36 lessons x 45 minutes per week


Morning:


  • Monday to Friday from 8.45am - 12 noon
  • 12 students maximum per class

Afternoon (1st part):


  • Monday to Friday from 1.45 to 3.40pm
  • 8 students maximum per class

Afternoon (2nd part):


  • Monday to Friday from 4.00 to 5.00pm
  • 4 students maximum per class



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 :1rst, 2nd, 3rd group verbs
  • Pronominal verbs
  • Personal pronouns (direct /indirect object)
  • Possessive adjectives/pronouns
  • Development of basic communicative functions: :
    • 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 plays / skits : Shopping in various stores In a matrimonial agency
  • Studying a simple press article
  • Light debate on an aspect of French society
    • Revision of grammar points, themes relating to culture and civilization, reinforcement in written work, pronunciation and intonation…
WEEK 2
  • Imperfect past tense
  • Use of imperfect / simple past
  • Relatives pronouns (QUI - QUE - OÙ)
  • 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 et 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"
  • Revision of grammar points, themes relating to culture and civilization, reinforcement in written work, pronunciation and intonation…
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 on 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)


 

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