by Alliance Française | Aug 30, 2015 | Blog
Martine, French tutor with Alliance Française de Bristol, read it with a group of students. They took some of the parts and read them out loud in the lessons. It is the story of a baker whose wife, Aurélie, has disappeared, everybody knows she has left with a...
by Alliance Française | Aug 23, 2015 | Blog
What do the French say about the British? The first thing is that they don’t talk about the British ( les Britanniques), they talk about the English ( les Anglais) and they don’t seem to understand the difference between the English, the Scots ( les...
by Alliance Française | Aug 16, 2015 | Blog
This painting is actually in an exhibition at Bristol City Museum, for more info. Why The Gate of Calais? The painting ( le tableau) depicts a scene in Calais where Hogarth stopped on his way back from a visit in France. He was drawing the arms of England on the old...
by Alliance Française | Aug 9, 2015 | Blog
Véronique, French tutor with Alliance Française de Bath, studied this book with a group of students this last academic year.The story is set in a deserted seaside town, there is the disappearance of a dangerous mentally disturbed man, a rape, a body or… bodies,...
by Alliance Française | Aug 2, 2015 | Blog
Paris Plage was created in 2002, it is la treizième édition this year and it becomes more and more ambitious every year.So what is Paris Plage? 5000 tonnes de sable ( sable is sand) des piscines ( swimming pools) des buvettes ( small cafés) des glaciers ( icecream...
