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About the School
The French Formula Language School was established here in Melbourne in February 2001. Since that time, we have delivered a wide range of courses to hundreds of students from diverse backgrounds. You can read some of our customer feedback here.
Your Teacher
Emmanuelle Missios is a French native speaker who has been teaching French as a Foreign Language for the past 15 years. Before moving to Australia, Emmanuelle taught French in Scotland and France and also worked as a chef. Her passion for food is something she loves to share with her students as part of their French studies. Generally these French cooking sessions can be arranged as a fun end of term activity.
Her academic qualifications include Masters Degrees in Teaching French as a Foreign Language and French Literature and has completed specialist studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning. She is also a Victorian Government accredited trainer.
In addition to teaching the French language, Emmanuelle places great emphasis on the study of French culture through its food, art and literature.
Over the past three years, French Formula success led us to hire qualified teachers, sharing our views about teaching, our enthusiasm and our professionalism. You can read some feedback about them as well below.
Customer Feedback
I had the pleasure of having Emmanuelle as my instructor in French for four weeks in December 2001, just prior to my transfer to Paris. I received fairly intensive training for 2 hours per day 4 times per week. I particularly enjoyed the lessons with Emmanuelle. She made them interesting, engaged in frequent conversational French and explained things in a pedagogic and clear manner. I thought that the ground we covered in a short period of time was surprising. I had not expected to learn so much.
Andrew R, March 2002.
I recently attended French for Travellers course. I would like to commend the teacher Emmanuelle Missios. Although I had absolutely no French language experience before the course and found the content challenging, Emmanuelle's handouts, homework and CD helped me to revise with confidence.
I particularly valued having a native French speaking teacher and the inclusion of cultural content and useful travel tips. Using the practical 'Lonely Planet' text will help me to link the course learning to my travel experience in a useful way.
Barbara B, August 2003
Dear Emmanuelle,
Thank you for the energy, fun and education you have put into teaching me over the past months. As one with poor language skills I was daunted by the prospect of learning a language in a class environment but I have really enjoyed it. Best wishes... Neil C, December 04
Emmanuelle,
Thank you for a lovely evening on our last grammar class and your help as a French teacher, enthusiasm, hard work, patience is very much appreciated.
Clinton, November 2005
Attention to every individual, homework correction, accessibility by email, useful tips and tricks. Emmanuelle 'provides' well beyond what can be reasonably expected.
Keith, July 06
I have really appreciated the one-on-one help and assistance that Emmanuelle has given me. I have found that she has been excellent at helping me with the particular area's I find difficult, and helping me to extend my knowledge. I have really appreciated the hard work and dedication that I know she has put in outside of the class, as well as in, and I appreciate the planning she does prior to the class. I really like the group of people in our class, and find that we get on very well with each other (I think we are very lucky). I enjoy the enthusiasm that Emmanuelle brings to the class, and enjoy the range of activities provided for us to practise French! I am very satisfied with the course, I will absolutely be re-enrolling, I won’t stop until I AM a French person!
Haley, December 06
What do we find most valuable about this course? The style of teaching - we find it a very positive, constructive and supportive learning environment with an excellent teacher.
Gretchen & Wade, January 07
About our teachers
I really like Sabrina's professionalism. She is always well prepared. The verbal practice is very useful because we can practice both structure/grammar and the pronunciation, which is my weak point.
Julia, September 05
The teacher ( Chantal ) is very committed and a talented facilitator/teacher. She has high expectations and standards which makes the class worthwhile and productive. I feel like I am getting the most out of the content that she covers in each class. Well done Emmanuelle - you run a very professional program and I am pleased to have joined the classes.
Patricia, October 06
I really enjoyed the extra little stories our native French teacher (Mandy) was able to tell us. That give us an insight into French culture and language. I also found very valuable the teacher's and students' enthusiasm and dedication.
Diane, February 07
Extremely good news....I got an ENTER score of 96.45!!!!!!!! I am absolutely ecstatic! For French I got an overall A+ for my SACs; an A+ for the oral exam (which I am absolutely thrilled about!); and an A for the exam (I'm not really sure how I managed that!). My raw study score for French was 38, but it got scaled up to 47! So I am incredibly happy and rather surprised! I also won the Subject Prize for French at school (a beautiful Provence cookbook), meaning that I achieved the best results in my French class. Overall a fabulous surprise and brilliant recognition of the work we did all year. Thank you so much for your help. Hope you are well, Mattie
VCE results 2007
