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Workshop dates 2010
Fun with French (immersion)
24th April
8th July
Fun with Beginners' French
(almost beginners)
2010 date to be arranged
French speaking workshops - immersion days -
("Fun with French" - format)
The days run from 10 a.m. to 4 pm with a break for lunch. The cost for a day is £35, or £30 if you book at least a month in advance ("Early Bird"). This includes tuition from two tutors, a sandwich lunch and refreshments throughout the day. You'll need to have done some French - perhaps you are at Improver or Intermediate level.
These days move away from desks and dictionaries and encourage you to improvise within a supportive environment. You can always fill in the gaps using gestures, expressions, and anything else except English! Be prepared to have fun and have a go! The day aims to cater for varying levels but you will need an existing knowledge of basic spoken French. The tutors will be happy to discuss and advise you on this. Both tutors are qualified and experienced French tutors who have studied, lived and worked in France.
Although the days will follow similar formats, they are all "stand alone" events. Different activities or material will be covered in each, but there is no progression, (other than your own improvement, of course) so you do not need to have followed the first one to be able to take part fully in the second one etc.
if you would like to be kept informed about these contact us.
We are intending to run further workshops, so if you are interested and would like to be kept informed about these, or have any requests, for example for different levels, contact us. It would be useful if you indicated when you would be available so we could take this into consideration when planning our next one at your level.
The beginners' workshops - "Fun with beginners' French" - format
These workshops are aimed at "almost beginners". This could be people who have done some French at some time, possibly many years ago, and have forgotten all, or almost all of it. On the other hand you may never have studied French in a classroom, but you may have learnt a little during frequent holidays to France. Maybe you have just started to learn French in an adult education setting and have done a couple of terms or so.
The activities are exclusively oral, the proceedings will be light hearted and aimed at getting you to practise, practise, practise in an enjoyable relaxed atmosphere. We have planned a variety of activities where you can interact with various different people using a limited number of useful basics. The emphasis is on getting used to actually speaking French in slightly different but overlapping situations so that you become confident with what you have practised. You should start to build up a bank of basic everyday phrases that you can understand and use in conversation with some-one in France.
These workshops are "standalone" days. This means that you can attend one, or both, as it suits you. While some of the language introduced will be the same, the way that it is practised will be different.
While English will be used where absolutely necessary, Liz and Linda will be speaking French as much as possible both to you and to each other and you will be speaking in French as well!. Don't worry, we have ways of helping you to speak and understand, and making it fun at the same time