French Immersion Weekend (Intermediate)

  • June 5-7
  • Friday 5 PM-Sunday 2 PM
  • Course fee: $235 + housing (if needed)
  • Instructor: Clovis Anjard
  • 2.0 CEU credits
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Pour amener la conversation, des activités ludiques mais éducatives seront presentées. La culture française sera survolée travers la lecture d'une histoire, le visionnage d'un film, et peut-être même un jeu typiquement français : la Pétanque. Nous préparerons les repas ensemble. C'est dans une ambiance conviviale et comfortable que vous allez vivre ce weekend avec d'autres personnes qui veulent améliorer leur niveau en français.

Special note about the June weekend: This immersion will take place on the site of Blueberry Cove in TenantsHarbor, on the 5, 6 and 7 of June. It is a holiday camp on the shore andsurrounded by woods! We will stay there the whole weekend, eat on site and sleep in prepared buildings. You will be in total immersion, since there will be no references to your American life! We will speak French at all time and go out as much as possible for our activities. Activities include a treasure hunt, a cooking segment, word games, mind games, and a discussion of a movie. Here is how to get to the site, it is easy to find:


Blueberry Cove Road, St. George, ME 04860. Tel: 1-207-372-6353


From Thomaston at the Knox Mansion (Montpelier), take US Route 1 South, towards St. George/Tennants Harbor. Follow Rt. 131 through the town of Tenants Harbor. Continue to follow Rt. 131 toward Port Clyde (The road veers to the left). Take a left turn onto Harts Neck Road, a short way after the ball field
(10.7 miles from Rt. 1). Blueberry Cove Camp is located at 22 Blueberry Cove Road. The driveway is on the left about 0.5 miles down Harts Neck Rd.Participants will receive an email containing directions, and a list of things to bring with them.

 

Clovis Anjard, 23, from the French island of Reunion and Marine Gagniéres, 22, from the south of France, lead Penobscot School's 2009 French immersions.

 

Read about the Penobscot School immersion experience

By far the best way to make rapid progress in any language is to live it, or be immersed in it. Language immersion weekends at Penobscot School provide a safe, relaxed atmosphere where you will participate in everyday activities in your chosen language, just as you would if you were living in a foreign country. From morning to night, your native-speaking instructors and assistants will help you with vocabulary, grammar, listening and pronunciation, and you will also go on excursions, play games, sing, prepare authentic meals, enjoy cultural presentations and perhaps make a presentation of your own. Two years of previous language study is recommended, or the ability to speak about simple, everyday subjects in the present and past tenses.

Teachers will find material useful in the classroom and a valuable refresher of speaking skills. Stories, drama, music, film, food and French-speaking friends will provide for a deep immersion into French language and culture.

The immersion runs from 5 pm Friday through 2 pm Sunday and
includes instruction, all activities and materials, and six meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.

Accommodation is off-site at local inns within-in walking distance of School: shared or single rooms. Please inquire for pricing. It is possible to register for just Saturday of a weekend immersion, at the discretion of the instructor. The day begins at breakfast, and Saturday students are welcome through dinner and evening activities: 8:30 am-9 pm: $105.

 

Clovis Anjard was born  in Alencon on Reunion  on Jan. 6, 1984.  He would like to become either a teacher or else work for international relations, perhaps as a secretary in an embassy.  He is currently in his fifth year of English at the University of Reunion.  At the beginning of 2007 he went to Willamette Univ. in Oregon, where he was actively part of the French department, if unofficially, and helped with conversation groups as well he greatly improved his own English. He has also worked for a community program aimed at helping middle school students, and recently has been tutoring a student in all subjects at the middle school.  He is interested in the cinema, improv theater, swimming jogging and hiking.

 

 

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