by Alliance Française | Feb 4, 2017 | Blog
I’m sure you know this already, but French is a colourful language. You are about to discover that it can be as colourful as a wide range of fruit and veg! Here are some useful phrases you might want to try in friendly company as they are quite familiar. être...
by Alliance Française | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog
Martine’ s French tuition groups on Tuesday evenings and Friday mornings read it last term.Anne Wiazemsky is François Mauriac’ s granddaughter, she was an actress between 1966 and 1988, married Jean-Luc Godart in 1967 and played in several of his films,...
by Alliance Française | Aug 14, 2016 | Blog
Bumper against bumper: this was the head lines on the magazine L’Express yesterday and below, finds the beginning of the article: “Lyon – “Bouché de chez bouché !”: après les deux grands chassés-croisés de l’été, le trafic était...
by Alliance Française | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
Les JO are les Jeux Olympiques. You may know that François Hollande has flown over to Rio to support the French athletes. In 2012, the French delegation won 34 medals ( a récolté 34 médailles), 11 gold ( 11 médailles d’or), 11 silver ( 11 médailles...
by Alliance Française | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
this small town in Normandy where the priest Jacques Hamel was murdered on 26th July. All over France today, religious services have taken place in his memory bringing together people of all faiths or with no religious faith. As you may know France is what we call un...
by Alliance Française | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
It was a time trial ( une course contre la montre) which Christopher Froome won. But do you know Megève? It is in the Alps in Haute Savoie, it became popular in the early 1920 ies thanks to the Rothschild family who wanted a posh ski resort (une station de ski ) in...
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