Bonjour chers collègues,

The French Traveler offers professional development workshops every summer in France for teachers of French.  Attended by teachers who are passionate about their profession, the stages focus on the contemporary cultural issues ofFrance, making them accessible to you and consequently to your students.  Morning seminars and afternoon excursions fill our days; we also have leisure time and optional activities.  We speak only French; we dine together in restaurants selected for their authenticity.  We also laugh a lot, believing that fun and humor reinforce language skills as much as linguistic content. When we’re not engaged in animated discussions about France today, we're collectively pooling ideas for new lesson plans or perhaps spending our free time in those monuments, museums or bookstores we’ve been longing to visit. 

We have always integrated the themes used in the advanced teaching of French in our workshop.  In our program syllabus this year we have highlighted them for you, so that you can be assured of reaching your goals and broadening your cultural understanding of France (and by extension, that of your students as well).

 Our Cultural Immersion Workshop may earn you 85 Massachusetts professional development hours for your efforts.

The 2012 stage intensif will be held in Bordeaux,France, one of France’s major cities and heart of its wine industry.  Lodgings in a deluxe hotel right in the center of town, within walking distance of restaurants, bookstores, boutiques, the tram and the lovely Place Quinconques, facilitate your acquaintance with this city.  With the wine country so near, we'll be offering a wine initiation course in addition to a cooking course, a day trip to Arcachon and St. Emilion, a dinner with a local family, and opportunities to meet the townspeople in addition to our morning seminars and afternoon excursions.

For the fifteenth consecutive summer, we're proud to present an excellent class leader, this summer Instructor Elodie VERDAVOIR, to lead our seminars and stimulate your inquiry into intercultural issues, all of which is bound to have an impact on your lesson plans in the fall.   

 We hope you’ll come stretch your limits with us.  REGISTER EARLY; space is limited. WATCH OUR VIDEO!

 Join us as we embrace this rich and varied region and vivons à la française! 

Valerie SUTTER, Director