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Colours

COLOURS

Red	Green	Blue	White	Black	Yellow	Orange
Pink	Brown	Violet	Grey	Light blue	Dark  green	Purple

Mixed colours

Primary colours		Secondary colours
	red		+		=>		purple
	blue		+		=>		orange
	yellow		+		=>		green

Black and white are not colours
black adds shadow to a colour, white makes the colour lighter
to darken (a colour): foncer	green + black => dark green (vert foncé)
to lighten (a colour): éclaircir	blue + white => light blue (bleu clair)
a mixture: un mélange	red + white => pink
.	black + white => grey
.	red + blue + yellow => brown

  

THE   RAINBOW

	red
	orange
	yellow
	green
	blue
	indigo
	purple

      L'arc en ciel provient de la réfraction de la lumière sur les gouttelettes d'eau. Il contient une infinité de couleurs.

                                                  On a choisi de considérer sept couleurs dominantes.             

                    If you find the end of a rainbow,
                                                                                                        you'll discover there a pot of gold.

COLOUR IDIOMS

to be in the black	(chiffres écrits en noir dans le livre de comptes)	faire des bénéfices
to be in the red	(chiffres écrits en rouge dans le livre de comptes)	être en déficit
to feel blue	se sentir bleu	avoir le cafard
to have a green thumb	avoir un pouce vert	avoir la main verte
to be blue in the face	être bleu sur le visage	être très en colère
with flying colours	avec les drapeaux qui flottent au vent	réussir haut la main

                              Betty is feeling rather blue these days. Her boyfriend has gone.

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1.

This is a nice blueorangeredgreenbrownpinkyellow dog. It's trying to get out of a redgreenyelloworangebluebrownpink box which has a redpinkbluebrownyelloworangegreen ribbon.

Three young girls are playing with a skipping rope. Two of them are turning the rope. The girl on the right is wearing a pinkyellowgreenblueredbrownorange dress, the girl on the left has a brownpinkyellowblueorangegreenred dress. The girl in greenyellowbrownpinkredblueorange is jumping the rope.

It is the colour of a famous panther. pinkbrowngreenyelloworangeredblue

2.

Indigo is a mixture of	blue and purplered and greenblue and blackblack and white
Grey is a mixture of	black and whiteblue and purplered and greenblue and black
Brown is a mixture of	red and greenblue and blackblack and whiteblue and purple
Dark blue is a mixture of	black and whitered and greenblue and purpleblue and black

3.

Our company has been with flying coloursa green thumbin the redblue in the face for over three years now.

Robert argued with his wife until he was with flying coloursa green thumbblue in the facein the red.

Stuart passed his exam blue in the facein the redwith flying coloursa green thumb

Tom has blue in the facea green thumbwith flying coloursin the red and he is able to grow the most beautiful flowers in our garden.