by Alliance Française | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
This is what Audrey, French teacher with Alliance Française de Bristol, asked her students who were following the Summer French intensive course: so many events to choose from, the list is frighteningly long!!! A little sense of humour ( un peu de sens de...
by Alliance Française | Sep 20, 2015 | Blog
We were talking about it in Bristol last week when we had our pétanque evening with our French tutors and students. The most famous scene in the film Fanny, created by Marcel Pagnol is la partie de boules. A tram arrives in the village but the pétanque players are...
by Alliance Française | Sep 13, 2015 | Blog
On Tuesday, 22nd September at 6.30pm, with Isa, French tutor and chef, for more info…Isa has been running these French workshops for several years and they are always very popular.She does not just show you how to cook a dish but you prepare it yourself under...
by Alliance Française | Sep 6, 2015 | Blog
Last week, you could read what Hilary, student in Martine’s Tuesday morning French class, imagined about Amélie’s feelings. Amélie is the guilty party, she ran away from her husband, le boulanger, with a handsome shepherd, un berger.For a summary of Marcel...
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...
by Alliance Française | Jul 26, 2015 | Blog
Avignon is a small town in the South East ( dans le sud est) of France in le département du Vaucluse, North ( au nord ) of Arles and Nîmes.The popes lived in Avignon in the 14th century hence le Palais des Papes.Le festival d’Avignon is the most important...
