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Beginners

Beginner's French | A1.1

Comprehensive group courses

This course, designed for complete beginners, will give you a solid grounding in basic French which you can build upon for further learning. Learn everything about greetings, introducing yourself and numbers! You will also learn how to describe the city you live in and talk about the different means of transportation.

Materials: Textbook Odyssée A1, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035569-7 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)


Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Thursday   10am ▸ 12pm
08 Jan 2026 ▸ 02 Apr 2026

Beginner's French | A1.2

Comprehensive group courses

In this course for false beginners, you’ll learn how to describe a person and their personality, you will be able to describe relations within a family and start diving into the future (tense) to talk about your schedule. Come widen your cultural horizons with festivals like “La Fête des Lumières” in Lyon, or talk about fashion and discover new Parisian boutiques!

Materials: Textbook Odyssée A1, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035569-7 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)


Pace: 2 hours weekly

Beginner's French | A2.2

Comprehensive group courses

Come and join us this term to cover a variety of topics: from the evolution of fashion to national parks and family stories, there will be lots to discuss! By the end of the term, you will be able to talk about your future projects using the futur simple, organise day trips or make suggestions to your friends or family, and even complain about a bad experience just like a real French person would do!

Materials: Textbook Odyssée A2, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035572-7 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)


Pace: 2 hours weekly

Beginner's French | Fast Track A1 to A2

Comprehensive group courses
This accelerated French course helps motivated beginners move quickly from A1 to A2 over the course of three terms.
Students practice real-life communication through speaking tasks, role-plays, short listening activities, and essential grammar work. Classes focus on practical vocabulary and everyday situations to build confidence fast. The pace of this first term is more intensive than our usual group classes and is designed to maximize speaking time and rapid progress. 



Pace: 2.5 hours weekly
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St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday   9:30am ▸ 12pm
10 Jan 2026 ▸ 28 Mar 2026

Grammar Bootcamp | Le futur

Themed workshops
Level up your French with our Future Tense Grammar Bootcamp! Master le futur simple and le futur proche with clarity and confidence.
Through clear explanations and plenty of speaking practice, you’ll gain confidence telling stories and talking about the future. Perfect for upper-beginner students looking to level up!


Pace: 2 hours daily
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St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday   9:30am ▸ 11:30am
21 Mar 2026

Intermediate's French | Fast Track A2 to B1

Comprehensive group courses
This accelerated French course helps motivated upper-beginners move quickly from A2 to B1 over the course of three terms.
Students practice real-life communication through speaking tasks, role-plays, short listening activities, and essential grammar work. Classes focus on practical vocabulary and everyday situations to build confidence fast. The pace of this first term is more intensive than our usual group classes and is designed to maximize speaking time and rapid progress.


Pace: 2.5 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday   9:30am ▸ 12pm
10 Jan 2026 ▸ 28 Mar 2026
Conversation Courses (broad intermediate)

French Conversation

Conversation classes
Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1 hour weekly

French Conversation

Conversation classes
Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1.5 hours weekly
Intermediate

French Conversation

Conversation classes
Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1 hour weekly

French Conversation

Conversation classes
Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1.5 hours weekly

Intermediate's French | Fast Track A2 to B1

Comprehensive group courses
This accelerated French course helps motivated upper-beginners move quickly from A2 to B1 over the course of three terms.
Students practice real-life communication through speaking tasks, role-plays, short listening activities, and essential grammar work. Classes focus on practical vocabulary and everyday situations to build confidence fast. The pace of this first term is more intensive than our usual group classes and is designed to maximize speaking time and rapid progress.


Pace: 2.5 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday   9:30am ▸ 12pm
10 Jan 2026 ▸ 28 Mar 2026

Intermediate French | B1.1

Comprehensive group courses

In this intermediate course, through the topics of love, family and travels, you will learn to give and justify your opinion, give advice using the conditional tense, and also express an obligation or disagreement. The grammar points, both in revision and new, will enable you to express yourself with more fluency and above all more flexibility. Cultural aspects will include myths and legends from the First Nations in Canada but also books and films from Francophone countries!

Materials: Textbook Odyssée B1, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035580-2 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Thursday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
08 Jan 2026 ▸ 02 Apr 2026

Intermediate French | B1.2

Comprehensive group courses

This term, chat about your professional experience, healthy lifestyles, recycling in the fashion industry, and medias and fake news. We will learn how to express our ideas in finer details in debates, and how to voice an opinion using a wide range of connectives and structures. Grammar points will include the passive voice, the conditional and of course our beloved subjonctif!

Materials: Textbook Odyssée B1, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035580-2 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Wednesday   9:30am ▸ 11:30am
07 Jan 2026 ▸ 01 Apr 2026

Intermediate French | B1.3

Comprehensive group courses

This term, come reveal your artistic side talking about cinema, paintings or even literature, voice your opinion on ecological matters, and discover many francophone initiatives both ecological and economical. Grammar points this term will focus on the double pronoun order, past reported speech, and relative pronouns.

Materials: Textbook Odyssée B1, Livre de l’élève, ISBN: 978-2-09-035580-2 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Tuesday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
06 Jan 2026 ▸ 31 Mar 2026

Intermediate French | B2.1

Comprehensive group courses

This term, we will explore current affairs of francophone countries, and how the media presents information through interviews and extracts of TV news programs. Additionally, we will discuss self-care, our relationship with conventional and alternative medicine, and scientific discoveries.

The grammar points for this term will focus on nominalisation, emphasis structures, and time markers.

Materials : Textbook Edito B2, ISBN : 9782278103669 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly

Intermediate French | B2.2

Comprehensive group courses

Come and join us this term to discuss social inequalities, debate politeness rules, and explore social participation. We will also delve into everything related to languages, including regional linguistic differences and French slang. Learn how to contest a grammar rule, which will be particularly useful for one of this term's grammar points: the rules of past participles!

Materials : Textbook Edito B2, ISBN : 9782278103669 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Tuesday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
06 Jan 2026 ▸ 31 Mar 2026

L'amour à la française

Themed workshops
Join us to explore the art of love, à la française! Discover romantic expressions, charming idioms, and cultural insights while enjoying lively conversation and a touch of French love songs. Perfect for those who want to boost their French and embrace a little joie de vivre! You might even be inspired to write your own love message!

Amour discount: £50 for two students if you come with your loved-one! Contact us!

For intermediate (B1-B2) adult students.


Pace: Over one weekend
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday   10am ▸ 12pm
14 Feb 2026
Advanced

Advanced French | C1.1

Comprehensive group courses

Cupid is on his way! This term, in this advanced class, come and join us to discuss romance, marriage and memories! This term will be the opportunity to talk about the evolution of the family system throughout the years but also discuss assisted reproductive technologies. Grammar points this term will include an analysis of the different types of sentences as well as emphasising techniques such as cleft sentences.

Materials: Textbook Edito C1, Méthode de français, ISBN: 9782278090969 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly

Advanced French | C1.2

Comprehensive group courses

This term, in this advanced class, come and join us to discuss gender and financial inequalities, and give your opinion on other topical ideas such as the universal basic income! This term will also be the opportunity to discuss medical innovations like cryopreservation and other innovations in reproductive medicine. Grammar points this term will focus on the comparative and the superlative, but also on compound relative pronouns.

Materials: Textbook Edito C1, Méthode de français, ISBN: 9782278090969 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Monday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
05 Jan 2026 ▸ 30 Mar 2026

French Conversation

Conversation classes

Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1 hour weekly

French Conversation

Conversation classes
Practice your speaking skills in a comfortable and friendly setting with discussions and debates on various subjects, such as current affairs, art and ideas. You will receive a weekly article to read and discuss in class.
Our conversation classes help you maintain and develop your vocabulary.

Please check the level of our classes below:

Tuesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm: intermediate students (B1)

Wednesday 12-1pm: upper-intermediate and advanced students (B2/C1)

Thursday 10-11.30am: intermediate students (B1/B2)

Thursday 12-1pm: intermediate students (B1)



Pace: 1.5 hours weekly

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