{"id":229,"date":"2024-06-25T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shepway.u3asite.uk\/u3a_groups\/french-conversation\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:16:52","slug":"french-conversation","status":"publish","type":"u3a_group","link":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/u3a_groups\/french-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"French Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Custom Single Group View -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-u3a-groupdata\" >\n<table class=\"u3a_group_table\">\n    <tr><td>Status:<\/td><td>Active, open to new members<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Leader:<\/td><td><div style=\"display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap;\">\n<span style=\"flex; padding-right: 4px;\"><a title='Opens message form'  href='https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/u3a-contact-form?contact_id=2365' rel='nofollow'>Katherine Robinson<\/a><\/span>\n<span style=\"flex;  padding-right: 4px;\"><\/span>\n\n<\/div><\/td><\/tr>\n    \n    <tr><td>When:<\/td> <td>Fortnightly on Wednesday mornings 10:30 AM<br>2nd\/4th Wednesday<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Venue:<\/td> <td><a href='https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/u3a_venues\/light-railway-hall-hythe\/'>Light Railway Hall, Hythe<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n    \n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our French Conversation Group sessions start by dividing into groups of three for the first hour to practise speaking in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often have a text which provides material for discussion. This is sent in advance by email so can be prepared at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An example of a text can be seen here. This is the game of 20 questions, Animal, Vegetable or Mineral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Images-des-objets_AnVegMin_Jeu.pdf\"><em>View\/Download quiz as PDF document<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Images-des-objets_AnVegMin_Jeu.docx\"><em>View\/download Quiz as Word document<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Games like these involve a wide vocabulary and prompt the use of question formats. Questions are the drivers of all good conversations, whatever language we are using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our French Conversation Group sessions start by dividing into groups of three for the first hour to practise speaking in French. We often have a text which provides material for discussion. This is sent in advance by email so can be prepared at home. An example of a text can be seen here. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"template":"","u3a_group_category":[66],"class_list":["post-229","u3a_group","type-u3a_group","status-publish","hentry","u3a_group_category-language-learning"],"groupstatus":1,"groupcategory":["Language Learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u3a_group\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u3a_group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/u3a_group"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"u3a_group_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tithepit.info\/shepway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/u3a_group_category?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}