French 3 upper: conversational French
Time: 15:10 - 16:10
Location: Keeley Street
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- Course Code: LF353
- Dates: 09/05/24 - 27/06/24
- Time: 15:10 - 16:10
- Taught: Thu, Daytime
- Duration: 8 sessions (over 8 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LF353
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Duration: 8 sessions (over 8 weeks)
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What is the course about?
The course will support you consolidate and further improve your upper intermediate French. You will build up your confidence with an emphasis on speaking and listening. You will move towards better fluency and the course will give you a greater insight into French speaking life and culture.
What will we cover?
These may vary according to the needs and interests of the group, but will generally include:
Topics: projects, advice, current affairs
Grammar: consolidation of future and conditional tenses, if clauses.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- have more confidence in your ability to understand and be understood in French
- understand the main theme, and some detailed information in written and aural texts
- give your opinion on current affairs
- ask and answer questions about your projects
- explain a problem and give advice
Please note that the learning outcomes may vary depending on the general progress made by the students.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
You should have completed a French 3 Upper: module 2, a French 3 upper: practice and consolidate module 2 or have done 4 years of French recently.
It is also essential that you have some knowledge of basic grammar terminology (e.g. a verb, a noun and conjugation).
For further details of the specific foreign language skills required for this level, please see the languages self assessment chart at the start of the languages section of our course guide or at http://www.citylit.ac.uk/self-assess-your-level
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Our courses are characterised by spoken interaction and communication. Typical activities include pair work, group work, role plays and games. A range of resources will be used to support your learning including presentations, hand-outs, and audio-visual material.
Homework is highly recommended to consolidate learning.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
The course is mainly based on the tutor's own materials. The tutor will advise you on a course book at the beginning of the term if necessary. Please note that the course book is used as a support only. You will not cover all the activities in the book during the course.
Please try: Grant and Cutler - http://www.grantandcutler.com (020 7734 2012).
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
A French 4 course depending on level achieved or an exam course. Please ask your tutor for advice if you are unsure about what to do next. It is best to enrol as soon as you can as places cannot be guaranteed.
Pierre studied towards a "Licence de Langue, Littérature et Civilisations anglo-saxonne" at Grenoble University in the early 1980s. He moved to Paris in 1986 where he worked in the field of Corporate and Financial Communication, first as an editor-in-chief for a specialised publishing company, and later as an executive in charge of Corporate and Financial Communication for a large national financial institution. In the early 1990s, he gave it all up and moved to the UK (an ambition since I was a teenager) and started teaching French in a private language school, then as a secondary school classroom teacher. He then went on to study and in 2010, he gained the Dip Trans IoLET (the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation). In 2013, he decided to resume his teaching career, albeit choosing to do so in the Life Long Learning sector. Pierre believes that learning and teaching a foreign language is (but not limited to) about having fun, expanding personal communication skills, seeing and understanding things from a different cultural perspective.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
