French DALF C1
Les frais d'examens ne sont pas inclus dans le prix. Possibilité de paiement en plusieurs versements.
Voici les dates des trimestres:
Term 1: 17/09/2024-03/12/2024
Term 2: 14/01/2025-08/04/2025
Term 3: 29/04/2025- 10/06/2025.
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Learning modes and locations may be different depending on the course start date. Please check the location of your chosen course and read our guide to learning modes and locations to help you choose the right course for you.
- Start Date: 16 Sep 2025End Date: 09 Jun 2026Tue (Evening): 18:00 - 21:00OnlineFull fee £949.00 Senior fee £949.00 Concession £617.00
- Start Date: 17 Sep 2024End Date: 10 Jun 2025This course has startedTue (Evening): 18:00 - 21:00OnlineFull fee £869.00 Senior fee £869.00 Concession £565.00
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What is the course about?
To prepare students to sit the DALF C1 examination in June 2024. This is a demanding course, which requires a considerable amount of self study.
What will we cover?
Reading, writing, discussion and analysis of texts on specific topics related to contemporary France and French-speaking countries. Practise complex grammatical points.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- write and speak accurately and confidently about specific topics/areas
- have a very high level of expressive style and a greatly extended vocabulary
- sit the DALF C1 examination with confidence.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
An assessment interview is required for this course. Interviews dates to be announced. Some continuing students will not be required to do an interview. Please ask your tutor for advice.
It is also essential that you have knowledge of more complex grammar terminology such as: the past tenses, the future tense, the subjunctive, the conditional, pronouns.
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?
- Niveau C1 – Méthode de français – Edition DIDIER (2018)
• ISBN-10 2278090968
• ISBN-13 978-2278090969
- Cahier d’activités – Edition DIDIER (2018)
• ISBN-10 2278090976
• ISBN-13 978-2278090976
- Help yourself to French Grammar (advanced level) T. Marriot and M. Ribiere, Longman
- Monolingual dictionary: le Petit Robert.
- Tutor's own material
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When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You can either go onto the DALF C2 course or enrol on level 5 courses.
NOTE: we give learners the possibility to repeat the whole course or part of the course if the tutor agrees that they need to study further before taking the exams.
Advice on other courses at the City Lit is available. Please contact Languages on languages@citylit.ac.uk.
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.