Totton U3A French Language Group

Another sunny morning for our meeting at John & Sheila's almost all of us attended apart from R&J as June has the dreaded flu virus. We had fun with trying to find a dropped rare coin that Sue brought in to show us. Despite exhaustive finger tip searching of the carpet under the table by some it was not found until the end when it showed up in a bag. Myra acted out the poem (below) with a flourishing kick to the imagined baby by the goalkeeper. We also did the crossword and finally the lesson 49 of coffee break French.

Nearly a full house today with lots to report on from Mike, Sheila and Myra with an account of the U3A outing on the Waveley the last remaining paddle steamer. A trip extensive and exciting going by Myra's description ( click images to read the account in French of course)Mike told us of his holiday in Germany and visiting Dresden and all about the fire storm that took place in the last three month's of the war.

Met at Geoff's for another round of French basic verbs and simple dictation. Highlight of the morning was janet's prepared cakes which were much appreciated.
Followed by Coffee break French 47.

Met at Ray & June's for another fun session. Geoff was back from his caravanette holiday in France. He told us of their shortened holiday due to excessive rain and the loss of the top vent/light from the roof of his van. Myra told us of her spring cleaning the fish tank in French of course and from this we did a short dictation. Again after a well deserved break we continued with Coffee break French.

Met at John's and several still missing but we only just managed to fit round the table. Myra issued out a page from a magazine a comic story of two characters moaning at the state of the world and France in particular using some less than polite language. Very hard to translate without Myra's input. We then did another crossword and after the break we carried on with "coffee break French."