French Activity Workshops

25th August 2010 workshop
£35 including refreshments and lunch
£30 if booked by 1st August

Availability
As of late July we have places available.
Email us for more details or to reserve a place.

August French
This workshop is aimed at those who have a basic knowledge of spoken French but want to consolidate what they know, and gain confidence actually using their spoken language. Perhaps you are an improver or intermediate student. The activities are exclusively oral, and aimed at getting you to practise, practise, practise your spoken French. You may well revisit French which you have already "studied" at some time in the past, but you should start to build up a reliable bank of basic spoken language that you can actually come up with without thinking too hard!

Venue
This workshop takes place in a peaceful and spacious room in the beautiful restored Regency mansion, Kennaway House in Sidmouth (Coburg Road, Sidmouth, Devon EX10 8NG). There is full wheelchair access.

The plan is for a 10 o'clock start, so arrivals from 9.50.

Refreshments will be available and a sandwich lunch is included in the price.

There is no parking on site (except for disabled drivers, by prior arrangement), but there is a longstay carpark on Manor Road. (see map on the bottom right of this page) or you might be able to find parking in a residential street.

Approach
The setting will be relaxed and informal. We expect everyone to make lots of mistakes, to go blank sometimes, and have to gesture and gesticulate to make up for forgotten or missing words! Nearly everyone who joins a language group as an adult is worried that everyone else will be much more advanced, speak better, remember everything and make very few mistakes. So if you are worrying about this, you know you will be with like-minded people! In fact you will be doing everyone a favour by making a mistake or forgetting something, because most people will be thinking "oh good, I'm not the only one to forget things!"