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Le pense-bête

S1 E54
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2011

Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friend Atu in Japan. After having a picnic in a park, Mouk and Chavapa want to go shopping to buy a present for Atu. When Mouk realizes he forgot his bag near a tree in the park... Both friends have to go back there. Will they find Mouk's bag? Will they then manage to find their way back?

Levels:
Elementary Grade 2 Kindergarten Grade 1
Subjects:
Social Sciences and Humanities Programme de la maternelle et du jardin d’enfants Self-Regulation and Well-Being Demonstrating Literacy Behaviours French as a Second Language Speaking Listening Science and technology Français Communication orale Life Systems
Skills:
Problem Solving Communication
French level:
B1: Threshold Independent User (B1 - B2) A2: Waystage Basic User (A1 - A2)
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E1 : La course de dromadaires

11min9s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Sahara desert... They have to bring a bracelet as a lucky charm to Zerda during the camel race.
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E2 : Les explorateurs du désert

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are walking in the Tassili region and meet Dalila, a young girl whose parents are archaeologists. They decide to help them to make excavations.
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E3 : La tournée du facteur

11min9s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Greece. They cross the path of the letter carrier whose van has broken down again.
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E4 : Le géant de Pierre

11min4s
Mouk and Chavapa are at their friend Amaruk's house, in the Canadian Far North. They go fishing, but are surprised by the fog. They manage to find their way back to the village thanks to the unexpected help of an Inuksuk...
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E5 : Le cadeau d'anniversaire

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. They buy presents for the twins' birthday, but while they are resting in the park, a lady leaves with their bag containing Mita's doll and Popo's robot. The two boys will then do everything to get back their friends' toys.
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E6 : Le sabar de Bouba

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Africa. They are helping their friend Bouba, who is on his way to his cousin's wedding, but he is not the only one who needs help and if they stop every time to help everyone, they might miss the wedding!
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E7 : Les tortues vertes

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar to see the turtles' eggs hatching on the beach. But Mouk, in a hurry, doesn't listen to his friend Anosy who wants to explain to him the Fady, the local customs. Chavapa and Anosy decide to play a good joke on Mouk.
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E8 : Les trois mulets

11min4s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Andes. The time they do some shopping, the bus leaves without them, with their bikes hooked to the back! Api helps them to catch up with the bus on the back of mules.
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E9 : La grande traversée

11min2s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. But during a walk in the rainforest, the tire of Chavapa's bicycle bursts. Alouatta offers to help by taking them to the village on his boat. The river is full of surprises to the great joy of our two friends... except for the surprise of the crocodile!
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E10 : Le jardin japonais

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Tokyo. Their friend promises to show them a quiet place. The same evening, Miiko's father has to open a garden to the public where walkers can admire trees and flowers, but he is late and the two friends help him look for the missing plants.
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E11 : Le bâton qui marche

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela, in the middle of the rain forest. They make a friend, Taptuck, and discover different animals, including leaf cutter ants and a giant stick insect, which they mistake for a stick that walks by itself.
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E12 : La rizière

11min4s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam. They are racing small paper boats in the rice fields when Linh Hue tells them that they made a mistake: they should not have raised the traps, otherwise the rice fields will run out of water! Mouk and Chavapa help their new friend to fix their mistake and save the fish.
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E13 : La feuille de thé

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Darjeeling region. What a chance for Popo and Mita who have to do a presentation about tea for the school the next day! The twins ask them to take and email them several pictures about tea growing. Suddenly, their computer crashes. Fortunately, India is a much more modern country than they think.
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E14 : La fête de Holi

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They want to attend the famous festival of Holi, but do not know exactly what it is all about. Fortunately, Kalpita, a little Indian girl, will guide them.
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E15 : Un but en or

11min4s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Brazil. They don't want to miss the big soccer match on TV. Ronaldo and Paolo, two old grandfathers who are watching the event, invite them to sit with them. Unfortunately, some albatrosses move the TV antenna and the picture gets blurred. Our two friends go looking for Baya, the little girl, who knows how…
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E16 : Le yéti

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Tibet. They leave with their guide Tensin to attend a traditional festival in a monastery very high in the mountains. Will they cross the path of the terrible yeti, or is it just a legend?
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E17 : Les yeux du Mokélé

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Senegal. Unintentionally, Mouk breaks their friend Bouba's bicycle basket. To fix it, Mr. Dialo suggests they go see the magician Ousman who gives a second life to things. He teaches them how to recycle old objects to make new ones and even create pieces of art.
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E18 : La course à vélo

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They are going to support Cassandra, during the annual bike race, by helping her father Kalmos to supply the cyclists. Unfortunately, the girl loses her number on the course and risks being eliminated. Mouk and Chavapa try to catch up with her.
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E19 : La piñata

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Mexico. They are invited to Maya's 15th birthday party. While helping with the preparations, disaster! Mouk accidentally sits on the beautiful piñata.
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E20 : Le dauphin rose

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. During a canoe trip with their friend Joropo, they discover many animals they have never seen before: pink dolphins, matamata turtles that look like big rocks, caimans... Shortly after, they meet a dolphin, trapped in a fisherman's net. Joropo and Mouk decide to go and find something to free the…
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E21 : La piste des caribous

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Great Canadian North. They are observing a herd of caribou when suddenly, Mouk's scarf flies away... and gets wrapped up in a caribou's antlers! Mouk is very disappointed, this scarf is his favorite... it was Popo and Mita who had offered it to him. Fortunately, Mouk and Chavapa will make new…
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E22 : La rose et les cactus

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in America, more exactly in Arizona, to visit their friend Tuscon. Mouk has planned everything, he arrives with a bouquet of roses that he wants to offer to Sedona, Tuscon's mother. But in the middle of the desert and without water, the flowers arrive already faded. Tuscon wants to show his friends that in…
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E23 : Le plus beau des éléphants

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They meet Mina and Mira, two twin sisters who have lost the elephant they were planning to offer their grandmother as a birthday present. The two friends help the girls to find it and paint it for the occasion.
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E24 : La croix du sud

11min7s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Australia. They get lost in the outback, while they are looking for the observatory. Fortunately, Kelly will lead them to their destination. It is his grandfather who keeps the observatory.
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E25 : Les cow-boys dans la prairie

11min5s
In Argentina, Mouk and Chavapa meet Chaco. Chaco is a cowboy, or more precisely a 'gaucho', as they are called in his country. His job is to round up his herd and drive his cows back to the coral near the ranch after letting them graze in the pampas. When Mouk and Chavapa offer their help, they have no idea that the job of a…
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E26 : Le plus joli des vases

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in India, at their friend Kalpita's house. They are watching a Bollywood movie on TV; it gives Chavapa the desire to dance like the actors of the movie, but he makes a big move and breaks Kalpita's mother's vase.
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E27 : Jeu de piste

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. Mita and Popo have organized a treasure hunt in Yoyogi Park for them. One clue after the other, will they manage to solve all the riddles?
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E28 : Au-dessus des cimes

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Amazon. They suggest to their friend Luis, whose father is an entomologist, to carry boxes to a platform in the forest. The two friends find themselves trapped on the tree-hugger.
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E29 : Le baobab café

11min11s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar. Their friend Anosy introduces them to her uncle and aunt who will soon open 'Le baobab café'. For its inauguration, they are going to make a big party and want to offer ice cream to all the visitors of the Avenue des Baobabs.
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E30 : Le beurre de yak

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Tibet. Their friend Pasang teaches them to milk a yak. Chavapa seems to be better at it than Muk, whose hands are too cold. After pouring the milk into a leather pouch, the three friends set out to bring the yak milk to Pasang's uncle, who needs it in the afternoon...
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E31 : Le sirop d'érable

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada. Their friend Abey shows them how to collect maple water so they can taste a maple syrup pie.
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E32 : Une croisière de tout repos

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Egypt. In order to enjoy a day of rest, they rent a sailboat to navigate on the Nile. They had not foreseen that on the 'Princess of the Nile', they would be the crew. Thanks to Captain Abdel, they discover the secrets of navigation.
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E33 : Le rock des Wallabies

11min7s
Mouk and Chavapa are in the Australian bush. They stumble upon a rock band: the Wallabies. Unfortunately, the musicians have a sound problem. Our two friends offer their help...
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E34 : Les dessins géants

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Peru. Today, they planned to go to fly over the Nazcas giant drawings... but the plane flies away just when our two friends arrive at the small airfield. Mouk is very disappointed, he had dreamed of the giant Nazca drawings the night before and is really looking forward to admire them... Fortunately, Mouk and…
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E35 : L'attrape-brume

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Mouk and Chavapa are in the Atacama desert in Chile. They have an appointment with their friend Pepito to go sand-surfing. While helping their friend Pepito to repair a leak, they discover the ingenious system that allows to have water in the desert: a mist catcher...
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E36 : La surprise de Sérissa

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in New York. Sérissa, Popo and Mita's cousin, who lives in New York, is organizing a party for her birthday. The two friends are looking for a gift that will please her. But there is something strange... Mouk keeps thinking he sees Popo and Mita... But that's impossible, they don't live in New York!…
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E37 : Les petits poissons

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They help Cassandra's uncle to release baby fish into the sea. They learn to read a sea chart and the different codes used in scuba diving.
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E38 : Le robot

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. Their friend Atu shows them her new robot. The robot is able to recognize objects according to their shape and color. Unfortunately, Chavapa seems to have broken it: has the robot become uncontrollable?
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E39 : L'oiseau chanteur

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Hong Kong. Chavapa can't stand still, because there will soon be a kung-fu demonstration. Mouk and Chavapa meet Bao, a nice boy who has a very well trained songbird, Nîm. Unfortunately, Nîm is frightened by a noise and flies away. Mouk and Chavapa will do their best to help Boa put Nîm back in his cage... …
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E40 : La piste des dinosaures

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa visit their friend Tucson and his mother Sedona, who works in Utah. She casts dinosaur footprints with resin to make copies for display in museums. Chavapa, fascinated by dinosaurs, wants to see that at any cost. But suddenly Lucy, Tucson's pet lizard, escapes and everyone starts looking for her...
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E41 : La bambouseraie

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam. They play hide-and-seek with their friend Linh Hué in the bamboo grove where her aunt makes all kinds of bamboo objects.
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E42 : La fête d'Hanami

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. They celebrate Hanami in a park with their friend Miko. They want to take the most original picture of a cherry tree in bloom, unfortunately a crow steals Chavapa's camera...
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E43 : Les étoiles filantes

11min5s
Mita is not in good shape, Popo and her had a fight. Mouk and Chavapa tell her about their latest trip to Canada... They had planned to go camping with their friends Abey and Tadi, but an animal had stolen their picnic! They had to investigate to find it. Afterwards, they were able to admire the shooting stars and make lots of wishes…
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E44 : Le club des Wallabies

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Australia. They are going to help Ernest to clean engraved stones to see the drawings of the 'dancers'. Chavapa, the king of the camera, can't stop filming everything. Together, they meet the Wallabies, a music group that was supposed to shoot its first video! But the film crew couldn't…
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E45 : La vie en musique

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Brazil. They help their friend Miguel to find his music scores so that he can play the clarinet with his Uncle Sergio, a great Bossa Nova musician. To their great surprise, Mouk and Chavapa discover that music is everywhere...
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E46 : Le théâtre de marionnettes

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam. Their friend Lin Hué needs their help for the puppet show. They are going to discover how things go on behind the curtain... and how the magic works.
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E47 : Un taxi pas comme les autres

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They want to see the Taj Mahal at sunset, but their bikes go down the slope they just climbed and break...
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E48 : Un Noël au soleil

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar for Christmas. They have to call Popo and Mita for the best decoration contest. Before Mouk and Chavapa left for their trip around the world, they had agreed with their friends to make the most beautiful Christmas decoration, no matter where they will be on December 24th. But Chavapa is not very…
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E49 : Les courses au souk

11min6s
Mouk and Chapava are in Morocco. They go to buy cinnamon and almonds so that Tariq's mother can make gazelle horns. In the souk, they live crazy adventures.
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E50 : Les maracas

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. In order to participate in a surprise concert, they go to the forest with their friends Joropo and Raina to look for taparas: tropical fruits from which they will make maracas...
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E51 : L'aurore boréale

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friends Aki and Aku in Lapland. But today is Chavapa's birthday and he is very eager to know what Mouk and the twins are planning to offer him. So he starts to search the house for his present...
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E52 : La plume de perroquet

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Bolivia. Their computer is unloaded. Taptuk's uncle sends them to get a parrot feather, genipa fruits and bananas so they can communicate with their friends Popo and Mita. But what is it all about?
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E53 : L'oiseau perdu

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Borneo. They go to the forest with Juan, their friend Luis' father, to look for Pépette, a giant argus, and for that, they use a GPS...
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E54 : Le pense-bête

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friend Atu in Japan. After having a picnic in a park, Mouk and Chavapa want to go shopping to buy a present for Atu. When Mouk realizes he forgot his bag near a tree in the park... Both friends have to go back there. Will they find Mouk's bag? Will they then manage to find their way back? …
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E55 : La chouette

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friend Amaruk in Canada. But the night before, Chavapa didn't sleep much because an owl kept making funny noises. While walking around, Chavapa realizes that the owl is locked in a barn! Like a true hero, he decides to free it, with the help of Mouk and Amaruk.
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E56 : Un moulin dans le désert

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa take a bus trip to the Australian countryside with Sidney, his dad and two other travelers: Nina and her grandmother. Unfortunately, the bus breaks down and there is no more water in the radiator. By chance, they discover a water mill that they will try to repair.
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E57 : La partie de hockey

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada, with their friends Abey and Tadi. During their ice hockey game, Mouk's stick breaks and they have to stop the game. They decide to go see Oki, a former field hockey champion, who is also a sculptor.
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E58 : Le club de Kabuki

11min6s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Tokyo. Their friend Miko has invited them to a costume party. On their way, they meet Kinaki and his father who are going to Yoyogi Park. Kinaki leaves so quickly that he forgets his gong on the sidewalk. Mouk and Chavapa decide to find the boy to give it back to him.
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E59 : La poterie

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They have to go for dinner tonight at their friend Cassandra's place and they promised to bring the dessert. But unfortunately, the nap lasted a little too long and now all the stores are closed.
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E60 : La fête de l'olive

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. Cassandra has to sing at the village feast that takes place the same day. Unfortunately, she breaks her xylophone without which she cannot sing. Mouk and Chavapa do everything they can to get Petros to fix it in time.
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E61 : Le troc

11min5s
Mouk and Chavapa are in Africa. They must participate to the barter of the Berber camp, but Chavapa does not want to exchange anything they have. Mouk finds a stone with a snail drawn on top, but nobody seems interested....
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E62 : La langue sifflée

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Mouk and Chavapa are in Africa, with their friend Bouba. Today, they plan to see and record the songs of the birds, but nothing happens as planned: the observation post is ruined. Even though they can hear the whistles, they can't see any birds. Worse, when they return, Chavapa's bicycle has disappeared! What has happened?…
Levels:
Elementary Grade 2 Kindergarten Grade 1
Subjects:
Social Sciences and Humanities Programme de la maternelle et du jardin d’enfants Self-Regulation and Well-Being Demonstrating Literacy Behaviours French as a Second Language Speaking Listening Science and technology Français Communication orale Life Systems
Skills:
Problem Solving Communication
French level:
B1: Threshold Independent User (B1 - B2) A2: Waystage Basic User (A1 - A2)