by Alliance Française | Jan 7, 2012 | Blog
No white Christmas for us this year unless some of you went skiing as the snow just obliged a couple of weeks before Christmas.Suzanne, a student with our French tutor, Jocelyne, likes the snow and has written a poem about it. Here it is:Pourquoi aimer la...
by Alliance Française | Dec 31, 2011 | Blog
Everybody in France is getting ready for le réveillon du jour de l’an ( New year’s Eve) which is celebrated either with family or friends: another occasion to eat a big and scrumptious meal!Young people do go to parties and for those living in Paris, it is...
by Alliance Française | Dec 23, 2011 | Blog
Some customs are different for Christmas in France, for instance:We do not send Christmas cards but New Year wishes in January, now mostly by email.We celebrate on Christmas eve ( le réveillon de Noël) with a big meal, here is a menu:Des huîtres ( oysters) et du foie...
by Alliance Française | Dec 14, 2011 | Blog
Chou pastry (pâte à choux) is a popular recipe but…. it has got to come out right! Isabelle offers a recipe that should work out each time.PATE A CHOUX Ingrédients: • 250 ml d’eau• 60g de beurre sans sel coupé en morceaux • 125g de farine• 3 à 4 œufs selon la...
by Alliance Française | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
Our French tutor, Jocelyne, has students with varied interests so they have been creating des devinettes on a wide range of topics, see whether you could have guessed this one!Je suis dur et de longue durée. Je suis centenaire. Je peux créer les héros et les vilains....
by Alliance Française | Dec 4, 2011 | Blog
The Thursday morning French group had great fun making up these riddles ( devinettes). The answers ( Les solutions) are given at the end of the riddle but see if you can work them out.Que suis-je?Mon son en français ressemble a un détective.Le potage m’aime. Je suis...
by Alliance Française | Nov 27, 2011 | Blog
One of our French tutors, Jocelyne, asked her Thursday morning French class to make up some riddles (devinettes). Here is one for this week:Je suis solide mais aussi fragile. Quelquefois je suis grand et quelquefois tout petit Je suis cultivé ou je suis sauvage. Je...
by Alliance Française | Nov 20, 2011 | Blog
Students at Alliance Française de Bristol and their French tutors had a very inspiring evening last week when they learnt about several traditional but rare French wines. The talk was followed by a dégustation of not just wine but food as well, the appropriate food,...
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...
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