Norrland for beginners

The Royal Wedding

Les Enfoirés - des bienfaiteurs

Les Enfoirés startades av komikern Coluche 1986 i syfte att samla in pengar till välgörande ändamål. Varje år sedan starten har artister och kändisar uppträtt ideellt och pengarna går bl a till Les Restaurants du Coeur som skänker mat till fattiga och hemlösa i Frankrike, Tyskland och Belgien. Varje år gör artisterna en egen variant av en populär sång:

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Yummy! A recipe from the CAE class

This is the recipe I used for our baking assignment:

Spiced apple and rhubarb muffins
450 g self-raising flour
200 g firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon mixed spice
125 g butter
180 ml buttermilk
2 eggs
1/2 x 410 g can pie apples
220 g finely chopped rhubarb
2 teaspoons cinnamon sugar

Preheat oven to moderately hot. Grease 12-hole muffin pan.
Sift flour, brown sugar and spices inte large bowl; rub in butter.
Stir in combined milk and eggs, then apple and rhubarb. Spoon
mixture into prepared pan; sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake
in moderately hot oven about 20 minutes.

moderately hot means about 200 C

/Linn Johnsson TESA3

More Eng CAE

Hello!
Here comes some expressions that I found quite interesting...

"I bid you good day"
"That she had a yen for him"
"slippery as mercury on a board"
"prompt at ten"
"thick as thieves"
/Frida

Maori culture in the rugby Haka

The one hundred and first entry!

Here are my words from the book:

dire straits - stora (ekonomiska) problem
boon - välsignelse
to don the mantle of purity - att ta på sig renhetens mantel
incipient - begynnande
abhorrent - motbjudande
endearment - smekning
vial - medicinflaska/injektionsflaska
circumscribed - begränsad
nincompoop (!) - dumhuvud
tedium - tristess
abundance - överflöd
canine - hund
conundrum - gåta


/Linda :)



Från boken Tsotsi av Athol Fugard:

cotton reel- trådrulle

shebeen- olaglig krog
kraal- inhägnad för boskap
retrospect- tillbakablick
polony- rökt korv
scheme- listig plan
brood- grubbla över
morass- dy
lethargy- dvala, tung sömn
presentiment- föraning
kierie- käpp som används som vapen

/ Maria

Concerning the CAE exam

The information about the CAE exam has just been sent out to you and Jennifer Gosser-Duncan says that "All emails were successfully delivered". Anyway she wants you to check your e-mail now and check your spam box too in case the e-mail went there. Please make sure you save the document that has just been sent to you since it contains timetabling information, as well as results information. Moreover, Jennifer writes that "each candidate is given a secret code to check his/her results online". Please read your documents carefully so that you know what you are allowed to bring into the exam room with you!

April Fools!

Here is something quite interesting which gives an explanation to the expression in the heading, I quote:

A month with whole of eleven days missing. This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752. (What couldn't a King do in those days?!) And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days. And that's how "Paid Leave" was born. Hail the King!!!

Before that April is the first Month of the year. Even then people didn’t agree to use the Roman Julian Calendar and celebrated 1st April as a New Year then the King announced that, those who celebrate April as the New Year are fools… (April fools…)
Histories are really interesting!

Source:

(http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst14783_September-1752-Calendar.aspx)