by Alliance Française | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog
Une perle when it is not a pearl is a really stupid mistake. Every year des perles are collected from exam papers like the baccalauréat or le bac. They are published in newspapers and on the Internet. Here are a few found in L’Internaute:Pour moi, Anatole...
by Alliance Française | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog
Ludovic, sommelier at the one Michelin star restaurant Wilks in Bristol, will be helping students to choose a wine according to the dishes to be eaten: accorder les mets et les vins. Did you know that with un Vouvray, you can eat du foie gras or for those who...
by Alliance Française | Jun 19, 2016 | Blog
As you know languages are full of idioms and the French language is no exception, here is a story with lots of idioms written by Robin, in one of Martine’s French tuition classes: LE COMBAT IDIOMATIQUE A – J’ai entendu dire que tu as trouvé une nouvelle amie. B...
by Alliance Française | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog
It is the 15th edition starting at Le stade de France in St Denis, near Paris, on 10th June to finish on 10th July. The opening match ( le match d’ouverture) is between la France et la Roumanie at le stade de France like for the final match ( le match de...
by Alliance Française | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog
They started in the middle of the week between Orléans and Paris and now they are moving into Normandy. The Seine is flooding, we say La Seine est en crue (la crue comes from the verb croître which means to grow), Vigiecrues which is a body part of the ministry of the...
by Alliance Française | May 29, 2016 | Blog
In her Tuesday evening French tuition class, Martine asked her students to write about their jobs in the form of a recipe as they had been working on the use of the imperative and the vocabulary of the workplace. Here is Kathy’ s recipe: Un Nouveau Projet de...
