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Executive French course
(30 lessons x 45min/week)
Teaching Content

 
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.
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
PROGRAM AFTERNOON:
  • Study of themes closely related to the business world (the French corporate system, tax policies,the telephone skills, ...)
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
ORGANIZATION :
  • 4 persons in a group (maximum)
  • Time: 23 hours a week at 30 lessons

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 9:00am to 12:15pm

 

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
  • Simulation : role plays, real situations within the firm or in daily life
  • The phone conver-sation
  • Understanding simple informations
  • Phonetic exercices
  • Grammar exercices
  • U se of various teaching aids supporting our interactive method : us
    - 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 1:45pm to 3:45pm

 

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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