It has been 5 months since I read the announcement on a forum that the enrollment on adult courses had begun. And now the English course I am doing is going to finish in two weeks.
You have the choice from language classes (Arabic, Chinese, Russian,
French, Spanish and so on) to information class, or even cookery class.
The cookery class is dedicated to people who want to become cooks and
have a license, not for housewives who just want to improve their
cooking technique.XD You apply to the class you want online, sign up and explain why you want
this class. If you are chosen you'll receive an email and go for a
test, then you are ready to go!
Here it's the link for enrollment.
I have chose the English class level advance 1,there were reading test and oral test. With what I red on the website I thought if I were fail the test I couldn't go to the class, I was quite nervous, but later I asked the teacher how it works, and the teacher told me that I didn't need to worry, if my level didn't suit the level I would be sent to another class but I would definitely have a class. I don't know if it's the same for other classes.
Here is a link to a tutorial in French to help you enroll online.
It's a great experience, the teacher is a very kind lady, she comes from the US and has been living in Europe for 20 years.We benefit a glut from her, not only the grammar but the culture of the US and UK. We were about 13 at the beginning,as the class was for adults and almost everyone work, some people can't make it any more, so we are about 7 since the middle of the class. 5 of us are foreigners including the teacher we are 6, we share a lot of our point of view of our abroad life, and give our opinions from 7 different countries to all kind of things we discuss.
I really appreciate the government organize the course for adult, I feel that France is a country which consider adult education is important, the government finances it. For instance the course I'm taking I paid only 290 euro, I have 2 classes per week and each class lasts 2 hours,the class takes place at a high school after the children finish their school.
The government organizes many different kinds of adult education, for example the course I am taking right now, the special high school for adult ( these two kinds of education take place at the evening because they are dedicated to workers), and government forces companies to give trainings to their employees, the rule is complicated, basically it's that the employee can have individual professor several hours per week, they can choose whatever they want, most of training centers offer language lessons. The education is paid by the company and financed by the government.
Here are some classroom pictures, we had the class at a primary school when the children finish school. Compare to what I had, their classroom is so lovely! And they are only 24 pupils at one class.
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| Primary school's classroom |
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| The flags of 2014 World Cup teams. |
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| the banister of school |
The banister is twice higher than me...
