FRENCH TRANSLATION &

SUMMARY
L’HIVER/LE PETIT MOINEAU
The little sparrow Pierrot shivers under his feather and is worried to see
the sun completely veiled by the clouds , while the wind and the rain
tears away the straws of his nest. He is young and has not yet seen the
summer with golden wheat and elds lled with birds.

But at the same time Pierrot becomes sad, he feels hungry and as he
knows a place in the forest where he can nd excellent small grains, he
quickly ies there.

Is this really the forest? Branches, and branches, and more branches,
like dead wood! Some yellow and dry leaves at the end, and thats it!
Where are the pretty green leaves and the nests hidden beneath them?
No more berries on the bushes…. And the wind blows, always blows.

The evening begins to come, and even without dinner, we must think of
returning home. Before returning home pierrot lands on a window sill, a
child’s face is pressed against the window. Seeing him arrive, the little
girl makes a movement and walks away. After a moment, she returns,
opens the window gently. However as slight as the sound may be, it
scares the birdie again which ies to the neighbouring wall.

This is precisely where he lives, from his hole he can see what happens
on the opposite side. The little girl throws small grains from the window
sill and says, “little, little”

Doing that, she closes the window. “What could she have thrown away
like that” said Pierrot to himself, and as he is more and more hungry, he
going to see! There are excellent breadcrumbs. What a surprise to
someone who has not had dinner. He thanks the little one by saying
“pie pie chic” and he returns to his nest.

In the night, he dreamed that the little girl opened the window everyday
and called him saying “ Little, little! Here is your lunch.”
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And in fact the next day and the days after, the window opened again
and just until the end of winter, the same little hands threw
breadcrumbs to the birdie.

1. Qu'est ce qui rend le moineau inquiet?

Ans: Le soilel tout voilé de nuages rend le moineau inquiet

2. Que fait la jeune lle en voyant arriver l’oiselet?

Ans: En voyant arriver l’oiselet, la jeune lle fait un mouvement et
s’eloigne

3. Que fait le moineau?

Ans: Le moineau s’envole sur le mur violin

4. Trouvez trois adjectives qui decrement le moineau?

Ans: <<petit, jeune, triste>> sont les adjectives qui decrement le
moineau.

5. Faites des phrases avec: de plus en plus, commencer à, avant de,

tandis que.
Ans:
Mon père devient de plus en plus fort.
Je commence à travailler
J'étudie avant de partir à l’école
Tandis que je mangeais, mon frère m’attendait

Resume:
Le petit moineau ou l'hiver est écrit par Mademoiselle Brès.
Il y a un petit moineau. Il s’appelle Pierrot. Dans l’hiver, il est triste parce
que il n’y a pas nourriture. Il va dans la forêt pour trouver quelque chose
à manger. Il ne trouve pas rien. Pierrot retourne à son trou. En route
vers son trou il se pose sur le rebord de la fenêtre. Il voit une lle.
Elle est de l’autre côté de la fenêtre. Elle a ouvert la fenêtre. Pierrot a
peur et il vole vers le mur voisin. La lle jette des miettes de pains dans
le rebord pour Pierrot. Pierrot s’envole vers le rebord. Il mange les
miettes avec plaisir. La jeune lle jette de la nourriture dans le rebord
pour le petit moineau jusqu'à la n de l'hiver.
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 LA DANSE/LA RUSE DE ZADIG
The king entrusts his grief to the wise Zadig. “You know so many
beautiful things”, he said to him, “wouldn’t you know a way to nd a
treasurer who will not steal from me?”. “Certainly”, responded Zadig, “I
know an infallible way to give you a man who will have clean hands.”
The king charmed, asked him while hugging him, how to go about it.
“All we have to do” said Zadig “ is to make all those who present
themselves for the dignity of treasurer dance, and the one who dances
with the most lightness will infaillibly be the most honest man. “You are
joking”, said the king. “This is a funny way of choosing a recipient of my
nances. What! You claim that the one who does an entrechat best will
be the most skillful nancier.” Zadig replied, “but I assure you that he
will undoubtedly be the most honest man”. Zadig spoke with such
con dence that the king believed he had some supernatural secret to
know the nanciers. “I don’t like the supernatural”, said Zadig:” people
and prodigy books have displeased me.: if your majesty wants to le me
to do the test I am proposing to you, you will be convinced that my
secret is the simplest and easiest thing. Nabussan, king of Serendib,
was much more surprised to hear that this secret was simple than if it
had been given to him as a miracle.

1. Que demande le roi Nabussan a Zadig?

Ans: Le roi Nabussan demande à Zadig de trouvé un trésorier qui leur
vole point.

2. Quelle solution Zadig propose-t-il au roi?

Ans: Zadig propose au roi de faire danser tous ceux qui se presenteront
pour la dignité de trésorier, et celui qui dansera avec plus de légèreté
sera infailliblement le plus honnête homme.

3. Comment reagit le roi a proposition de Zadig?

Ans: Le roi n’etait pas content de la proposition de Zadig. Il pense que
c’etait une plaisante façon de choissir un tresorier

Resume:
La ruse de Zadig ou La danse est écrite par Voltaire. Dans le royaume
Serendib, il y a un roi. Il s'appelle Nabussan. Dans cette histoire, le roi
Nabussan demande à Zadig une idée pour choisir un trésorier. Le roi
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Nabussan demande à Zadig de trouvé un tresorier qui leur vole point.
Zadig propse le roi de faire danser tous ceux qui presonteront pour la
dignité de trésorier. Et celui qui dansera avec la plus légèreté sera
infailliblement le plus honnête homme. Le roi était confus. Le roi pense
que cette idée est plaisant. Zadig assure le roi que c’est idée est
simple.

LE MORT DE MAMAN/CE N’EST PAS DE MA FAUTE

The old age home is in Marengo, 80 km from Algiers. I’ll take the bus at
2 o clock and I will arrive in the afternoon. So I can stay up and come
home tomorrow evening. I asked my boss for two days o and he
couldn’t deny me with an excuse like that. But he did not seem happy. I
even told him that it is not my fault. He did not respond. I thought then
that I shouldn’t have told him that. In short, I had nothing to apologize
for. It was more up to him to o er his condolences. But he will probably
do it day after tomorrow when he sees me in mourning. For the moment
it is a bit like mom isn’t dead. After the funeral, it will be a closed case
and everything will be taken on a more o cial appearance.

I took the bus at 2 o clock. It was very hot. I ate at the restaurant, at
Celeste as usual. They all felt very sorry for me and Celeste said,” We
all have only one mother.” When I left they walked me to the door. I was
a little dazed because I had to go up to Emmanuel’s to borrow a black
tie and an arm band. He lost his uncle a few months back.

1. Pourquoi le narrateur va-t-il a Marengo?

Ans: La narrateur va à Marengo parce que sa mère est morte.

2. Qu’est ce que le narrateur demande a son patron?

Ans: Le narrateur demande deux jour de congé a son patron.

3. Qui est mort dans ce texte? Que pensez-vous de la reaction du

narrateur?
Ans: La mere de narrateur est morte dans le texte. Le reaction de
narrateur n’est pas ordinaire.

4. Pourquoi doit-il aller chez Emmanuel?

Ans: Il doit aller chez Emmanuel pour lui emprunter une cravate noire et
un brassard.

[Link]. des phrases avec : au contraire, avoir l’air, comme d’habitude

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i. Je mange, au contraire, mon frere dort
ii. Le professeur a l'air d'être en content
iii. Je suis allé à l'école en voiture comme d'habitude

Resume:
Le mort de maman ou Ce n’est pas de me faute est écrit par Albert
Camus. Dans cette l’histoire, la mère du narrateur est morte. Il a pris
l’autobus pour aller à Marengo. Il est allé à Marengo parce que l’asile
de vieillards est là. Il a demandé deux jours de congé à son patron. Son
patron n'avait pas l'air content. Le narrateur n'a pas l'impression que sa
mère est morte. Il a mangé dans son restaurant habituel Céleste. Puis il
allé chez son Emmanuel. Lui emprunter une cravate noire et un
brassard.

LE LEVIER ET LE SERPENT/LA BRAVOURE DU CHIEN

A knight very fond of tournaments, had a son still in the cradle whom he
adored. He also had a very faithful greyhound and a very well trained
falcon. How, from these various elements, the wise story teller able to
draw a moral story likely to make the emporere reconsider his decision?
This is what the ingenious story about the greyhound and the snake will
teach us.

On the appointed day and hour, the knight went to the tournament, as
did the lady, his wife and her chamber maids. When the child’s maids
saw that everyone was going there, they came too, like the others. They
left the knight’s child in his bunk, in a room where the greyhound was
lying, and the falcon on its perch. In a hole in the castle, there was a
snake hidden unkown to everyone. When he felt that no one was in the
house, his head out of his hole and seeing only the child lying in his
cradle, he came towards him to kill him. The hawk saw him rst and
looked at the sleeping greyhound. Then with its wings made such a
loud sound that it work him up, so that he defended the child. The
greyhound at the sound of the falcons wings, awoke, and when he saw
the snake near the child, he came to him.

All two begain to ght so ardently that the greyhound was seriously
injured, he lost so much blood that the oor around the child’s berth
was completely covered with it. When the greyhound felt this injured he
came so impetuously against the snake, that the child’s face was not
injured and did not touch the ground. Finally in the battle the greyhound
had the upper hand, because teh snake remained dead and slain. Then
the greyhound withdrew at the foot of the wall to lick his wounds.
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1. Quels sont les animaux que le chevalier elevait?
Ans: Les animaux que le chevalier elevait sont le lévrier et le faucon.

2. Ou sont-allees les nourrices?

Ans: Les nourrices sont allées au tournoi.

3. Ou se cachait le serpent?
Ans: Le serpent se cachait dans un trou du chateau

4. Racontez brievement le combat entre le serpent et le levrier

Ans: Tous deux se mirent a combattre si ardemment que

Resume :
Le levrier et le serpent ou La bravoure du Chien est ecrit par un auteur
anonyme. Cette histoire se situe dans la chateau d'un chevalier. Dans la
maison du chevalier il y avait un lévrier et un faucon. Il y avait un tournoi
un jour. Le chevalier, sa famille et les serviteurs allèrent au tournoi. Le
bébé du chevalier est resté à la maison. Le bébé était dans sa
couchette. Le bébé était seul à la maison gardé par le lévrier et le
faucon. Dans un trou de la maison il y avait un serpent. Il est sorti pour
attaquer le bébé voyant qu'il n'y avait personne à la maison. le chien et
le faucon ont courageusement combattu le serpent.

LA TORTUE ET LE CHIEN/LE CHIEN QUI NE DISPUTA

PAS LA BONNE PLACE A LA TORTUE!
I once owned a small dog and a turtle.

Friends during the summer and happy to do the housework together,

they regularly fought every winter for the right place by the re. The
turtle pushed, the dog growled, it was a constant battle…

One winter fearing to be surprised by the cold, I had from the rst white
frost, prepared everything in the replace. All that remained was to put
the match in to it.

One bitterly cold day, I decided…. The dog watched me do it. The turtle
which has been missing for a week, must have been sleeping in some
corner as usual: I wasn’t worried about it.
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As soon as the re shone, the dog, having noticed with obvious
satisfaction the absence of his enemy, strentched out full length,
motionless, the eyes half closed, the muzzle resting on its paws…

Already the sparkling logs were in a beautiful red when suddenly he

stood up. He barked, rushing towards the ames to bite it.

At the same moment, it seemed to me that an uprising was disturbing

the order of my home. Gently, slowly, the centre layer opens slightly: a
blackmass, which appears alive amoung the brands and embers, then
fuming over the grate and comes rolling to my feet.

It was the turtle which, always looking for a quiet place to sleep has
thought it a good idea to burrow in the woods.

It gave o the smell of burnt shoes…

I took the steaming ball with tweezers and plunged in a bucket of water.
The water shivered, and twhen I place the ball in the mat, the ball was
still smoking.

You might think that she was dead? No way! She was only a little
surprised. The rst moment of emotion passes, she took out one paw,
two paws, then all four paws, the the headm and nds undoubtedly the
air a little cold, she came back to recover by the re.

On the armchari where he had taken refuge, the dog growls dully.

But now he was defeated… he no longer tried to compete with an

animal that he had seen walking in the ames.

1. Pourquoi les deux animeaux se disputent-ils?

Ans: Les deux animeaux se disputent pour la bonne place au coin de
feu.

2. Quel animal se trouve dans le menu bois?

Ans: La tortue se trouve dans le menu bois

3. Où dort le chien?
Ans: Le Chien dort auprès le feu

4. Pour qu’elle raison le Chien céde-t-il la meilleur place à la tortue?

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 Ans: Le chien céde la meilleur place à la tortue parce qu'il était vaincu
et il avait vu la tortue promener dans les ammes

5. Rancontex l’accident (environ 4 phrases)

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7. Construisez des phrases avec : aupres de, au fond de, s’inquieter
de
Ans:
il y a un chaise auprès de fenêtre
il y a des sirènes au fond de l’océan
il n'y a pas de quoi s'inquiéter.

8. Resumez le texte
Ans: La tortue et le Chien ou Le Chien qui ne disputa pas la bonne
place à la tortue ecrit par Paul Arène. Dans cette histoire il y a un Chien
et un [Link] sont amie tout l’année. Mais en hiver, ils se disputent
beaucoup. ils se disputent pour la bonne place au coin de feu. Un jour
la tortue a disparu. Le chien dort auprès les ammes. il vu un
mouvement dans les ammes. c'etait la tortue. le narrateur a sorti la
tortue. Après, le chien ne disputa pas la bonne place a la tortue parce
qu'il avait vu la tortue promenner dans les ammes

L'ÉGOÏSTE PUNI/UNE LEÇON BIEN MÉRITÉE

My rst memories date a sad time: the death of my dear mother. I was
barely more than six years old, when this great misfortune arrived.

Without understanding its full signi cance, I was cruelly impressioned,

all the incidents of our mourning are still present in my memories.

….
But what’s even better, grandmother, I married and my wife is your little
goddaughter, Marguerite, the grand-daughter of my guardian, of your
friend Salmont.

We have two beatiful who would lack nothing and who would be
perfect, if you where there, dear grandmother, to prevent us from
spoiling them, and to give them the lessons which were so pro table for
their father.

Ah! Grandmother! I ove you everything.

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One morning, as I was leaving for school, I saw Gertrude beating butter.
There was still only a small piece of it: but it was so appetizing that I
would have liked a slice of it.

“Give me this butter” , I asked Gertrude.

Grandmother heard.

“If your day went well, if you were good at school, you will have it for
yout snack, I promise you”

I left happy.

That day, I had 8 cents in my pocket, prize of the good points of the
previous week. My grandmother gave me a penny for a good point, 10
cents per rst place, and these sources formed my money for my small
pleasures.

My biggest expenses where driedels and candy canes.

As I was leaving the garden, I met a little beggar who came towards
me. I just had the hand in my pocket and I was happily making my
pennies dance while thinking about what they would be used for.

The little one undoubtedly heard this lovely noise, because she
murmured holding out her hand:

“Charity, my good sir”

“Go home” I replied without looking at her.

Grandmother, who had followed me till the door, heard me.

“Come,my child, she said, we will give you something good”

Ah! If I could have guessed…

In the afternoon, when I asked for my butter, Gertrude told me that the
little beggar had eaten it.

I then understood that I had lacked heart and the lesson was truly
deserved.
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 It was so easy to take two pennies from my pocket and give them
away.

1. Que demande le narrateur à Gertrude?

Ans: Le narrateur demande le beurre à Gertrude.

2. Que promet la grand-mère au narrateur?

Ans: La grand-mère promet le beurre au narrateur.

3. Que demande la petite mendiante au narrateur?

Ans: La petite mendiante demdande la charité au narrateur.

4. Pourquoi la grand-mère n’a-t-elle pas donné le beaure a son petit

ls?
Ans: La grand-mère n’a pas donné la beurre à son petit- ls parce
qu'elle avait déjà donné à la petite mendiante.

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6. Pourquoi la presence de la grandmere serait-elle pro table pour les

enfants?
Ans: La presence de la grandmere serait pro table pour les enfants
parce qu’elle empêcherait les parents de les gâter et elle donnerait les
façons qui étaient pro tables à leur père.

7. Construisez des phrases avec: vers, sans doute, en train de.

Ans:
Vers le Nord, il y a un village.
Je viendrai à ton mariage sans doute
Je suis en train de faire du curry

8. Resumez
Ans: L'égoïste puni ou une leçon bien méritée écrite par Pierre Perrault.
Dans cette histoire, le narrateur adore sa grand-mère. Un matin quand il
va à l'école, il vu Gertrude en train de beurre. Il demande à Gertrude de
lui donner le beurre. Sa grand-mère a promis au narrateur que s'il fait le
bien aujourd'hui, elle lui donnera du beurre après l’école. Il part pour
l'école. Un petite mendiante lui demande la charité. Le narrateur avait
huit sous dans son poche. Mais, il ne donne rien à la mendiante. La
grand-mère du narrateur avait vu tout ça. Alors elle donne le beurre à la
mendiant. Le narrateur apprend son leçon.
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 LE HORLA, MYSTERIEUSE PRESENCE D’UN ETRE
SURNATUREL
My cousin, also very incredulous, smiled. The doctor, Parent said, “Do
you want me to try to put you to sleep, madam?”

- yes I want.
She sat down on an armchair and he began to stare at her, fascinating
her. Me, I suddenly feel a little troubled, le heat pounding, the tight
throat. I watch the eyes of madam Sable grow heavy. Her mouth
tighten, her chest heave.

After ten minutes she was asleep.

“Get behind her”, said the doctor.

And I sat behind her. He placed a business card in her hands and
asked:
“This is a mirror, what do you see in it”

She responded,

- “I see my cousin”
- “ What is he doing?”
- “He is twisting his mustache.”
- “And now?”
- “Does he take a photograph from his pocket?”
- “What is this photograph?”
- “Hers”
This is true! This photo was had just been delivered to me that same
evening at the hotel.

- “how is he in the portrait?”

- “He stands with his hat in his hands”
So she saw in this card, the white cardboard, like she would have seen
in ice.

The young woman, terri ed said, “Enough!Enough!Enough!”

But the doctor ordered: “ you get up tomorrow at 8 o clock: then you
will go nd your cousin at his hotel, and you will beg him to lend you
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5000 francs that your husband asked and that he will ask for you on his
next trip”

1. Comment s’appelle le médecin?

Ans: Le medecin s’appelle Parent.

2. Que propose le médecin à Mme Sable?

Ans: Le médecin propose à Mme Sable de l’endormir

3. Qu’est ce que le docteur met dans les mains de Mme Sable?

Ans: Le docteur met une cart de visite dans les mains de Mme Sable.

4. Qu’est ce que Mme Sable voit?

Ans: Mme Sable voit son cousin.

5. Qu’est ce que le docteur ordonna à Mme Sable à la n de ce texte?

Ans: Le docteur lui ordonna de se lever à huit heures et d’aller à l’hotel
de son cousin pour emprunter cinq millefrancs
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7. Construisez des phrases avc : essayer de, venir de, commencer à,
au bout de
Ans:
J’essaie de faire de l’exercice tous les jours.
Je viens de nir mes devoirs
Je commence à travailler
Il y a un café au bout de la rue

8. Resume
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