French- Sunshine Coast U3A

The town of St. Etienne in central France has always kept its tram system

The Easter Bunny rides again! Seen in a Choclaterie in Le Puy, this giant Easter Bunny was for sale, riding his moped full of Easter goodies!

Mother Stork guards her nest on a tree top.

La vache à clochette is a feature on the grassy mountain slopes of the Jura mountains, away from the tourists.

Les Dauphins Links

Telephone conversations
and making arrangements from the BBC.

Les Restos du coeur. "On conte sur vous!"Links to short videos

New BBC site "Ma France"
Good material.
The French Experience
BBC site on our course book. Very useful
The French Experience
extra exercises.
CSEBitesize:
many theme related listening and other activities at various levels.
Le Point du Flé
A French site with many usefullistening and other exercises
Imperfect Tense

Latest News!
	NO LESSONS 15TH & 22ND MAY Texts: Year 2 and Les chouchous: The French Experience, Level 1. BBC Active. Les Dauphins: The French Experience, Level 2, BBC Active. BBC Language Site. Click here An excellent site for all levels. Tour de France fans? Here is a great site to learn the Tour language! Interesting Links Les Français, champions du fromage! All about the cheeses you'll find in France! Junior newspaper site "Les clés d'actualité" good for reading practice. Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes Newspaper with short, local news articles and interesting other items. Accents on a regular keyboard Accents on a notebook Adjectives which ones go in front? Which ones change in meaning depending on position? And more! Lee's Lovely Idioms that all relate to food! The rest of the site is OK too and it has a French version. Well found! short videos on Les Restos du coeur. "On conte sur vous!" Les Egouts de Paris Some dirty French from Carol French School Cantine What do they eat here? Santons and Christmas in France.

Beginners' and Year 2 Links

Les fêtes en France
the special days in each month. Bilingual file
Pronunciation and Listening, easy vocab.
BBC French for Primary Schools
- very useful.Themes such as colours, pets etc.
Count from 1 to 100!
from the BBC - click on the button by the number
"Ma France"
New BBC site variety of material - variety of skill levels.
The French Experience
BBC site related to our course. Very useful
BBC French Steps for Beginners.
Another series similar to our book, good choice Listening and Pronunciation.
Le Point du Flé
A french site with some useful listening and other exercises for "débutants".
Text for Beginning CD All sections in both English and French. A very handy tool!

Les Chouchous Links

Telling the time
useful listening and pronunciation
"Ma France"
New BBC site variety of material.
The French Experience
BBC site related to our course. Very useful
The French Experience
More BBC material related to our course, extra exercises.
GCSEBitesize:
many theme related listening and other activities at various levels.
Le Point du Flé
A French site with many useful listening and other exercises
Future Tense
Extra practice with this tense.

Patricia's French Home Page

Class Information

2012.
Tuesdays.
Year2
8.30 to 10.30am
Les Chouchous 10.30 to 12.30pm
Les Dauphins 12.30pm to 2.30pm
BYO cup, exercise book and pen.

Venue Fee: $10 per term

Coffee Kitty: $2 as required.

Wild daffodils in the Auvergne

Find out lots about Lyon. Click here!

Perouges near Lyon

Typical chalet in the village of Morteau, Doubs.

The French Affair
Some interesting fun facts

The French Affair
Lots about France, with a local flavour

RECIPES

Bev's special Tarte aux Oignons

Bev's recipe for Clafoutis Miam miam!

David & Dawn's Pets de Nonne.

La Galette des Rois.
Find out about this rather yummy French tradition and download the recipe. We enjoyed this for our morning tea and found the King/Queen for the day! Click here for the recipe

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