Want to keep up with your French over the break between teaching terms, or just looking for something a little different? Look no further! Alliance Française de Brisbane offers themed and revision workshops for all levels. Take yourself on l'aventure française!
Explore the workshops currently on offer for adults below. For kids and teens holiday workshops, click here.
Enrol before Monday 5th of January at midnight to benefit from our 5% early bird discount! Members get
10% off!
Get holiday-ready with this focussed course designed to prepare you to travel around the Francophone world with confidence.
In this fantastique course for beginners, we will help you order a croissant without flinching, ask for directions with poise, enjoy friendly encounters with locals and much more!
Suitable for beginners. No prior knowledge of French is required.
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12 Jan - 23 Jan
10am–12pm
Or
6pm–8pm
$247
Ready to fast-track your French? This one-week intensive course offers 20 hours of immersive learning to build solid foundations in a motivating group setting.
You’ll cover pronunciation, basic grammar, and everyday communication skills, with plenty of practice to get you speaking confidently. Ideal
for complete beginners wanting rapid progress before the holidays.
Mon to Fri
12 Jan - 23 Jan
10:00am–12pm
Or
6pm–8pm
$ 499
Do you want to give your pronunciation a leg up? Would you like to bring more flow to your speech and feel more confident in speaking
French? Join us and learn to speak like a Frenchie!
This workshop is designed to help you improve your accent through practical pronunciation lessons, reading exercises and speaking practice.
This class is suitable for beginners and students from the Elementary (A1) levels through to Intermediate (B1) levels.
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
12 Jan - 23 Jan
10am–12.30pm
$ 450
Strengthen one of the most essential skills in French: asking good questions! In this playful and practical workshop, you’ll learn and
review key interrogative structures — est-ce que, inversion, question words, intonation — all through fun games, mini-challenges,
and guided speaking tasks.
Across two dynamic 2-hour sessions, you’ll practise question-building, interact with classmates, and use your new structures in short
conversations and game-based activities.
A great way for A1–A2 learners to boost fluency, improve accuracy, and enjoy speaking French while having fun!
Friday 23 Jan
10:00am–12pm
$ 75
Need a confidence boos before moving on? This fast paced 4 hours revision workshop refreshes the key skills from Elementary 1 to 4. You'll review essential vocabulary, strengthen your speaking skills, and revisit core grammar points including the present tense, passé composé, adjectives, articles, and basic pronouns.
Perfect for students finishing Elementary 4 or anyone looking for a solid A1 refresher taking the next step.
Thursdays 22 & Friday 23 Jan
6pm–8pm
$ 136
Demystify two of the most useful (and confusing!) French pronouns: EN and Y. In this
targeted revision workshop, you’ll review when to use each pronoun, how to replace places, quantities, and verbs with à or de,
and how to position them correctly in a sentence. Clear explanations and step-by-step practice will help you finally understand these small
but powerful words.
Perfect for A2 learners looking to strengthen accuracy and boost fluency before the new term!
Monday 19 & Wednesday 21 Jan
1:30pm–3:30pm
$ 136
A two-part (2 × 3h) workshop for A1–A1+ learners to confidently use the present, near future (aller +
infinitive),
and recent past (venir de + infinitive) in everyday conversation. You’ll review how to ask simple questions,
refresh essential present-tense verbs, and practise talking about plans and recent actions through short, practical dialogues. Suitable for
Elementary (A1) to early Upper Elementary (A2) learners.
Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 Jan
9:30am–12:30pm
$ 180
Boost your confidence with one of the trickiest French moods! In this focused revision workshop, students revisit when and how to use the subjonctif
présent
through clear explanations, guided practice, and fun, interactive activities.
You’ll review the essential triggers, common expressions, and irregular forms while strengthening your oral and written accuracy.
Perfect for learners at the end of A2 or beginning of B1 who want to finally make peace with que + subjonctif and level up before
the new term!
Wednesday 21 Jan
6pm–8pm
$ 75
Refresh and strengthen your French before the new term begins!
This B1-level revision workshop focuses on consolidating key grammar, building vocabulary, and boosting oral expression through
interactive, real-life activities. You’ll review essential structures while practising spontaneous communication in a supportive
environment.
A great way to reconnect with your French and start the next term feeling ready and motivated!
Thursday 15 & Thursday 22
6pm–8pm
$ 136
.png)
In this 2-hour workshop for advanced learners, participants will explore the origins of the Algerian conflict and the complex role of the
Harkis. They will analyse the political, social, and memory-related issues of this period, as well as its lasting impact on contemporary
French society. Through authentic documents, guided discussion, and critical reflection, they will identify the key elements needed to
understand this essential chapter of Franco-Algerian history.
Tuesday 20 Jan
6pm–8pm
$ 75
.
