Key facts

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Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Wed 3 Oct 2012 to Wed 20 Mar 2013 Day: Wednesday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 20
Subject area(s)	French
CATS points	20
Fees	From £295.00
Application status	Course full
Course code	O12P818WEW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

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.

Programme details

Week 1: Introducing yourself, hobbies and tastes
Week 2: Socialising
Week 3: Being invited
Week 4: Fashion and shopping
Week 5: Travel and sight-seeing
Week 6: Talking of food and "gastronomie"
Week 7: Talking about your home and where you live
Week 8: Talking about money and the cost of living
Week 9: Making plans - talking about the future
Week 10: Festive season - Comparing traditions

Week 11: Talking about the weather and environment
Week 12: Talking of routines
Week 13: Making enquiries
Week 14: Comparing lifestyles
Week 15: Recounting what you used to do
Week 16: Relating past experiences
Week 17: Talking about holidays
Week 18: Expressing feelings and opinions
Week 19: Discussing French around the world
Week 20: Quiz/Song


Course material:
S. Poisson-Quinton, M. Mahéo-Le Coadic, A. Vergne-Sirieys. Festival 1, Méthode de Français, CLE INTERNATIONAL
S. Poisson-Quinton, M. Mahéo-Le Coadic, A. Vergne-Sirieys. Festival 1, Méthode de Français, Cahier d'exercices, CLE INTERNATIONAL

Maria Grégoire, Grammaire Progressive du Français, niveau intermédiaire

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.

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 2
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

Fee options

Programme Fee

EU Fee: £295.00

Non-EU Fee: £295.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Undergraduate accredited short courses in French