Full time
6 hours of training a day, 5 days a week, for months at a time...Seems a lot ?! IT IS a lot!
Forget the traditional monotonous face-to-face with the same teachers for 30 hours a week and try it our way:
For us, the best way to use a Full Time training is to see it as a special time to deep dive into the test, a turbo-boost period in your training.
We would like to invite students -and their employers- to consider other options (our regular training, or semi-intensive option) for students who need to build up their French in a more sustainable and long-term plan.
Language learning is about consistency, routines and daily integration (not a false sense of immersion for 4-6 months, every 4 years, and nothing in between).
We recommend to students who need to explore the grammatical notions required for their level to have some weeks of part time training before they start their full-time training.
We are always happy to discuss this in person, and engineer a training plan based on each students' needs and logistical constrains.
What to expect everyday:
Mornings:
3 hours of one-on-one class:
- Time to study the questions, understand what is expected of you and what the examinators will look for in your answers.
- Learn how to identify different types of questions and build different structures accordingly: descriptive, comparative, narrative, argumentative...plus the hypothesis, of course!
- Think about your answers, helped by a trained teacher who will help you develop rich ideas, examples and stories.
- Get precise feedback on every questions, and tips to improve them.
We like to mix things up to keep it engaging !
- you will have 3 hours of one-on-one training to start your day with (usually set as 2x1.5 hours)
- you will benefit from the experience of 3-5 teachers for your training: they are all highly trained and will bring you each their best! Mixing up the teachers also mean everyone will stay engaged : you and them !
Don't worry we have a great team coordination: thanks to your student file that we all share, teachers will easily see what has been covered in the last classes + we are all following an organized training plan: this battle plan is engineered by the class coordinator at the beginning of each training. It ensures you are covering everything you need: grammar lessons in need of a freshening, exploration of helpful structures for the answers, planification of the SLE questions per weekly themes.
Afternoons:
1.5 hour of guided self-study:
There are some things that you need to do on your own: memorization, remediation, exploration of vocabulary...
And we know you probably won't do it at the end of your day! So that's why we integrated this guided self-study time in your day.
There is no need to have a teacher watching you while you repeat sentences to memorize them, or read a text to explore vocabulary, but you do need a referent teacher to help you organise your studies: what needs immediate attention, what can wait, what to expect and how to get there.
Your referent teacher is part of your regular team of teachers, so they know you very well. They will scan your student's file everyday, notice what needs to be worked on, and provide exercices, feedback and perspective to help you improve.
-> What is the issue ? Building precision ? Developing long sentences ? Memorization ? Confidence ? Understanding what the question is about ? Developing ideas ? Expressing opinions ?
Have a referent teacher assist you everyday to support your learning journey.
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1.5 hour of Duo Class:
Time to practice your answers in our popular Duo Classes!
Everyday you get to :
- practice and polish your answers and get feedback from a specially trained teacher and your partner of the day,
- Co-build an understanding of what is expected of you by giving and receiving guided feedback from your partner of the day and the teacher,
- take the good parts of you partner's answers,
- notice the issues in your partner's answers to reflect on your own.
Plus...you get a bit of a much needed sens of camaraderie in an uplifting format.
Who thought Oral C preparation could sound so fun ?!
Pricing and contracting:
One week of our full-time option currently costs $1500, no taxes to be added, for 30 hours of training per week ($50/h).
Our price will increase starting March 31st 2025: one week of Full Time training will be $1590 ($53/h)
This format is now accessible for oral B and C preparation.
We recommend that students take a minimum of 4 to 6 weeks, allowing us to cover all the themes of the SLE, and adress the language issues they might have, but we know we sometimes need to adapt a faster pace.
If a Full Time training needs to be under 4 weeks, we will charge a remodeling fee of $150.
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You need your contract to start ASAP ?
While we understand you are probably rushed into your training because you have been scheduled earlier than expected for a test, there will be an emergency fee for treating your request.
If you need your training to start within two weeks of our initial chat, we reserve the right to charge $150 as an emergency fee to manage your request, as it requires us to work extra hours on the evenings and during the weekends to be able to fit your training in our calendars.
Book an initial chat at your earliest convenience.
Please:
- notify us if you already know the date of your tests,
- be aware of our cancelation policy and best contracting practices.