Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford
Dates	Tue 8 Oct 2013 to Tue 11 Mar 2014 Day: Tuesday 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	O13P881WEW
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. The course aims to help students acquire richer, more complex and elaborate French, together with a deeper insight of grammar, while learning to differentiate better between registers. Choosing your level.

Programme details

Through a variety of topics and contexts, the course will cover how to:

- Participer à une discussion et exprimer son opinion.
- Exprimer ses certitudes et ses doutes
- Débattre et argumenter
- Analyser et apprécier
- Comprendre un texte argumenté/ un éditorial sur un thème d’actualité
- Raconter une histoire/une rencontre
- Comprendre un bulletin d’information radio diffusé
- Exprimer ses goûts et ses choix
- Souligner ce qui important dans un événement
- Dégager les points positifs et négatifs d’un texte
- Discuter à propos de faits et de personages historiques
- Prendre des notes et résumer
- Défendre son point de vue
- Résumer un texte
- Langue parlée\Langue formelle\langue écrite
- Différends et litiges


Course Book:
There is no coursebook. The tutor will supply relevant handouts, from articles to literary short stories.

Staff

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.

The course aims to help students acquire richer, more complex and elaborate French, together with a deeper insight of grammar, while learning to differentiate better between registers.

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.

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.

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 6
S – hold a conversation on most issues at a natural speed of speech
L – understand most styles, registers and nuances
R – understand tone, subtleties of specific languages of most texts
W – write essays which present and sustain well-developed arguments

Fee options

Programme Fee

EU Fee: £305.00

Non-EU Fee: £305.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Undergraduate accredited short courses in French