Category: Fun with Languages

This group is exactly what the title says – FUN with different languages. It is NOT intended to be a high powered language course, but to learn the basics of some european languages to get by on holiday.

We meet the second Thursday of each month in John Godber Centre 10.30 am until 12 noon, usually in the Byron suite.

Our last meeting was learning about directions and places in a town in French, as this is the language we are studying at present.     

We also enjoyed some lunch, French style, kindly brought by Sue and John Tedstone to celebrate their Golden wedding on Bastille day. Congratulations to them.      

We shall meet in Augus,t on Thursday 10th, in JGC at 10.30 am – all welcome.      

Ann & Liz.

We had a jolly meeting in May with a video clip on wine tasting and relevant vocabulary. Also a session to reinforce numbers in French by playing Bingo. Thank you to Sue and John Tedstone for using their Bingo game and John did a great job reading all the numbers in French.

In June we continue in French doing more on eating out, ordering food etc and various activities.

We meet in JGC at 10.30 in the Byron Suite on Thursday 8th June. New comers are welcome. We hope to see you then.                                                                     

Ann and Liz.

The meeting in April saw us a little down on numbers as it was still Easter week and some were on holiday. A few are still ill, and we hope you are well again soon to join us.

We welcomed two new members which was lovely and we continued in French to recap on some basics and to further thoughts on food and eating out, which we reinforced with group role plays. Well done all!

We recapped a tad on numbers and next meeting on Thursday 11th may at 10.30 am in the JGC Byron Suite, John and Sue are kindly going to organise French bingo. We shall also watch a video clip on wine tasting.                                                               

à bientôt,  Ann and Liz x

Well done to the ten brave, hardy, souls that managed to make the March meeting due to snowy weather. While you were experiencing some snow here I was wading through piles in Tromso, Norway. A huge thank you to Liz who held the fort admirably, delivering the work on basic introductions in French and a light hearted quiz. I am reliably informed it was fun!!

Our next meeting continues in French with a crossword and further vocabulary and conversation on Thursday 13th April at 10.30 am in the John Godber Centre Byron suite. Please bring along any French sheets you already have which may be useful, plus the extra I will send out to members in due course.

New members are always welcome. This is basic foreign languages to ‘get by’  when visiting another country on holiday. It is not an in-depth course. If that is what you want there are plenty to access on line, but you usually have to subscribe to them.

We hope to see you in April.

Liz and Ann x

                                                                                 

Sadly our group in January was a bit reduced due to illness. So we hope that all those who have been poorly will recover quickly and can make next month.

We continued in Spanish with our Drama and further vocabulary relating to the story. Next month will be the same and hopefully we will try to complete it and put ourselves out of our mounting tension and excitement as to how it will end!!

Some are finding the drama quite stretching in terms of vocabulary and grammar. So we need to spend some time and thought on a way forward after it has ended. Originally, we started with bursts of 4 languages, all much simpler. Perhaps you can give some thought in how we might continue please?

As always, new folks are welcome to just pop in or join us.

Ann and Liz.