Miscellaneous extracts with text - Archive 8
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From a regular five-minute literary series, Un livre un jour, here is an author who demonstrates that he has read William Golding... |
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Thalassa, le magazine de la mer is too eco today for my taste, but you get some nice pieces like this one on the manner in which the nuclear industry buys its way into favour
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The educational series C'est pas sorcier is good value for money for the student of French. The underwater scenes in this extract make it a little difficult |
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One of an excellent series of France 5 documentaries on
air crashes. This is the terrorist hijack of a Paris-Algiers flight, which
was well handled by the GIGN - the French SAS, but could easily had a
terrible consequences. I chose the final moments of this film
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I regularly take extracts from LCP's Déshabillons-les, where linguists, psychiatrists, sociologists and other unbalanced people dissect the public image of politicians. However, the real virtue of the programme is that the guests speak quickly and they ignore interruption, ploughing on until they run out of ideas and the presenter - who speaks faster than any of them, invites another one to have a go |
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The gardening series Silence, ça pousse is good fun, but my goodness what a difficult transcription exercise ! Both the common and latin names of plants are difficult to catch, and the voice-over is relaxed and conversational. I thought it was going to be a level 3, but not at all |
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Chevallier et Laspales are always good value. Elegant, intelligent, witty sketches. Here a man goes into a baker's shop to buy that most ordinary of items a baguette. But this is no ordinary baker... ... |
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Anne Roumanoff did an excellent opening to one of the Stars du rire series. She speaks very clearly, but the pace and the content make this pretty difficult |
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From Comédie comes Télébistrot. The regulars in a bar-café discourse on their favourite television programmes and the celebrities who appear in them. This is very hard - but it's got to be the target level of everyone who wants to listen to spoken French |