During these fun and dynamic one-week courses, high school students are encouraged to consolidate learning and build confidence in a friendly and supportive environment. This is the time to gain a competitive advantage for your exams - including HSC, IB and DELF Junior – as you strengthen your skills in the four core areas (listening, reading, writing and speaking), brush up on vocabulary and conversational topics, and get a hand on those sticky grammar points.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Express who something belongs to, for example mes amis, son sac
• Construct sentences in the negative, such as je n’ai pas de frère
• Describe somebody’s nationality, adjusting the adjective where required, for example il est australien and elle est australienne
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition in your speech
• Understand whether to use de or à after the verbs faire and jouer
• Confidently ask questions using the two constructions qu’est-ce que and est-ce que
• Understand the difference between c’est and il est

During these fun and dynamic one-week courses, high school students are encouraged to consolidate learning and build confidence in a friendly and supportive environment. This is the time to gain a competitive advantage for your exams - including HSC, IB and DELF Junior – as you strengthen your skills in the four core areas (listening, reading, writing and speaking), brush up on vocabulary and conversational topics, and get a hand on those sticky grammar points.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Make your French more sophisticated by avoiding repetition with the pronouns le, la and les
• Incorporate verbs from the “2^nd group” with confidence
• Talk about things that have happened in the past using the passé composé tense using avoir, including some common but irregular constructions
• Give negative commands using the impératif, such as ne ferme pas la porte

During these fun and dynamic one-week courses, high school students are encouraged to consolidate learning and build confidence in a friendly and supportive environment. This is the time to gain a competitive advantage for your exams - including HSC, IB and DELF Junior – as you strengthen your skills in the four core areas (listening, reading, writing and speaking), brush up on vocabulary and conversational topics, and get a hand on those sticky grammar points.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Describe with more accuracy where somebody comes from, for example il vient d’Espagne
• Refer to a place as “here” or “there” using the pronoun y
• Ask about the location of something using the où pronoun
• Describe things that occurred in the past, using both the imparfait and the passé composé as well as pendant
• Emphasise elements of your speech using ce qui and ce que
• Add colour to your French by using adverbs to describe the intensity of something, including très, beaucoup, assez, plutôt, (un) peu, pas du tout

During these fun and dynamic one-week courses, high school students are encouraged to consolidate learning and build confidence in a friendly and supportive environment. This is the time to gain a competitive advantage for your exams - including HSC, IB and DELF Junior – as you strengthen your skills in the four core areas (listening, reading, writing and speaking), brush up on vocabulary and conversational topics, and get a hand on those sticky grammar points.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Talk about a past action or event that occurred even before something else in the past using the plus-que-parfait
• Master pronouns in French with a focus on lequel, laquelle and lesquel(le)s
• Talk about something somebody else said, also known as “indirect speech”
• Hypothesise about future events using the conditional tense
• Expand your vocabulary with adverbs that describe the manner in which something is done

Hooray! You've decided to learn French. You're at the outset of a wonderful journey that will bring great delight and open many doors and opportunities as you forge your path in this world.

In this course, crafted to nurture a deep appreciation of French culture and build the foundations for communicating confidently in French, you will learn to:

• Introduce yourself (Je m’appelle Chloe.)
• Ask basic questions (Tu es en quelle classe?)
• Talk about likes and dislikes (J’adore le français mais je n’aime pas l’histoire moderne.)
• Describe someone’s physical appearance (Il a les cheveux longs et des yeux verts.)
• Talk about sports, family and friends (Nous faisons du rugby. J'ai deux frères et une soeur.)
• Talk about upcoming holidays (Je vais partir en France pour visiter le Mont Saint Michel.)

Bravo! Your hard work in building a solid foundation in French is paying off, and now you’re ready to diver deeper into this beautiful language and culture.

In this course, crafted to nurture a deep appreciation of French culture and build the foundations for communicating confidently in French while helping you get unstuck on those trickier grammar points, you will learn to:

• Talk about the city you live in and modes of transport for moving around
• Discuss food and nutrition
• Have conversations about your friendships and other’s character traits
• Talk about current news items and media
• Recount past holidays and present future projects using the ‘passé compose’ and ‘futur simple’
• Talk about the environment and animals

The puzzle pieces are really starting to fall into place, and you can see yourself making good progress in French.

In this course, crafted to nurture a deep appreciation of French culture and build the foundations for communicating confidently in French while helping you get unstuck on those trickier grammar points, you will learn to:

• Discuss your preferred hobbies and your close friendships
• Compare past and present situations using the ‘imparfait’
• Appreciate and discuss facets of art and culture
• Make comparisons between objects, innovations and technologies
• Discuss the environment and consumption
• Talk about food and gastronomy

Let’s spark some healthy debate over the place and influence of social media, while looking at current trends and issues pertaining to young people.

In this course, crafted to nurture a deep appreciation of French culture and empower you to communicate confidently in French, you will overcome challenging grammar points and learn to:

• Discuss the pros and cons of social media, as well as causes and consequences
• Talk about past events and experiences
• Describe trends in fashion and give style advice
• Hold conversations about talents, success and sport
• Share your opinion, make suggestions and discuss hypothetical situations

You’re now an “Upper-Intermediate” user of French, and are becoming more and more independent with each passing day.

In this course, crafted to nurture a deep appreciation of French culture and empower you to communicate confidently in French, you will overcome challenging grammar points and learn to:

• Make strong, logical and coherent arguments in French
• Analyse extracts from books, lyrics and film
• Discuss abstract concepts such as “freedom”, pulling information from the news to discover how understandings have evolved over time
• Debate pros and cons of the internet and its impact on society
• Compose simple and informative texts, including about scientific and technological advancements
• Provide a comprehensive summary of a text, including elements of nuance and finer details

In this workshop, you will learn how to imitate an authentic French accent while studying the questions asked by examiners in the HSC speaking exam and learning to formulate impressive responses.

In this workshop, you will explore the fundamentals of French phonetics, learning how to perfectly imitate a French accent. Putting this into practice, you will then take to the HSC speaking exam, studying the questions asked by examiners and learning to formulate impressive responses.

Over the course of these three workshops, you will:

• Undertake an in-depth analysis of the prescribed text Intouchables, including the prescribed themes, characters and film techniques
• Identify examiners’ expectations and hone your writing skills over various text types from Section II
• Perfect your French accent, as well as your ability to present and defend an argument, in order to impress the examiners in the speaking exam.