Open House at our new location Saturday October 2 from 10am to noon.
Towles Court Pavilion Suite 2
200 S Washington Blvd
Sarasota
Meet our teachers and administrative staff and enjoy a petit déjeuner of refreshments and hors d'oeuvres with us.
Questions concerning French classes with
the Alliance Française de Sarasota should be forwarded to
ecole@afsarasota.org
PRIVATE LESSONS - private French language lessons for children and adults are
available at convenient hours - days, evenings or weekends.
For details please call 941-955-0700.
Fall 2010 FRENCH CLASSES AT THE
ÉCOLE DE L’ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
Registration Phone No. - 941-348-1329
Registration by e-mail registrations@afsarasota.org
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All Classes are held at our new office located at
Towles Court Pavilion
200 S Washington Blvd, Sarasota
(corner of Adams Lane and Washington Blvd)
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Cost and Course Length
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All classes are held for ten (10) weeks - two hours per class
each week.
All classes (except Pronunciation Class) cost $180 with an additional
$45 charge for admission in the Alliance Française. Depending on the course taken there may be an additional textbook charge.
Pronunciation Class is held one hour per week for ten weeks at
a cost of $90.
Children's classes do not require membership and teaching materials are included in the total cost.
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Ms Sylvia Sabbah
Ms Marie-Christine Rouffiac
Ms Eva Frank
Our staff are all experienced native French instructors.
Please refer to their biographies below.
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Course Descriptions
Classes for Adults
1. Beginner 1: for the real beginner. This class is an interactive class, and you will be
speaking French from the first class. Learn to introduce yourself to others and to ask
and answer simple questions (introductions, greetings, express your likes and dislikes)
2. Beginner 2-3: you have completed level 1 or you have studied French a long time ago in
high school or college - or you have taken some French classes before and have traveled to France.
You will learn basic sentence patterns to communicate in everyday situations. - to tell time, make
an appointment,ask for a price, agree or disagree with someone. At the higher level
you will be able to ask for directions, give an order or an advice, describe a place,
discuss weather forecasts, describe someone, etc.
3. Intermediate 1-3: after completing the levels of Beginners' classes, this class is for you
to improve your fluency. Discuss current events and topics in French. This class is
exclusively in French. You will learn to describe what you did in past tenses, ask someone for their opinion on different subjects, how to rent an apartment, express
your opinion and your feelings.
4. Advanced 1-2: become a more sophisticated French speaker and study more advanced
grammar and idiomatic structures of the language. Discuss more complex current events and topics.
Develop skills for written and spoken French. You will be able to learn the subtleties of
the language and the difference of opinions, express hypothesis and condition, sadness and
deception. You will learn to carry on a phone conversation.
5. Pronunciation Class: this is a phonetic corrective workshop - how many times
have you felt sure that you said the right phrases in French, but received the wrong
answer or only puzzled silence? Now you can learn how you should have said and
pronounced what you intended, by enrolling in this phonetic workshop. This course if
for beginners and also more advanced students of French.
6. New Wave Movie Class: this session is about the New Wave, a cinematographic
movement that enhanced the movie industry by its novelty in film making in the 50's and 60's.
Practice your French (comprehension and discussion) through the studies of three movies:
A bout de Souffle by Jean-Luc Goddard; Hiroshima mon amour by Alan Resnais and La Nuit
Américaine by François Truffaut - three of the French New Wave directors. This is a course for
intermediate and advanced students.
Classes for Children (Ages 6-10)
Through songs, games, writing, painting and different art crafts, the children will discover the
French language and its culture. Every class will include a small project that will cover a
specific topic (make a picture album, learn about the impressionist painters and make
a painting the impressionist way, learn about the geography and history of France..) - the
session will run for 10 weeks. Minimum of four students, maximum of 8.
MS SYLVIA SABBAH is in charge of daytime adult classes. She is a native French speaker from Nice, France and has extensive experience gathered not only during her University studies in France but as a teacher at French high schools and colleges and at the Alliance Francaise where she has taught for the past seven years. She can be contacted at 941-927-5656 for any questions or information concerning her classes.
MS MARIE-CHRISTINE ROUFFIAC is in charge of evening adult classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and children's classes on Saturdays. She is also in charge of the New Wave Movie Class on Fridays. She is a native French speaker from Orléans, France. She has received university degrees from La Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Dijon. She is a published poet and has taught French for many years at different locations in the U.S. Ms Rouffiac can be contacted at 941-323-2226 for any questions or information regarding her classes.
MS Eva Frank is in charge of the Pronunciation/Phonetic Corrective class. She is a native speaker of French, has taught all levels at various locations in the U.S. and is a master at explaining how and why French is very different from English. She can guide you to speaking French so your French speaking listeners will understand you.
Registration - You can register on our website at www.afsarasota.org (click on Event Calendar and the class you plan to take. Follow directions from there) and mail your check made out to Alliance Française along with the completed registration form to our office at 200 S. Washington Blvd, Sarasota FL 34236. Students are required to register ahead of time and classes must have a minimum of four students. If a student cancels his/her registration before classes start, a full refund will be processed. No refunds will be given after the first session of a class. For any questions regarding the registration process, please call us at 941-358-1329.
