Group courses for adults

• Describe a person’s character
• Describe feelings
• Talk about your hopes and projects
• Evoke regret
• Give and follow stage directions
• Express opinions
• Defend ideas
• Conduct a discussion
• Discuss and decide on the second life of an object
• Manage interactions

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Express your feelings
• Expressing obligation, possibility, prohibition
• Express manners
• Introduce characters in a film
• Describe the synopsis of a film
• Express your opinion
• Justify your opinion

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Summarize informationand transmit it
• Present and publish an investigative report<
• Report an event, information, interview
• Quote someone’s words
• Report events
• Present facts and information
• Express feelings
• Express ideas
• Explain the definition of a word
• Understand the formation of words
• Use wordplay

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Study the author’s style and vocabulary;
• Analyze the character and plot development;
• Analyze the semantic fields;
• Discuss the themes of your assigned reading for the week.

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

This course gives you the opportunity to discuss current events relayed by the French-speaking press or television, or any other authentic source.

Some French grammar questions may occasionally be reviewed at this level. New debates are proposed every week to broaden your vocabulary and strengthen your oral skills.

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Get in the habit of reading the daily or weekly French-language media
• Introduce the terminology and sentence structures specific to print media
• Develop your ability to verbally summarize the key points of argumentative or informative texts

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Learn how to use French for professional communication purposes
• Improve grammar skills
• Increase or gain knowledge of French in the fields of economics and commerce

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Learn how to use French for professional communication purposes
• Compare socio-economic issues in France and Canada
• Improve grammar skills
• Increase or gain knowledge of French in the fields of economics and commerce

This course is in three parts (which can be taken in any order), with two different themes each:

• Part I: Key economic players / Entrepreneurs
• Part II: Human resources / Marketing
• Part III: Professional correspondence / Economic trends

Note that this course is a valuable preparation for the DFA1 (Diplôme de Français des Affaires 1) and DFA2 (Diplôme de Français des Affaires 2), both of which are offered by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

Objectives - Part 1

• Basic notions
• Personal pronouns
• Past tenses
• Adverbs
• The subjunctive
• Relative pronouns
• Negatives
• if possible : verbs such as devoir, pouvoir, savoir, connaître

Objectives - Part 2

• Basic notions (continued)
• Articles and demonstratives
• The comparative
• The possessive
• The infinitive mode / tense
• Direct questioning
• Direct vs. indirect speech
• Indefinite words
• Prepositions

Objectives - Part 3

• Basic notions (continued)
• Indicative and present imperative 
• Numbers, dates and time
• Reflexive verbs
• Adjectives
• Future and conditional tenses
• Present participles and gerunds
• Sequence of tenses

• L'école des femmes de Molière
  • Expression de la concession et de l’opposition.
• La religieuse de Diderot
  
  • Expression de la cause.
• Le Lac de Lamartine
  
  • Expression de la conséquence.
• Jericho de Victor Hugo
  
  • Expression de but
• Mme Bovary de Flaubert.
  
  • Expression de la comparaison.
• Le Dormeur du Val de Rimbaud
  
  • Expression de temps

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Becoming familiar with each of the four components of the exam - reading, listening, writing and speaking - through a variety of exercises and mock exams;
• Providing you with key insights and advice to optimize your success rate at the exam.

• Quote someone
• Report information
• Express your point of view
• Analyze an editorial
• Compare information processed by different newspapers
• Express a hypothesis
• Describe experiences

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Respond to health problems and nutrition
• Give advice
• Organize a debate
• Express probabilities
• Investigate and discuss inter-generational relations
• Compare generations
• Debate on relationships between generations
• Express opposition
• Comment on data

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Captivate an audience
• Convince
• Identify rhetorical devices
• Express a purpose/goal
• Express regret
• Express complaints
• Defend
• Compare teaching models
• Discuss educational issues

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Present and express opinion
• Expressthe cause
• Justify yourself
• Reportactions
• Take a stand
• Argue
• Structurespeech
• Play withsounds
• Usemethods of effective oral presentations
• Express
• Express concession
• Defend your ideas
• Plan the cultural aspect in a country
• Talk about your relationship with the French language
• Write a story based on experience
• Describe a person’s virtues and qualities
• Express emotions

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Express
• Express concession
• Defend your ideas
• Plan the cultural aspect in a country
• Talk about your relationship with the French language
• Write a story based on experience
• Describe a person’s virtues and qualities
• Express emotions

• Structurer son discours
• Parler de milieu associatif, d’engagement
• Comprendre des registres de langue différents
• Écrire un courriel de motivation

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).

• Défendre des idées
• Faire une appréciation esthétique
• Décrire une œuvre d’art
• Exprimer votre opinion, vos goûts
• Exprimer la subjectivité
• Parler du monde de l’art

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF (information available at your registration department or ask for more information from your teacher).