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...
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...
