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| Intensive 1 French course
teaching content |
| PUBLIC |
• General |
| OBJECTIVES |
• Acquiring essential and practical
speaking skills • Developing language
spontaneity and linguistic reflex |
| LEVEL |
• Beginner to Avanced |
| PROGRAM |
• Work on oral comprehension
and expression |
| METHODOLOGY |
| • Use of various teaching
aids: |
• Specialised
material
• Documents created by our teaching team directors
• Visual documents
• Audio et audio-visual documents and material
• Authentic written documents |
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• Situations/ Role playing
• Didactic activities
• Language practise outside of class (research, surveys / reports in the
town...) |
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| ORGANISATION |
• 6 persons in a group (maximum)
• Time:
CI 1: 23 hours a week ie 30 lessons
CI 2: 27 hours a week ie 36 lessons
Morning: 3 hours (4 lessons) a day
Afternoon: 2 or 3 hours (3 or 4 lessons) a day |
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TEACHING CONTENT |
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Note: The standard courses programs
hereafter are samples programs for three
weeks at the ELEMENTARY, INTERMEDIATE and
AVANCED levels. They can be modified according
to teaching needs (group size, lengh of
stay, themes, levels...) |
Teaching for elementary level
(beginners) |
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ORAL
COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN
EXPRESSION |
week
1 |
• Development of basic communicative
functions
• Identifying oneself
• Asking/ Responding to basic questions
• Politeness (tu/vous)
• Greeting / Taking leave
• Thanking
• Understanding simple written or oral information
• The alphabet, letters, names
• Using figures
• Travel vocabulary (at the hotel, the train station)
• Cultural elements: French social habits |
| • Role plays: |
• Situation: at
the post office
• Looking for an adress |
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| • Didactic games: |
• the drawing dictation
• 7 errors game
• photography (incomplete pictures) |
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| • Letters and figures
games |
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week
2 |
• Development of basic communicative
functions
• Expressing a simple wish
• Asking for permission
• Ordering at the restaurant (with a menu)
• Asking about prices, fees
• Reading a schedule
• Making plans
• Talking about plans (Futur proche)
• Development of spontaneous expression:
• Agreeing / disagreeing
• French onomatopeia ...
• Vocabulary : days of the week, months, time, food
• Cultural elements: The French calendar and French food |
| • Role plays (with camcorder): |
• at the restaurant
/ the hotel reception
• in a travel agency
• a meeting with friends
• Discussing vacation plans |
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| • Didactic games (the
mysterious character, word game) |
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week
3 |
• Development of basic communicative
functions
• Understanding and preparing a simple recipe
• Responding to a spoken or written invitation / offer
• Inviting
• Undertanding simple advertisement
• Claiming / complaining
• Expressing basic needs (hunger, thirst, tireness)
• Characterizing, describing a person / an object
• Vocabulary: clothes, the body, an apartment, the house, furniture |
• Writing a simple story based
upon a visual support
• Newspaper adverts, classified ads: making a simple ad, answering a classified
ad
• Advice column
• Structural exercises |
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Teaching for
intemediate level |
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GRAMMAR
PROGRAM |
ORAL
COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN
EXPRESSION |
week
1 |
• Evaluation Test
• ER verbs
• Regular adjectives
• Definite/indefinite articles
• IL Y A
• The IR and DRE verbs
• Some reflexive verbs
• Prepositions
• AVOIR / ÊTRE (expressing a state of being) |
• Introducing oneself / Introducing
others
• Expressing likes / dislikes
• Speaking about oneself / occupation
• Making plans
• Describing people, things, places
• Proposing / offering
• Asking / accepting / declining
• Questioning / answering
• Didactic activities in groups or pairs |
• Filling out a form
• Writing a postcard
• Telling a story from a comic strip on pictures
• Introductory letter to one’s host family in France
• Structural exercises |
week
2 |
• Imperfect past tense
• Use of imperfect / simple past passé composé
• Stressed pronouns
• Relatives pronouns (QUI - QUE - OÙ)
• Expressing time and duration |
• Narrating events
• Asking for /giving out information
• Advising / commanding
• Inviting
• Defining
• Expressing a wish / refusing
• Speaking about one's obligations |
• Telling the life story of
a character
• Writing / responding to a classified ad
• Completing the beginning of a story, or filling the blanks
• Invitation or declining letter
• Structural exercises |
week
3 |
• Simple future )
• Conditional 1
• Adjectives / adverbs
• Comparative and superlative |
• Expressing future events
• Hypothesis
• Expressing consequence of actions
• Asking very politely
• Suggesting
• Comparing |
• Writing simple press articles
• Letter of complaint
• Common correspondence (letters to friends)
• Occasional correspondence (congratulations, wishes , advice, thanks)
• Structural exercises |
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Teaching for
advanced level |
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GRAMMAR
PROGRAM |
ORAL
COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN
EXPRESSION |
week1 |
• Evaluation Test
• Past tenses (Le passé composé, Imperfect past tense, Pluperfect)
• Conditional as future of the past
• Sequense of tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Introduction to subjunctive |
• Narrating past events
• Identifying people / things
• Expressing time / duration
• Telling an event / a story based on an audio or a visual document
• Expressing likes / dislikes
• Situating / Locating
• Expressing a mood / a sensation / thanking (Ex: TV news program) |
• Creating a story with excerpts
from a literary piece, a film or documentary
• Summing up a press article
• Creating magazine adverts for a newly marketed product (image + text +
slogan) |
week
2 |
• The imperative
• Subjonctive: after conjunction, after specific verbs
• Relative pronouns QUI - QUE - DONT - OU - LEQUEL - DUQUEL |
• Advising
• Argumenting / debating
• Giving an opinion
• Nuancing one’s thoughts
• Defining
• Giving orders
• Comparing
• Speaking about one’s duties, occupations and activities
• Ordering
• Narrating past events
• Expressing capacity |
• Writing out the main points
of a debate / a meeting
• Preparing a simple case for a trial
• Creating the front page of a newspaper after listening to TV news |
week
3 |
• Present and past conditional
• Hypothetical sentences
• Consequence expression
• The present participe
• The gerund |
• Making hypothetical comments
• Expressing consequence
• Expressing doubt / certainty
• Suggesting, proposing
• Reporting facts
• Expressing simultaneity of an action
• Requesting very politely
• Didactic activities by pairs or in groups (ex: preparing a survey in Antibes) |
• Creating a touristic report
about Antibes
• Writing a letter of advice to a friend
• Common correspondence (letters to friends)
• Preparing surveys on a theme + interviews in town + report in class |
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