Teaching method
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What are the major advantages of our teaching method?
- Courses can begin every week throughout the year for as long as you wish.
- A wide choice of intensive courses, French civilization courses and special au pair programmes available.
- Free individual evaluation to determine your spoken and written levels upon arrival.
- A needs-oriented approach which takes into account your expectations and progress.
- Experienced teachers all of whom are university graduates and headed by two teaching coordinators.
- Limited class numbers to ensure quality teaching.
- The guarantee that lessons will take place. Teacher’s absences will be covered and lessons will go ahead however small the number of participants.
- A highly effective teaching method devised by two teaching coordinators.
- A structured course subject to regular tests.
Teaching Method
Our training programmes have been carefully put together to ensure rigorous and constant progress. They follow directives laid down by the Council of Europe for the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Throughout the year, each course follows this pattern, enabling us to place you with flexibility and precision on the right course according to your level and specific objectives.
Complete Beginner to Advanced Beginner Levels
Objectives
Introducing oneself, describing, asking questions, communicating in every-day situations
Method
- Simple sentences
- Everyday vocabulary
- Basic structures
- Past tenses
Elementary to Upper Elementary Levels
Objectives
Questioning, explaining, comparing, discussing.
Demanding, judging, feeling, expressing emotion, reporting facts
Method
- Simple language tools to enable you to hold your first conversations
- Introduction to the subjunctive
- More complex phrases and expressions
- Wider and more precise vocabulary
Intermediate to Upper Intermediate Levels
Objectives
Recounting, advising, supposing, convincing, hypothesizing
Method
- More in-depth look at past and future tenses.
- Conditional and hypothetical forms
- Enriched vocabulary connected to French culture and history
Advanced to Superior Levels
Objectives
Getting to grips with the very essence of the French language and culture
Method
- Speaking French like a native
- Using nuances and exploring the richness of the language