Toujours Provence Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Toujours Provence Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Les Invalides

• British writer Peter Mayle is living in the Provence region of France; finds a brochure in his shopping bag which discusses the problem of constipation.

• Mayle asserts that hypochondria is the most common ailment that the French encounter.

• Mayle picks up an American visitor, Benson, who claims to be deathly ill with "mono;" Mayle takes a jab at Americans who create their own lexicon for common diseases.

• Mayle has a local doctor come to his house to treat Benson, but the young American, at first, distrusts the doctor.
• The doctor writes a slew of prescriptions which Mayle takes to a pharmacy.

• Benson and Mayle go to another pharmacy to obtain the item the other pharmacy was unable to fill; the language barrier provides comedy between Benson and the pharmacist.

• Mayle meets up with a neighbor named Massot who shares his distrust of French doctors; Mayle does...

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