30 lessons x 45 minutes per week
Morning:
This teaching method aims at developing automatic responses, improve communication skills and gain a true understanding of the main grammatical points as well as a real ability to express and understand the language accurately and effectively.
Teaching program - Executive courses - Morning
| Type of work |
Objectives |
Content |
Material |
Oral
expression |
- Encouraging speaking
- Being able to use structures,
tenses and other grammatical
points more and more spontaneously
- Correcting pronunciation
- Developing communicative functions
(asking for information,
accepting, declining, thanking, ...)
- Distinguishing among various
language registers
|
- Simulation : role
plays, real situations
within the firm or in
daily life
- The phone conversation
- Phonetic exercises
- Grammar exercises
|
- Use of the camcorder
(video), excellent
tool in order
to improve communication
skills
- Tape recorder : auto
recording + correction
|
| Auditory
comprehension |
- Improving rhythm and the French
language tonality
- Managing to identify messages
coming from different sources :
- Speaking face to face with
someone
- Telephone conversations
- Audio and video documents
- Selective listening exercises
|
- Restructuration and
synthesis of various
information
- Taking notes in
order to restitute a
message
- Dialogues concerning
professional situations
|
- Taped documents
(audio)
- Video documents +
cassettes
- Handbooks on spoken
French
- Handbooks + tapes
on French for business
|
| Writing
expression |
- Being able to take down notes
concerning everyday life or life at
work
- Being able to refine expression of
ideas creating more and more
complex sentences
- Improving spelling
|
- Writing notes, fax,
telex
- Producing written
reports based on case
studies
|
- Case studies
- French for business
handbooks
|
| Writing
comprehension |
- Being able to understand more
and more complex messages
|
- Selective reading in
order to fill out a
questionnaire
- Summaries and reproduction
of information
- Understanding a
professional
situation (case study)
|
- Authentic documents
- Articles from the
press, advertisements,
documents
from firms
- French for business
handbooks
|
