Dec 17, 2010
December in Lyautey...
Yeepie! We are on holiday! So the theme of this month will be Celebrations in Morocco. The pupils have to write a paragraph about these specific happy days they live either in the country or in their own families. They're supposed to send photographies as well... I gave them the possibility of sending their final text until December 31st. So... let's wait and see who will be first... and who will be last ;-)
Nov 24, 2010
Travelling abroad... Germany!
Our Journey in Germany
Frankfurt Airport, 12 o’clock: A group of teenagers looking sad and disappointed to go home again was saying goodbye to their new foreign friends. It was the end of an amazing journey which made us discover new cultures, new traditions and which created strong links between pupils who one week ago were totally strangers.
Each one of us was plunged into the daily life of a German family. We had the opportunity to get to know how a local teenager spends his day including school, and various activities.
In the morning, we participated to courses in order to discover another education system.
For the afternoon, our teacher prepared us an amazing cultural program including a visit of the city, museums…
In the evening, our exchange partners made us discover Frankfurt “by night”: It was an occasion to know more about each other.
Each one of us was plunged into the daily life of a German family. We had the opportunity to get to know how a local teenager spends his day including school, and various activities.
In the morning, we participated to courses in order to discover another education system.
For the afternoon, our teacher prepared us an amazing cultural program including a visit of the city, museums…
In the evening, our exchange partners made us discover Frankfurt “by night”: It was an occasion to know more about each other.
This will be an unforgetable exchange, which is not over at all, because all our new friends will join us here, in Casablanca, starting a new page of this journey.
Written by Ana-Isabella Tanase, Karim Bennani, Chayanne Laghdir 1°S1
A Romanian in Morocco...
Hello, I’m Ana-Isabella, and I study at The Lycee Lyautey, in Casablanca.
I live in Morocco since my birth, but I’m Romanian.
I consider that I am very lucky to live in such a multicultural background, and that my roots are a real wealth.
Through this article, I would like to make you discover my country’s culture, by exposing its colorful traditions.
Romania is a Latin country, situated in the Eastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea. It is a country full of history, with wonderful landscapes, crossed by the Carpathian Mountains and by the Danube, which gives to Romania its green and thick forests, its lakes and rivers;
The Music
For hundreds of years, music has played an important part in Romania.
The music is different from the other countries in Eastern Europe, because Romania is a Latin country, and not a Slavic one.
Today, Romania is divided into many counties, and each region has its own specific traditional music.
They differ by the rhythm, the instruments, depending on the influences of the region.
The best known form is The Doina, a poetic and melancholic music, played against a fast accompaniment pattern.
Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician, one of the most famous pan flutists in the world, if not the most.
Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute.
Dances:
Just like the different music forms, the dances also represent a wide range of styles.
The dancers wear traditional costumes, according to the county. They are usually colorful, and each one represents an important artistic work.
Legend…
Romania is also well-known because of the vampire legend: Dracula
How would you react if I told you it is not totally wrong?
Well, obviously Dracula didn’t use to drink blood, or to follow other fanciful vampire traditions.
His real name is Vlad III Basarab, and he used to be called Vlad Tepes, which means “impaler”, in reference to his favorite way of executing his enemies.
He was born in Transylvania, and became prince of Valachia, a region of the medieval Romania, He was a tyrannical governor, according to the writings of that period. But this reputation could have been made up by the other kings and foes, who were trying to justify their hatred against this powerful prince.
The legend has been amplified by the tale of Bram Stoker, based on his life, and which gives him the “Dracula” denomination.
In final, though the Dracula story was above all a legend made up over time, no one really knows were stops the tale and where begins the reality…
Bran castle… It is known as Dracula's castle :
Many other castles are hidden in the mountains of Romania:
-Corvin castle is one of the most important monument of Gothic architecture in Transylvania.
-Peles Castle, with unique character, was built at the wish of King Carol I of Romania between 1873 and 1914.
Culture:
Romania has a unique culture, which is the product of its geography and of its distinct historical evolution. Like Romanians themselves, it is fundamentally defined as the meeting point of three regions: Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, but cannot be truly included in any of them.
Constantin Brancusi, Mircea Eliade, Mihai Eminescu, Eugen Ionesco, George Enescu are only a few names of Romanian artists who made their talent shining all over the world.
I live in Morocco since my birth, but I’m Romanian.
I consider that I am very lucky to live in such a multicultural background, and that my roots are a real wealth.
Through this article, I would like to make you discover my country’s culture, by exposing its colorful traditions.
Romania is a Latin country, situated in the Eastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea. It is a country full of history, with wonderful landscapes, crossed by the Carpathian Mountains and by the Danube, which gives to Romania its green and thick forests, its lakes and rivers;
The Music
For hundreds of years, music has played an important part in Romania.
The music is different from the other countries in Eastern Europe, because Romania is a Latin country, and not a Slavic one.
Today, Romania is divided into many counties, and each region has its own specific traditional music.
They differ by the rhythm, the instruments, depending on the influences of the region.
The best known form is The Doina, a poetic and melancholic music, played against a fast accompaniment pattern.
Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician, one of the most famous pan flutists in the world, if not the most.
Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute.
Dances:
Just like the different music forms, the dances also represent a wide range of styles.
The dancers wear traditional costumes, according to the county. They are usually colorful, and each one represents an important artistic work.
Legend…
Romania is also well-known because of the vampire legend: Dracula
How would you react if I told you it is not totally wrong?
Well, obviously Dracula didn’t use to drink blood, or to follow other fanciful vampire traditions.
His real name is Vlad III Basarab, and he used to be called Vlad Tepes, which means “impaler”, in reference to his favorite way of executing his enemies.
He was born in Transylvania, and became prince of Valachia, a region of the medieval Romania, He was a tyrannical governor, according to the writings of that period. But this reputation could have been made up by the other kings and foes, who were trying to justify their hatred against this powerful prince.
The legend has been amplified by the tale of Bram Stoker, based on his life, and which gives him the “Dracula” denomination.
In final, though the Dracula story was above all a legend made up over time, no one really knows were stops the tale and where begins the reality…
Bran castle… It is known as Dracula's castle :
Many other castles are hidden in the mountains of Romania:
-Corvin castle is one of the most important monument of Gothic architecture in Transylvania.
-Peles Castle, with unique character, was built at the wish of King Carol I of Romania between 1873 and 1914.
Culture:
Romania has a unique culture, which is the product of its geography and of its distinct historical evolution. Like Romanians themselves, it is fundamentally defined as the meeting point of three regions: Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, but cannot be truly included in any of them.
Constantin Brancusi, Mircea Eliade, Mihai Eminescu, Eugen Ionesco, George Enescu are only a few names of Romanian artists who made their talent shining all over the world.
From Mohamed.
Hi everybody
I’m Mohamed; people calll me SIMO, I’m sixteen years old. I study in the “Lycée Lyautey” which is a French school. This year I’m in level named “premiere S” that is the scientific class where my classmate are between sixteen and eighteen years old. We have nine subjects to study in the week:
-FRENCH (4 hours)
-ENGLISH (2 hours)
-ARABIC (4 hours)
-BIOLOGY/GEOLOGY (4 hours)
-PHYSICS/CHEMISTERY (4hours and half)
-MATHEMATHICS (5 hours)
-HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY (2 hours and half)
-PHYSICAL EDUCATION (2 hours)
-ECJS (an hour all the two weeks)
Lycée Lyautey is one of the biggest French schools abroad. We are 3,400 students and 600 teachers. The school is located in Casablanca, the economical capital but I don’t live at Casablanca, I live in the road of Tamaris. I get up at 6:45 s to arrive at school at about7:45. My typical school day begins at this time for finishing about at 6:00pm with three breaks. The first at 9: 45 which lasts fifteen minutes, the second which is the lunch break and which lasts an hours, the third is a break of fifteen minutes at 4:00pm. After I will present you the subject BIOLOGY/GEOLOGY which is the English for SVT.
I’m Mohamed; people calll me SIMO, I’m sixteen years old. I study in the “Lycée Lyautey” which is a French school. This year I’m in level named “premiere S” that is the scientific class where my classmate are between sixteen and eighteen years old. We have nine subjects to study in the week:
-FRENCH (4 hours)
-ENGLISH (2 hours)
-ARABIC (4 hours)
-BIOLOGY/GEOLOGY (4 hours)
-PHYSICS/CHEMISTERY (4hours and half)
-MATHEMATHICS (5 hours)
-HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY (2 hours and half)
-PHYSICAL EDUCATION (2 hours)
-ECJS (an hour all the two weeks)
Lycée Lyautey is one of the biggest French schools abroad. We are 3,400 students and 600 teachers. The school is located in Casablanca, the economical capital but I don’t live at Casablanca, I live in the road of Tamaris. I get up at 6:45 s to arrive at school at about7:45. My typical school day begins at this time for finishing about at 6:00pm with three breaks. The first at 9: 45 which lasts fifteen minutes, the second which is the lunch break and which lasts an hours, the third is a break of fifteen minutes at 4:00pm. After I will present you the subject BIOLOGY/GEOLOGY which is the English for SVT.
Nov 15, 2010
SVT
Hi everybody,
We are four students from the Lycée Lyautey : AÏda, Ghita, Fatem and Kenza.
Today we wanted to present you another important subject as “1ere S” : S.V.T which stands for Science de la Vie et de la Terre (science of life and earth) It’s a subject who encompasses biology and geology: it takes 4 hours a week. Although most students don’t like geology that is why our teacher started with it in order to finish it as quickly as possible. We started with the composition and the structure of the earth and it actually sounds as boring as it is, even if we learn lots of things about what is going on below us! So we are thrilled to start the biological part where we will study the nervous system but also the genotype and phenotype (DNA). It is probably the hardest part but also the most interesting one, especially for the people who want to study medicine (just like Aida does!!). Every week we have T.P. which means Travaux Pratiques. That is when we practice in a lab, where we are able to dissect, manipulate and observe with microscopes pretty performant…
A month ago we went for a field trip in a geological site next to Casablanca (it was actually more two hours of going round and round in the mountains) to see rocks, faults, fossils, etc …
Our teacher tries very hard to make geology sounds funny and pleasant !! These are some pictures of our trip:
Actually we have amazing teacher this year in all the subjects!
Our S.V.T. teacher is also our “principal teacher”: she is the one who tries to make life easier and listens to our problem with other teacher but she also tries to solve disagreements between two students.
We have a very good relationship with teachers, we even communicate with them thanks to facebook and we are planning on going to a restaurant before Christmas’ holydays!
Nov 14, 2010
P.E.
This year, physical education subjects are different, we had to choose what we wanted to do .The teacher told us to choose one of the five different menus. On each menu, there are three subjects like volleyball, basketball, handball ... We have chosen menu number 4, because we like to play badmington, we are keen on rugby and 2x40 (that's athletism).
Our teacher is the best, he is Mr. Baptiste, we love how he teaches us, he is the coolest guy ever, and sometimes he plays with us. And the most important thing is that he doesn't scream on us !
Our teacher is the best, he is Mr. Baptiste, we love how he teaches us, he is the coolest guy ever, and sometimes he plays with us. And the most important thing is that he doesn't scream on us !
History & Geography.
History and Geography.
Hello we're students in "Première s" in the Lycée Lyautey. Today, we wanted to speak about the subject that we study here, so we decided to tell you about one we study 2 hours and a half a week : History and Geography. It is a really import subject in our opinion because it let you know and understand your past so you can also better underwand today's world, how it works and why, how the society work in every country. This subject taught us how big and complex is the world and we can distinguish each nation according to its specificities.
In History this year, we study the lattest part of the History (two last centuries), we already saw that before but go over it again to deepen the topic.
In Geography, we studied the Europe and the European Union but the program in Geography is very varied so it does not make sense to sum up the whole thing in only few sentences unlike we did for History where it was possible.
Moreover, we can say that we also and mainly study the method : how to look into a document, how to do an analysis, how to take an exam or how to make Geography sketches for example.
This year, our teacher is a woman and she's also our TPE and ECJS teacher. She is young, dynamic and interesting teacher. We're glad we've got this teacher because it makes what we study even more interesting and we also think that this teacher helps us a lot to focus on the lesson.
At the moment, we study History : the 2nd industrialization, from 1850 to 1939, in France, Germany, UK and the USA. It's a quite attractive topic which also pretty deals with economics.
This is actually what we wanted to tell you this time, and now we'd like to discover how stuffs go on for you !
Hello we're students in "Première s" in the Lycée Lyautey. Today, we wanted to speak about the subject that we study here, so we decided to tell you about one we study 2 hours and a half a week : History and Geography. It is a really import subject in our opinion because it let you know and understand your past so you can also better underwand today's world, how it works and why, how the society work in every country. This subject taught us how big and complex is the world and we can distinguish each nation according to its specificities.
In History this year, we study the lattest part of the History (two last centuries), we already saw that before but go over it again to deepen the topic.
In Geography, we studied the Europe and the European Union but the program in Geography is very varied so it does not make sense to sum up the whole thing in only few sentences unlike we did for History where it was possible.
Moreover, we can say that we also and mainly study the method : how to look into a document, how to do an analysis, how to take an exam or how to make Geography sketches for example.
This year, our teacher is a woman and she's also our TPE and ECJS teacher. She is young, dynamic and interesting teacher. We're glad we've got this teacher because it makes what we study even more interesting and we also think that this teacher helps us a lot to focus on the lesson.
At the moment, we study History : the 2nd industrialization, from 1850 to 1939, in France, Germany, UK and the USA. It's a quite attractive topic which also pretty deals with economics.
This is actually what we wanted to tell you this time, and now we'd like to discover how stuffs go on for you !
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