French 1A

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: 4.45-6.45pm Number of meetings: 20
Subject area(s)	French
CATS points	20
Fees	From £305.00
Application status	Applications being accepted
Course code	O13P884WEW
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: Addressing people. Introducing yourself.
Week 2: Saying where you live and where you are from.
Week 3: Finding out about people. Saying what you do.
Week 4: Talking about family.
Week 5: Giving physical description.
Week 6: Describing jobs and daily routine.
Week 7: Likes and dislikes. Talking about leisure time.
Week 8: Making arrangements. Talking about weekly routine.
Week 9: Consolidation and revision.
Week 10: Festive season and Christmas traditions.

Week 11: Means of transport. Travelling through.
Week 12: Finding one's way. Directions.
Week 13: Practical situations. Booking a room.
Week 14: Describing the environment.
Week 15: Shopping at the market.
Week 16: Ordering at the restaurant.
Week 17: Describing specialities and recipes.
Week 18: Reading and writing emails.
Week 19: Consolidation and revision.
Week 20: Quiz. Games.

Course Book:
Poisson-Quinton, Mahéo-Le Coadic, Vergne-Sirieys Festival 1, Méthode de Français, A1, CLE International
ISBN 978-209-035320-4
as above Festival 1, Cahier d'exercices
Maria Grégoire. Grammaire Progressive du Français, niveau débutant

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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 1
S - participate in simple everyday conversation
L - understand simple messages and conversations
R - obtain specific information from basic written texts
W - produce short texts

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