French 5: Flaubert : une vie, une oeuvre
This course is designed for both advanced French learners as well as native speakers of French.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
- Course Code: LFW60
- Dates: 29/05/24 - 26/06/24
- Time: 14:45 - 16:15
- Taught: Wed, Daytime
- Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
- Location: Online
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LFW60
Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
Please note: We offer a wide variety of financial support to make courses affordable. Just visit our online Help Centre for more information on a range of topics including fees, online learning and FAQs.
What is the course about?
Le cours vous amènera à en apprendre plus et discuter de la vie de l’auteur, dont l’existence quoique mondaine, n’a pas été exempte de tragédies personnelles successives et de troubles nerveux qui le marqueront profondément. Vous aurez l’opportunité de lire et étudier des textes extraits de différents livres et d’en discuter. Vous dégagerez les thèmes caractéristiques de son œuvre au fil de sa carrière littéraire. Vous discuterez et échangerez également vos impressions et points de vue personnels sur ce que vous aurez lu et appris.
This is a live online course. You will need:
- Internet connection. The classes work best with Chrome.
- A computer with microphone and camera is best (e.g. a PC/laptop/iMac/MacBook), or a tablet/iPad/smart phone/iPhone if you don't have a computer.
- Earphones/headphones/speakers.
We will contact you with joining instructions before your course starts.
What will we cover?
La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Flaubert.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- de parler d’un auteur célèbre et de son œuvre ;
- d’apprécier son style et la qualité de ses talents de conteur / narrateur ;
- de comprendre la place de cet auteur dans la littérature française de la fin du XIXème siècle.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is designed for both advanced French learners as well as native speakers of French. The course will focus on content knowledge instead of language skills, which means that your level of French should be advanced but not necessarily native-like. The course will offer advanced language learners both an opportunity to develop their knowledge about a topic and a chance to expand on their vocabulary related to it. For native language speakers, the course will allow them to delve into a topic of their interest and learn more about it.
The workshop will be delivered entirely in French, so you should have studied French for 5 years or have an advanced level of French.
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.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Please consult our website to find out about other advanced French workshops.
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.
