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...
by Alliance Française | Feb 4, 2018 | Blog
Cadavre Exquis, or Exquisite Corpse in English, is a collaborative game invented by surrealists. It consists in creating a sentence or a drawing, taking it in turns to add parts to the drawing or words to the sentence. But there’s the rub – you can’t...
by Alliance Française | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog
In Audrey’s French class, they do! Here are some of these adverbs in the form of a poem: Je fais mes devoirs ferventement ( I do my homework with fervently) C’est nécessaire, évidemment ( It is necessary, evidently) J’apprends le pluparfait...
by Alliance Française | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog
Our teacher Michelle has written the following blog post about her region, La Vendée. Read on, but beware, this might prompt you to book your next holidays! Vous en avez assez de la grisaille (grey and gloomy weather )? Vous avez envie de lumière (light) ? Vous avez...
by Alliance Française | Jan 12, 2018 | Blog
In France, a lot of streets are named after famous people; you have probably come across a rue Voltaire or Victor Hugo if you have ever stepped foot in France, although apparently you might not have encountered a lot of women’s names: only 2% of street are...
