Common Thread Dept: Those French terms for family members were part of a December morning lesson in Mariana Jemna's Grade 5 class at Ecole des Cinq-Continents, according to Montreal Gazette. The children come from all over the world: Colombia, Russia, South Korea, Iran, Japan and Algeria. But the common thread that brought them to this "classe d'accueil" was the need to learn French. "Mon neveu." "Mon petit-fils." Her students roamed around the room looking for a classmate with the matching piece of the word game, like the answer to "la fille de mon frere ou de ma soeur" -"ma niece." As
reported in the news.
@t cinq continents, montreal gazette
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