by Alliance Française | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
Amel, one of the French tutors for Alliance Française de Bristol, has two French classes that we call false beginners. They can use the present ( le présent) , the perfect tense ( le passé composé) and the immediate future ( le futur proche) with basic verbs and...
by Alliance Française | Nov 10, 2011 | Blog
Lionel, specialist in French wines, who used to be a French tutor, is going to make students and their French teachers discover unique French wines from rare cépages ( grapes), from a diversity of regions with some rather unknown appellations.There will be four wines...
by Alliance Française | Nov 6, 2011 | Blog
On another lovely sunny day, here are two more poems written in Martine’s French class:Septembre qui s’enveloppe dans ses brumes, ses voiles,Septembre quand doucement on laisse ses pensées estivales.Septembre dont ses rosées féeriques drapent les...
by Alliance Française | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog
Our next learn French through drama workshop will be run, as usual, by our enthusiastic and experienced French tutor, Audrey. One of her students said: ” Audrey obviously has a lot of experience and knowledge and her energy is infectious!”These French...
by Alliance Française | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
Isabelle, French tutor and chef at Alliance Française de Bristol, will start her next French workshop on Wednesday, 2nd November at 7pm.The idea is to prepare one dish per session which you can take home and eat with your partner, friend or…. you will not regret...
by Alliance Française | Oct 23, 2011 | Blog
Here are some poems written in Martine’s French class by some of her students. They spent a French lesson talking about September and listening to Barbara’ s beautiful song called Septembre and they were inspired!SeptembreSeptembre arrive. Mois trompeur,au...
by Alliance Française | Oct 16, 2011 | Blog
Le XV de France has made it! Just! How will they cope in the final against New Zealand? Earlier on in the competition when the two teams were about to play each other, a French commentator on France Inter ( a French radio station) said: La marée noire risque de...
by Alliance Française | Oct 8, 2011 | Uncategorised
Le Mondial 2011:The French ( Les Français) have beaten the English ( Les Anglais) in the quarter final (le quart de finale).The headline in the famous newspaper, Le Monde, says: Le XV de France renverse l’Angleterre!Les Bleus will be playing Wales ( Le pays de...
by Alliance Française | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
La nuit blanche ( The sleepless night) started in Paris ten years ago on the first weekend of October.The idea is that you can stay up and enjoy a host of unusual activities or shows right through the night.If you went to Le Sacré cœur last night you would have seen,...
by Alliance Française | Sep 25, 2011 | Blog
The first TGV ( fast train) ran between Paris and Lyon for the first time on 27th September 1981.There are 800 TGV per day, stopping at 230 stations.It goes at an average speed of 320km per hour!In 2010, 98,5 million passengers had taken the TGV in France; 1,7 billion...
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