by Alliance Française | May 10, 2015 | Blog
Helen, in Martine’s Tuesday morning French tuition class wrote a riddle in the form of a poem and used lots of beautiful adjectives, here is the poem: Qu’est-ce je vois loin de la jetée?On dirait un collier scintillant de perles dorėes qui entoure la...
by Alliance Française | May 3, 2015 | Blog
Véronique, French tutor at Alliance Française de Bristol et Bath, chose La Mère by Florian Zeller for this next French book club.Florian Zeller is a young author and playwright, born in 1979. He wrote his first novel Neiges artificielles at the age of 22 and has won...
by Alliance Française | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog
Christine, in Martine’s Wednesday morning French class wrote an excellent portrait of Barak Obama with really good vocabulary: Barack Obama Il est grand et mince et il a l’air sûr de lui mais pas arrogant. Ces cheveux sont courts et crépus et ils sont devenus...
by Alliance Française | Apr 19, 2015 | Blog
It will be the last showing before the Summer. The film is called Une place sur la terre ( A place on earth) with Benoît Poelvoorde, Ariane Labed and Max Baissette de Malglaive.Antoine is a disillusioned photographer ( un photographe désabusé) whose only friend is...
by Alliance Française | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog
What is Le Paris Roubaix? It is one of the oldest and most prestigious cycling race ( l’une des plus vieilles et des plus prestigieuses courses cyclistes). It started in 1896 and has been going eversince, except during the two world wars. This year was the...
by Alliance Française | Apr 5, 2015 | Blog
Audrey’s students have plenty of imagination and are very good at using the passive form in French: well done!!Here is another student proving she has a good alibi: La coupable, ce ne peut être moi! Il y a quelques raisons. Premièrement, Audrey a été retrouvée à...
by Alliance Française | Mar 29, 2015 | Blog
Audrey’ students in her Thursday French class are determined to prove that they have not committed the crime ( ils n’ont pas commis le meutre) and they all find good alibis ( de bons alibis) and reliable witnesses ( des témoins sûrs). This student was with...
by Alliance Française | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog
Audrey asked her students in her Thursday French class to write a story about a murder ( un meurtre) or a premedited murder ( un assassinat) and who did her students choose to kill? Their French teacher!! ( Leur professeur de français!)Here is one of the...
by Alliance Française | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
The film will be La Cérémonie, a drama ( une comédie dramatique) by Claude Chabrol with Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire.Sophie, Sandrine Bonnaire, works as a maid ( une bonne) for a well do to, cultivated family ( une famille aisée et cultivée). They live in an...
by Alliance Française | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
We had some lovely weather lately and we did think Spring ( le printemps) was here. So, Catherine, a student in Audrey’s French tuition group, got busy in her garden ( elle a fait du jardinage), took some cuttings ( des boutures), she chose comfrey or knitbone (...
