French 4: conversation
Time: 13:25 - 14:25
Location: Keeley Street
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- Course Code: LF433
- Dates: 25/04/24 - 27/06/24
- Time: 13:25 - 14:25
- Taught: Thu, Daytime
- Duration: 10 sessions (over 10 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Pierre Porcheron
Course Code: LF433
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Duration: 10 sessions (over 10 weeks)
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What is the course about?
This course aims to give you the opportunity to communicate in a French environment. You will increase your fluency and improve your accuracy and comprehension in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
What will we cover?
French in everyday situations whether for social, leisure or work purposes with relevant grammatical practice when appropriate.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- socialise and be understood in a variety of situations
- solve problems, make complaints
- understand and make comments on articles in French newspapers
- understand and speak about French TV programmes such as short news broadcasts.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Students should have studied French for at least 5 years recently or have an equivalent knowledge of the language.
It is also essential that you have knowledge of more complex grammar terminology (e.g. the subjunctive, the conditional, the active and passive forms, 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.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
The course is based on the tutor’s own resources. However, a book might be recommended.
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When I've finished, what course can I do next?
French 4 or 5 courses according to level. If in doubt, please ask you tutor or 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.
