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Beginners

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
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St Margaret’s Institute
Wednesday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
08 Jan 2025 ▸ 02 Apr 2025

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

Unlock your speaking | Beginners and improvers

Themed workshops
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Ready to unlock your speaking skills in French? Through interactive exercises and stimulating discussions, beginners and improvers will develop confidence and fluency in French. This workshop is designed to help you speak with ease and confidence, and to help you along the way, we will offer you a glass of wine!


Pace: 1.5 hours weekly
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St Margaret’s Institute
Friday 24 Jan 2025 - 6pm ▸ 7:30pm
24 Jan 2025
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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.

For intermediate and advanced levels.


Pace: 1 hour 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.

For intermediate and advanced levels.


Pace: 1 hour weekly

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

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

Intermediate French | B2

Comprehensive group courses

This term, dive into francophone literature and theatre. Through Edmond, by Alexis Michalik, Virginie Grimaldi, and Gaël Faye, discuss writing styles, sense of identity, and stylistic figures.

Grammer points this term will focus on the past future, simple past, and expressing doubts.

Materials: Textbook Odyssée B2, Livre de l’élève, ISBN : 978-2-09-035583-3 (Not provided by the Alliance Française)



Pace: 2 hours weekly

Intermediate French | B2.1

Comprehensive group courses

This term, come chat about your professional experience and discuss Internet and social medias. Express your opinion on cyber-addiction or on the purpose of education while expanding your vocabulary! Grammar points will cover the structures of the hypothesis, past reported speech and declarative sentences.

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


Pace: 2 hours weekly
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St Margaret’s Institute
Tuesday   6:30pm ▸ 8:30pm
07 Jan 2025 ▸ 01 Apr 2025

Intermediate French | B2.2

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 | B2.3

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

La Suisse en Poésie

Themed workshops
Join our upper-intermediate/advanced-level French workshop, Switzerland Through Poetry, and dive into the work of Swiss Francophone poets such as Corinna Bille and Adam Mickiewicz.
Explore the impact landscapes and monuments have on poets, nature, and the feeling of being uprooted. You will refine your French in a creative, inspiring setting. 
For upper intermediate and advanced students. All in French.


Pace: 3 hours daily
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St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday 8 Mar 2025 - 9:30am ▸ 12:30pm
08 Mar 2025

The Negritude Movement

Themed workshops
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Join our literary workshop where you'll immerse yourself in the revolutionary movement of Francophone black expression born in 1930's Paris, la négritude. Through the analysis of selected excerpts, we'll explore powerful themes and the eminent voices that have shaped this unique literary movement. Come discover and discuss the works of great négritude authors such as Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Jeanne Nardal.
For upper intermediate and advanced students. All in French.


Pace: 3 hours daily
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St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday 8 Feb 2025 - 9:30am ▸ 12:30pm
08 Feb 2025
Advanced

Advanced French | C1

Comprehensive group courses

This term, in this advanced class, come reveal both your artistic and scientific sides, talking about music and other art forms, but also new technologies and robotics! This term will be the opportunity to discuss how art can raise awareness for specific causes and to apprehend artificial intelligence. Grammar points this term will focus on the different structures to express willpower, but also on a thorough revision of past tenses (including the passé simple!)

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


Pace: 2 hours 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.

For intermediate and advanced levels.


Pace: 1 hour weekly

La Suisse en Poésie

Themed workshops
Join our upper-intermediate/advanced-level French workshop, Switzerland Through Poetry, and dive into the work of Swiss Francophone poets such as Corinna Bille and Adam Mickiewicz.
Explore the impact landscapes and monuments have on poets, nature, and the feeling of being uprooted. You will refine your French in a creative, inspiring setting. 
For upper intermediate and advanced students. All in French.


Pace: 3 hours daily
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday 8 Mar 2025 - 9:30am ▸ 12:30pm
08 Mar 2025

The Negritude Movement

Themed workshops
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Join our literary workshop where you'll immerse yourself in the revolutionary movement of Francophone black expression born in 1930's Paris, la négritude. Through the analysis of selected excerpts, we'll explore powerful themes and the eminent voices that have shaped this unique literary movement. Come discover and discuss the works of great négritude authors such as Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Jeanne Nardal.
For upper intermediate and advanced students. All in French.


Pace: 3 hours daily
ORDER THIS COURSE:
St Margaret’s Institute
Saturday 8 Feb 2025 - 9:30am ▸ 12:30pm
08 Feb 2025

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