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When teaching a dialogue, three main steps should be followed:
* the teacher first teaches the basic dialogue;
* the dialogue is then "enriched" with exercises and vocabulary;
* last, the students make drills and little by little, the initial dialogue is being transformed.
All our volunteers attend a training-course before departing for the refugee camps.
2.2. The orientation programme
This programme is conducted by the volunteer him/herself. It aims at giving general information on various topics:
* arrival in France: the Transit Centre in Paris, the Post Arrival Centres, the French Red Cross and
Individual Solutions.
the refugee status, administrative procedures (refugee card, identity card, travel authorization, etc.).
* the employment situation in France (the unemployment agency,vocational training, the
unemployment benefit and other situations.
* education in France and special classes for refugees.
* the French way of life, seasons, habits and others.
The main target of this programme is to prepare the refugees psychologically, so as to lessen the consequences of the cultural shock we all experience upon arrival in a foreign and unknown country.
A French/Vietnamese booklet (PETIT GUIDE DU REFUGIE) with names and addresses of the main agencies dealing with refugees in France was printed and is given to each family before departure.
2.3. Other activities
We plan to set up a listening centre with tapes of the dialogues taught, and also new dialogues using the vocabulary already known; there will also be tapes recorded in real-life situations in France (in the street, at school, on the radio, on the television) so as to make students familiar to the rapid delivery of the French language.
We also plan to arrange a movie section for the films and slides to complete the orientation programme, and to make suscriptions to several clear, easy-to-read magazines, that will enable students to know France better.