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...
