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.

January

The French group continues to meet fortnightly on a Monday at the Ivanhoe Club in Wilfred Gardens.

We meet as the club opens at 11am for a 2 hour session finishing at 1pm. We usually start with the group members in turn reciting in French the various activities that they may have been involved with throughout the previous 2 weeks. We then will often read an article in French and use it as an exercise in both translation and pronunciation. These articles can often be obtained from the internet as you can find on YouTube various French teachers who give tutorials by email as well.

We try to intersperse instruction on points of grammar or verb declension as we go along and often set homework to do before the next session.