French 3

Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Wed 2 Oct 2013 to Wed 19 Mar 2014 Day: Wednesday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 20
Subject area(s)	French
CATS points	20
Fees	From £305.00
Application status	Applications being accepted
Course code	O13P887WEW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

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Overview

All the Department’s language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture and society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set. Choosing your level.

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Programme details

Week 1: Obtaining and giving information
Week 2: Explaining and giving an elaborate account of a holiday
Week 3: Making plans
Week 4: Visiting La brocante: selecting/shopping
Week 5: Cooking: discuss recipes
Week 6: "A la carte!"
Week 7: Describing styles and fashion
Week 8: Making biographies interesting
Week 9: Talking about a famous person
Week 10: Noël

Week 11: Expressing opinion and justifying
Week 12: Visiting a town
Week 13: Discovering Arles
Week14: Advertising a place
Week 15: Making an oral presentation
Week 16: Debating pros and cons
Week 17: Writing formal letters
Week 18: Paraphrasing
Week 19: Expressing ideas
Week 20: Recounting a Fairy tale

Course book:
S. Poisson-Quinton, M. Mahéo-Le Coadic, A. Vergne-Sirieys, Festival 2, Méthode de Français (CLE INTERNATIONAL)

Relevant additional resources will be supplied by the tutor.

Additional Reference Material:
Grammar: M.Grégoire, La Grammaire Progressive du Français, Niveau Intermédiaire (CLE INTERNATIONAL)
Bilingual dictionary

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Staff

Mrs Martine Renauld

Role: Tutor

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Course aims

All the Department's language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture in society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set.

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Assessment methods

Most tutors will set weekly assignments to consolidate learning and allow students to study at their own pace. Some of these assignments, which may include testing listening and speaking skills, will count towards formally assessing the students’ progress.

At Stages 5 & 6, students can expect to be assessed on either one 1,000 word essay or two shorter ones written in their target language.

At lower stages, students are required instead to submit for assessment a range of exercises and/or shorter pieces of work.

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Teaching methods

Language classes are kept small (typically 10-15 students) in order to ensure plenty of opportunities for interaction in the target language, leading to the development of listening and speaking skills, as well as an understanding of grammar.

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Teaching outcomes

The following are brief indicators of what students should be able to do in each of the skills: Speaking (S), Listening (L), Reading (R), and Writing (W), by the end of the individual stages:

STAGE 3
S participate in simple prepared discussions
L understand simple recorded material
R understand the gist of magazine articles and simple texts
W write informal letters and descriptive paragraphs

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