French

Organiser:   Tony Smith - french@ashbyu3a.co.uk - 01530 831822

This new French group is hoping to improve their spoken French, initially by conversation and perhaps later by some form of instruction.
We meet once a fortnight on Mondays at 11am at the Ivanhoe Club, Wilfred Place in Ashby. There are also fortnightly conversation sessions at one of the member's houses on a Tuesday evening for those who are more fluent.

April

We continue to meet at the Ivanhoe Club every other Monday at 11am. Just recently we have been reading, translating and then discussing some written articles recovered from the Internet. One was about the restoration of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris which contained much new vocabulary and some difficult expressions. Another was an article about a French man going off to fight in the first world war and the repercussions of that for his wife and young son.

Interspersed with these reading exercises we have revised some useful grammatical phrases and particularly the use of ceci, cela, celui, lequel etc.

We are intending to look at some French poetry if time permits.