Our aim is to enjoy using French as much as possible, to have fun sharing our knowledge and resources, and to boost our confidence whilst improving our language skills.

If you would like to brush up your French that you learned long ago, or keep your more recent learning current, this could be the group for you. Ideally you will have studied French to A level in the past, or acquired a reasonable working knowledge of the language in some other way.

The group is a maximum of 12. We work in a self-help style so that we decide together the areas we would like to cover and everyone contributes by leading parts of a session now and then, bringing resources, conversing etc.

Options and resources are varied and include:

• Grammar - to revise and refresh
• Vocabulary by topic
• Reading - materials such as newspaper articles, extracts from literature
• Conversation - about aspects of French culture and society, the news
• Films and songs and related discussion

We use a text book called Defi 3, video clips and occasionally other materials which are provided at a modest cost to cover photocopying.

In 2021 we also studied an abridged novel. In 2018 and 2024 we went to France! Photos of our trips to Bordeaux and Nice can be seen below.

Meeting Dates - Dates are advised by e-mail. No meetings in late July or August.

There are currently no places available - contact the Group Coordinator if you are interested or would like to go onto the waiting list.

Please bring your membership card to all u3a events.