Events

The emphasis is on making students enjoy coming to classes by encouraging their interests and involving them in French culture. Cultural and social outings are organised within a class or for the whole of the Alliance Française.

Current events are usually described on our blog, do have a look at it!

Individual classes organise:

  • Trips to France (accompanied by a teacher with total immersion in the language).
  • Meals out.
  • Wine tasting.
  • Cinema or video sessions.
  • Guided walks.
  • ‘Dégustation’ of the French galette.

Alliance Française de Bristol and Bath offers for this year:

  • Cineclub in Bath

    • Ma vie en l'air, by Rémi Bezançon with Vincent Elbaz, Marion Cotillard and Gilles Lellouche: a comedy for students taking French courses in Bath with Alliance Française and for anyone enjoying French.
    • Contact: 01225 31 29 30
    • Cost: £6, one drink included
    • Date: Friday, 27th April, 2012
    • Meeting Place: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath
    • Time: 7.10pm for 7.30pm

  • Wine workshop in French with Lionel, specialist on French wines!

    • Tutored tasting with Lionel, French sommelier and also French tutor!
      • "J'apprends le français et je goûte des vins".
      • Students taking part in this French workshop will be interacting in French with Lionel, learning specific French vocabulary about wines and asking questions in French. It will be a French class where students will taste wines from Le Bordelais (red and white as well as a liqueur-like wine) all selected with great care by Lionel.
      • A two hour workshop not only for students who take French tuition with Alliance Française but also for all lovers of French wine with a good GCSE French!
      • 10 people maximum,  this  French workshop is very popular so book early!
    • Contact: 0117 924 78 09
    • Cost: £24, for the 2 hour French class, tasting 4 wines accompanied by nibbles.
    • Date: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
    • Meeting Place: Central Bristol
    • Time: 7.30 pm

  • Visite guidée de Bristol

    • The walk will show the diversity of Bristol through its architecture,its culture, its people and its street art and will be presented by Anne, French teacher and qualified guide. It will be conducted entirely in French. All students taking French tuition with Alliance Française are welcome to enrol as well as anyone with a good GCSE. "Very pleasurable couple of hours in the company of a very knowledgeable French tutor and guide. It is a marvellous way of improving your understanding of spoken French" Margaret.
    • Date: Thursday 24th May
    • Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
    • Cost: £15 (max 12 students)
    • Meeting Place: In front of the Hippodrome
    • Contact: 0117 9247809

As a student taking French tuition with Alliance Française you can benefit of:

Individual classes organise:

  • Trips to France (accompanied by a teacher with total immersion in the language).
  • Meals out.
  • Wine tasting.
  • Cinema or DVD sessions.
  • Guided walks.
  • 'Dégustation' of the French galette.

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