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Alpine French School is expanding and this means that we are able to offer you an increased range of French courses. We offer courses for all levels, objectives and budgets and full details of all of these can be found on our website. But here is some information about the newer courses that you may not have heard about…..
Our new French skills workshops allow you to focus on using one skill at a time, so you can target your French learning and also choose the skills that you personally need to work on. With workshops such as:
- Spontaneous Conversation= real life chit-chat:
- Guided Conversation = conversation with a topic
- Speaking in situation = real life situation
- Listening comprehension
- Introduction to Pronunciation: reading aloud, repeating….
- Boot camp pronunciation: intensive repetition of different sounds in different words, fun games… Perfect to break through and get it right once and for all!
- In-situation vocabulary = How do I say that? What could I say then?
- Topical vocabulary = fully covering areas of vocabulary
- Writing skills: eg letter-writing and emails
We are pleased to offer French cultural activities and excursions to help our students to learn about French cultural activities in a fun environment where they can also meet other students. Our dynamic team organise one activity per day Monday to Friday which takes place at 18h. The activities are published on the events calendar on our website (link) so please check this for the week’s activities and book your place at reception. Activities include French films, French karaoke, wine-tasting, après-ski with French conversation and ……
From 5th January 2015, we will be running our French intensive courses every week all year-round. Our standard intensive course consists of 20 lessons or 15 hours per week and allows you to make rapid progress in a fun learning environment. Our teachers are all French native-speakers and experienced qualified teachers and our maximum class size is 10 students to make for more effective learning.
- French + Activity Courses (Ski, Snowboard, Mountain Biking, Climbing, Cycling, Multi-activity)
For people who don’t live in the local area, we organise accommodation and activities (and many other extra services) for our students. Being located in the mountains enables us to offer a great choice of courses such as French + Ski/Snowboard in the winter or French + Mountain Biking/Climbing/Multi-Activity in the summer. These courses consist of our standard French intensive course for 3 hours per day plus 4 half-day sessions of your chosen activity plus accommodation in either a shared apartment or host family.
If you want to challenge yourself and push your French to new heights, or maybe you need to prove your level of French for your work ? If so, we organise courses to prepare you for French certificates such as the DELF, DALF or TCF. These exams can be taken in Geneva or Annecy once you have completed your exam preparation course with Alpine French School. During these preparation courses, we work on all skills of the language (speaking, listening, reading, writing) in addition to exam skills and techniques that will help you with the exam.
For more information about any of our courses, you can visit our website, call us on +33 450 79 08 38 or pop in and see us if you are in Morzine. We are open Monday – Friday 9am-5pm except for Christmas week 2014.
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