Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
The situation escalates at the frozen food company where Sarah works. Eddy's recipes and some merchandise have gone missing. The timing of the burglary coincides with Nino's late night out. Sarah confronts him, but he is indignant and assures his mother that he had nothing to do with the theft.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Lionel takes us to a highly regarded soccer club where the shadow of certain famous soccer players like Rouyer and Platini still hangs. The Nancy-Lorraine Soccer Club grooms high school boys into professional soccer players, endeavoring to strike a balance between academic and sporting achievements.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The Canard Enchaîné (Chained Duck) recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary. The independent satirical newspaper, known for its shocking headlines, survived many controversies and even censorship. It still has an avid fanbase today.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Meet Françoise, a social worker specializing in animal mediation. She visits children with developmental disabilities and introduces them to her four-legged friends. Health management students Noémie and Clémence work alongside Françoise and enjoy seeing the children flourish.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Daniel Benchimol continues to explore the town of Soissons on an exceptionally hot summer day. There's no better time to explore the magnificent twelfth-century cathedral of Soissons to cool off and admire this gothic architectural masterpiece, including the stained glass wall depicting religious scenes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In this third segment on the madeleine, a specialty of the Lorraine region, we find out more about the history of the famous pastry. Did you know that the first madeleine appeared in the Middle Ages?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Nino comes home from Eddy and his mother's workplace and recounts the incident with Nicole, the manager who threw him out. He fails to mention that Eddy caught him stealing some merchandise.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In part two of our discovery of Soissons, a very ancient town indeed (it was founded in the year 20 B.C.), Daniel Benchimol takes us on a sweltering summer day to visit some interesting places, including the Église Saint-Pierre, part of a seventh-century monastery where Charlemagne's daughter lived. He then shows us a baroque-style building on Little Red Riding Hood Street opposite a magnificent century-old fish market.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lionel is still in Liverdun, a small village in the Lorraine, to find out some more about the madeleine. It's a specialty of the region that comes in various delicious flavors, such as mirabelle plum and bergamot orange.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Nino visits Eddy's workplace as arranged. However, things get out of control when Nino becomes confrontational. Meanwhile the manager arrives and is angry that a stranger was allowed on the company premises. Nino seems pleased with himself and decides to play a dirty trick on Eddy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
This news report explores the possibilities of new biofuels. The company Gecco is testing biofuels made from coffee grounds and cooking oil on service vehicles and a school bus in hopes of converting waste from schools and other institutions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Lea shows us one of the largest film libraries in the world, the Cinémathèque Française, which contains over forty thousand films. After the Cinémathèque's original home in the Palais de Chaillot burned down, it relocated to a brand-new facility in Paris's twelfth arrondissement.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Daniel takes us to Soissons, an ancient city that was the first capital of France. He shows us the memorial commemorating the victims of World War I and depicting the legend of the famous Soissons vase.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Meet Jean-Claude and Rachelle, who own a specialty store full of delicious goodies. They talk to Lionel about the madeleine, a specialty of the Lorraine region that was supposedly invented by a cook named (you guessed it!) Madeleine.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Sarah invites her coworker Eddy over for dinner to meet her son Nino. After seeing Eddy kiss Sarah on his way out, Nino gets angry and lashes out at his mother.
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