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French Language
Courses
2012:
(All programs: Please add USD 100.00 Lingua Service Worldwide
Application fee. See Application Procedures.)
All French course prices include:
Number of lessons listed under each course option, all teaching material, a
practical guide to the city, a guided city visit, a French film each week at
BLS, 24/7 assistance in the event of emergency, free station/airport
transfer on arrival for students with host family accommodation, and a BLS
course completion certificate.
BLS offers several French
Language Course Options:
Standard French Course - Group 8
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Beginner to Advanced levels. Minimum enrollment: 2 weeks. Maximum of 8 students per class;
Minimum age: 16. 20 French Lessons a week during the morning. (1 lesson = 45
minutes)
Prices:
2
weeks: USD 859; 3 weeks: USD 1,172; 4 weeks: USD
1,486; 8 weeks: USD 2,636. Extra weeks: USD 314 each. Long
Term : 12 weeks-USD 3,667.
Intensive French Course
- Group 8
(maximum class size
may be increased to 14 during high season) --- Low Intermediate to Advanced
levels.
Minimum enrollment: 2 weeks. Maximum of 8 students per class. 26 French Lessons a week:
20 lessons of Standard French Course in the mornings with 6 additional
conversation lessons per week in the afternoons.
Prices:
2 weeks: USD 993; 3 weeks: USD 1,404; 4 weeks: USD
1,815; 8 weeks: USD 3,457. Extra weeks: USD 411 each. Long
Term: 12 weeks-USD 4,906.
Super Intensive French Course - Group 8
(maximum class size may be increased to 14 during high season) --- Low Intermediate to Advanced
levels.
Minimum enrollment: 2 weeks. Maximum of 8 students per class. 30 French Lessons a week:
20 lessons of Standard French Course in the mornings with 10 additional
conversation lessons per week in the afternoons.
Prices:
2 weeks: USD 1,202; 3 weeks: USD 1,695; 4 weeks: USD
2,188; Extra weeks: USD 493 each.
Starting Dates 2012: Full Beginners must start on the following dates. All other levels may start any
Monday. Long Term courses (all levels) may only start on the following date
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Holidays 2012: 9 April,
1 May, 8 May, 17 May, 27 May, 14 July, 15 August, 1 November, 11 November. The school is closed from 16 December 2012 to
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January 2013.
Other courses offered:
Private French lessons
: available all year round for all levels. Private
lessons may start any Monday. Prices 2012: USD 90 per lesson (Additional
registration fee of USD 130 applies. Additional registration fee is waived when private
classes are taken in conjunction with any other group course).
French Teachers' Training Course:
24 lessons
per week, specifically designed for Teachers of French as a Foreign Language, includes new
French language teaching techniques and interaction with the school's local
French staff. Program also
includes activities such as guided city tour and class observations. Advanced level required!.
8-15 participants per group. Timetable:
9.30 to 12.45 with a 15 minute break, Monday to Friday + 2
afternoons from 14.00 to 15.30. Course description: The course’s
primary ambition is to truly distinguish itself from the “classic”
university training courses for teaching French as a Foreign Language.
The course covers the theoretical aspects that distinguish the different
approaches to teaching French as a Foreign Language and identifies the
resources available. However, the main emphasis is put on placing you in
real situations, having provided you with the necessary tools to prepare
customized class activities in small groups. Our objective is certainly to
provide you with a wide variety of ready-to-use activities, but it is first
and foremost to give you the skills necessary to develop this material in
order to achieve complete autonomy in creating modern communicative
activities. Thus you will find yourself in the role of student and can
pinpoint the real difficulties encountered by your own students. Also as a
teacher, seeking to adapt material so that it suits your students’
characteristics (nationality, level, objectives, etc.). This takes place in
an atmosphere of reflection and debate that promotes cross-cultural
exchange. Our
training modules are set up like an itinerary guided by cross-cultural
interaction with the aim of developing trainees’ awareness of the filters
that define how we perceive others. So,
advertising, French songs, films, text messaging language, reality shows,
etc. make up the bulk of the materials studied, which, following a tried and
tested meta-teaching approach, enable the basic themes of fundamental
grammar, phonetics, oral expression, civilization, linguistics applied to
the class teaching, global simulation, etc. to be covered.
Prices 2012: 2 week course: USD
1,083
--- Starting dates 2012:
2 July and 6
August.
French Language and
Bordeaux Wine Course: This one-week course designed specially
for students interested in exploring the Bordeaux wine region, combines the
Standard French course of 20 French language lessons per week with 3
afternoons of lectures on Bordeaux wines and 2 afternoon visits to local
Chateaux. This course is available to students of all French language levels
from beginner to advanced. Prices 2012: 1 week course: USD
1,247. -- Starting dates 2012: 16 July and 10 September.
Accommodations 2012:
BLS offers accommodations with selected local host families. Host families
of all ages and backgrounds are available, but they all share one thing in
common: their hospitality and friendliness. The school rigorously selects
and trains each host family and carefully places students taking into
consideration their individual preferences whenever possible. Most families
are located between 5 and 25 minutes from the school. Host families will
meet students at the airport or train station upon arrival at no additional
cost (arrival travel information must be provided 15 days prior to arrival
in order to guarantee the airport/train station transfer).
Student residences and hotels are also available upon request.
Host family placement
options:
Host Family -
Single room / full board (3 meals per day): Prices: 2 weeks: USD 893; 3 weeks: USD 1,280; 4 weeks: USD
1,667; Extra weeks: USD 387 each.
Host Family - Single room / half board during weekdays, full
board on weekends: Prices: 2 weeks: USD 830; 3 weeks: USD 1,186; 4 weeks: USD
1,541; Extra weeks: USD 355 each.
Host Family - Single room /
breakfast only: Prices: 2 weeks: USD 621; 3 weeks: USD
872; 4 weeks: USD
1,123; Extra weeks: USD 251 each.
Student Residences - Several residences are
available offering studios starting at USD 90 per night. Please
contact us for details.
Hotels - Prices available upon request.
Cultural Program
- Program varies during the
year but it includes activities such as: Sightseeing tour of Bordeaux, guided tours to
local museums, vineyard tours, French films, cooking lessons and food tasting, French
cheese tasting, lectures and local restaurant visits as an example. Prices vary depending
on activities chosen. Fees are reasonable and are payable at the school.
  
PLEASE NOTE: All prices subject to change due to fluctuating
currency rates.
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