Yesterday, I went to Zurich for the LAP preparatory seminar. It lasted from 9:15 to 17:30 and I found it really helpful and interesting!
The seminar was organised in two parts: Workshop I and Workshop II. The representative from the British Council, Harriet, presented the first workshop, which was about the school system in England and about administrative stuff. We could also ask questions to previous assistants, which was very helpful!
The second workshop was presented by a French teacher, who told us about the teaching of French as a foreign language. She gave us useful advice and Internet links, as well as good youth magazines' titles. We also had to prepare an oral lesson in small groups and then talk about it with the whole "class". Then again, we could talk with the previous assistants, and it made the whole thing more genuine and concrete =) They told us that we certainly would not get to talk much about Switzerland, as the French courses there are mainly based on French culture of France. That's a good thing to know!
I got to meet a lot of nice people. French assistants in the UK, in Germany and in Austria, and German assistants in the UK and in France. Really nice people. And I learned a lot of things too! Now I start feeling as a true French language assistant! =)
French culture is indeed at the center of the lessons, but you can also put the emphasis on other countries (I did talk about Belgium and Switzerland according to the current news, for example).
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