5-8 YEARS - BEGINNER 1: The FIRST part of the three-long course long French Beginner sequence.
Materials are not included in the tuition.
Teaching Method: Native-fluency instructors promote the use of French in the classroom by using French activities, games, songs and visual elements. Instructors use various audio and visual elements that are complementary and inter-related so that the same vocabulary or element of grammar is practiced and reinforced in many different ways to create variety, encourage participation and avoid boredom.
Beginner level description: A great course for students who are 5 to 8 years old and have no or little language experience.
Students will begin learning basic vocabulary and simple sentences to express personal information, where they live and people they know. Students will understand familiar words and basic phrases concerning themselves, their family and immediate concrete surroundings when others speak slowly and clearly. Topics include: Greetings, body parts, toys, animals, food, clothing.
Next Level: Beginner 2
9-12 YEARS - ADVANCED 2: The SECOND part of the three-long course long French Advanced sequence.
Materials are not included in the tuition.
After this program, students will learn the following:
Communication: Describe your vacation (describing place, situations, habits, activities), express a quantity approximately, describe origins, compare countries and population, express incertitude, understand probability.
Grammar: Imperfect/Passe compose, agreement of past participle with “etre”, the comparatives, the direct and indirect complement pronouns (present, past and imperfect), the agreement of the past participle with the direct complement pronoun, the relative pronouns.
Vocabulary: Vacations (places: the mountain, the beach, overseas), accommodations, wildlife. Immigration, countries, cities, cardinal points, Africa.
Next Level: Advanced 3
9-12 YEARS - INTERMEDIATE 1: The FIRST part of the three-long course long French Intermediate sequence.
Materials are not included in the tuition.
Teaching Method: Native-fluency instructors promote the use of French in the classroom by using French activities, games, songs, visual elements as well as manipulatives. Instructors use various audio and visual elements that are complementary and inter-related so that the same vocabulary or element of grammar is practiced and reinforced in many different ways to create variety, encourage participation and avoid boredom.
Intermediate level description: A great course for students who are 9 to 12 years old and have completed High Beginner 3 level or similar. Students will continue learning French and progressing with use of verb tenses, more complex vocabulary and communication.
Next Level: Intermediate 2
9-12 YEARS - HIGH-BEGINNER 1: The FIRST part of the three-long course long French High Beginner sequence.
Materials are not included in the tuition.
Teaching Method: Native-fluency instructors promote the use of French in the classroom by using French activities, games, songs, visual elements as well as manipulatives. Instructors use various audio and visual elements that are complementary and inter-related so that the same vocabulary or element of grammar is practiced and reinforced in many different ways to create variety, encourage participation and avoid boredom.
High Beginner level description: A great course for students who are 9 to 12 years old and have completed Beginner 3 level or similar. Students will begin learning phrases and sentences to describe in simple terms their family and other people, living conditions and their school environment. Students will understand phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local area, school). They will catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements.
Next Level: High Beginner 2