Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Sarah is desperate as she faces a terrible situation and wrongful accusations. She is about to lose her job over a theft that she didn't commit.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Lionel takes us inside the AS Nancy-Lorraine soccer club in Velaine-en-Haye, where young men can study full-time and train to become professional soccer players.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Award-winning chef Christian Le Squer shares two delicious fig recipes that will make your mouth water. Do try them at home!
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: 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: 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: 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
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Sarah goes back to work feeling uneasy after having stolen a steak for her son the day before. Her colleague, whom she fancies, invites her for drinks. To her relief, he has no idea about the theft, so she is delighted to take him up on his offer.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Sarah goes to work at the frozen food factory as usual, but her day is anything but ordinary. Temptation gets the best of her as her son's unethical suggestion echoes in her mind and drives her to do something she would never have imagined possible.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
Chef Christian Le Squer, takes us into the kitchen of his three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Cinq. You will see the cooks at work making exquisite dishes. Le Squer wants the food cooked to perfection, even "sexy," as he puts it. His job is to taste only, but it's not as easy as it looks.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
After her divorce, Sarah is raising her son Nino alone and is having trouble coping with his hostile behavior. Her financial situation doesn't allow for meat on the table more than twice a week. Nino proposes a dishonest solution, but his mother won't hear of it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
After multiple organizations refused to finance his film Un frère comme moi (A Brother Like Me), Alain Etoundi decided to speak out by making a short film called Allez tous vous faire enfilmer! (Go Film Yourselves!). He criticizes the French film industry for not doing justice to suburban black communities, preferring instead to churn out films with stereotypical black characters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
France
In the suburbs of Paris, women have formed an association called "Femmes-Relais" (Women's Relay) to support each other and their children in times of difficulty. Some parents worry their children are being held in police custody whenever they're late coming home. Politicians like Daniel Goldberg are taking an interest in the situation.
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