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1 Group 1 Jeanne-Marie, Maxime, Guillemette, Inès

2 English and French !

3 Belgium - Benin - Canada (New Brunswick, Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Yukon) - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroon - Central Africa - Comoros - Congo - Brazzaville - Congo - Kinshasa (DRC) - Côte d'Ivoire - Djibouti - Gabon - Guinea - Haiti - Luxembourg - India (Pondicherry) - Italy (Aosta Valley) - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius - Monaco - Niger - Switzerland - Senegal - Chad - Togo - Rwanda - Vanuatu

4 South Africa, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, United States, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Solomon Islands India, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Uganda, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, United Kingdom, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe Here is the complete list of countries where English is the main language or official language of the country.

5 There are more English- speaking countries than French-speaking countries.

6 DOM-TOM Guadeloupe - Guyana - Martinique - Meeting - Mayotte - French Polynesia - Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon - Wallis-and- Futuna - New Caledonia Other Belgium - Benign - Canada (New Brunswick, Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario, Territories of the North-West, Yukon) - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroun - Central Africa - The Comoros - Congo-Brazzaville - Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) - Ivory Coast - Djibouti - Gabon - Guinea - Haiti - Luxembourg - India (Pondichéry) - Italy (Valley-in Aoste) - Madagascar - Mali - Maurice - Monaco - Niger - Switzerland - Senegal - Chad - Togo - Rwanda - Vanuatu

7 There are around 100 000 words in the French dictionary

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9 In English, there can be words of French origin as: adieu, amour-propre, aperitif, cul-de-sac, savoir faire, pied- à-terre, rendez-vous, sang- froid, savoir-vivre, souvenir, tête-à-tête …

10 There are also transparent words in English : Agriculture, album, automobile, college, continent, culture, different, emotion, excellent, extreme...

11 The origins of the French are the and and a little. A few words come from English. LatinGreek Gallic

12 Here are some proverbs in French and their translation in English.  Tout est bien qui finit bien.  All is well that ends well.  C'est mon petit doigt qui me l'a dit.  A little bird told me.  On creuse sa tombe avec ses dents.  You dig your grave with your teeth.

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