leçon 1.

les voyages

bina

bina is wife of vijay and friend of anita. she went to france with her husband vijay.
she returned from france yesterday morning. her journey to france was magnificent.
she did not have any problem. she visited many monuments. she took a lot of photos.
she bought lots of things for cheap price. she fell in love with paris. she liked very much
the parisian metro. in the begining, she did not understand anything, but after a few days,
she became an expert.

vijay

vijay is a husband of bina and friend of anita. he visited france with his wife bina.
they did really enjoy their trip to france.

anita

anita is the friend of bina and vijay. she went to paris two years ago. according to anita,
paris is a marvellous city. she also liked france very much.

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mahesh went for holidays. he did not spend his holidays well. he had some misadventures.
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he lost his passport. someone stole his wallet in the metro. he had an accident.
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and then he got sick. he went to the police station, he complained, he contacted his parents is
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and they sent him money. luckily he found again his passport. but he did not have any luck with
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the wallet.
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arvind
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arvind is the friend of mahesh. he enquired mahesh about his trip.

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preeti
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after much trouble, preeti could go to belgium. she received her visa only on the eve of
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her departure. and the crown of it all, she almost missed her flight. her flight had
a technical problem and made an emergency landing. 10 hours later, the plane left again.
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samira
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samira is the friend of preeti.

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sujata
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sujata is also the friend of preeti.

leçon 2. pour être en forme

kaveri

kaveri is a young woman. she is going to marry. she would like to lose at least 5 kilos
before her marriage. she went to a gym. she would like to have some information about
the gym. she asked for a brochure to the female gym employee. in the gym, they have
various activities such as stretching, aerobics, body building and even swimming.
she wants to try all because she must absolutely be slim. she wants to start stretching
from today. she keep her things in the cloak room and she follow the female gym employee.

satish

satish comes to park every morning. he does yoga and he walks in the park. in the weekend
he goes to the club and he plays tennis and basketball. he knows a club near the bank.
he does not have a stable partner for tennis.

kumar
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kumar comes to park every day. he does jogging but he prefers to go to gym. he wants
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to know where is the gym. this saturday, he will go to the club.

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santhosh
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santhosh gained a lot of weight. he is almost obese. he does not know what to do to be slim.
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so he visits a doctor.
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advice of doctor
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do a lot of sports : jogging, walking… eat vegetables and fruits in large quantity.
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drink plenty of water. avoid meat. fish you can take. sleep well. it is necessary to go to bed
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early and get up early. take rest well! be calm. do meditation and yoga.
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leçon 3. souvenirs d’enfance

suresh

suresh is the husband of kavitha and the father of kishan and sanjna. six generation, he lived in
his ancestral house at the countryside in his village. after his marriage, he sold the house
to his friend and then he and his wife shifted to city.

kavita

kavita is wife of suresh and the mother of kishan and sanjna. she did not want to live
in the countryside. she feel that the ancestral house was too small and it was in a remote
corner. she loves the city. she liked a lot another house in the village. the family of kavita
wanted to buy it, but, at that time they did not have enough money. when she was small
she did not watch television. because the television was luxury. they did not have
much money to buy it. she played outside with her friends on the street.
she enjoyed herself a lot with her friends.

kishan
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kishan is the son of suresh and kavita and the brother of sanjna. he wants to visit
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his ancestral house in the village. the family visit it on sunday.

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sanjna
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sanjna is the daughter of suresh and kavita and the sister of kishan.
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the family of suresh

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the family of suresh, for six generations lived in a house at the village. the ancestral house was
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small and it was in a lost corner. the bed room overlooked the lake. there were not
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so many trees at that time. in winter they picnicked on the lake. in the house,
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the room was too small which fulfilled several functions. in the corner, they cooked,
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in the middle they studied, ate and slept.

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the life in village

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in village, the life was simple. it was different. the people were happy even if they did not have
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leçon 4. le cinéma

harish

harish is the friend of dinesh, vivek and ratan. he is going to see the movie tintin on thursday
evening at inox. the film is directed by steven spielberg. he feels that the director has done
an excellent film. he wanted to invite his friend dinesh but he refused and then he goes
to film with vivek and ratan.

dinesh

dinesh is the friend of harish. dinesh did not read the critic in the newspaper. he did not go
to film tintin because he has an important exam on friday.

vivek

vivek is the friend of harish and ratan.

ratan

ratan is the friend of harish and vivek. he thought that schindlers list was better than jurassic park.
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spielberg
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spielberg directed tintin (animation movie). he is a real genius. his other films are
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equally masterpieces such as schindler’s list (war movie) and jurassic park (science fiction movie)....
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he excels in all types of films. he is rare to see a director with this talent.
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akash
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akash is a friend of gita. he says to gita that azhagarsamiyin kudirai won the national award.
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gita is a friend of akash. she has just read an excellent critic in the newspaper about
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azhagarsamiyin kudirai. so she is not surprised that azhagarsamiyin kudirai has won
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the national award.

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azhagarsamiyin kudirai is a tamil movie. it won the national award. the direction is excellent.
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the story is interesting. even if the title appears odd, the actors have acted very well.
what is surprising is that all the actors are new and they do not have any previous experience.
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each one perfectly played his role.

leçon 5. un accident

ramesh

ramesh saw a man who has fallen from his bike. he wanted to help the injured person.
he wants to take him to hospital. he advises that the wounds have to be disinfected
even if it is not deep.

the wounded

luckily, the injured person has no fractures. he has only scratches in the legs. he does not
want to go to hospital. he prefers to go to his house.

a man

a man (the pedestrian) starts the argument with a lady car driver that she did not see
the red signal. she does not even know to read the signals. who gave her licence. she has
to revise the traffic rules. she has to fix ‘L’ on the car so that pedestrians will know that she is
a new driver and they will be careful.
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the lady driver

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the lady tells the man know well that the green changed to red for pedestrians.
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he has crossed without looking. and she thanks for his free preaching. she tells him to get
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his eyes checked by an ophthalmologist. next time, the driver will not be as careful as her.
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anand is late for his meeting. he goes to meeting by car. there is a traffic jam because of
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an accident. he hopes that there is no one injured. he feels bad there is a traffic jam
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at the peak hour. he wants to take another route but it is not possible. all the roads are blocked.
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he says the week starts well.

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car driver
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car driver says that the traffic is blocked because of an accident. there is a traffic jam up to
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the crossroads. from here, he can’t even see the signal and not possible to take another route.
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all the roads are blocked.

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leçon 6. la mousson

samvit

samvit says the sky is dark and it is going to rain. he asks sunita to hurry up to return.
we did not bring umbrella. if we do not find a shelter, we are going to get soaked.
he says sunita to be careful. the pavement is slippery. you are going to fall.

sunita

sunita says it already starts to rain. she find a shelter at the bus stop. she hopes rain
will stop soon.

tanuja

tanuja asks mother to switch on the radio or tv to listen the weather forecast. by listening
to the weather forecast she is happy because it will be a college holiday today.
she knows that whenever college declares holiday it does not rain. that is why
the government declares nothing. she says to her mom you do not want me to catch cold.

mother
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mother tells tanuja the government did not declare holiday today. moreover with rain coat
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and umbrella you will be alright. you will not melt in the rain. but you have already
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taken decision. the rain is only a pretext for not going to college. do what you want.
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weather forecast
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good morning, here is the weather forecast for today. the sky will remain cloudy and
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the rains will be strong. the sea will be rough. we advise the fishermen not to venture
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into the sea and to be careful.

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tarun exclaims what a funny climate ! the sky was clear till now. and suddenly, it is cloudy.
the wind blows strong. he asks his wife vimala, you know if weather forecast announced
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a cyclone ? he thinks with global warming everything is possible. otherwise, how to explain
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the immediate climate change ? he can't continue driving the car in the rain. he sees almost
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nothing and asks vimala to call and tell children that they will arrive late.
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vimala thinks her husband tarun is joking about cyclone in the month of february.
but she sees that it starts raining. she hears the thunder and sees lightning!!
leçon 7. grève générale

tourist

tourist is at the central railway station. he enquires why taxi stand is closed. he is upset
because of the strike. he thinks the strikers have no consideration for public. they have
to find other ways to show their unhappiness.

passerby (male)

passerby tells the tourist today, there is a general strike. by participating in the strike
all the unions stopped their work. they protest against the price hike of petroleum products.
you will not find any public transport. we do not have a choice. we must stay at the station
until 18 hours.

sujita

sujita tells her father it is last day to pay exam fees. she wants bank draft. she has forgotten.
today banks are on strike. so she asks what about tomorrow and asks why the banks
are stopping their work.
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father tells sujita the bankers are on indefinite strike. they want increase in salary and
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in the age of retirement. the strike will come to an end depending on the result of
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negotiations. if the government and the unions do not agree, the strike will continue.
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she will have to pay the fees with fine.

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young lady at the metro is asking why passengers are getting down from the train.
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she comes to know the strike caused disruptions in the beach - tambaram sector.
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she is frustrated and says hereafter she will take the bus.
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passenger says strike without warning. what do we do ? do we stay in the train or

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we take an autorickshaw ? and another passenger tells ladies and gentlemen, get down
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from the train. the train will not leave for the moment.
leçon 8. les système d’éducation

yves durand

yves durand is a french man. he will return to france soon. he wants to have lunch
with shankar on the next day (tomorrow) if he is free. he tells shankar your son has
just finished his studies at higher secondary school ! why do you want to put him again
to college ? later he understands that indian education system is different. he says in france,
schools have a different system. the baccalaureate is essential for a training.

shankar

tomorrow is the last date to register shankar’s son in the college. so he can not have lunch
with yves. he says in india, the term “school” does not mean the same thing. we follow
another system. after higher secondary school, students enter college to prepare for
the degree, the masters and even doctorate. college is normally affiliated to a university.

siva

siva’s daughter is interested in physics. unfortunately she got less marks in physics than
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in chemistry. all “colleges” accept her willingly for chemistry. but she does not want.
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for physics, she is on the waiting list.

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girish
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girish’s daughter wants to pursue her studies in a university. she appeared in the entrance
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examination. they are going to announce the results in two days. girish tells siva that
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chemistry is as valid as physics. so he must advise his daughter to choose chemistry.

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journalist (male)
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journalist says felicitations to the girl student who got first rank in the exams.
he interviews the girl.
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the girl student is very happy. she dedicates her success to her parents. she studied
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regularly. she never watched tv. she whole heartedly thanks her teachers and school
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for their encouragement and advice. later, she wants to do medicine and do service
to the society.