French crash course to communicate in French in your daily life
Have you just arrived in Geneva? You do not speak French yet and would like to start communicating in the local language in restaurants, supermarkets, banks, be able to make a reservation and make an appointment with a doctor?
The Survival Kit or crash course training is a teaching method that allows students to quickly and effectively acquire the basics of French. After you have acquired basic oral knowledge, you will learn how to put it into practice in daily life. You will also be trained on the culture of the country in order to use your new skills wisely.
The school organises one cultural outing per week with the class (visit to a museum, the old town, a chocolate factory, etc.).
Course sequence
- theory – learning the vocabulary and the key phrases
- practical workshops – role-playing daily life situations
Details
Level: Beginner to intermediate
Location: avenue des Tilleuls 15, 1203 Genève
Price: please contact us
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Here are some examples of topics covered in these classes:
The basics
- introduction to the phonetics and the alphabet of the language
- French sentence structure
Greeting and introducing yourself
- greetings and politeness
- learning words related to age, origin, family, country, etc.
Making an appointment
- medical appointments, movies, etc.
- accept, decline or postpone an appointment
Shopping
- ask for an article, a size, a price
- negotiate a price
- means of payment
- the sentences used by the seller
- leave-taking
At the restaurant
- place an order
- the sentences used by the server/waitress
- ask for the bill
- leave and salute
At the bank
- banking-related vocabulary
- open a bank account
- role play with the employee
At the post office
- postal vocabulary
- send a package
- role play with the employee
Discovering a city
- tourist places
- directions
- street signs
- take transportation
The house
- the kitchen
- the bathroom
- daily activities
Other French Courses
RL Learning offers several options to learn French:
- Intensive French courses, for those who want to progress quickly over a short period of time
- General French, for those whose schedule does not allow to take an intensive course
- Private classes or semi-private classes for a tailor-made learning experience
- Swiss naturalisation, to prepare for the examination to obtain Swiss nationality
Don’t know which course is right for you? Contact us and we will help!