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FRENCH COURSES
TERM 3 2007
New Term.
Term 3 (5 February - 2 June 2007) will
begin at the end of the month. This is the second
16 weeks
session of our academic year. It is open to both former and
new students.
We are opening all kind of classes : General French courses,
cultural workshops, conversation courses,
preparation to exams,
children and teenagers
classes are available.
You can download the Timetable & Fees Brochure for Term 3
here.
Assessments for adults courses will be held this month in
the Café des Amis between 5pm and 7pm on the
following dates :
Mon 15th / Tue 16th / Wed 17th
Mon 22nd / Tue 23rd /
Wed 24th
Mon 29th / Tue 30th /
Wed 31st
and between 10am and 1pm on the following dates :
Sat 27th / Sat 3rd (February)
Assessments are free of charge and no booking is required.
Please note that you do not need an assessment if you are a
complete beginner or if you are re-enrolling from last September
Term.
for more information visit our website
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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FRENCH FOR RUGBY
WORLD CUP 2007
Special Courses.
We are organising a
special training in French for people planning to go to
France in September 2007 to attend the
Rugby World Cup. These courses will be running
from the beginning of February 2007 to August 2007.
The first session is starting on the
5th of February 2007, for 16 weeks for Adults
(until the end of May) and 8 weeks for Teenagers (until
the end of March). Participants must already have a
basic knowledge of French
and have to sit an assessment.
The training will be organised around three objectives :
- Brush up students’ knowledge of
the general language to deal with situations they may
encounter during their trip.
- Discover
France and the different cities hosting matches, the
tourist attractions they offer.
- Learn
applied language for sport and rugby.
Like all our courses at the Alliance
the teaching will be focusing on communication skills.
For more information, timetable
and fees, please contact us :
info@alliance-francaise.ie
or (01) 676 17 32
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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QUESTIONS POUR UN
CHAMPION SELECTIONS
TV Quiz.
Questions Pour Un Champion, a quiz game first
televised in 1988, has since become the daily requirement of
millions of viewers in France watching
France 3 and around the world through
TV5. Again this year
Questions Pour Un Champion breaks new ground and is
organising an international competition
open to French speakers in the following countries : Algeria,
Benin, Canada, Cuba, Gabon, Spain,
India, Ireland, the Lebanon and Russia.
If you are
Irish, are over 18,
have good general knowledge and a good mastery of the
French language, come and take part in the selection process
on Friday 2nd February 2007
and become an ambassador for your country in Paris!
On completion of the preliminary
rounds four winners will
qualify for the finals and will be invited to spend an
all-expenses-paid week in Paris from
Saturday 24th February to Saturday 3rd March 2007 !
Enrol now by completing our
candidate
application form
Friday 2 February, 6.30pm
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 |
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BIOSCIENCES &
BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Colluquium.
The
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and
Technology (IRCSET) and the
French Embassy are
organizing a colloquium to identify the possible ways of
cooperation in biosciences and biotechnologies between the two
countries and the topics which could be in priority dealt with.
The programme will feature an overall picture of biotechnology
in each country, opportunities for the researchers to express
their scientific priorities, identification of the various
ways / means of collaboration (bilateral programmes, mobility of
researchers, common participation to the European FP) and
defining the possible aspects of Irish-French
cooperation (regular conferences, seminars and meetings, programmes,
etc.)
The colloquium is open to all scientists involved in the field,
in particular PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
Registration required.
For more information and booking,
contact
science@ambafrance.ie
or
info@embark.ie
Dublin, 23rd January 2007
www.ircset.ie
www.ambafrance.ie
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FRANCE 24
NEWS NETWORK
New Media.
FRANCE 24 is a brand new information media whose stated
mission is to report on international news with a
specifically French viewpoint
including a range of opinions, debates, reports, lifestyle,
culture, gastronomy, fashion, etc.
It is the first channel broadcast in
two languages from its inception (French &
English) and with three from 2007 with the Arabic,
Spanish being planned within three years. What is special
about FRANCE 24 is that it has two broadcasting
and two working languages but a
single message which does not change according to the
geographical location of the target audience. the content of the
bulletins is the same, the images are identical, and the
subjects and reports are dealt with in equal measure in both
languages.
FRANCE 24 broadcasts 24
hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year,
with hourly and half-hourly bulletins being updated day and
night in both languages. FRANCE 24
will be available via satellite, cable and
Internet, and soon by telephone or videocast.
In Ireland, it is only available on the Internet so far, but
will be soon on Sky Digital Satellite.
www.france24.com
communication@france24.com
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PLUS CA CHANGE
THE STORY OF FRENCH
Book Launch.
Partners in life and in writing, Canadian journalist-authors
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and
Julie Barlow are award-winning
contributors to Québec’s national news magazine
L’Actualité. Their writing has appeared in many
publications, including the International Herald Tribune
and the Courrier international. In 2003,
Nadeau and Barlow published their critical and popular biggest
success, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong.
In Plus
Ca Change, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie
Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has created
its own momentum. Drawing on their experiences in
French-speaking countries including their native Canada, they
explore how French has developed over the centuries, and explain
why it could be seen as the world’s other global language.
Plus Ca
Change will be available for purchase at the
Médiathèque Française from January 2007.
More information:
library@alliance-francaise.ie
(01) 676 17 32
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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quarterfinals were held last
December at the Alliance Française.
Chosen from
the best speakers of this first round, the
Irish Team will face the
prestigious Lycée Fénelon-Sainte-Marie
Team on Friday 26th January.
The Irish
team is as follows: Clíodhna Lohan (Captain,
St. Mary's Secondary School) Carl Webb (St. Declan’s), James
Lochrin (Clongowes Wood College), Sarah Robb (Limavady
Grammar School).
The
Franco-Irish Debate will
take place this year in the Centre Culturel Irlandais
in Paris.
This year motion for debate proposes
that la liberté d'expression nuit à
la sécurité internationale (freedom of expression
is detrimental to international security). The Fénelon-
Sainte Marie Team will support the motion while the Irish
team will oppose it.
Friday 26th January, 6.30pm
Centre Culturel
Irlandais
5, Rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris
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MUSIC FOR GALWAY
PASCAL ROGÉ & FRIENDS
Festival. Pascal Rogé’s
playing is synonymous with the best playing of French repertory
in the world today. He has invited his friends the Ysaÿe
Quartet to join him for a weekend of
French Chamber Music in Galway with repertoires
from Debussy, Ravel, Chausson, Poulenc.
- Friday 19 January 8.00
pm
- Saturday 20 January 8.00pm
(preceded by a wine and cheese tasting for ticket
holders at 6.30 pm)
- Sunday 21 January 3.00
pm
(followed at 8.15pm by the screening of La
Tourneuse de Page, French thriller set against the
backdrop of the intriguing world of chamber music.
19 – 21
January 2007
091-705962 /
info@musicforgalway.ie
www.musicforgalway.ie
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
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CHRISTIAN CAILLEAUX
DESSINS
Exhibition.
Christian Cailleaux
was born near Paris. He studied Arts/Philosophy at University
and went on to study at the Ecole Nationale d’Art in Cergy
(Paris).
He started illustrating children’s magazines and travelling
brochures. Christian moved to, and travelled extensively in
Africa while working in advertising. This experience
provided useful material for his first professional cartoon :
The Adventures of Arthur Blanc-Nègre.
Two further albums were published by Dargaud. A trilogy,
Les Imposteurs, the
third part of which published in 2005, is his first work with
Casterman.
8 - 31 January 2007
Alliance Française
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
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Corporate Training
