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Open House (Portes ouvertes): Mar k your calendar for March 19 at 6:00 p.m. -- a unique opportunity to meet informally with our teachers, enjoy wine and hors d'oeuvres, and discuss your language goals. Objets perdus: Alliance students from the winter term -- we have a collection of gloves, hats and sundry items. Please claim them as soon as possible.
Term Surveys: Next week we will be emailing term surveys to all enrolled students in the winter term. Please help us improve programs by responding to the surveys and look for prizes to be awarded randomly to survey participants!
 Homework Help: If you are an enrolled Alliance student and occasionally miss a class and would like some review or homework help, please contact Kathryn Mascorella in our office. Kathryn has a Masters in French from Middlebury College in Paris/La Sorbonne and a B.A. in Pedagogy from Colorado State University. She is available by appointment, to help students; no charge for current enrollees. Call 503.223.8388. Training & Conferences: 1) Staff members Marie-Pierre Wolfe and Kathryn Mascorella represented the Alliance at a teachers' conference organized by the French Consulate and Lincoln's Isabelle Colard-Tyler at PSU last Monday. The conference was on the use of media in the classroom and was taught by expert Evelyne B�vort of CLEMI. 2) Alliance director Linda Witt presented last week in the annual national meeting of Alliances directors; the meeting was organized by the Alliance Delegation based out of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
New Addition to the Spring Lineup: A new intermediate CX 2 Conversation & Review class joins the extensive offerings in the Spring Term -- teacher Mme Coltrin describes: "A review of the basic structural, vocabulary and theme concepts from Connexions 2. We will take elements from each unit and practice them through speaking, writing, reading and listening exercises. We will spend at least 20 minutes per class on open conversation. This class will firm up your understanding of intermediate structures so you can more readily use them in writing and conversation. Included will be units on the use of pass� compos� vs. imparfait, le futur simple, le subjonctif, les verbes pronominaux, depuis + le pr�sent, les pronoms compl�ments d'objets directs, indirects et les pronoms relatifs."
New in the M�diath�que: We now have the outstanding movie, "Persepolis," whose creator Marjane Satrapi visited Portland and presented at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, last year.
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document, which resembles a European Community passport, includes pages for the six 
directed by Olivier Dahan, about the life of the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf, to be shown at Clark College on March 6 at 7 p.m. Marion Cotillard won an Academy Award for her performance in the movie; she is also the first French actress to win a Best Actress BAFTA and the first to win a Musical Golden Globe for a foreign language role. The location is the Foster Auditorium on the 
for this Sunday at the Rose Garden. If you bought your tickets for the March 1 game pitting the Blazers against the San Antonio Spurs, using the French code (or if you called your order into Graham Clancy for French night tickets) then click 
Teachers of French "Grand concours de fran�ais" for 2009. The Rotary Academic Prize consists of one two-week linguistic stay in Paris, including free accommodation provided by a Rotary host-family, free two-week enrollment in French classes at the Alliance Fran�aise de Paris, and free airfare for one roun-dtrip from Washington, D.C., to Paris. The prize will be awarded to a qualified 11th-grade high-school student in the concours (testing is conducted by participating high-school teachers in February/March 2009 timeframe). For further details check the 
immersion implemented as an option in the public school system. The Portland Tribune published an article about this effort on February 19 and quoted, among others, Alliance board member and teacher Marie-Pierre Wolfe. To view the complete article, click 
her cousin's 17-year-old son, Marc Berger, who lives in the south of France. He would like to stay with a host family in Portland for three weeks this summer in order to improve his English and qualify for pilot school. Folks interested in further information should contact Valerie directly at 503-477-2817. 
