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Our 2010 summer intensive session
OUR 2010-2011 CLASSES AND PRICES
Summer sessions 2010 - July and August
L'ETOILE organizes two special summer sessions in July and August. Registration is open from now until the start of the courses. Please note that there is a limited availability.
These Intensive French courses will take place on the following dates:
- July session: June 28 to July 23.
- this session includes French lessons (spoken and written) and Civilization (French History, Architecture, Cinema, Discovering France and its regions through culinary tasting of regional products.
- August session: July 27 to Aug 20.
- this session includes French lessons: grammar, vocabulary, conversation, phonetics both written and spoken.
4 hour classes take place from Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm or from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm according to the level.
A graduation party is organized on the last Friday of each session.
Upon arrival, the students will take an evauation test in order to determine the appropriate level. This 1 hour written and spoken test can be taken every day before the start of the course and specifically on Friday June 26, from 10:00 am to noon and from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm and on Monday morning, from 9:00 am to noon.
The price of the complete session is 740 euros. We offer the possibility to follow a one week course or more depending on availability (price 210 euros per week). 35€ registration fees.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information.Click here for our contact information.
For online preregistration please click here.
Beginners and elementary levels
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Phonetics |
Culture and Civilisation |
Conversation |
Oral expression |
Discovery of France (1) |
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Intermediate levels
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Phonetics |
Culture and Civilisation |
Literature |
Current events |
Discovery of France (1) |
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Advanced levels
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French history |
Cinema |
Architecture |
Contemporary French society |
Discovery of France (1) |
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(1) All our "Discovering France and its regions" courses include culinary tasting of regional products.
Detailed programs for advanced levels
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July Session
- French history
- Henri IV and the French renaissance
- Louis XIV and the heights of absolute monarchy
- The French Revolution and the beginning of the republic
- Napoleon III and the Second empire
- Architecture
- the Renaissance
- Classicisme
- Haussmann's Paris
- Cinema
- la reine Margot by Patrice Chéreau
- Le Roi danse by Gérard Corbiau
- Danton by Wajda
- Gervaise by René Clément
- Contemporary Frnace
- The French model: myth and reality
- The French educational system: between conservativism and reform
- National identity and multiculturalism
- France and globalization
- Discovery of France
- Burgundy
- La Normandie
- The French Antilles
August Session
- French history
- The middle Ages and the feudal system
- Napoleon and the 1st empire
- The 3rd Republic: from the commune to world War I
- The 5th Republic under de Gaulle
- Architecture
- Medieval architecture
- Paris of the Belle Epoque
- The "Grand Paris" project
- Cinema:
- Notre Dame de Paris by Jean Delannoy
- Napoléon by Yves Simoneau
- Germinal by Claude Berri
- Indochine de Régis Wargnier
- Contemporary France
- Portrait of French society
- French traditions (holidays, festivals, carnivals...)
- French unions
- The Francophonie
- Discovery of France
- Normandy
- Corsica
- The South West
- French history
