Voyage Angleterre - Notre Dame de France

London Journey
December 2009
DALLERA Laure SASSO Camille
CANZANI Manon
Summary
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The journey le voyage
The Host-family la famille d’ accueil
Different activities les différentes activités
What we discovered about the English’ s
culture ce que nous avons découvert de la culture anglaise durant notre séjour
The journey
Sunday, the day of our departure, we must
be present at Saint Charles station at 7:40. The
TGV to Lille left the station at 8:41. In Lille, we
had to take the Eurostar at 14H06. Finally, we
were in London at approximately 14h30.
The trip was slightly longer, but our wonder at
our arrival was the best rewards.
Nous avons quitté Marseille le Dimanche 13 Décembre. Nous avons voyagé par Tgv et
après une escale à Lille nous avons pris l’ Eurostar, qui nous à mené directement à la Gare de Saint
Pancras à Londres. Le trajet fut légèrement long mais notre émerveillement à l’ arrivée fut la
meilleure des récompenses.
The Host family
Barbara Vlahikis, was our host family, she lives alone in a such beautiful house in
the Mottingham area, because she’ s widow. Her 3 children don’ t live with her. She hasn’t
got pets. She was born in Australia but her husband was Greek, that why she loves all the
Mediterranean country. She has ever been in France in Avignon. She always had nice
words and she said that she loved speak with us. She likes French’s culture, and finds
Nicolas Sarkozy very handsome.
Manon and Camille slept together in a large bed while I slept in an other
bedroom. The night we watched TV : series and reality shows like X factor because we had
just 3 channel.
Barbara habite seule dans une jolie maison de la région du Kent car elle est veuve. Elle est d’ origine
Australienne et aime beaucoup voyager.
Manon et Camille dormaient ensemble dans un grand lit pendant que je dormais dans une chambre
séparé. Le soir nous regardions la télé toute les trois.
The activities
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Bristish Museum
Madame Tussaud
Science Mussium
National Gallery
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Oliver
British museum
The Sloane Astrolabe
England, around AD 1300
One of the earliest European astrolabes
The so-called Sloane Astrolabe is one of the oldest
and most enigmatic mathematical instruments in
the medieval collection of the British Museum. Its
size and stunning design, encompassing animals and
mythical beasts in delightful detail, make it
intriguing to behold before one even considers its
function
Set of armour
From Japan
Momoyama period, late 16th century (cuirass
and sleeves; Edo period, 17th century
(helmet), 18th-19th century (remainder)
This composite suit of Japanese armour brings
together items from different periods.
The helmet, though made in the seventeenth
century, is in the tradition of earlier pieces which
were often given a hideous face-mask with
bristling whiskers to strike terror into the enemy.
Assyrian Lion hunt reliefs
645 – 635 BC
In ancient Assyria, lion-hunting was
considered the sport of kings,
symbolic of the ruling monarch’s duty
to protect and fight for his people.
The sculpted reliefs in Room 10a
illustrate the sporting exploits of the
last great Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal
(668-631 BC) and were created for his
palace at Nineveh (in modern-day
northern Iraq).
The Rosetta Stone
From Fort St Julien, el-Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt
Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC
It s the valuable key to the decipherment of
hieroglyphs
The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which
was instrumental in advancing modern understanding
of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a
Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three
translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian
language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in
classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by
the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly
to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph
writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young
and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion.
Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously
undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from
Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.
Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's
Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC
Madame Tussaud
Madame Tussauds est le nom du musée de cire fondé en 1835
à Londres par Marie Tussaud.
Marie Tussaud (1761–1850)est née en France à Strasbourg
elle réalisa ses propres figures à partir de 1777 avec celle de
Voltaire, suivie en 1778 par celles de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et
Benjamin Franklin.
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a
number of major cities. It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.
Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812–9
June 1870), was the most popular English novelist of
the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all
time. He created some of literature's most iconic
characters, with the theme of social reform running
throughout his work. The continuing popularity of
his novels and short stories is such that they have
never gone out of print
Shrek is a 2001 American animated comedy film,
directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson.
Based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture
book Shrek!, the film was produced by
DreamWorks Animation. Shrek was the first film
to win an Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature, a category introduced in 2001.
Diana, Princess of Wales, (Diana1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997)
was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons,
Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the
thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other
Commonwealth Realms. She died in a car crash in Paris
Science museum
The Energy Hall
For over 300 years steam has been the driving force
behind British trade and industry. Even now, steam
turbines generate the majority of the electricity we use
every day, both at home and at work.
The Energy Hall showcases an unparalleled collection of
historic full-size engines and models. Displays range
from the oldest surviving and unaltered atmospheric
engine to rotative engines built by James Watt, highpressure engines of the type pioneered by Richard
Trevithick and a steam turbine designed and built by
Charles Parsons.
The gallery uses working models and full-size engines,
animations, interactive touch screens and much more
to tell the story of steam power, its inventors and users,
and the extraordinary part they played in shaping the
modern world.
Making the Modern World
Our history is embedded in the objects that we have invented,
made and used. The Making the Modern World gallery displays
a series of exceptional objects which mark new departures in
technology and science – the events that have framed our
world.
You’ll find such iconic items as Stephenson's original Rocket
locomotive, Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 and Crick and
Watson's DNA model. These objects and many others are laid
Apollo 10 command module, 1969
out in a chronological sequence that, in effect, comprises a
cultural history of industrialisation from 1750 to the present
day.
Alongside this central progression you’ll also find a series of
historical studies which act as a comment on each age.
Another sequence of showcases looks at technology in everyday
life, from 1750 to the present day. These displays use a large
selection of objects drawn from right across the Museum's
collections.
A fourth strand of the gallery, along a raised walkway, offers a
rich display of models running in step with the main display.
Stephenson's 'Rocket' locomotive, 1829 Made for a variety of uses, these are, in themselves, historic
artefacts of the finest quality.
National Gallery
10 minutes talk
The Adoration of the Kings
1564, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
In this unusual rendering of the Adoration, the Three Kings presenting their gifts are treated as
caricatures and the Virgin is not idealised. The work is composed from a high viewpoint,
focusing attention on the Infant Christ on his mother's lap, at the exact centre of the picture.
People crowd around them and there is little sense of depth or space. The elongated figures of
the Kings are characteristic of a painting style that was fashionable around this time.
A figure on the extreme right wears spectacles. His presence may indicate that those around
Christ are blind to his significance; Bruegel has used spectacles on other occasions to signify in
an ironic manner the inability of the subject to see the truth. Most of the figures, in fact,
appear to be gently mocked by the artist.
It is uncommon for soldiers to be included in a depiction of the Adoration. As in other works
by Bruegel, their presence may reflect the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands at this time.
Sherlock Holmes museum
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor
Watson lived in a Victorian lodging house at
221b Baker Street between 1881-1904,
according to the stories written by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle ( 1859-1930). The house was
built in 1815 and is listed by the Government
to protect its architectural and cultural
heritage.
It is open as a museum dedicated to the life
and times of Sherlock Holmes, and the
interior has been faithfully maintained for
posterity exactly as described in the
published stories.
Le Sherlock Holmes Museum est un musée privé de Londres. Il est dédié au détective de fiction
Sherlock Holmes et situé au 239 Baker Street, dans la rue même où Conan Doyle avait fait résider le détective.
Le musée a ouvert le 27 mars 1990.
Article about Sherlock Holmes museum
From the outside, we noted that the
museum has preserved its authentic charm,
with the policeman near the door. But, Even if
the first floor is reserved for the sale of
souvenirs, just mounted the first staircase we
go into the real world of the great detective
Sherlock Holmes. Indeed, we are invited to
take picture with his pipe, or his hat. On the
wall we see photographs of murderers and
everywhere we have objects that reference to
diffent novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . On the
3rd floor we can see the wax statues
representing scenes of crimes. Finally, the
Sherlock Holmes Museum is a fun and
authentic place, both for young than for old
people.
By Laure D.
Oliver
Oliver Twist, is Charles Dickens' second novel(1838). It is about a boy named
Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in
London. The novel is one of Dickens's most well-known works, and has been the
subject of numerous film and television adaptations.
Here, it’s a musical which lasting 2 hours and 20 minutes. From the outside we
were shocked by the people who waiting for enter in the theater, even if we were a
Wednesday afternoon. The show was spectacular, but personally didn’t understand
everything when all the children sang together.
The sets are both incredibly slick and manage to evoke a wonderful Dickensian
London. Matthew Bourne's choreography isn't the most inventive, but he's a dab
hand at creating visually exciting routines and the children are drilled impeccably. The
performances all tend towards the caricature (partly a fault of the musical itself,
introducing far too many characters that are rapidly thrown away), but no one fails to
make an extraordinary impression, excepting the young Oliver who is very cute.
However we must admitted that he sets, costumes and lighting are near flawless and
the choreography never flags. So, there were a few mistakes but the show was very
entertaining.
What we discovered about the English’ s
culture
Umbrella, jelly and cab … London isn’t only that. There the streets are very
clean and people very respectful, for instance, on the escalator in the tube people
stand on the right. The evening they eat early and watch reality show or series. The
legend said that the food is less delicious than in France … and unfortunately it’s
true.
Les anglais conduisent a gauche, mangent des choses peu appétissantes
et sont moins amicaux que les français … Tout cela fait partie des préjugés au sujet
de la culture anglaise. Il est vrai que la France et l’ Angleterre ont 2 culture bien
distinctes mais c’ est bien cela qui donne le charme au voyage. Et nous apprenons
beaucoup en voyageant !
Special thanks to our fantastical
teachers
Un immense merci à Mme Nicolas , Mme Julien et Mme Houas de
avoir donné ce magnifique souvenir pour notre dernière année au
Cours Notre Dame de France…