French Courses in South of France

Collège International De Cannes:
Year round, the Collège International de Cannes provides a whole set of French language courses ranging from the Elementary levels to Proficiency. High quality studies - learning of French language, culture, civilization and business French with campus accomodation on the seaboard of Cannes, in the South of France, on the French Riviera. The teaching team of the Collège International is made up of 20 professors holding university teaching degrees. The teachers have a very lively and efficient teaching approach using original methods and documents. They are trained in the latest teaching techniques and share many years experience teaching French as a foreign language. The program is thoroughly established to guarantee continuity from one level to the next.

Standard Course
The aim of this course is to acquire abilities of communication in daily social exchanges, according to the language level of each class. It is based on rigorous and solid grammatical progression, systematic activities in concrete contexts and specific work on the control of lexical contents. Emphasis is put on interactive exercices among the students in the class, reflection on the language and acquisition of automatisms. Use of written, recorded and visual documents favouring comprehension and expression. Practice of linguistical capibilities in comprehension and production. According to the language level, work on the know-how regarding French and French-speaking culture.

Cours Standard + option DELF
Practice in the morning class :

The aim of this course is to acquire abilities of communication in daily social exchanges, according to the language level of each class. It is based on rigorous and solid grammatical progression, systematic activities in concrete contexts and specific work on the control of lexical contents. Emphasis is put on interactive exercices among the students in the class, reflection on the language and acquisition of automatisms. Use of written, recorded and visual documents favouring comprehension and expression. Practice of linguistical capibilities in comprehension and production. According to the language level, work on the know-how regarding French and French-speaking culture.

Practice in the afternoon class :

Preparation for the 6 diplomas based on chosen exercices. The levels of the diplomas correspond to the 6 levels of linguistical competences, defined by the Common European Framework of Reference. The evaluation is built on the individual skills of the students covering comprehension, production, interaction and mediation. The students are familiarized with the structure of the exams and prepared for the examinations through various linguistical activities and sample examinations, according to the language level and the desired diploma(s).

Cours Intensif
The aim of this course is to acquire abilities of communication in daily social exchanges, according to the language level of each class. It is based on rigorous and solid grammatical progression, systematic activities in concrete contexts and specific work on the control of lexical contents. Emphasis is put on interactive exercices among the students in the class, reflection on the language and acquisition of automatisms. Use of written, recorded and visual documents favouring comprehension and expression. Practice of linguistical capibilities in comprehension and production. According to the language level, work on the know-how regarding French and French-speaking culture.

Practice in the afternoon class :
Until the A2 level the "Classical language course" is obligatory

Complementary to the morning class the approach adopted in this course is an analysis of the language in terms of capacities (comprehension, production, interaction and mediation). The control of the capacities must allow the trainee to communicate in everyday life situations, according to the language level of each class. The acquired linguistical elements are treated in the perspective of written and oral communication. The trainee is brought to apprehend the reality of French and French-speaking culture, the language style and register, the code of social relations … and he/she can convey and exchange information related to his/her own environment in an intercultural approach.

Beginning with the B1 level there is the choice between specialization in written or oral communication.

Written specialization : This course allows the student to learn or to improve, according to the language level, how to collect, process, restore, transmit and give information. Practical work is based on written documents (articles, essays, questionnaires…). Students acquiring linguistic skills in a pragmatic context. With a variety of texts the student has to seize the whole of the text as well as the details, the implicit aspects and abstractions, must establish correctly the bonds of dependence between complex ideas with the use of words or expressions in order to articulate them effectively, seize the majority of the illustrated or idiomatic expressions and resort selective reading. Improvement of writing skills: to write with effectiveness and precision a variety of texts, to effectively synthesize ideas and information drawn from a written source, to ensure the cohesion of a text. Consolidation of written French grammar and lexical exercises.

Oral communication : Expression, comprehension and interaction. The student acquires and improves the skills to get, to pass on and exchange information, to request, to negotiate, to argue, to convince and to express feelings. Exercices to combine linguistic, pragmatic and sociocultural abilities in a pragmatic context. Use of varied and unmodified authentic supports. Reinforced oral activities and enrichment of linguistical know-how. Acquisition of oral abilities privileging the phonetics and semantics. Each act of speech is put in scene in situations of communication. Focusing according to the level, on some particular aspects of the communication from the lexical and cultural point of view.

Other Courses Available:
- Cours Intensif PLUS
- Cours "Abrégé"
- Au Pair Course
- Corrective Phonetics