For students who have never studied French before. This class introduces basic grammatical structures, vocabulary and, communication sentences.


Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

Class will resume at Unit.2 in Tendances A1
Students in this class already know name gender and plural, sentences at the negative form, and conjugate verbs at the present tense. They also know how to introduce themselves using: je m'appelle, je suis, j'habite et voici mon adresse email.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/


Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Saison 1 at Unit 4

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice.
Saison 1 Méthode de français ISBN :978-0320083709
Saison 1 Cahier d'activités ISBN :978-2278079100

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.
  https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Edito A1 at Unit 5

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/ 
Pace: Regular

Groupe Beginner 4 : Edito A1 Unit 8

Prerequisite:The students in this class can :

• Get dressed (clothes vocabulary, color adjectives, matter, accessories)
• Use the correct prepositions before seasons, months, city, country.
• Place and agree adjectives with nouns.
• Discuss the weather
• Go shopping (clothes and tech devices)
• Understand and give time
• Describe daily tasks
• Talk about household and housework
• Talk about hobbies
• Go out (theater, restaurant, hiking, event, etc.)
• Can introduce a person and talk about family
• Can describe someone's character
• Talk about family
  
• Talk about home
  
• Express a prohibition

Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Saison 1 at Unit 8.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice.
Saison 1 Méthode de français ISBN :978-0320083709
Saison 1 Cahier d'activités ISBN :978-2278079100

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/


Pace: Regular

Class with resume in textbook Saison 1 at Unit 7.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice.
Saison 1 Méthode de français ISBN :978-0320083709
Saison 1 Cahier d'activités ISBN :978-2278079100

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/


Pace: Regular

Class will start textbook Saison 2, Edition Didier
ISBN : 978-2278087136

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Edito A2 Intermediate

Prerequisite: The students in this class can 

• Get dressed (clothes vocabulary, color adjectives, matter, accessories) 
  
• Use the correct prepositions before seasons, months, city, country. 
  
• Place and agree adjectives with nouns.
  
• Discuss the weather
  
• Go shopping (clothes and tech devices) 
  
• Understand and give time
  
• Describe daily tasks 
  
• Talk about the housework
  
• Talk about hobbies 
  
• Go out (theater, restaurant, hiking, event, etc) 
  
• Talk about family 
  
• Talk about home
  
• Express a prohibition
• Can rent a vacation home and compare trips
• Can write a postcard and talk about vacation
• Can recount a succession of events using passé composé
• Can explain if sick and where it hurts

Grammar and conjugation 

The student can use passé récent, futur proche, impératif and passé composé and can conjugate reflexive verbs. 
The student can use Y et EN pronouns and object pronouns “le,la,les” .

Textbook required:
Edito A2 (Edition 2015)
ISBN :   9782278083190

Pace: Regular

Groupe Intermediate A2: Edito A2 Unit 3

Prerequisite:
Vocabulary

• Numbers
  
• How to get to know someone
  
• Directions and read a map
  
• Transportation names
  
• Professions, nationalities, and countries
• Food and stores names
• Interrogative words
• Family
• House room and furniture names

Communication

Students are able to discuss with simple structure daily topics such as family, weather, hobbies, housework, and shopping. Students can talk about childhood and describe pictures.
Students can understand these topics when the speaker speaks clearly and reduces his/her pace. 

Grammar and conjugation 

The students can build simple sentences and conjugate regular and some irregular verbs at the present tense, imperative, passé récent, futur proche and passé composé (with avoir & être) and imparfait for description.

The students, also, are familiar with

• Relative pronoun “qui & que” 
  
• Pronoun “en’ and “y” and Pronoun object “le,la,les”
  
• Use the correct prepositions before seasons, months, city, country. 
  
• Place and agree adjectives with nouns.
• Memory verbs such as : se souvenir, se rappeler et oublier

Textbook required:
Edito A2 (Edition 2015)
ISBN :   9782278083190

Pace: Regular

Groupe Intermediate A2: Edito A2, Unit 6
Prerequisite :

Vocabulary

• Numbers
  
• How to get to know someone
  
• Directions and read a map
  
• Transportation names
  
• Professions, nationalities, and countries
• Food and stores names,
• Interrogative words
• Family
• House room and furniture names
• Device and inventions

Communication

Students are able to discuss daily topics such as family, weather, hobbies, housework, and shopping. Students can talk about childhood and describe pictures. They can talk about the future, and express and their intentions.
Students can understand these topics when the speaker speaks clearly and reduces his/her pace. 

Grammar and conjugation 

The students can build simple sentences and conjugate regular and some irregular verbs at the present tense, imperative, passé récent, futur proche and passé composé (with avoir & être) and imparfait for description.
Students know  the condition with "si" and the present subjunctive for the expression of necessity. 

The students, also, are familiar with

• Relative pronoun “qui & que” 
  
• Pronoun “en" and “y” and Pronoun object “le,la,les”
  
• Use the correct prepositions before seasons, months, city, country. 
  
• Place and agree adjectives with nouns.
• Memory verbs such as : se souvenir, se rappeler et oublier
  
  

Textbook required:
Edito A2 (Edition 2015)
ISBN :   9782278083190

Pace: Regular

Class will start Textbook Saison 2 at Unit 2.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Saison 2 Unité 6
La place des adjectifs, la restriction, le subjonctif et les sentiments et les futurs simple et proche.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Class will work on Tendances A2 Unit 5.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

  https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Tendances A2 at Unit 7.
Prerequisite: students are already familiar with​ the following verb tenses: présent, passé composé, imparfait, futur and subjonctif as well as with relatives pronouns such as qui, que, où and with direct and indirect object.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment:
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

  https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Saison 2 Unit 5.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Class will resume in textbook Tendances A2 at Unit 9  +
Textbook Edito B1, Edition Didier 2018

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/ 
Pace: Regular

Cinéma et Société :  L’Age d’or du cinéma français,  Les années 30. 
Avec Hélène Laroche Davis, PhD 

Pourquoi l’âge d’or du cinéma français, malgré la grande dépression de 1929? 
L’art des cinéastes a transcendé le spectacle d’un peuple souffrant en un style poétique, le “Réalisme Poétique”. 
C’est aussi le passage du cinema muet au parlant. 

Ensemble nous allons explorer comment la réalité est transfigurée par la fiction et la poésie de Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Carné…,   

Nous ferons la connaissance des acteurs  fétiches de l’époque: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Michèle Morgan et discuterons les films: FANNY, LA BELLE ET LA BETE, PEPE LE MOKO, LA REGLE DU JEU… 

Rejoignez-nous pour débattre et développer ensemble une réflexion critique sur la société de l’entre deux guerres et sa représentation au cinéma.

Cet atelier est animé par Hélène Laroche-Davis, PhD

 
5 Mondays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
October 3, 2022 to November 7, 2022
(No class on Monday October 31, 2022 - Halloween)
@ Emerson School,  2800 W Bayshore, Palo Alto 

Pace: Regular

Cinéma et Société :  L’Age d’or du cinéma français,  Les années 30. 
Avec Hélène Laroche Davis, PhD 

Pourquoi l’âge d’or du cinéma français, malgré la grande dépression de 1929? 
L’art des cinéastes a transcendé le spectacle d’un peuple souffrant en un style poétique, le “Réalisme Poétique”. 
C’est aussi le passage du cinema muet au parlant. 

Ensemble nous allons explorer comment la réalité est transfigurée par la fiction et la poésie de Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Carné…,   

Nous ferons la connaissance des acteurs  fétiches de l’époque: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Michèle Morgan et discuterons les films: FANNY, LA BELLE ET LA BETE, PEPE LE MOKO, LA REGLE DU JEU… 

Rejoignez-nous pour débattre et développer ensemble une réflexion critique sur la société de l’entre deux guerres et sa représentation au cinéma.

Cet atelier est animé par Hélène Laroche-Davis, PhD

 
5 Mondays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
October 3, 2022 to November 7, 2022
(No class on Monday October 31, 2022 - Halloween)
@ Emerson School,  2800 W Bayshore, Palo Alto 

Pace: Regular

Can deal with most life situations. Produce simple essays.
Pace: Regular

Can deal with most life situations. Produce simple essays.
Pace: Regular

Saison 3. Unité 7
Le discours rapporté au présent et au passé avec la concordance des temps, le passé simple et les pronoms personnels, démonstratifs et neutres.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions byemail.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Edito B1, Unité 2
Le passé composé et l'imparfait, les indicateurs de temps,  les verbes pronominaux au passé composé.


Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office onSaturday October 1, 2022,from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions byemail.

• Cancellation after enrollment:
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

  https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/

Pace: Regular

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Pouvoir s'exprimer dans la langue française, atelier avec Stephan de Gery.
Niveau B1/B2
Chaque participant aura l'occasion de présenter à la classe un sujet de son choix où il (elle) aura l'occasion de s'exprimer et d'être écouté(e) dans la langue française.


Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Cinéma et Société :  L’Age d’or du cinéma français,  Les années 30. 
Avec Hélène Laroche Davis, PhD 

Pourquoi l’âge d’or du cinéma français, malgré la grande dépression de 1929? 
L’art des cinéastes a transcendé le spectacle d’un peuple souffrant en un style poétique, le “Réalisme Poétique”. 
C’est aussi le passage du cinema muet au parlant. 

Ensemble nous allons explorer comment la réalité est transfigurée par la fiction et la poésie de Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Carné…,   

Nous ferons la connaissance des acteurs  fétiches de l’époque: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Michèle Morgan et discuterons les films: FANNY, LA BELLE ET LA BETE, PEPE LE MOKO, LA REGLE DU JEU… 

Rejoignez-nous pour débattre et développer ensemble une réflexion critique sur la société de l’entre deux guerres et sa représentation au cinéma.

Cet atelier est animé par Hélène Laroche-Davis, PhD

 
5 Mondays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
October 3, 2022 to November 7, 2022
(No class on Monday October 31, 2022 - Halloween)
@ Emerson School,  2800 W Bayshore, Palo Alto 

Pace: Regular

Class will resume in Edito B2 (Ed. 2015) at Unit 4.

Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Pouvoir s'exprimer dans la langue française, atelier avec Stephan de Gery.
Niveau B1/B2
Chaque participant aura l'occasion de présenter à la classe un sujet de son choix où il (elle) aura l'occasion de s'exprimer et d'être écouté(e) dans la langue française.


Books and workbooks can be purchased from the retailer of your choice or from AF Silicon Valley.
If these items are bought through AF Silicon Valley, they are non-refundable.
You can pick them up in our Los Gatos office on Saturday October 1, 2022, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Please contact us if you have any further questions by email.

• Cancellation after enrollment :
  • If registration is cancelled before the first class, the whole tuition is refunded.
  • If a student cancels his/her registration during the first week of class (day of the first class + 6 days), tuition will be refunded minus the fee for trying a class ($32).
  • No refunds will be issued if you decide to drop the class after the first week of the session. NO EXCEPTION.
  • Textbooks bought from AFSCV are non-refundable and sales are final.

• Membership is not refundable.

• Class transfers:
  • A student can transfer to another class subject to Teacher and School Director approval within the first two weeks of the session.

https://www.afscv.org/learn-french/terms-and-conditions/
Pace: Regular

Cinéma et Société :  L’Age d’or du cinéma français,  Les années 30. 
Avec Hélène Laroche Davis, PhD 

Pourquoi l’âge d’or du cinéma français, malgré la grande dépression de 1929? 
L’art des cinéastes a transcendé le spectacle d’un peuple souffrant en un style poétique, le “Réalisme Poétique”. 
C’est aussi le passage du cinema muet au parlant. 

Ensemble nous allons explorer comment la réalité est transfigurée par la fiction et la poésie de Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Carné…,   

Nous ferons la connaissance des acteurs  fétiches de l’époque: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Michèle Morgan et discuterons les films: FANNY, LA BELLE ET LA BETE, PEPE LE MOKO, LA REGLE DU JEU… 

Rejoignez-nous pour débattre et développer ensemble une réflexion critique sur la société de l’entre deux guerres et sa représentation au cinéma.

Cet atelier est animé par Hélène Laroche-Davis, PhD

 
5 Mondays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
October 3, 2022 to November 7, 2022
(No class on Monday October 31, 2022 - Halloween)
@ Emerson School,  2800 W Bayshore, Palo Alto 

Pace: Regular

Speak with fluency in all situations personal or professional.
Pace: Regular