French 3/4: improve your pronunciation
Time: 10:30 - 16:00
Location: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
- Course Code: LFW26
- Dates: 15/06/24 - 15/06/24
- Time: 10:30 - 16:00
- Taught: Sat, Daytime
- Duration: 1 session
- Location: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LFW26
Duration: 1 session
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What is the course about?
An opportunity to improve and gain confidence with pronunciation, intonation and rhythm of the French language.
What will we cover?
Pronunciation drills, working on specific sounds in French and expressing feelings using the appropriate intonation.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Identify and reproduce different and difficult sounds in French
- Use appropriate intonation to express yourself (rhythm, difference between statements, questions and exclamations, express emotions).
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Suitable if you have studied French for three years or equivalent.
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?
All of the material for the course will be provided by the tutor.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Please check our website to find out about other 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.
