Book reviews of Les Echelles du Levant

Book reviews of Les Echelles du Levant

Martine’s Tuesday morning group in St Andrews, Bristol has read : Les Echelles du Levant by Amin Maalouf. Read below what our students thought: Voici ce que Barbara d’une part et Nicola d’autre part en ont pensé : Le roman, Les Echelles du Levant, retrace...
Book Review : Armel Job’s “En son absence”

Book Review : Armel Job’s “En son absence”

Martine’s Tuesday morning class, this year, read En son absence by Armel Job, Belgian writer whom everyone discovered with this novel written in 2005. A young teenager disappears, parents, friends and neighbours react differently to this incident: worry, anguish,...
Le jour du 14 juillet…

Le jour du 14 juillet…

Do you know what 14th July stands for? It is a commemoration of the storming of the Bastille (la prise de la Bastille) which happened on 14th July 1789, during the French revolution (la révolution française). It was a very important symbol, even if only seven...
Henriette faisait des crêpes

Henriette faisait des crêpes

You might think this is a very surprising title for a blogpost, but in this exercise, students learning French in a class in Bath with Véronique have created a little story, starting by this very sentence, and finishing by ” C’est pour ça qu’elle a...