Here is the presentation of our class from Lycee Blaise Pascal in Rouen, France to McCauley High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
You can ask us questions to learn more about our school and hometown, or add your own presentation.
Hi Girls !
We’re glad to correspond with you.
We’re 27 in the class, 13 girls and 14 boys aged about 15.
Our class is a European Section : in this class, we have 2 more hours in English and 1 hour of physics and chemistry in English.
We also study Physics and Chemistry in French, Maths, French literature, History and Geography, Foreign Languages : Spanish or German, Earth Sciences, P.E. , Engineering Sciences, Economics and Social Sciences.
Some of us also study Technology and Lab Sciences.
We’re in year 10, so in 2 years, we’ll graduate and go on to university.
Our final secondary school exam is called the “Baccalauréat”.
We work everyday except week ends and Wednesday afternoons.
In the morning, we start working at 8.00 a.m. and we finish around 16.00 p.m.
A lesson lasts 55 minutes and there are seven lessons in a day.
We have 3 breaks including 55 minutes to eat, and twice ten minutes in the morning and in the afternoon.
Our school is called “Lycée Blaise Pascal” and it’s located in the center of Rouen.
Blaise Pascal was a famous scientist and writer who lived in Rouen.
This town is an historical town in Normandy. It’s the place where Joan of Arc was burnt, where Corneille was born and where Flaubert and Maupassant wrote their famous novels. Flaubert, in “Madame Bovary” called this town : “The one hundred spire city”.
Rouen is 150 km north-west of Paris, 70 km from the sea and 150 km from Caen and the WW2 landing beaches. In Normandy there is also each year an American film festival in Deauville, and you can visit Claude Monet’s famous garden in Giverny.
Now, it’s your turn to tell us a little bit about yourselves !!
La classe de 2GT2 (seconde GT2)
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