French 5: Juliette Greco: une chanteuse, une chanson, une vie
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
- Course Code: LFW53
- Dates: 28/05/24 - 04/06/24
- Time: 16:00 - 18:00
- Taught: Tue, Daytime
- Duration: 2 sessions (over 2 weeks)
- Location: Online
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LFW53
Duration: 2 sessions (over 2 weeks)
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What is the course about?
An introduction to the life and work of Juliette Gréco, in which you will also consolidate your knowledge of French using the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing through a variety of communicative activities.
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?
- biography and some anecdotes of the artist
- some songs from the artist’s repertoire.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- better understand and extract specific information from audio sources (video, internet, CD…)
- better understand and extract specific information from written material
- identify the main events in the artist’s life
- understand and discuss the lyrics of some of her songs
Please note that the above outcomes are flexible as the pace of the workshop will depend on the needs of the group of students.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Students should have a fairly high level of French and should have studied French for at least 4 to 5 years in order to take part in all activities.
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?
This course will be taught via tutor presentations, as well as discussions in pairs and groups.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
More workshops about French singers and songs. Please consult our website for further details.
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.
