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Executive courses Learning business French in France - Short programs (2 Weeks)

30 French lessons x 45 minutes per week

Schedule:
Monday* to Friday, 9am to 12.15 and Tuesday to Friday, 14.00 to 15.55

Level: Intermediate minimum B1/B2

B1/B2 Intermediary course: For students with a basic knowledge of French

We encourage you to make active use of the skills you already have. The aim of the course is to enable you to develop the automatic responses specific to French, and to refine the expressions of your ideas in French, by learning to construct more complex phrases.

Teaching content:

  • In addition to perfecting language skills, this intensive program gives executives and managers an opportunity to practice specialized French language and themes closelyrelated to the business world (doing business in France, French tax system, employment legislation, effective use of the telephone, etc...).

Arrival dates:

  • Special arrival dates: consult th pricelist

Course prices:

Your course schedule:

  Time Executive courses
30 lessons per week
Morning
Monday
to Friday
  9.00

12.15
4 students
maximum
per class
Meal + options
Afternoon
Tuesday
to Friday
13.45
15.45
4 students
maximum
per class
No lessons on the mondays of your arrival ( visit of Antibes + tests) 1 lesson=45 minutes

Information:

  • There are no executive courses the Monday of your arrival nor on public holidays. Lessons are neither replaced nor reimbursed.
  • Public holidays(2006): 17.04, 01.05, 08.05, 25.05, 14.07, 15.08,01.11
PUBLIC : Corporate heads, managers, executives, import / export technicians, business students aiming at executive positions

 

OBJECTIVES
  • Improving skills in written and oral comprehension and acquiring greater confidence in expression
  • Being able to confront professional (or professionaly related) situa- tions within a French speaking environment
  • Getting acquainted with or learning more about the French business world.
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    LEVEL :
  • Intermediate to Advanced
  • PROGRAM morning:
  • Grammar program according to the level of each group
  • Work on oral comprehension and expression
  • Work on written comprehension and expression
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    PROGRAM AFTERNOON :
  • Study of themes closely related to the business world (the French corporate system, tax policies,the telephone skills, ...)
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    METHODOLOGY :
  • Our teaching method is interactive ; the student always has an active leading role which is essential in learning a language. Afternoon class will be taught mostly as a seminar :

    • Use of various teaching aids adapted to the groups' needs : Handbooks and methods specially designed for the teaching of Business French.
    • Simulated situations / daily life and professional life situations
  • Didactic activities
  • Use of the video and the camcorder to improve oral skills :
    - Audio and audio-visual documents
    - Authentic written documents
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    ORGANIZATION :
  • 4 persons in a group (maximum)
  • Time: 23 hours a week ð 30 lessons (3 hours = 4 lessons a day)
  • Note: Our teaching will help you develop linguistic automatism, acquire communicative functions and fundamentals of French grammar in order to really improve your skills in expression and comprehension

    Morning lessons content Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 12:15 pm
    Our teaching will help you develop linguistic automatism, acquire communicative functions and fundamentals of French grammar in order to really improve your skills in expression and comprehension
    Type of work Objectives Content Material
    Oral expression
  • Encouraging speaking
  • Being able to use structures, tenses and other grammatical points more and more sponta-neously
  • Correcting pronunciation
  • Developing communicative func-tions (asking for information, accepting, declining, thanking, ...)
  • Distinguishing among various language registers
  • imulation : role plays, real situations within the firm or in daily life
  • The phone conver-sation
  • Understanding simple informations
  • Phonetic exercices
  • Grammar exercices
  • use of the cam-corder (video), ex-cellent tool in order to improve commu-nication skills
  • tape recorder : auto recording + correc-tion
  • Auditory comprehension
  • Improving rhythm and the French language tonality
  • Managing to identify messages coming from different sources :

    - speaking face to face with someone

    - telephone conversations

    - audio and video documents

    - selective listening exercices
  • Restructuration and synthesis of various information
  • Taking notes in order to restitute a message
  • Dialogues concer-ning professional si-tuations
  • Taped documents (audio)
  • Video documents + cassettes
  • Handbooks on spo-ken French
  • Handbooks + tapes on French for busi-ness
  • Writing expression
  • Being able to take down notes concerning everyday life or life at work
  • Being able to refine expression of ideas creating more and more complex sentences
  • Improving spelling
  • Writing notes, fax, telex
  • Producing written reports based on case studies
  • Case studies
  • French for busi-ness handbooks
  • Writing comprehension
  • Being able to understand more and more complex messages
  • Selective reading in order to fill out a questionnaire
  • Summaries and re-production of infor-mation
  • Understanding a professionnal situation (case study)
  • Authentic docu-ments
  • Articles from the press, advertise-ments, documents from firms
  • French for busi-ness handbooks
  • Afternoon lessons content Monday to Friday 1:45 pm to 3:45 pm
    THEMES AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPPED OBJECTIVES CONTENT
    Business and professional corres-pondence
  • Getting an insight on French society
  • Population
  • Description of French people : age, socio-economic categories, etc ...
  • Social changes in France 1950 - 1975 / the evolution of the French consumer society
  • Immigrants in France
  • Social problems, dangers
  • Use of the telephone
  • Getting a general idea of the country’s economic situation
  • Economic policies in France
  • specific aspects of French Economy
  • Inflation - unemployment - trade balance - balance of payments
  • Job applications and job offers
  • Understanding the conditions in which France appears in this new economic context
  • France in the Community (historical back-ground)
  • France’s assets and advantages
  • The weaknesses in French economy
  • The main partners of France
  • - Introductions

    - Invitations
  • Studying the position of the « Midi » (southern part) and more particularly of the « Côte d’Azur » in relation to the French economy and society
  • South / North : historical background
  • Economic dynamism in the South
  • The different sectors of development
  • Sophia Antipolis and technopoles
  • Business transactions
  • Acquiring the language necessary to do any business in France
  • Expression of ideas and feelings
  • Proposing / offering / suggesting
  • Expressing doubt / certainty
  • Giving one’s opinion : agreeing / disagreeing
  • Winding up an interview / a conversation
  • The French Business world : Intercultural aspect
  • Better understanding of the French culture / mentality and the resulting behavior within the business world or in relation to time, space social relations, etc ...
  • Charateristics of French culture
  • Analysis of the French approach to work
  • The French Business world : the Legal and Fiscal context
  • Learning about the French tax system
  • the French companies
  • Social contributions
  • Taxes
  • The different sorts of firms
  • New business creation in France
  • The French Busi-ness world : Labour Law
  • Knowing the main aspects of labour laws
  • Work contracts
  • Leaves
  • The employees : means of expression
  • THEMES AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPPED OBJECTIVES CONTENT
    Social overview
  • Getting an insight on French society
  • Population
  • Description of French people : age, socio-economic categories, etc ...
  • Social changes in France 1950 - 1975 / the evolution of the French consumer society
  • Immigrants in France
  • Social problems, dangers
  • French Economy
  • Getting a general idea of the country’s economic situation
  • Economic policies in France
  • specific aspects of French Economy
  • Inflation - unemployment - trade balance - balance of payments
  • France and the Europeen market
  • Understanding the conditions in which France appears in this new economic context
  • France in the Community (historical back-ground)
  • France’s assets and advantages
  • The weaknesses in French economy
  • The main partners of France
  • The South - La Côte d’Azur (the Riviera)
  • Studying the position of the « Midi » (southern part) and more particularly of the « Côte d’Azur » in relation to the French economy and society
  • South / North : historical background
  • Economic dynamism in the South
  • The different sectors of development
  • Sophia Antipolis and technopoles
  • Study of one specific sector, one field of activity
  • Allowing the student to know about one economic field directly related to his / her business activity
  • Economic sector - field of activity
  • Its importance, its evolution
  • The weaknesses in French economy
  • Basic vocabulary
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