Come to our photo exhibition on the 13th March 2010, 19h30, at St Lukes’Church Hall-Wellsway in Bath.
The theme is “Tableau d’enfance”. Do you have a fond souvenir of your childhood? Share it with us with the help of a photo and a short text in French (maximum 800 characters).
Either submit a photo or come and help us select the best contributions. Prizes will be awarded to the winners.
Share supper with students who have French tuition with Alliance Française, bring your friends and bring food and wine too!
Tickets: £6.00 (apéritif included)
Click here to contact us.
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Monday, 1 March 2010
A talk on French gardens presented by a French tutor and guide for students taking French lessons with Alliance Française de Bristol
Florence, French tutor and guide will talk and show photos on modern gardens in Paris that you may know nothing about. She'll also present some unusual and quaint ones in the Loire Valley: plenty of new ideas for visits!
French students taking tuition with Alliance Française are warmly encouraged to come as well as anyone with a GCSE French who likes gardens.
Just click here for information about the event.
French students taking tuition with Alliance Française are warmly encouraged to come as well as anyone with a GCSE French who likes gardens.
Just click here for information about the event.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
We also celebrate Valentine's day in France: La St Valentin
French people like sending their Valentine messages via the national press: one of our French tutors has looked at
some of these messages with her students in one of the French lessons as well as some of the more famous quotes on love. Here are a couple:
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas." Pascal
"La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon cœur." Paul Eluard
For a lot of students who learn French, verbs and tenses are difficult, for French people too, here is what Jean Cocteau wrote about the verb aimer:
"Le verbe aimer est difficile à conjuguer: son passé n'est pas simple, son présent n'est qu'indicatif et son futur est toujours conditionnel."
Ask your French teacher to explain these quotes to you if you are not sure.
some of these messages with her students in one of the French lessons as well as some of the more famous quotes on love. Here are a couple:
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas." Pascal
"La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon cœur." Paul Eluard
For a lot of students who learn French, verbs and tenses are difficult, for French people too, here is what Jean Cocteau wrote about the verb aimer:
"Le verbe aimer est difficile à conjuguer: son passé n'est pas simple, son présent n'est qu'indicatif et son futur est toujours conditionnel."
Ask your French teacher to explain these quotes to you if you are not sure.
Monday, 8 February 2010
A French tutor of Alliance Française in Bath explains an old French tradition
Here is a little poem for Candlemas, la Chandeleur. In the old days in France, women lit candles, des chandelles so the word Chandeleur , to protect the house from fire and lightning.
Do you know that in France we eat pancakes, des crêpes on that day? And you must toss them in the air!
Le Perce-Neige
Violette de la Chandeleur,
Perce, perce, perce-neige,
Annonces-tu la Chandeleur,
Le soleil et son cortège
De chansons, de fruits, de fleurs ?
Perce, perce, perce-neige
À la Chandeleur.
Robert Desnos
http://bath.afbristol.org.uk/courses/
Do you know that in France we eat pancakes, des crêpes on that day? And you must toss them in the air!
Le Perce-Neige
Violette de la Chandeleur,
Perce, perce, perce-neige,
Annonces-tu la Chandeleur,
Le soleil et son cortège
De chansons, de fruits, de fleurs ?
Perce, perce, perce-neige
À la Chandeleur.
Robert Desnos
http://bath.afbristol.org.uk/courses/
Saturday, 30 January 2010
With Les Bleus hosting Les Blancs in Paris on the 20th March, the posting below is rather timely
Doing some revision on the future tense, one student taking French lessons with Alliance Française de Bristol decided to write the 10 commandments of the rugby player in French , using the future tense.
Les 10 commandements du joueur de rugby
Tu ne tricheras jamais.
Il faudra que tu fasses un régime strict : Tu ne boiras jamais trop d’alcool et tu mangeras beaucoup de légumes et des protéines.
Tu t’entraîneras tous les jours 3 heures, soit au gymnase, soit au club de l’équipe.
Tu ne fumeras jamais.
Tu représenteras toujours ton club comme un ambassadeur de sport.
Tu aideras les enfants à l’école locale.
Tu mettras le rugby avant ton plaisir mais il faudra que tu considères le rugby comme ton plaisir.
Tu devras avoir l’esprit d’équipe et tes co-équipiers te respecteront.
Tu essaieras de gagner chaque match.
Mais surtout il faudra que tu donnes à ton père des billets gratuits pour les matchs.
Le père d’un joueur de Gloucester.
Et vous, pouvez-vous nous envoyer les 10 commandements d’une autre profession ?
Write your Ten Commandments in the future tense or why not practise your subjunctive:
il faut que tu fasses un régime très strict etc....
Put your version in the comments on the blog or send them to: Alliance Française de Bristol through our site
Les 10 commandements du joueur de rugby
Tu ne tricheras jamais.
Il faudra que tu fasses un régime strict : Tu ne boiras jamais trop d’alcool et tu mangeras beaucoup de légumes et des protéines.
Tu t’entraîneras tous les jours 3 heures, soit au gymnase, soit au club de l’équipe.
Tu ne fumeras jamais.
Tu représenteras toujours ton club comme un ambassadeur de sport.
Tu aideras les enfants à l’école locale.
Tu mettras le rugby avant ton plaisir mais il faudra que tu considères le rugby comme ton plaisir.
Tu devras avoir l’esprit d’équipe et tes co-équipiers te respecteront.
Tu essaieras de gagner chaque match.
Mais surtout il faudra que tu donnes à ton père des billets gratuits pour les matchs.
Le père d’un joueur de Gloucester.
Et vous, pouvez-vous nous envoyer les 10 commandements d’une autre profession ?
Write your Ten Commandments in the future tense or why not practise your subjunctive:
il faut que tu fasses un régime très strict etc....
Put your version in the comments on the blog or send them to: Alliance Française de Bristol through our site
Saturday, 23 January 2010
A nice easy French recipe for these cold evenings!
Chouquettes salées au fromage de chèvre et fines herbes
Ingredients:
* 40 g of butter, cut in small pieces
* 125 ml of water
* 75 g of sifted flour
* 1 to 2 eggs ( beat one egg only)
* 40 g goat’s cheese
* Some finely chopped chives
* Salt/ pepper
Preheat the oven to 225C/ Gas 8
Heat the water and butter in a saucepan. When the butter has melted and the liquid is boiling remove from the heat, add the flour at once and stir it energetically with a wooden spoon. The mixture must come off the sides of the saucepan and form a dough.
Add the whole egg and beat the mixture. Add some more egg and evaluate if the dough needs more egg; the mixture must form a ‘point’ on the finger and must be homogeneous.
Add the goats’ cheese, the chives and season; mix just enough to incorporate these ingredients.
Line a tray with baking parchment and form choux buns either with a spoon or a piping bag. Brush each bun with egg wash (whole egg+ water well whisked). With a wet fork, push down the point of each bun - this will allow each bun to rise evenly.
Lower the oven temperature to 200C and bake the buns for 15 minutes.
Tip: At the end of the cooking time, leave the oven on and open the oven door for 3 to 4 minutes - this will allow the choux to dry and avoid them collapsing.
Recipe provided by Isabelle, French tutor with Alliance française de Bristol and chef at La Cuizine
Ingredients:
* 40 g of butter, cut in small pieces
* 125 ml of water
* 75 g of sifted flour
* 1 to 2 eggs ( beat one egg only)
* 40 g goat’s cheese
* Some finely chopped chives
* Salt/ pepper
Preheat the oven to 225C/ Gas 8
Heat the water and butter in a saucepan. When the butter has melted and the liquid is boiling remove from the heat, add the flour at once and stir it energetically with a wooden spoon. The mixture must come off the sides of the saucepan and form a dough.
Add the whole egg and beat the mixture. Add some more egg and evaluate if the dough needs more egg; the mixture must form a ‘point’ on the finger and must be homogeneous.
Add the goats’ cheese, the chives and season; mix just enough to incorporate these ingredients.
Line a tray with baking parchment and form choux buns either with a spoon or a piping bag. Brush each bun with egg wash (whole egg+ water well whisked). With a wet fork, push down the point of each bun - this will allow each bun to rise evenly.
Lower the oven temperature to 200C and bake the buns for 15 minutes.
Tip: At the end of the cooking time, leave the oven on and open the oven door for 3 to 4 minutes - this will allow the choux to dry and avoid them collapsing.
Recipe provided by Isabelle, French tutor with Alliance française de Bristol and chef at La Cuizine
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Make French Fun Through Theatre
Come and share with us an evening of games and drama in accessible French!
Tuesday 19th January, 2010
8.30 pm
Comedy Box, above the Hen and Chicken
210 North Street
Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 1JF
£2 at the door
Tuesday 19th will be the end of a ten-week course, and the evening will give the brave actors/French students a chance to show us what they can do! There'll be a few games with the audience and some short scenes created especially for the occasion.
Simon Fry of Venue commented after last year's event: "Their efforts culminated in the performance of some innovative and amusing role plays before a 50-strong audience, enjoyed immensely by participant and observer alike." There will be time after the show to socialise with the actors. As Simon says, "you may not end up at Cannes, but you'll no doubt be clicking glasses in the bar after a stellar showing."
A new 'French through Theatre' course will start up in March if you are interested in joining us: all you need is a good GCSE level, no previous acting experience is required! It's a fun way to learn French in context.
Past student feedback has been incredibly positive: "it's a completely different way of learning French. It's amazing how much you take in without even realising it. Acting was never really my thing, but acting in French is completely different! It's great fun and I'd recommend the course to everyone."
More info on the course on www.theatre-vo.com
A bientôt!
Tuesday 19th January, 2010
8.30 pm
Comedy Box, above the Hen and Chicken
210 North Street
Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 1JF
£2 at the door
Tuesday 19th will be the end of a ten-week course, and the evening will give the brave actors/French students a chance to show us what they can do! There'll be a few games with the audience and some short scenes created especially for the occasion.
Simon Fry of Venue commented after last year's event: "Their efforts culminated in the performance of some innovative and amusing role plays before a 50-strong audience, enjoyed immensely by participant and observer alike." There will be time after the show to socialise with the actors. As Simon says, "you may not end up at Cannes, but you'll no doubt be clicking glasses in the bar after a stellar showing."
A new 'French through Theatre' course will start up in March if you are interested in joining us: all you need is a good GCSE level, no previous acting experience is required! It's a fun way to learn French in context.
Past student feedback has been incredibly positive: "it's a completely different way of learning French. It's amazing how much you take in without even realising it. Acting was never really my thing, but acting in French is completely different! It's great fun and I'd recommend the course to everyone."
More info on the course on www.theatre-vo.com
A bientôt!
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