French Upper Intermediate 1

This course is for students who have completed 4 years of French and who wish to consolidate and extend that knowledge.

By the end of the three terms students should be able to:

·         Recognise and use the main features of grammar with confidence.

·         Listen effectively for specific details/general information, ideas and opinions from a range of sources.

·         Use a range of 'repair strategies' to overcome communication breakdown

·         Communicate adequately in a range of social and transactional situations

·         Ask for and provide information on a range of topics. Seek and respond to ideas and opinions on a range of topics. Take part in varied discussions.

·         Read texts in the target language to extract specific details and to identify general information, ideas and opinions from different types of source material (eg. play, poem, short story, extract from a novel, reports, newspaper articles etc)

·         Write effectively in the target language for a range of purposes (eg. factual writing, informal and formal correspondence).

·         Describe a range of differences between own language and culture and target language and culture.

·         Study a contemporary French novel selected by the students.

At the end of the course, the students will master the following new skills:

-          To talk about a country and its people

-          To talk about one’s living environment

-          To justify a choice

-          To understand headlines

-          To understand news in brief in a newspaper

-          To talk about a film.

For the first session students will need:

Pen and paper only. Students will be provided with handouts/worksheets.

Additional Costs:

The tutor will suggest a textbook for you to buy.