Duration: 2 weeks (40 hours); 3 weeks (60 hours); 4 weeks (80 hours)
Campus : Toulouse
Type of diploma: School certificate – Certificate of completion
Capacity: Minimum: 8 – Maximum: 16
Presentation of the training program
Whether your goal is academic, professional, or simply to feel more confident in everyday situations, this intensive summer programme is designed to develop both oral and written communication skills while building fluency and confidence in French.
Throughout the course, you will learn to:
- Communicate effectively in French across a wide range of situations;
- Understand a variety of written, audio, and video materials;
- Acquire or consolidate your knowledge of French grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.
Beyond language learning, the summer school offers a rich introduction to French and Francophone culture, helping you feel more at ease in real-life interactions.
Cultural visits and activities complement classroom learning through immersive experiences in and around Toulouse, including museum escape games, an introduction to pétanque, themed city walks (such as street art tours), and chocolate tasting workshops.
This programme is ideal for learners seeking rapid and meaningful progress through full immersion in the French language and culture.
The benefits of training
- High-quality teaching provided by experienced French as a Foreign Language (FLE) instructors, using a variety of interactive and engaging materials.
- Personalized academic support with individual guidance and tailored tutoring to meet each learner’s needs.
- Cultural immersion in Toulouse through artistic, cultural, and social activities.
- Stimulating university environment with access to the library, student restaurant, and vibrant campus life.
- FLE Quality Label certification, ensuring pedagogical excellence.
- Unique setting in the heart of a rich and authentic cultural environment.
Educational objectives of the training
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
At A1 level :
- Understand a clear and simple message related to everyday life, locate simple information.
- Understand information in very simple everyday documents.
- Respond to simple requests for personal information.
- Give information about their activities.
- Recount an experience, an event, etc.
- Talk about yourself, your family and your immediate environment. Answer simple questions.
At A2 level :
- Understand a clear, simple message on familiar topics.
- Understand the main points of a simple story or personal letter.
- Identify one or more precise or predictable items of information in a simple document related to everyday situations.
- Write a short, organised story in the past tense.
- Present information or a request related to everyday life in an organised way (regular or informal formal letter, e-mail).
- Talk about yourself and describe your immediate environment and your impressions of it.
- Answer questions and make requests.
- Ask for simple information in predictable situations.
At B1 level:
- Understand the main ideas and/or main and secondary events on familiar or topical subjects in clear standard French.
- Understand one or two texts in general and in detail, including the cultural dimension.
- Gather significant information, understand common expressions, infer meaning and identify conclusions and opinions.
- Understand texts in everyday professional, public and educational language.
- Comment on developments, compare data.
- Reformulate main ideas into a coherent text.
- Express him/herself in writing by relating facts in terms of their anteriority, simultaneity and/or posteriority.
- Describe people, places, objects, states, situations, etc.
- Formulate an assessment, a judgement, an explanation, a justification, etc.
- Produce simple, constructed and coherent text to express opinions and feelings on familiar or topical subjects.
- Answer and react to requests from an interlocutor.
At B2 level:
- Understand an authentic document.
- Reconstruct the content of a conference-type document.
- Understand the nature of one or more documents, their content and the author’s communicative intention.
- Understand one or more documents in general and in detail.
- Express yourself in writing on social and general culture topics.
- Express his/her point of view accurately and in a reasoned way.
- Describe events in detail.
- Familiarise yourself with academic writing.
- Explain and develop clearly in a constructed manner an argued point of view on a wide range of concrete or abstract topics.
At C1 level:
- Understand a long authentic spoken document and give an account of it by taking notes.
- Understand an authentic written document of an argumentative nature in order to answer a questionnaire and/or report on it.
- Develop a structured, well-argued personal position in an academic essay.
- Present the theme developed in an essay.
Assessment of knowledge and skills
- Placement test
- Assessment throughout the session (formative assessment)
- End-of-session test (summative assessment)
Teaching methods used:
Format:
All courses are delivered face-to-face, in small groups, for personalized learning.
Methods:
- Oral practice: conversation sessions designed to improve fluency, pronunciation, and spoken expression.
- Reading and listening comprehension: exercises to strengthen understanding of written and spoken French in a variety of contexts.
- Written expression: guided writing tasks to develop composition, syntax, and grammatical accuracy.
- Cultural components: integration of cultural elements within lessons, complemented by immersive cultural activities.
Tools:
Authentic everyday-life materials, teaching resources designed by instructors or taken from specialized textbooks, and a Moodle platform for asynchronous learning.
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Program
Training format
The training course represents a weekly volume of 20 hours, spread over the mornings from 8.30am to 12.30 pm from Monday to Friday.
It is possible to sign up for optional cultural activities in the afternoon, three afternoons per week (six hours in total).
Training content
Our intensive general French courses are designed to develop all aspects of language proficiency through a variety of engaging and interactive activities:
- Comprehension and expression (written and oral): practice understanding and communication using diverse materials.
- Grammar: combine theoretical study with practical exercises to improve accuracy and confidence.
- Vocabulary enrichment: expand and refine your expression to communicate with nuance.
- Socio-cultural learning: discover the French-speaking world, fully integrated into your language lessons.
Guided Cultural Activities – Optional
Three afternoons per week, students can participate in rich, guided cultural activities aimed at improving both French language skills and cultural knowledge. These outings allow learners to:
- practice French in real-life situations;
- explore the historical and cultural heritage of Toulouse;
- connect with fellow students in an informal and friendly setting.
These optional, guided activities complement classroom learning, reinforce the morning lessons, and provide a fully immersive, memorable summer school experience.
Training program
Level A1
Know-how. What I’m going to learn to do…
- Spell
- Count
- Greet, say goodbye, thank, apologise
- Introduce yourself, identify a person, introduce someone
- Get to know someone, ask for personal information (surname, first name, age, address, telephone number, etc.)
- Write a simple message
- Name and locate an object
- Describe a home
- Go shopping, ask about prices and colours, describe an object
- Introduce your family, talk about those around you
- Express tastes, preferences and interests
- Give a physical description of a person
- Talk about daily routines and timetables
- Ask about other people’s activities
- Ask for and give the time
- Give a date, situate in time
- Ask for and give an itinerary
- Understand and present tourist information
- Locate a place on a map
- Giving advice and instructions
- Ask for and give permission
- Express an order/obligation
- Make, accept or refuse a proposal
- Make a polite request
- Talking about your intentions and plans for the weekend
- Inform about an activity in progress
- Report a recent event
Language tools. What I’ll need to do…
- The letters and sounds of French
- The present tense of regular and everyday verbs
- Subject and tonic personal pronouns
- The gender of nouns and adjective
- Prepositions before country names
- Singular and plural nouns
- The definite and indefinite article
- Forms: ‘il y a’ / ‘c’est/ce sont’ / ‘voici !’ / “voilà !
- Prepositions of place: ‘à’, ‘au’, ‘de’, ‘chez’, “avec”, ‘dans’.
- Interrogations: ‘who’, ‘where’, “what”, ‘why’.
- Questioning with ‘What?’ and “Is that?
- Interrogation with ‘how’ and “how much
- Demonstrative and possessive adjectives
- The present polite conditional ‘je voudrais’ and “j’aimerais
- The verbs ‘aimer’, “adorer” and “détester
- The negation ‘ne….pas / jamais’ (never)
- The verbs ‘faire de’, ‘jouer à’, “jouer de
- Qualifying adjectives
- Pronominal verbs
- The imperative (some verbs)
- The pronoun ‘y’ (place)
- Cardinal points
- Prepositions of time: ‘at 8.30am, in 2016’.
- The verbs ‘must’, “can” and ‘want’.
- Il faut / il ne faut pas + Infinitive
- The future tense: ‘I’m going to + infinitive’.
- Present progressive: “Je suis en train de + infinitive
- The recent past: ‘I have just + infinitive’.
- The passé composé with ‘to have’ and “to be
Lexical themes linked to knowledge and skills
- Numbers
- Nationalities
- Professions
- French-speaking countries
- Housing, rooms, furniture and household objects
- Colours / Pastels and Pays de Cocagne
- Clothes and accessories
- Shopping
- Family and social relationships
- Activities, sports and leisure in Midi Pyrénées
- Household chores
- Physical description
- The human body
- My portrait / Portrait of a person
- Daily activities / My day / My timetable
- Dates, days, months, seasons
- Times of day / The Toulouse quarter-hour
- The city of Toulouse and the Midi Pyrénées region
- Means of transport
- Wellbeing and health
- Weekend and holiday plans
- Studies and professions
- The career of a Toulouse artist
Socio-cultural aspects
- Situations and forms of politeness
- First and last names
- Apologies
- Formulas for friendly letters / emails
Know-how. What I’m going to learn to do…
Recount past events, a memory, an anecdote, a series of events, news items, a past experience, etc.
Situate events in time
Write a short biography
Recount past states and habits
Compare things and people
Present a country, a town and its inhabitants
Present advantages and disadvantages
Talk about eating habits
Make a shopping list
Understand and write a recipe
Describe objects and talk about their function
Make forecasts, talk about the future, talk about plans
Make hypotheses
Prepare a holiday programme
Write a postcard
Find out about someone
Make an appointment
Accept and refuse an invitation
Find out about places, things and people
Expressing agreement/disagreement
Assessing and appreciating
Asking for and offering help
Asking for and giving advice
Express the cause, explain choices, give a reason
Expressing wishes and feelings
Expressing objectives
Describing how to do things
Language tools. What I’ll need to do…
- The passé composé with ‘avoir’ and “être
- Agreement of the past participle with être
- The imperfect tense (formation and use)
- Simple comparison (nouns, adjectives and verbs)
- Partial articles
- The pronoun ‘en’ (quantity)
- COD and COl pronouns / some indirect verbs
- The three values of ‘on’: we, people, someone
- The future simple tense
- The hypothesis about the present and the future
- The simple relative pronouns “qui”, “que”, ‘où
- Adjectives
- Negation: ne…pas, ne…plus, ne…jamais, ne…rien, ne…personne
- Alternating the past compound and imperfect tenses
- Chronological articulators: ‘first, then, then, after, finally’.
- Adverbs of time: ‘now, soon, tomorrow’.
- The present conditional
- Prepositional verbs: “stop thinking about
- Indefinite adjectives: ‘all’, ‘tout’, “tous”, ‘toutes’.
- Expressions of cause and consequence: ‘because of’, ‘thanks to’, ‘like’, ‘because’, ‘because’, ‘therefore’, “so”, ‘that’s why’, etc.
- The present subjunctive (awareness)
- Expressing obligation and desire
- Expressing a goal: ‘for / in order to + infinitive’.
- Adverbs in “ment
- The gerund (simultaneity)
- Lexical themes linked to knowledge and skills
- Traditional festivals
- Childhood memories
- Life today and life in the past
- Where we live: town and country
- Fashion
- Food, cooking and local gastronomy
- Everyday objects
- Technological objects and inventions
- The weather
- The world of tomorrow
- Holidays and travel
- The education system, studies, training
- Professional projects
- The world of work
- People and places
- Habits, preferences
- The media, news and current affairs
- Health, well-being, sport
- The environment, climate, ecology
- Superstitions and beliefs
- The voluntary sector / associations in Toulouse
- Clichés and stereotypes
Socio-cultural aspects
- Good manners and daily etiquette
- Expressions and rituals of telephone conversation
- Forms of invitation
- Thank-you messages
- Formulas for friendly letters/email
Know-how. What I’m going to learn to do…
- Understand and talk about past events and experiences
- Ask for and give information about daily routines, news about someone
- Understand press articles and news stories
- Understand/give facts about current events, news about an event
- Ask for and give advice, explanations and clarifications
- Expressing an obligation
- Compare objects, behaviour, eras, etc.
- Make suggestions and react to proposals
- Express wishes, hopes and intentions
- Express a wish and offer services
- Express cause and consequence
- Express opinions and points of view, explain choices and justify them
- Coping with unexpected situations when travelling
- Talk about your professional experience
- Conduct an interview
- Report someone’s words and comments
- Make assumptions about the future and the present
- Express satisfaction or dissatisfaction, make a complaint
- Write a formal, administrative or commercial letter
- Present a problem and suggest solutions
- Explain your choices, express reservations or opposition
- Make a presentation on a given theme
- Evaluate and assess (films/books)
- Express regrets
Language tools. What I’ll need to do…
- Alternating the imperfect and the passé composé
- The past participle and its agreement with “avoir
- The more than perfect tense (action prior to another action)
- The future simple tense
- The future tense
- The present conditional (expressing feelings, wishes, obligations and intentions)
- The present subjunctive (possibility, obligation)
- The comparative (on nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs)
- Irregular comparatives and progressive comparison
- The superlative
- Simple relative pronouns (revision + ‘ dont ’) and compound pronouns
- Possessive and demonstrative pronouns
- Emphasis
- Purpose, cause and consequence
- The past conditional (regret)
- Concordance of tenses
- Reported speech in the present and past tenses
- The gerund (manner, condition, simultaneity)
- The present participle (cause/manner)
- Adverbs of manner (in -ment) and quantity (revision)
- Double pronouns COD (revision) and COI
- The noun phrase
- The passive
- Indefinites (adjectives and pronouns)
- Negation and restriction
- The articulators of discourse ‘first, then, finally …’ (revision)
- Opposition and concession
- If + imperfect + present conditional” hypothesis
Lexical themes linked to knowledge and skills
- The education system, studies, training
- Work, the professional world
- Health and social security
- Leisure and extreme sports
- Arts and culture
- Ecology, the environment and local initiatives
- The media and current affairs
- New technologies and communication tools
- Consumerism
- Holidays, travel, alternative tourism
- Social relations, the family
- Feelings and emotions
- Memories
- Customs and cultural traditions
- Information technology, technical progress
- People: physical description, character, personality
Socio-cultural aspects
- Formulas for friendly letters / e-mails
- Formulas for formal and administrative letters
- Speaking: beginning and ending a presentation
Know-how. What I’m going to learn to do…
- Recount detailed events in the past tense
- Give a presentation on a topic or a project
- Express and defend an opinion
- Oppose a point of view
- Reformulate / paraphrase to explain
- Summarise a text or a discussion
- Identify a point of view and a line of reasoning
- Identify the speaker’s tone / humour
- Synthesise information and positions from different sources
- Present a problem and propose solutions
- Formulate hypotheses
- Present the advantages and disadvantages of a given situation
- Conducting an interview
- Introduce an argument
- Develop a logical and coherent argument
- Highlighting the main and secondary points of an argument
- Concluding an argument
- Expressing possibility and probability
- Expressing doubt
- Write routine administrative and professional letters
- Taking notes
- Evaluate and appreciate (cinema, literature, graphic arts, etc.)
- Express satisfaction and dissatisfaction
- Complain by phone and in writing
- Expressing regret
Language tools. What I’ll need to do…
- The past tense in a story (present, compound past, imperfect)
- The past participle and its agreement (special cases)
- The more than perfect tense
- The past infinitive
- The future tense
- The condition ‘à condition que, pourvu que, au cas où’ (on condition that, provided that, in case)
- The conditional tense (present and past for advice, regret, reproach)
- The past tense in indirect discourse
- The subjunctive (after verbs, impersonal phrases and conjunctive expressions for feelings, doubt, wish, obligation, will, judgement, opposition, concession).
- The gerund
- The present participle and the verbal adjective
- Hypotheses
- Double pronominalization
- Compound relative pronouns
- Highlighting ‘what, what, what it is’.
- Opposition ” en revanche, sans que cependant
- Purpose” in view of, in order to, history of
- The cause ‘en raison de, sous prétexte de, du fait de, par suite de, à la suite de pour, par manque de faute de, à force de crainte de peur de’.
- The consequence “en conséquence de ce fait, c’est pour cela, de façon/sorte que, si bien que, tant que tellement, ainsi”.
- Concessions ‘néanmoins, toutefois, seulement, tout de même, or, au mépris de, quoique, même si’.
- Negation / restriction
- Articulators ‘en outre, de plus’ (‘in addition, moreover’)
- Common abbreviations
Lexical themes linked to knowledge and skills
- History
- Customs, cultural traditions and cultural implicits
- Culture (different art forms)
- Fashion
- Law and justice
- Health
- The environment, climate and ecology
- The media, access to information and current affairs
- Social trends and issues
- Information and communication technologies
- Scientific innovations
- Religions and secularism
- The world of work and working life
- Discrimination / Solidarity
- Equality/parity
- Politics, the three powers
- Citizenship and acquiring French nationality
- Immigration
- The French-speaking world
- Globalisation
- Traditional and fair trade
Socio-cultural aspects
- Formal and administrative letters
- Speaking: beginning and ending a presentation
- Formal discussion rituals: turns of speech, phatic elements, intonation, etc.
- Formulas for written business communication
- Language registers and slang
- Different types of academic writing
Know-how. What I will learn to do…
- Understand a wide range of long, demanding texts and grasp implicit meanings and fine nuances.
- Summarise a discussion or a long text on a specific topic, highlighting relevant positions and arguments.
- Synthesise information and arguments from a variety of sources
- Develop and defend a structured, coherent argument
- Demonstrate control of the tools of organisation, articulation and cohesion of discourse
- Use language flexibly and effectively in social situations
Language tools. What I’ll need to do…
- Anteriority, simultaneity, posteriority (concordance of tenses, prepositions and expressions)
- The simple past
- The past subjunctive: action prior to the present moment
- Cause ‘whereas, all the more so because, especially because’.
- Consequence ‘to such an extent that, to the extent that’.
- Purpose ‘verb + to the effect that + subj, for fear that + subj’.
- Condition / hypothesis (sentences with “if” and conjunctions)
- Opposition / concession
- Degrees of appreciation (attenuation and reinforcement formulas)
- Degrees of intensity: superlatives, adverbs, prefixes and suffixes
- Synonyms: pejorative and ameliorative nuances
- Figures of speech
- Language registers: grammatical and syntactical variants
Lexical themes linked to knowledge and skills
- History
- Customs, cultural traditions and cultural implicits
- Culture (different art forms)
- Fashion
- Law and justice
- Health
- The environment, climate and ecology
- The media, access to information and current affairs
- Social trends and issues
- Information and communication technologies
- Scientific innovations
- Religions and secularism
- The world of work and working life
- Discrimination / Solidarity
- Equality/parity
- Politics, the three powers
- Citizenship and acquiring French nationality
- Immigration
- The French-speaking world
- Globalisation
- Traditional and fair trade
Socio-cultural aspects
- Language registers
- The rituals of debate and argument
- Implicit meaning and connotations
- Idiomatic expressions
- Humour and the ‘second degree
- Different types of academic writing
Teaching staff
The teaching team is made up of dynamic teachers with over 15 years’ experience in teaching French as a foreign language. They all have a Master’s degree in teaching French as a foreign language. Our teachers receive regular training in the latest teaching methods, and are committed to an ongoing process of reflection and improvement in their teaching practices.
For any inquiries, suggestions for improvement, or complaints, please contact:
Fees and Funding
UNIVERSITY YEAR 2025–2026
A registration fee of €72 applies to all enrolments.
Summer School Course Fees:
1-month course: 80 hours – €895
3-week course: 60 hours – €679
2-week course: 40 hours – €458
1-week course: 20 hours – €242
Optional Cultural Package Fees:
1 month: €177
3 weeks: €133
2 weeks: €88
1 week: €44
Payment Methods:
Enrolment fees may be paid:
By bank transfer
In cash, by cheque, or by credit card at the IULCF office
(31, rue de la Fonderie, Building C2, 2nd floor, Office C207)
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Admission
Requirements
Be aged 16 or over (parental authorisation required for minors).
Admission requirements
If you wish to register, you must:
- Download the 2025-2026 registration pack
- Send the application form with all the required documents to the IULCF secretariat by email to iulcf@ict-toulouse.fr or drop it off at the IULCF office at 31, rue de la Fonderie, bâtiment C2, 2ème étage, bureau C207 (opening hours: Monday to Friday 8am-1pm, 2pm-5pm except wednesday 8am-1pm)
Documents to be attached to the application form:
- The registration document
- A photocopy of the passport and VISA (if applicable)
- An ID photo
- Pay the tuition fees as indicated in the application form.
