Le Tour de France 2015L.O: To be able to give 2 facts about the 2015 Tour

de France (Bradley Wiggins winner 2013) (Chris Froome 2014)

Le Tour de France 2015The 102nd Tour in

History!samedi le 4 juillet

Le Grand Départ:

Utrecht (Pays-Bas)

dimanche le 26 Julliet

L’arrivée: PARIS en France

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STARTER:

Le Tour de France 2015

198 Coureurs

3,360 kms

3 Pays –

Les Pays-Bas *La Belgique *La France,

Plus de 100 Ans d’Histoire

Un but ….

…être le vainqueur le 26 Juillet et gagner le maillot JAUNE

22 Jours

7 chaînes de montagne 3 étapes accidentées

22 équipes

Dans le Tour….

Le vélo

Les cyclistesLe

maillot jaune

Le parcours

Le vainqueur

L’étape

Le peleton

Did you know?The Tour de France 2007 started in London3.5 billion people watch The Tour every year on TVLance Armstrong is the only rider in 97 years to have won the Tour 7 times in a row, but was stripped of his wins in 2013 due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs during the wins.An Englishman, Tom Simpson, died while riding the Tour in 1967An average stage of the Tour takes 7 hours to rideA rider burns almost 6,000 calories while riding a stage (3 times the normal daily amount for a man!)There are usually 6-8 HUGE mountains to ride up each year!! (each are higher than the highest mountain in the UK)Tour de France riders usually weigh between 9-10 stone This year there will be 13.3 km of COBBLES to ride over!The “BROOM WAGON” is a car with a broom sticking out of it that marks the end of the peloton for each stage (i.e. that the last rider has gone through the finish line)

Cool facts about the Tour…Sept cent quatre-vingt douzeCinquante cinq

Trente septVingtDix

Huit secondesCinq

UnDeux

Total number of tyres used by the peloton (2009)55km/hr – fastest speed recorded by a rider (1994 by Chris Boardman – British rider)The oldest ever Tour de France winner (1922!)The youngest ever winner (1904!)Fewest ever finishers of the race (1919 – 10 out of 69 starters!)Smallest winning margin ever (1989)The number of stages Mark Cavendish won in the 2010 Tour (British rider)The number of Irishmen to win the TourThe number of British men to win the Tour

Tour de France - Grand Départ – Yorkshire 2014 from 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire

The Tour de France explained in animation (10.21 minutes)

https://youtu.be/h7wPa1Hl5ZA

Beginner’s guide to the Tour de France Watch video and answer as many questions as you can! (5.49 minutes)

https://youtu.be/8Q2cuqH_AME

More cycling vocab…• http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/cy

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accélérer   to accelerate déraper – to skid

s'accrocher à   to cling, hang on to s’échapper – to break away

attaquer   to attack, spurt ahead grimper – to climb

changer d'allure   to change pace prendre la tete – to

changer de vitesse   to shift gears take the lead

courir   to ride ralentir – to slow down

dépasser   to overtake rouler – to ride

Belleville-Rendez-vous

https://youtu.be/PZeWp1D8MlU