by Alliance Française | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog
If you do, you might enjoy “Un avion sans elle”, a book by Michel Bussi. This book is a detective novel (un roman policier, ou un polar). It starts with a plane crash (un avion qui s’écrase) in December 1980, in the Jura, mountains in France on the...
by Alliance Française | Mar 10, 2018 | Blog
In the paralympic games (les Jeux paralympiques), Marie Bochet has won a gold medal (une médaille d’or). She is only 24 – elle n’a que 24 ans! Of course she explains she was feeling under pressure (sous pression) before the ski run (la descente),...
by Alliance Française | Mar 3, 2018 | Blog
The last few days have been surreal in Bristol, with lots of snow. Renee who started her French class with us last September and who was then almost a beginner wrote the following poem: Il neige Tout le monde est blanc Tout le monde est silencieux Les petits oiseaux...
by Alliance Française | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
Have you been watching Engrenages, Spiral in English? We had been left on a cliff hanger ( laissé en suspens) at the end of season 5 with Laure Berthaud (le commandant), several months pregnant, in hospital with a stab wound in her tummy. Fortunately, the baby...
by Alliance Française | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
One of the Alliance Française de Bristol friends has decided to share with you his love for this great French classic: Cyrano de Bergerac. It is a play written in Alexandrin verse, each line has 12 syllables. Cyrano is a soldier with an unusually large nose, and it is...
