For example, they can practise rugby, hockey, snooker, ping pong, rowing and even army

training.They may also play netball and lacrosse.   

vocabulary:

- co-educational = mixed    (adj)

- independent school = école privée  (n)     state school = école publique   (n)

- boarding-school = internat   (n)    day school = externat    (n)

- extra-curricular activities = activités extra-scolaires (n)

- rowing = aviron (n)

- snooker = billard (n)

- drama = théâtre (activité)   (n)