Intermediate - Learning French abroad

Teaching program - Intermediate level
30 Lesson course - Stay of 1 to 7 weeks

Intermediate level - stay of more than 8 weeks

Teaching program - Intermediate level - Stay of 1 to 7 weeks

	DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING SKILLS	DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES
WEEK 1	Evaluation test Review of the present tense Pronominal verbs Near future Personal pronouns (direct/indirect object) Possessive adjectives / pronouns Passé composé (simple past) (a review) Basic Communicative functions : Introduce oneself Speaking about oneself Expressing likes and dislikes Locating an object / a place Asking / giving out information / asking for directions Introduction to culture and civilization: The French media, French traditions Vocabulary : The weather, the body, leisure and hobbies, sports	Listening to common dialogues (cassettes) and catching the essential message Making out information on a form and filling it out Role play / skits : Shopping in various stores In a matrimonial agency Studying a simple press article Light debate on an aspect of French society
WEEK 2	Use of imperfect / simple past (passé composé) Expressing time and duration Stressed and relatives pronouns Basic communicative functions : Evocating past events Narrating events Expressing a need / refusing Questioning / answering in the past Expressing possession Defining / characterizing Vocabulary : the office, the house, common objects Culture and civilization: celebrations, holy days, gastronomy and oenology	Role plays: An accident In a real estate Creating a small commercial: Creating the sound track for a TV commercial Creating a script and shooting a TV ad with a camcorder (group work) Didactic games for the practice of past tense : Discovering a mysterious event / object The alibi The enigma
WEEK 3	Basic communicative functions : Expressing opinions / arguing Advising / advising against something Expressing an hypothesis Expressing necessity Development of auditory comprehension : Summing up the main information in TV news or in a film excerpt The telephone conversation Culture and civilization: Social facts : discovering an area The French song	Didactic games: Polls / surveys Game « what if » The Chinese portrait Use of a French film« les fugitifs » Using the radio and the television news Creation of a TV news program based in articles from the press Working in Antibes (outside of class : « possible missions » Creating surveys and practicing interviewing outside of class Listening and deciphering a popular French Song (singing in French)