by Alliance Française | Sep 15, 2013 | Blog
Alan, in Martine’s French Tuesday morning class, wrote two portraits: one was published last week with the drawing. The one below was inspired by the style of Fred Vargas, contemporary French detective story writer ( écrivain de polars), for more info on Fred...
by Alliance Française | Sep 8, 2013 | Blog
Martine’s students wrote portraits, in French, after having studied some by the great French novelists ( les romanciers) of the 19th century. Alan wrote an imaginery portrait. Could you draw this man? One of the students did when Alan was reading out loud...
by Alliance Française | Sep 1, 2013 | Blog
Robin, student in the Tuesday morning French tuition class, decided to make a portrait of Georges Brassens, inspired by the photo below:Un portrait de BrassensC’était une pipe énorme façonnée de bruyère, la pipe de quelqu’un qui ne faisait pas les choses à...
by Alliance Française | Aug 25, 2013 | Blog
In Martine’s French class, students studied portraits written by 19th and 20th century writers, they, then, wrote their own portraits of someone they knew or of someone in a painting, or of an imaginary person.Here is Sarah’s portrait: Il est debout,...
by Alliance Française | Aug 18, 2013 | Blog
It is a play written in 1923 about a doctor who is a real charlatan but is so manipulative that he is trusted by all his patients, it is very funny but also thought provoking as it could be written today.Martine’s Tuesday morning French class studied it read it...
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