by Alliance Française | Aug 27, 2012 | Blog
La pétanque is an outdoor game that you play with boules:The word pétanque comes from the provençal: pé meaning pieds ( feet) and tanca meaning planté ( standing firm on one’s feet). The game is thought to have been introduced by the Romans and has been played...
by Alliance Française | Aug 19, 2012 | Blog
Every year, you can go to a spectacular multimedia show ( un spectacle multimédia) with a different theme. The show is called: Carrières de lumière.Pictures are projected against the stones, rocks and floors creating a fantastic atmosphere where the spectator is...
by Alliance Française | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog
Geoffrey who is a student in Martine’s French class wrote his own letter which will remind you of La chèvre de Monsieur Seguin, a classic known by nearly everyone in France. It is very appropriate to publish it now as it is about a football game, so c’est...
by Alliance Française | Aug 5, 2012 | Blog
Martine, one of our French tutors, studied them with her Tuesday French tuition class earlier on this year. Her students enjoyed the humour, the style and the atmosphere created by Daudet very much. She then asked her students, an advanced group, to write a letter in...
by Alliance Française | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
Les jeux olympiques or JO were re-introduced in 1896 by le baron Pierre de Coubertin in memory of the antique tradition and they took place in Athens.The second JO happened, in total confusion, over 5 months, in Paris in 1900.By 1920, the flag, le drapeau, with the 5...
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