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Tell us about your holidays.
Message de jeanmi posté le 03-08-2005 à 17:21:09 (S | E | F | I)
Hi,
What about telling us about your holidays?
As for me I spent a week in Turkey. I took the plane in Paris and flew for three and a half hours to Izmir. There a woman was waiting for us to drive us by bus to Kusadasi (pronounced kouchadaseu). She is a French woman who married a Turkish man five years ago. She is from Lievin, in the North of France. She confessed that her husband followed her to France but he didn't get used to the weather. It was a bit too wet and too cold for him. So, they went back to Turkey. He then became the manager of a hotel (not the one we went to) and she started working for a holidays group at the hotel where we went.
We arrived in the afternoon at the hotel which is based very close to the sea. How wonderful it is to have meals almost on the beach, listening to the waves and looking at the sun downing in the evening. We could have a glass, then go to the beach and as soon as we were thirsty come back to the bar and have another glass before swimming a little. It was very comfortable. I loved it.
Concerning the site, it was very beautiful. The beach was in front of us and on the right side, we had a view on the mountains. We even took a boat to some little beaches on the edge of these mountains. The water was like a warm bath.
And you'd say, what about Turkish people? They are really nice. They don't speak a lot of French, but if you can speak English, I assure you you can spend good time with them. I had the feeling that they didn't know what to do to please us. I have never met so nice people. I advise you to go there, really, you'll come back with so many souvenirs in your minds.
Now it's your turn.
Message de jeanmi posté le 03-08-2005 à 17:21:09 (S | E | F | I)
Hi,
What about telling us about your holidays?
As for me I spent a week in Turkey. I took the plane in Paris and flew for three and a half hours to Izmir. There a woman was waiting for us to drive us by bus to Kusadasi (pronounced kouchadaseu). She is a French woman who married a Turkish man five years ago. She is from Lievin, in the North of France. She confessed that her husband followed her to France but he didn't get used to the weather. It was a bit too wet and too cold for him. So, they went back to Turkey. He then became the manager of a hotel (not the one we went to) and she started working for a holidays group at the hotel where we went.
We arrived in the afternoon at the hotel which is based very close to the sea. How wonderful it is to have meals almost on the beach, listening to the waves and looking at the sun downing in the evening. We could have a glass, then go to the beach and as soon as we were thirsty come back to the bar and have another glass before swimming a little. It was very comfortable. I loved it.
Concerning the site, it was very beautiful. The beach was in front of us and on the right side, we had a view on the mountains. We even took a boat to some little beaches on the edge of these mountains. The water was like a warm bath.
And you'd say, what about Turkish people? They are really nice. They don't speak a lot of French, but if you can speak English, I assure you you can spend good time with them. I had the feeling that they didn't know what to do to please us. I have never met so nice people. I advise you to go there, really, you'll come back with so many souvenirs in your minds.
Now it's your turn.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de grabuge, postée le 03-08-2005 à 17:56:37 (S | E)
Hello Jeanmi,
I'm happy to know you enjoyed your holiday.
My last holiday were on October 2004 when I went to Canada. I had to wake-up early because I had to take a train then a fly from Paris to Toronto. I arrived
This trajet was long but we were on holiday !
We visited several famous sites and towns. Every day, we woke-up early and went sightseeing. I saw wonderful sceneries which never, I'll forget. For example, we went to meet the whales on the St-Laurence Lake and it was really unforgettable ! I loved very much too taking the boat and going under the "Niagara Falls".
Canadian people were nice, with good-manners.
There is a thing I really dislike there, it was their coffee ! I remember that when I was in Montreal, I tried to find a bar serving expresso.
Now, I'm pining to do my next trip.
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Edité par jeanmi le 03-08-2005 19:14
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de cyber_toinou, postée le 08-08-2005 à 20:09:51 (S | E)
hello this year I'm not leaving for my holidays for personal reason... but I can tell you my holidays have been faboulous...I stayed to Paris and I could see lots of my friends and
big kiss toinou
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Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de eglantine, postée le 22-08-2005 à 23:11:36 (S | E)
hello
I tell
My family and me went to Italy==>Lac de Garde(in French of course:p)
It was very cool and
(The
ciao
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Edité par jeanmi le 23-08-2005 11:47
A journey = un voyage au sens de trajet, a stay ici est plus approprié.
S'il vous plait, n'inventez pas de mots, mais faites une recherche avant : distrayant!!!
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de doc28200, postée le 23-08-2005 à 09:50:20 (S | E)
hi every body !
The sky and the sea were blue, with a big sun, but the temperature was hot !
the travel was very long !
very borI find that ths country is better than
bye ;=)
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Edité par jeanmi le 23-08-2005 11:53
Revoyez l'emploi des prépositions.
S'il vous plait, "je" en anglais s'écrit "I" avec une majuscule!
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de moecha, postée le 23-08-2005 à 11:59:22 (S | E)
Well,
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Edité par jeanmi le 23-08-2005 12:00
S'il vous plait "je" = "I" avec une majuscule
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de IENA1, postée le 23-08-2005 à 20:34:40 (S | E)
Hello JEANMI
I read on your signaletic pseudo that you are living in the PAS THE CALAIS.
You are not far from me because I am living in the NORD.
and
days of sun for 20 days of vacations.I enjoyed
BOULONAIS as CAMIERS sainte cecile so on.... it is very quiet.
thank you for your help and sorry for my bad English...I have just started
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Edité par jeanmi le 24-08-2005 01:33
Ce n'est pas grave, se jeter à l'eau est une bonne méthode pour apprendre.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de Lynx_300, postée le 24-08-2005 à 13:28:30 (S | E)
Last Sunday I came back from Malta where I spent 2 weeks for holidays. The weather was very sunny and hot (what is not the case for the moment in Luxembourg).
Beaches are rocks-beaches, only one is with sand and thus populated. The sea is clear with small coloured fish but a little too cold for me.
Inlanders are very pleasant people and all speak English, the second official language. It was helpful to review my English on this site before flying !
As people drive on the left side, we gave up to rent a car and we covered the island with old English buses (the oldest we took was 43 years). It was very funny and we had the feeling to come back in the past.
La Valetta and M'dina are on architectural point of view nice cities. But I'm a little disappointed : I imagined that with the history of "Knights of Malta" there were more interesting places to visit.
Although... laying on the beach with a good book or doing ... nothing are also part of holidays ;-))
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Edité par jeanmi le 24-08-2005 13:50
very good essay. Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de oil, postée le 24-08-2005 à 13:56:08 (S | E)
Hello,
I am a new member. It is the first time I participate to a talk Perhaps you won't find my last holidays were very exciting but I had good time and it was the main thing. I spent two weeks at Pornic in June. I made some walks along the coastal way
by the sea. The landscape was splendid and very wild. Sometimes, with my boyfriend, we took a bus and we came back on foot. Our rented accommodation was near Sorry, I don't master this software tool but I am going to learn it !
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Edité par jeanmi le 24-08-2005 20:20
Very good job.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de to-be-free, postée le 24-08-2005 à 19:57:41 (S | E)
Hi,
I don't know why holidays are usually short.
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Edité par jeanmi le 24-08-2005 20:27
Excellent essay, no mistake at all. Really very good.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de briege, postée le 24-08-2005 à 21:39:11 (S | E)
hello jeanmi!
I'm happy to share with you my holidays! I don't know if I will have
but I
I like music too! I like singing and imagining new songs!
I struggle to have always time to play or to change job areas and consequences !
I hope that with you, I will speak very well English!
friendly
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Edité par jeanmi le 24-08-2005 22:45
PLEASE, write "I" with a capital letter!!!
Your text is pretty good, but you should a few exercises to manage the different tenses.
See you
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de magmatic_rock, postée le 24-08-2005 à 23:59:14 (S | E)
I'll answer this question within 3weeks and you know why!
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Edité par jeanmi le 25-08-2005 00:12
I'm eager to read your text.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de nana82, postée le 25-08-2005 à 15:00:32 (S | E)
hello
first of all sorry for my bad English,I'm a new member in this club and I have forgotten all notions of English.
so concerning my last holiday it was for the occasion of my honey moon,it was very nice.
at the first time we visited Agadir it's a very beautiful city in Morocco but it's so far from Casablanca "the city where I live"
after Agadir we travelled to Marrakech oh it was so funny
so it was my last holiday,and I invite you to see Morocco it's a very beautiful nation and people are wonderful.
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Edité par jeanmi le 25-08-2005 20:20
, your English is not that bad, you should just work on the tenses. See you Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de hicham17, postée le 25-08-2005 à 18:14:33 (S | E)
hello
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Edité par jeanmi le 25-08-2005 20:24
Great. Don't forget your capital letters... So long...
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de lizas, postée le 29-08-2005 à 12:17:24 (S | E)
my last holidays were in my own country in Cameroon.I visited many big towns but it was very short
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Edité par jeanmi le 31-08-2005 10:45
Good job, please don't forget your capital letters "I" and "English"
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de nouara, postée le 29-08-2005 à 15:59:34 (S | E)
Hi Jeanmi
First of all, thanks for this exercise!
In general, people have holidays in summer. Maybe because it coincides with
Someone wrote here over that holidays are usually short. I think that I have an explanation, simply because as soon as vacations begin we count the past days as well as those that remain.
However, we can't close all our administrations and
Someone must sacrifice and work during the summer. It's what happened to me.
I
I know that it's out topic,
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Edité par jeanmi le 31-08-2005 10:47
Good job,
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de anane123, postée le 29-08-2005 à 17:20:48 (S | E)
Hi what's up? First I'm very sorry for my bad English.In our town we learn French so you know . about holidays? this year I spent them in Egypt, it was fantastic.I stayed their 15 days.It was very hot,45°!!!
but people
I invite you to visit the sahara of my country (Algeria), it's too nice and
very big
.Good bye friends, see you soon! 
you are
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Edité par jeanmi le 31-08-2005 10:50
Good job,
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de RSLSAM, postée le 30-08-2005 à 12:09:02 (S | E)
Hello,
Last year , in september, I went to France for my vacation. The most wonderful is that I went there to meet my boyfriend. That's very good because I'm from Ocean Indian isle. To make 10 000 km for love it's great.
Every day he showed me different places like Eiffel tour, arc de triumph ... or every towns along the north coast. We visited museums , fairs. I had the opportunity to know French people. Their culture, tradition, their base of food and so on ..
So I spent my holidays with my love and we had a very nice time together.
In brief, I can say that France is very good and clean but life is very expensive.
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Edité par jeanmi le 31-08-2005 10:52
Good job,
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de chawk, postée le 06-09-2005 à 00:25:10 (S | E)
hello;
this year I spent my holidays in Morocco and specially in Marrakech,I was invited to a wedding of my family;it was very fantasti
ok
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Edité par jeanmi le 07-09-2005 18:59
Good try. Don't forget your capital letters!
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de idem, postée le 06-09-2005 à 15:24:52 (S | E)
bonjour Jeanmi
My holidays with my family and my pets this summer
I came back for two months in my country house near Niort. (I know that I am lucky to come back 2 months
)During these holidays, I
I received a few friends. I visited Ile d'Oléron and Noirmoutier where there were many people.
During two months, we have had a pleasant weather no
See you later
Idem
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Edité par jeanmi le 07-09-2005 19:07
I see that these holidays were pretty good for you. I envy you because I haven't succeeded in stopping that awful habit yet. Grrr.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de magmatic_rock, postée le 16-09-2005 à 04:27:06 (S | E)
Hello Jeanmi and everybody. I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!! And very happy to be there among all of you
! I know it's late to write all about my holidays right now but I don't manage to sleep! Actually I have shared my time between airports and planes since wednesday at 9.00am (First I went to New York from August 31st to September 6th. Over there, we (two friends of mine and I) were in a very fancy YMCA with a lot of sports rooms: basket ball, bodybuilding, swimming pool....
In New York buildings are really high it's impressive! As soon as I arrived there I spent all my time with my head turning toward the sky!
I went to Central Park (besides, it was just next to the YMCA), this park is really huge, inside, we can find a little zoo, and the sight is great, tree, rock, foreign people have a walk (like me
) etc... and especially building's sight in the background! Besides, in NY, I found people 
Then I crossed the Brooklin bridge and I also rised up in the Empire State Building (93 storeys!). The sight is marvellous and of course I . A thing that I prefered in NY it's Time Square! Especially during the night! Streets are packed and floodlights are great. They are huge and most of them are animated that's too beautiful.I went to the previous twin towers, but I felt a ! In Manhattan, streets are packed of taxis, buses, and limousines! Few are the cars driving in! But outside Manhattan that's quite different!Less taxis etc... and more cars.Well Chicago now
. I went there from 6th in the evening Well I really enjoyed myself and I'll never forget that trip!
Thanks Jeanmi and excuse me beforehand for my mistakes but it was long all the same!
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Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de holisoa, postée le 16-09-2005 à 09:53:45 (S | E)
Hello Jeanmi!
It's funny! I've also been in Turkey for one week in July 2005. More precisely in KUSADASI at Festival Akdeniz hotel...
The stay itself was good with kind people who like talking with curious tourists interested in their customs.
We were offered tea almost 4 times a day! It was quite impolite to say "sorry but we have been offered tea 3 times yet". So we accepted it like a warm sign of welcoming.
What I preferred was the minibus connecting Kusadasi centre city to hotels bordering the sea...too cute too tiny compared to French buses. But it was a way to explore directly Turkish
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Edité par jeanmi le 20-09-2005 19:54
Very good essay.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de fra46, postée le 20-09-2005 à 11:48:05 (S | E)
Since three years,I have spent two weeks
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Edité par jeanmi le 20-09-2005 19:55
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de sun74, postée le 20-09-2005 à 21:43:39 (S | E)
hello , everybody
I spent 3 weeks in Ireland , in fact I was in Cork , I have my best friend there , he moved 3 years ago , and I have never gone there before.
I took my flight in Lyon and flew straight to Dublin , and I rented a car to go to Cork .It took 3 hours and half by car , I enjoyed the trip because I could see so many
As soon as I arrived we had a big party for our holidays .
In fact my friend lives in a small village very close to Cork called Bailly cotton , all people I met were very friendly
, I made them laughMy friend made me visit
.I stayed in a bed and breakfast
during my trip, It has been a good experience ,then after 3 weeks I took another flight and flew to the south of Portugal , I stayed there 1 week , only to relax a bit because in Ireland I walked a lot ,after one month of holidays I came back at home .My holidays seem
there is no holidays without money , and no money without working.
sun74
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Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de detch, postée le 22-09-2005 à 01:48:31 (S | E)
Me, I've
What's more I went to Moncton to
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Edité par jeanmi le 23-09-2005 15:51
passer (du temps) = to spend (time)
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de lamyaez, postée le 22-09-2005 à 14:08:21 (S | E)
it's my first essay and I speak very bad English
hello every body,
as for me ,I went this holiday
I also visited
finally I spent a great time ,and I me
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Edité par jeanmi le 23-09-2005 15:53
Not too bad indeed.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de poala, postée le 14-10-2005 à 21:46:04 (S | E)
My holidays were very very nice !!!
They were the
I flew during 4 hours but it was exciting...
When I arrived in Egypt , I wanted to see immediately all the things around me !!! But it was very very hot... about 40 degrees ! Can you imagine ? I suffer from the weather !
All the people were very cool and friendly.
My hotel was very better
So that were my holidays !!!
Bye
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Edité par jeanmi le 16-10-2005 09:38
Good job, revoyez cependant le cours sur les comparatifs.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de trassy, postée le 15-10-2005 à 21:45:19 (S | E)
I have 3months and weeks of holidays. So I'm still in vacation.
For the
Then
And after my stay in France I came back home
sorry for my English, it's been a long time I've not practised, so don't be surprise for my language.
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Edité par jeanmi le 16-10-2005 09:40
Good job, quelques erreurs de conjugaison qu'il faudait retravailler. Attention, "I" s'écrit toujours avec une majuscule de même que les jours de la semaine.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de kiddos09, postée le 16-10-2005 à 07:50:59 (S | E)
Hi everybody
As new member it is my pleasure to tell you that I spent a few days in the beautiful region of Charlevoix located about 160 Kl. east of Quebec city playing golf,going to the casino and having lunches.I also had the chance to cruise for one night on the St Lawrence river looking at the moon and listening to the music.I take advantage of this opportunity to improve my English. So long
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Edité par jeanmi le 16-10-2005 09:49
Excellent job.
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de laydown009, postée le 16-10-2005 à 08:05:46 (S | E)
Hi , I tell
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Edité par jeanmi le 16-10-2005 09:50
Attention à l'orthographe : "I" s'écrit toujours avec une majuscule, San Francisco et Los Angeles s'écrivent en deux mots.
Merci de ne jamais écrire en langage SMS : "u" ne veut rien dire, mais "you" a du sens!
Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de helios, postée le 24-10-2005 à 18:59:27 (S | E)
Hello,
I am a new member and a beginner to speak English. Sorry for all mistakes.
I spen
and we could admire the pure green river in the valley. When I took pictures through
We also visited
We drove across the land of Navajo Indians and arrived on Moab the site of Arches valley.You can see the big holes in the rocks which were sculpted in the past of the erosion.It 's like looking through the windows.
The most beautiful site we visited was the Bryce Canyon. It was a bit cold early in the morning and we could see the sun rising on the top of the splendid massif looking like colored yellow pink and orange fingers.
The weather was hot just in time to do a stroll across the mountains, the landscape was very impressive. At last we had not so much time to do something else than take the highway to arrive at Las Vegas in the evening. It was for us a wonderful vacation. We were tired but very
enthusiast to return next year to another marvelous place like yosemite parc.I Hope that you could understand my message. Thank you for interesting. helios
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for this trip...Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de fannaille, postée le 24-10-2005 à 21:22:38 (S | E)
Hello,
It's my first time in this part of the site, so let's give it a try...
Last summer, I and my little family went back home to northern France and I must say it was good to be home again.
We spent one week in a small village between Lille and Dunkirk (our hometown), in the heart of Flanders. I know that Flanders does not make anybody dream and people prefer reading things about exotic trips and so on, but the place where you were born is always the best place in the world.
So we decided to play the tourists and visit Flanders like any other tourist would have done it. No native Flemish can talk about Flanders without mentionning "Godewaersvelde", a typical Flemish village, where houses are built with red bricks and small windows.
Flanders is the land of "taverns", a kind of Flemish pub where they will never serve this universally drunk soda, where you can drink perfumed and delicate beers brewed in the region. It's a social place where people share a lot, where you can meet friendly persons.
Unfortunately the north of France is known for its bad weather (not really true),its coal mines (though there are no mines in Flanders), for its very high unemployment rate etc... Maybe one day we will be famous for our sandy beaches where speed sail contests are often organised, for our delicious regional meals, who knows??
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Edité par jeanmi le 29-10-2005 07:28
for this essay about North of France where I live too. Indeed it's a very rich region especially in the heart of its inhabitants. There are so many things to discover from the Flanders with Lille to the coast (Berck, Le Touquet, Boulogne) through the coal mine towns (Lewaerde where you can visit a coal mine museum) and the road to the coast with its typical small villages, the site called "Les 7 vallées", etc...Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de twice, postée le 16-11-2005 à 22:59:25 (S | E)
Hello !
Me I spent my holidays in the west of France. The name of the town is "Les Sables d'olonne". It was a very pleasant stay. In my view, it's not very important to go far if you have fun. At "Les Sables d'olonne" you can find sea, sun and entertaiments, and it's only about 4 hours from Paris.
Thank you for this site that helps me a lot.
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Edité par jeanmi le 17-11-2005 17:28
twice for this essay. It is short but very well written, congratulations. Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de eglantine, postée le 29-04-2006 à 22:42:25 (S | E)
Last august, I went to Algeria with all my family. My nephew and my niece were very happy to discover
Next August we will return in my village. We will add a little girl : Sofia. She will be just 1 year.
I hope, I will tell you about my next holidays
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Réponse: Tell us about your holidays. de ellea, postée le 30-04-2006 à 22:47:33 (S | E)
you are all so lucky it has been a long time that i didn't to go to holidays for many reasons but this year i will go to Cancun in Mexico it will be wonderful i hope. bye bye
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