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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-07-11, Page 2Pap 21-4Luoinow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 11, 1979 „ti•••*,wat-4400,4**,00111,0%,$•***.:•:: Annie Cote, right, a Quebec student Is visiting with Joanne Bregman, left, of Culross township on an English -French exchange. Annie will be learning English while she visits. with the Bregrnan family for . two weeks and then Joanne will go home with Annie to Chicoutimi, Quebec to learn corfveilational French. The girls agree this type of immersion In the language is really the only way to learn to speak another language, They have discovered the language barrier has not prevented their developing a friendship. They Manage to help each other understand with the assistance of a dictionary.' [Sentinel StidtPhote] • Quebec student visit Langside on exchange Two girls participating in a French -Eng- lish exchange have learned that a language barrier does not stop a friendship's development. Joanne Bregman, 15, of Culross and Annie Cote, 14, of ChiCoutimi, Quebec •have discovered they can carry on •.* endless conversations as teenagers do, even though they have to keep an Etiglish-French dictionary handy for .the words they do not know in. each other's language. -Annie is 'visiting: with the Bregman family until July 11 when she. and Joanne will go to Chicoutiini. Joanne will spend • until July 25 with Annie's family. Both girls have studied their new lan- guage for three •years. Neither hkve had. Much opportunity to converse in their new language and are finding the best way to learn to speak a new language is to immerse yourself with people who speak it fluently. Annie has asked the Bregmans to speak English and only resort to trans- lating into French occasionally when she vannotunderstand at all. Her 'English is still painfully slow as is Joanne's French and they find a dictionary necessary but they say it is surprising how much they have picked up during Annie's visit. Annie lives in a town about the size of Stratford,. near 'Lac St Jean about 350 miles northeast of Montreal. She lives with her parents, two brothers and a sister. Her father is employed at James Bay and lives there, rettimitig home once every two months. Her mother teaches reading to grades, one, two and three. \\ Annie likes to'paitit and takes private art lessons. She enjoys bicycling, swimming; skiing, badrninton, roller skating, ballet and jaidancing. She plans to persue a career as a surgical nurse when she c mnpletes school. Annie has found she quite likes farm life since she's been staying with the Breg- mans. She has been helping Joanne with her chores around the farm and they plan to make a real farmer out of her heft* she goeshome. Both girls, believe an exchange such as this one is valuable beeause it improves their conversational ability in the new language they are studying, Joanne also points out there are similarities between the two languages. A word will be spelled the same in both but pronounced differ ently so sometimes it ;isn't difficult to understand. They have found the package directions on food and household products helpful in their learning to speak each other's langdage, because they are pub- lished in. both English and French. Annie has, noticed fathily. life in Ontario is Similar to Quebec family ways and the foo0, is the -same. The biggest differences have been between urban and country lifestyles. The • exchange is ' sponsored by the Canadian Council of -Christians and Jews and was arranged through the girls' high schaols. Activities planned for the French students while 'in Bruce County include. a tour of the Bruce Nuclear Development, a visit to Telesat, near Allan Parkwhich monitors the Canadian Conimunications satellite and a trip to the great slide ride at Collingwood. . When Joanne goes to Que6ec they will be going to pick blueberries and visiting • the Plains of Abraham. Annie says .she would like to visit with the Bregmans again but it is a very long trip ,by. train and bus froin Chlentitimi and she will probably wait until she is older to make a return visit. It is apparent being a Quebec teenager isn't all that different from being a teen- ager in Ontario. Annie likes John Travolta, Sean Cassidy and the Bee Gees. THE 7 STEPSTO HEALTH) CAN CANCER BE BEATEN) • ---Y-CYJ-BF.T YO(413 LIFE IT CAN PLEASE"GIVE CANAbIAN CANCER SOCIETY Trespass •from page 1. School, ,Brucefield, was George Kloster, president of the Oxford County Federation of Agriculture. Mr. Kloster showed his, organization's agricultural film, A Ques- tion Of Balance. Mr.. Kloster explained his group decided to make the ,fllm three years ago when there was a great deal of discussion in Oxford County about drawing up an official land use plan_fpr the county. Mr. Kloster said while interest .groups such as land developers .we're well represented in discussions with county offidals, no one was really representing farmers. Mr Klosler pointed out since farmers make . up only five per cent of the population, they needed to convince the general population to share their views on land use in the county. They decided to produce a film , outlining their views on agriculture and the dangers of encroaching urbanization. The film took two years to produce and cost the group 522,000. The speaker said the film has since been shown all across the province, on televisiOn, • at agricultural conferences and has even been sent to Europe for viewing. Mr. Kloster said county officials ' con- gratulated the Oxford County F. of A. for having the greatest influence on the way the official plan for the county finally shaped up.: Under the Oxford plan, there are buffer zones between intensive-agultural areas and urban centres and severances , are allowed only in the case of the purchases of 'adjoining farms, without a special appeal process. Bill . Crawford, the fieldman for the Huron County federation told the audience the executive will be canvassing for new federation members in Stephen, Usborne and Ashfield - townships on July 17 to 19. The executive also asked federation' members to submit the names of those people in the county who have made a worthwhile contribution to agriculture for the annual Huron County Federation of Agriculture Award. Here from Ghana 4rom page 1 - tion on,how to use fertilizers and chemicals says Wilfred. He is the fifth child of a family of seven. He has three brothers and three sisters. His younger brother farms with him but they are The only two to take an interest in farming. His one brother Works for the government and his other brother is a policeman. His sisters are housewives. Wilfred's mother moved from the farm where they were raised in the eastern region of Ghana near his hometown of Kwabeng after his father's death. They now live 160 miles away in the Ashanti region, This is the farm Wilfred operates with his brother. His mother and younger brother are managing the farm with the assistance of three farm Workers, while: Wilfred is in Canada. Because the farming methods in Ghana are still very primitive,. they do much of their work by hand. Wilfred finds Canadian farmers very dependent on machinery. The most surprising thing about Ontario to Wilfred is there are no blacks living in thiseountry. In the rural areas as well as the urban. centres in Ghana, there are • whites whether English or American. 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