by Alliance Française | Jul 6, 2014 | Blog
Some of you will have come to our French drama show last Tuesday, where poor injured men were given quite a different experience in France and in England!On the English side, the doctor was sitting besides his patient; on the French side, the doctor was behind the...
by Alliance Française | Jun 29, 2014 | Blog
Audrey, our French drama teacher, once again, has prepared a group of students to perform a show which they have written themselves.You will go to the doctor’s ( vous irez chez le docteur) speaking half French and half English, then to the chemist’s ( à la...
by Alliance Française | Jun 22, 2014 | Blog
Simon Fry gives us some more information about (la piscine) Molitor in Paris:A new book tells the colourful story of one of the world’s most famous swimming pools.‘Molitor Les Piscines et la Patinoire’ records the opening in 1929 of Paris’s Piscine Molitor, which...
by Alliance Française | Jun 15, 2014 | Blog
La piscine ( swimming pool) Molitor in Paris has a very interesting history which Simon Fry has written about just for us.Simon Fry is a Bristol-based freelance journalist who has written for the BBC, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo, Rugby World, Blue Wings (the...
by Alliance Française | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog
Anne, blue badge guide and French tutor with Alliance Française de Bristol, is doing a guided walk ( une visite guidée) on 12th June, starting in front of the Hippodrome and taking students through the old centre of Bristol.Anne has been doing guided walks around...
by Alliance Française | Jun 1, 2014 | Blog
Martine’s Tuesday morning French class has been looking at some of these idiomatic expressions in the magazine Bien Dire. For instance:C’est bête comme chou, meaning that it is very easy.C’est évident comme le nez au milieu de la figure, for...
by Alliance Française | May 24, 2014 | Blog
Tanguy Viel will be meeting French teachers, students of both Alliance Française de Bristol et Bath on Wednesday, 28th May at 7.30pm at Redland Park URC Meeting Rooms, 1,Redland Park, BS6 6SA . Tanguy Viel is a very respected writer of crime novels ( des polars) . We...
by Alliance Française | May 18, 2014 | Blog
Lionel, specialist on French wines and ex French teacher will take students from Alliance Française de Bristol et de Bath through a journey of discovering wines, vineyards and wine producers with a degustation. His enthusiasm and knowledge always make these evenings...
by Alliance Française | May 11, 2014 | Blog
Isabelle, French teacher with Alliance Française de Bristol, took her Wednesday French evening class to Lille for a long weekend.Her students had just learnt how to use the imperfect tense so Justin wrote the short passage below using the imperfect, the perfect...
by Alliance Française | May 4, 2014 | Blog
Un acrostiche ( acrostic in English) is a poem you make up using vertically all the letters from one word, each letter starts a verse. Alan, student in Martine’s Tuesday morning French class, wrote one using the word: A tire-larigot, which means doing something...
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