by Alliance Française | Dec 23, 2012 | Blog
Robin, one of the students in the French Tuesday group is showing again his wit and his talent as a scriptwriter.We lost our Father Christmas ( notre père Noël), dear John, as he passed away peacefully last March at the age of 98. Maureen, who is a retired teacher,...
by Alliance Française | Dec 16, 2012 | Blog
In the latest Alliance Française de Bristol cookery workshop, Isa, our French tutor and chef, chose to teach the students how to make un chou farci ( stuffed cabbage). It is a popular recipe in Auvergne (cold mountainous area in central France) as it is a perfect dish...
by Alliance Française | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog
Martine, French teacher at Alliance Française de Bristol, worked on holiday vocabulary. Her students chose one word from the vocabulary, they then had to think of adjectives and verbs related to the chosen word, associating ideas they ended up with a different...
by Alliance Française | Dec 2, 2012 | Blog
Catherine’ s French tuition group is a false beginners group. They have worked together on the vocabulary to achieve the really good result below. There is a nice variety of verbs: tomber ( to fall), perdre ( to lose), porter (to wear or to carry), sauter...
by Alliance Française | Nov 25, 2012 | Blog
Frances, a student in an advanced French class with Françoise has written a beautiful, sensitive poem sur l’automne!Attention: sensitive in English means sensible in French, whereas sensible in English is translated by raisonnable in French. We call these words...
by Alliance Française | Nov 18, 2012 | Blog
Some lovely poems written by Anne’ students in her good intermediate French class.Plaisirs d’AutomneJ’aime l’automne quand les jours raccourcissentet je sens la fraîcheur de l’airJ’aime les arbres quand les feuilles rougissentet tombent quand le vent souffle et...
by Alliance Française | Nov 11, 2012 | Blog
A perfect day to publish some poems about Autumn written in Anne’s French class a couple of weeks ago.As you can see Anne had been teaching all the ir verbs to do with colours: rougir ( to become red), brunir ( to become brown), jaunir ( to become yellow)...
by Alliance Française | Nov 4, 2012 | Blog
Yet again, Lionel, our French wine expert, captivated his audience with his talk and photos on champagnes. Students taking French tuition in Bristol and their friends and partners tasted 3 champagnes which were accompanied by canapés prepared by Isabelle, French...
by Alliance Française | Oct 28, 2012 | Blog
Audrey, French tutor at Alliance Française de Bristol, is resuming her very popular French drama courses this Autumn.Can she tempt you to join up? Here is what she explains:Bienvenue!We are very happy to welcome you to this first session to learn French through drama....
by Alliance Française | Oct 21, 2012 | Blog
Alliance Française de Bath is starting its new cinéclub season with L’heure Zéro adapted by Pascal Thomas from the novel by Agatha Christie called Towards Zero.Guillaume Neuville has had the brilliant idea to invite his ex-wife ( son ex-femme) and his new wife (...
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