Corcelle, Burgundy:
Corcelle was founded in 1992 to provide organisations and individuals with effective and efficient French language courses. Corcelle offers one-to-one total immersion in our language school in Southern Burgundy, France. Our residential courses are highly intensive programs for professionals, business people, executives, diplomats and other highly motivated adults. The one-to-one course is without doubt the most effective way of learning a language. Only this formula allows a programme to be individually tailored to the particular needs and potential of each learner.
One-to-one immersion program:
The program consists of 50 + contact hours per week, (including all meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner) - with a teacher. It is full-time with constant interaction and language development. A teaching team of 3 to 4 teachers is allocated to each student. A daily revision recording prepared by the teachers is included in the program and copied on CD for further use after the course. The keynote of the Corcelle programme is the completely individualised nature of each program: it is tailored to the specific needs and potential of each student.
Schedule:
Morning lessons are essentially devoted to programmed learning and practice of new material; afternoon lessons are devoted to communicative activities.
Typical daily schedule
Morning Activity
08.15 Breakfast with teacher
09.00 - 10.30 Tuition
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 11.30 Tuition
11.30 - 11.45 Break
11.45 - 12.30 Tuition
12.45 - 14.00 Working lunch with teacher
Afternoon
14.00 - 15.00 Time out / Private study
15.00 - 16.30 Communicative activities
16.30 - 16.45 Coffee-break
16.45 - 17.30 Revision, specialised vocabulary
17.45 - 18.30 TV news, analysis and discussion
Evening
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner in a restaurant