COURSE OUTLINE CHAMONIX

All teaching is done in French, even for absolute beginners who have never studied French before. You are encouraged to use the language from day one!

A wide range of methods are used in class to improve your conversation skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and linguistic structure. Newspapers, commercials, cartoons, texts by well-known French authors and video recordings will add to your course literature.

CONVERSATION You will learn more about France and its people. As your class progress more time is spent on conversational exercises where students debate and discuss cultural subjects such as French history, literature, society and politics. You will also practise your capacity to cover current affairs. News from radio, TV and newspapers is often the basis for discussions.

The courses will also include role-plays, study visits and home exercises. The program encourages active student participation.

ADVANCED LEVELS More advanced students will also get an orientation of French culture and political and social circumstances together with some knowledge about French literature and the development of the French language. Semester program students will also write a paper within a special subject area such as the language, the literature, French culture or social aspects of France and the French speaking world.