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Students celebrate National French Week
Nov 8, 2004 8:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
National French Week kicked off at Darlington Saturday, Nov. 6, with a trip to Viollette, a French restaurant in Atlanta.
“For the last three years, I have taken a group to a French restaurant in Atlanta, but this is the first time we went to Viollette,” said Mme. Nathalie Nicolay-Welch, French teacher. “All the students were very happy about the food and the restaurant. The French students were able to speak French when ordering food or asking for refills.”
Sunday, the French Club was busy decorating the campus with posters about French Week and the Francophone countries, while Welch showed “La Chèvre,” a comedy about a kidnapping and bad luck streak, in her classroom.
Students enrolled in French classes presented projects Monday through Wednesday, with French 1 reporting on Parisian monuments, French 2 discussing Francophone countries and upper-level French students giving PowerPoint presentations.
Thursday, the much-anticipated annual French food-tasting event was hosted by French classes and the French Club. French 1 brought paper goods and drinks, French 2 students brought food from the French-speaking countries they researched, French 3 students brought food from the French regions they researched and French 4 and AP French brought other diverse dishes.
“French Week is our showcase window to the French-speaking world,” said Mme. Welch. “By celebrating French Week, our students discover that French is spoken in more than 43 countries, by 130 million individuals and that in 25 African countries French is the official language for business and trade. Students also learn about famous French men and women, French discoveries and inventions and French companies and products. French Week is a great, positive reinforcement for the students who choose to learn French.”
National French Week is celebrated Nov. 5 through 12. For more information, please contact Mme. Welch.
“For the last three years, I have taken a group to a French restaurant in Atlanta, but this is the first time we went to Viollette,” said Mme. Nathalie Nicolay-Welch, French teacher. “All the students were very happy about the food and the restaurant. The French students were able to speak French when ordering food or asking for refills.”
Sunday, the French Club was busy decorating the campus with posters about French Week and the Francophone countries, while Welch showed “La Chèvre,” a comedy about a kidnapping and bad luck streak, in her classroom.
Students enrolled in French classes presented projects Monday through Wednesday, with French 1 reporting on Parisian monuments, French 2 discussing Francophone countries and upper-level French students giving PowerPoint presentations.
Thursday, the much-anticipated annual French food-tasting event was hosted by French classes and the French Club. French 1 brought paper goods and drinks, French 2 students brought food from the French-speaking countries they researched, French 3 students brought food from the French regions they researched and French 4 and AP French brought other diverse dishes.
“French Week is our showcase window to the French-speaking world,” said Mme. Welch. “By celebrating French Week, our students discover that French is spoken in more than 43 countries, by 130 million individuals and that in 25 African countries French is the official language for business and trade. Students also learn about famous French men and women, French discoveries and inventions and French companies and products. French Week is a great, positive reinforcement for the students who choose to learn French.”
National French Week is celebrated Nov. 5 through 12. For more information, please contact Mme. Welch.
