French 3 upper: pratique et perfectionnement
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Location: Keeley Street
- Course Code: LF337
- Dates: 08/05/24 - 26/06/24
- Time: 12:30 - 14:30
- Taught: Wed, Daytime
- Duration: 8 sessions (over 8 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LF337
Duration: 8 sessions (over 8 weeks)
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What is the course about?
This course aims to improve your oral and written fluency in French by reading and discussing extracts from newspaper articles, TV programmes and listening to authentic audio materials. You will also revise and consolidate some grammatical points in order to improve your accuracy in both spoken and written languages.
What will we cover?
The topics covered will lead to discussion and better understanding of France and French speaking countries.
Various grammar points will be treated according to the needs of the students. These might include: past tenses (passé-composé/imparfait and their difference), relative pronouns, adjectives, the conditional and the subjunctive.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- initiate and participate in a conversation related to various topics
- understand the gist of more advanced audio-visual materials/ films with confidence
- express opinions and ideas
- read more advanced texts/ articles with confidence
- use more complex grammatical structures orally and in writing.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
You should have a fairly high level of French. You should have completed at least French 3 upper: module 2 or have studied French for 4 to 5 years recently.
It is also essential that you have some knowledge of basic grammar terms (e.g. a verb, a noun, 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 material.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
A French 4 course starting next term, or an exam course (A-level - Delf B2). If you are unsure about what to do next, please ask your tutor for advice. It is best to enrol on a course 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.
