Bonjour Chers Collègues

 

The French Traveler offers professional development workshops every summer in France for teachers of French. Attended by teachers who hail from the four corners of the US, we focus on the contemporary cultural issues of France, 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. 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.

Our annual Cultural Immersion Workshop will earn you 85 Massachusetts professional development hours for your efforts. You may also apply separately for three graduate credits from the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

The 2010 stage intensif will be held in Lyon, France, the gastronomic heart of France and the country's second largest city. You'll stay in a beautiful hotel right in the heart of the Presqu'ile, within walking distance of restaurants, bookstores, boutiques, the metro and the Vieux Lyon. For those who desire it, the opportunity to have a sejour en famille in place of the hotel stay is possible. With the Beaujolais within a stone's throw, we'll be offering a wine initiation course, a cooking course, a day trip to Annecy, a dinner with a Lyonnaise family, opportunities to meet the townspeople in addition to our morning seminars and afternoon excursions.

For the thirteenth consecutive summer, we're proud to present an excellent instructor 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.

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


Valerie Sutter Director, The French Traveler

The Elegant Place Bellecour



Lyon: Gastronomic Capital of France



La Basilique de Fourvière domine la ville

 

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