Join us for our Spring of the Poets 2009 with this nice activity

First of all, Merry Christmas to all of you:)

For our Spring of the Poets 2009, our network School Beyond the Walls propose to any teacher with their students to join us with the following activity...

1. Translate this french poem in your own language or use the translation in your language when someone will do it

2. Post or find or ask the translation in this group...

3. Compose a music to transform the poem into a song

4. Sing it and record it in .mp3

5. Send the .mp3" in this group

Nota Bene: the .mp3 file must last less than 3 minutes... Dead line: February 10th

we have received many awards for the last edition in 2008: the first Prize for the best educational project in France, and we have neen nominated among the 70 best educational european sites for the european e.learning awards

The poem We Were Two in original french version:

Andrée Chédid avec son petit-fils Mathieu Chédid
The poet Andrée Chédid with her grandson, the famous singer Mathieu Chédid


NOUS ÉTIONS DEUX


Nous étions deux
L’un de l’autre cousin
Et l’on s’aimait
Plus que la vie

De l’un de l’autre
On partageait les mots
Nous étions deux
Et l’on s’aimait

On s’égayait de nos partages
On s’amusait
Comme s’amusent les clowns
On se battait
Comme se battent les clowns
Pour tout ou rien
On s’embrassait pour trois fois rien

Aux bords du temps
Nous tremblerons de rester
Sans l’un sans l’autre

Nous étions deux
Et l’on s’aimait.