FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSE
 

The French language course in ‘ MERIDIAN ' center has been organized in two levels. The course is held in comfortable environments by well qualified teachers with contemporary teaching facilities and methods. The structure and objectives of this course for each level are organized as explained:

1^st LEVEL

During the first level of the French language course we intend to accustom the course taker with the French alphabet, simple sentence structures in French, and make them able to interact in simple and short dialogues. It is obvious that with time the lectures will become more complex and more inclusive in each aspect as the amount of knowledge acquired by the course takers increases gradually.

In other words, the objective of this first level is to make it possible for the course takers to create dialogues, interact easily and become able to show preferences in relation with the basic topics of daily life. At the same time, it will be possible for them to learn a large number of new words and French roots useful to communicate easily and essential for the expanding of their French knowledge in the future.

The students, thorough this course, beside learning the basic rules of French language are introduced to the vast number of French culture's criteria, thanks to the contemporary method ‘Le Nouveau Sans Frontieres 1'. This way the student will not only be able to understand simple texts and express his personal opinions, but at the same time he will be aware of the French culture's structure and the social actual events in France .

2^nd LEVEL

It is necessary to underline the fact that most of the grammatical knowledge and new words in relation with French language are learned during the first level of the course; taught by experienced teachers, what makes them almost impossible to be not comprehended or forgotten. Anyway, the student during this second level of the French course will continue to extend his knowledge in grammar and new word, what will be achieved by following a chronological scheme evolved by experts. This will help him express his feelings easily, be more precise in his preferences and express them in details, show the organization of free time and other activities, ask information according to his needs, and write and formulate different texts related to his everyday actions.

During the second level the student is encouraged to become more independent in the planned activities; in fact he is supposed to be able show security while interacting, referring, reproducing, and writing. The grammatical errors by now are supposed to be eliminated. At the same time, this second level designed in compliance with the second and last of the two contemporary methods ‘Le Nouveau Sans Frontieres 2'helps the student become a connoisseur of French life and culture.

The students that finish both levels of the French course are supposed to write compositions about personal and other social events they are familiar with. Through exercises, text analysis, and writing it is aimed that the student learns to formulate and organize his own thoughts and opinions in written and spoken forms; from the simplest common ones to the most complex issues.

At the end of both levels of French language teaching course the course takers are supposed to talk and interact easily in France and in other countries, where the main communication language is French as they are able to explain events, thoughts, preferences and feelings, through dialogues by the help of the rules and new words learned during the course.