Culture Cafe- Paris September 2013
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Bienvenue to the Paris Highlights Presentation NCVPS Teachers Karen Barraza and Jean McDaniel Paris - Do you know what famous person is found inside this tomb?????? Type in your answer while we are waiting for everyone to get here.... Do you know why we would have a picture of bikes on the front slide of our presentation? Type in your guess while we wait for everyone to get here. ☺
Transcript of Culture Cafe- Paris September 2013
Bienvenue to the Paris Highlights Presentation
NCVPS Teachers
Karen Barraza and Jean McDaniel
Paris -
Do you know what famous person is found inside this tomb?????? Type in your answer while we are waiting for everyone to get here....
Do you know why we would have a picture of bikes on the front slide of our presentation? Type in your guess while we wait for everyone to get here. ☺
Les Quartiers
La carte de Paris
L’origine de Paris
L’ île de la cité
CATHÉDRALE DE NOTRE DAME
Notre Dame
SACRÉ COEUR
Monmartre – Highest point in the city
CHAMPS-ELYSÉES
• The end of the Tour de France.
• Hosts Military Parades
• Lots of people and shopping in high-end boutiques
• 8 lanes wide• Goes from L’Arc de
Triomphe to the Louvre Museum
L’arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées – most famous avenue in the world and
second most expensive real estate property.
ARC DE TRIOMPHEHow do you get to the Arche de Triomphe? It is in the middle of the traffic circle! There are four lanes of traffic to cross!
TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER• Honors soldiers who gave their lives for their
country• The idea of honoring one soldier, symbolizing
all those who died for their country at the front, arose in 1916 during the First World War.
Place De Gaulle
Galeries Lafayette
• 10 story department store
• Located on boulevard Hausseman in the 9th arr.
BATEAUX MOUCHES SUR LA SEINE
TOUR EIFFEL
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• 1889 Exposition the date that marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution
• Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel
• On the 31st March 1889, the Tower finished in record time – 2 years, 2 months and 5 days – and was established as a veritable technical feat.
• Can you guess how many gallons of paint they use to paint it every 7 years?
The base of La Tour Eiffel
Grande Arche de la Défense• In 1982 by François
Mitterand• It completed the line of
monuments that forms the “Axe historique” running through Paris.
• The two sides of the Arche house government offices. The roof section is an exhibition centre. The vertical structure visible in the photograph is the elevator frame.
LA DÉFENSE• The business center
of Paris where there are no height restrictions.
• How do you think having height restrictions within the city limits helped Paris guard its beauty?
LE LOUVRE – LA PYRAMIDEPALACE, MUSEUM, ROYAL RESIDENCE...
MONA LISA, VENUS DE MILO,
Do you know how many works of art there are in the Louvre?
The Mona Lisa
The Venus de Milo• Do you know what
other country has this statue in a museum?
Musée d’Orsay
• Do you know what kind of museum this is? (what kind of art is found inside this museum?)
MUSÉE D’ORSAY
Musée d’Orsay• Home of the Impressionists• Manet to Monet
Opéra• Le Palais Garnier
CENTRE POMPIDOU
What is that red thing going up the side of the building?!!
LE MUSÉE RODIN• THE KISS, THE THINKER
LES SCULPTURES
THE KISS THE THINKER
La Place de la Bastille
LE QUARTIER LATIN
Paris at Night• Can you name these
famous monuments in Paris?
#1
#3#2
Questions?????• Thanks for coming to the Paris Highlights! We are
glad you did! You rock for making it such a great time and WE hope that you had fun learning about the places we visited virtually ☺
• Have a great evening!
• Mme Barazza and Mme McDaniel
