Cours de Conversation

I have already mentioned that I'm taking a conversation course and that I was placed in the highest level. So far, we haven't had a lot of homework but we have had some. We have been given the task of finding out phrases/idioms that use animals and body parts to express various situations i.e. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, etc. Thats been fun to discuss with my family and we get a kick (one of our idioms) out of these expressions especially à table. I also had to choose a newspaper article, read it for comprehension, prepare a summary and pick out 5 words that are essential to the comprehension of the article. I chose an article about a recent summit in Brussels where new French prez, Nicolas Sarkozy, presented his ideas of political reform. I was in the mood for some light reading, I guess ;). I had my presentation today where I explained the article and the important vocabulary. I also had an oral critique, where I was given the task of reading a paragraph for pronunciation purposes. I did pretty well, though I was interupted by the prof to fine tune certain words.

Now, we have to find expressions that use the word "coup" and there are quite a few. One of my colleagues asked our prof at the table today for a "coup de rouge" referring to the red wine he couldn't reach. So now we're are in the process of searching (read: casually coming across) such expressions.