jobs - les métiers

Introducing yourself is to tell, as well, what you do in the life.


There are some expressions.



Qu'est-ce que tu fais dans la vie ? What do you do in the life?
or:
- quelle est ta profession ? What is your profession?
- quel est ton métier ? What is your job?
- tu fais quoi dans la vie ?  You do what in the life? (familiar)

For a man:Je suis professeur. I am a teacher.
Je suis boulanger. I am a baker.
Je suis électricien. I am an electrician.
Je suis architecte. I am an architect.

For a woman, we have to add "e" at the end of the word. That gives:

Je suis commerçante. I am a trader.
Je suis chirurgienne. I am a surgeon.
Je suis assistante. I am an assistant.

Sometimes, we have to change the suffix.

Words ending by eur -> trice or euse      Acteur - Actrice     Coiffeur - Coiffeuse
                            ien -> ienne                 Electricien - Electricienne
                            ier -> ière                     Epicier- Epicière 
                            er  -> ère                      Boulanger - Boulangère

You can find some jobs which the gender is mixed because the word ends by "e".
Un architecte- une architecte (architect)
Un dentiste - une dentiste (dentist)
Un détective - une détective (detective)

Some jobs stays in masculin even if it is a woman who practise this job.

Un médecin - une femme médecin (but if you want to write to her, you have to write Madame le médecin)










Un professeur - une femme professeur (but if you want to write to her, you have to write Madame le professeur)
In the familiar language, you can say "la prof".

Un pompier - une femme pompier.










Other jobs in this same case: écrivain (une femme écrivain), ingénieur (une femme ingénieur), plombier (une femme plombier), pilote (une femme pilote).
Writer, ingineer, plumber, pilot.

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I have found this exercice from 
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recipe of mardi-gras doughnuts (recette des beignets de carnaval)

Tomorrow, it will be Mardi-gras. As I told you in my last article about Mardi-gras traditions, in every household, you can find Mardi-gras doughnuts. If you want to taste them, I am giving to you the recipe. 

For about 40 doughnuts

Ingredients

   500g flour (500g de farine)

  100g melted butter, 90 g sugar (100g de beurre fondu,90 g de sucre)


  3 eggs, 5tsp fresh creme, 1 pinch of salt (3 oeufs, 5 cuillères à café de crème fraîche, une pincée de sel)


  1packet of baking powder (= 15g), 1 tsp orange-flower water (1 paquet de levure chimique, 1 cuillère à café d'eau de fleur d'oranger)

1 lemon peel (1 zeste de citron)


Iced sugar (made by myself) (sucre glace, fait par moi-même)

Preparation

  
Mix all ingredients in a big bowl.
Mélangez tous les ingrédients dans un saladier.

 
                               

Knead well the pastry to get it smooth. 
Pétrissez bien la pâte pour la rendre lisse.
 
Leave the pastry during one hour at room temperature.
Laissez la pâte pendant une heure à température ambiante.
 
One hour later, spread it very thinly.
Une heure plus tard, étalez-la très finement.

 
Cut up the pastry making a shape: for example rectangle, triangle, circle, star, etc. My tips: Do a notch inside the doughnuts.
Découpez la pâte en faisant une forme : par exemple en rectangle, en triangle, en cercle, en étoile. Mes conseils : faites une entaille à l'intérieur des beignets.

Make the doughnuts frying in hot oil.
Faites frire les beignets dans de l'huile chaude. 

 
When fried, sprinkle them with iced sugar.
Quand ils sont cuits, saupoudrez de sucre glace.

Enjoy!

Mardi-gras event

Sorry! it is a long time that I haven't written something. But I am so busy! I have a bit of time to tell you how french people celebrated Mardi-gras event until the end of the eighties.

Mardi-gras (or carnival day) is the Lent's Eve, everybody knows that! For children, it was a very important day. After school, we disguised in our favorite hero, in princess, in an animal and so on. Ready, we went out with our brothers, sisters and friends in the streets of our village and knocked out the doors. People opened the door and tried to recognize who was behind each mask. Some did that when they know children in the village. After, they gave us coins, treats, mardi-gras doughnuts. We were very happy with our full of treats bag!  Somebody welcomed children very warmly but some weren't happy to see us. So, we knew where to knock out. We enjoyed a lot. When the night come, we went home and showed to our mum what we collected. My mother didn't want us to eat to much sweets. It was a good reminder.

These are our heroes mask that we wore for Mardi-gras event

 In these masks, it wasn't comfortable because we were hot and some difficulties to respire (although there were two holes to breath). Every 5 minutes, we had to take it off, to have fresh air but we enjoyed all the same!

Nowadays, the sweets collection does not exist. No children disguised in the street. But I am sure they enjoy eating good Mardi-gras doughnuts.
YES! Because when Mardi-gras comes, French people cook doughnuts with a variety of shapes: rectangle, circle, triangle, lozenge... You can buy them at the bakeries too. When it was time to cook them, I enjoyed with my mum, my sisters and my brother to make them.

There is another event in relationship with Mardi-gras that many cities or towns in France organize. It is the carnival. You can see some people disguised on the carnival floats or escorting them, wandering in the streets accompanied by the music. It is very colourful, exciting. You are sure to have a good time!

Quel temps fait-il en France ?

What's the weather like? It is a sentence that we ask at least once a day. This expression is used to know what to wear, if you can do activities outside or just to speak about the weather allows to start a conversation. If you wish to talk about the rain or the good weather, you are on the good page.

Quel temps fait-il?

a few of vocabulary

The clouds: les nuages
The sun: le soleil
The rain: la pluie
The storm: l'orage
The flash: l'éclair
The snow: la neige
The flake: le flocon
The black ice: le verglas
The wind: le vent
The fog: le brouillard
The weather report: la météo
The Rainbow: l'arc-en-ciel.

Some expressions

It is sunny: il fait soleil (ou il fait beau).
It is raining: il pleut ( familiar expression: Il fait un temps de chien!).
It is a poor weather: il fait mauvais (temps).
It is hot: il fait chaud.
It is cold: il fait froid ( familiar expression: ça caille !).
It is frozen: c'est gelé.
It is foggy: il y a du brouillard.
It is snowing: il neige.
There is black ice: il y a du verglas.
The sky is blue: le ciel est bleu.
The sky is grey: le ciel est gris.

Parler de la pluie et du beau temps means to talk about usual things of life.

Days of week, month, seasons

Les mois   -  Months

January - February -  March - April - May - June

  July - August - September - October - November - December

Les saisons  -   Seasons

Printemps

Eté

Hiver

Automne

The short and long versions of the French National anthem

"La Marseillaise" is the National anthem that French people sings for national events like the national day, on the 11th of November and other occasions like in sport events for example. It was written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 in Strasbourg.  This author wrote the six first verses. The totality of the verses counts 15.

First, the name of the song was a war song and and named "Le chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin". it was for the French army. The circumstances of the revolution made change the name of this song. The National Guard of Marseille (a city in the south-east of France) appropriated the song and the title changes again and called "Chant de guerre des armées aux frontières". The people of Marseille went to Paris to help the revolutionnaries singing this song. People from Paris said it is the song of the people of Marseille. That became the name of "la Marseillaise".

The short version is always sung with the first verse with the refrain for most events.

The long version is not sung very often.