This is a praying mantis (mante réligeuse). Its name comes from the fact that it looks like it is praying while waiting to catch other insects to eat. This little creature is far from religious or pious, though, it devours other insects, and the females are know to kill and eat the males after mating! [...]
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Notes: The fab four: surnom pour les Beatles A crash course: une formation rapide Master of Arts(MA): Normallement, bac+5. Ce diplôme doit être pour ceux qui ont déjà ce niveau. To have something ‘under your belt’: an achievement, success. Quand on a réussi à obtenir quelque chose on peut dire, “I’ve got it under my [...]
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As you may already know, in Britain people drive on the left and not on the right like in the rest of Europe. Many of my French students often mock this difference, suggesting that we British drive on the left simply in order to be different from our European neighbours. The truth is that most [...]
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Hi everybody! I had a very busy summer, and wasn’t able to spend time providing you with material on the site. Let me explain a little what’s been going on. Back in the spring my wife and I decided to leave Aix-en-Provence for the south-west of France, a region which we both like very much [...]
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