This 10-week course is pitched at level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and completion of the course will help you meet the level requirements. To help develop your fluency in the language, the course will focus primarily on speaking and listening skills, but will also include practice in reading and writing. You will have plenty of opportunities to practise the target language through hands-on class activities such as conversations and role-plays.
French: Beginners - Part 2
This is an In-person course which requires your attendance to the weekly meetings which take place in Oxford.
Overview
Programme details
Course starts: 22 Jan 2025
The weekly course schedule below is intended to give an overview of the main topic(s) likely to be covered in each session. Please note that these may sometimes change according to the tutor’s discretion to reflect the interests of course participants.
Week 1: Shopping for clothes.
Week 2: Talking about the weather.
Week 3: Discussing daily routines. Telling the time.
Week 4: Suggesting an outing. Accepting or refusing an invitation.
Week 5: Physical descriptions.
Week 6: Situating and describing one's home.
Week 7: Identifying furniture, equipment and objects.
Week 8: Making a reservation. Discussing and comparing different types of accommodation.
Week 9: Describing holiday experiences. Writing a postcard.
Week 10: Travel and holidays: workshop action-orientated activity.
Key grammar points:
* Gender and number of adjectives. Place of adjectives.
* The futur proche
* Pronominal verbs
* Frequency adverbs
* The present tense of -ir verbs
* The past tense of verbs with the auxiliary verb avoir
* Prepositions of place
* Modal verbs vouloir and pouvoir
* Comparatives
* The past tense of verbs with the auxiliary verb être
Key functions:
* Describing what one is wearing
* Talking about the weather
* Describing one's daily routine
* Suggesting an outing and arranging to meet
* Situating one's home and identifying rooms and furniture
* Understanding a booking site and making a reservation
* Talking about holidays and past events
Recommended reading
All weekly class students may become borrowing members of the Rewley House Continuing Education Library for the duration of their course. Prospective students whose courses have not yet started are welcome to use the Library for reference. More information can be found on the Library website.
There is a Guide for Weekly Class students which will give you further information.
Availability of titles on the reading list (below) can be checked on SOLO, the library catalogue.
Preparatory reading
- Édito, niveau A1, méthode de français, 2ème édition / Mensdorff-Pouilly Lucie, Opatski Sergueï, Petitmengin Violette, Pons Sylvie, Sperandio Caroline
Certification
Digital badge
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be issued with an official digital badge from the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. After the course, you will receive an email with a link and instructions on how to download your digital badge. You will be able to add your badge to your email signature and share it on social media if you choose to do so. In order to be issued with your badge, you will need to have attended at least 80% of the course.
Fees
| Description | Costs |
|---|---|
| Course Fee | £275.00 |
Funding
If you are in receipt of a UK state benefit, you are a full-time student in the UK or a student on a low income, you may be eligible for a reduction of 50% of tuition fees. Please see the below link for full details:
Tutor
Mrs Danae Lemos-Theologis
Danae is a qualified linguist and experienced French teacher. She has taught French adult classes for many years including Advanced Conversation and Contemporary French literature as well as French courses for academic purposes.
Course aims
To enable you to communicate at a basic level with speakers of the target language in a limited range of practical, real-life settings.
Course objectives:
- To help learners' to develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing for basic everyday communication in the target language.
- To help learners' to consolidate their listening comprehension skills to understand the gist of very short, basic written texts and audio excerpts.
- To enable learners' to use high frequency vocabulary and grammar structures for basic routine communication.
- To equip learners' with an appreciation of the culture and civilisation of the country (or countries) in which the target language is spoken.
Teaching methods
You will learn through a communicative teaching approach with the emphasis on actively engaging in classroom activities in the target language. These are likely to include role-plays, pair- and small group-work, and conversational practice conducted in a supportive, friendly and informal learning environment.
The course has been structured to help you primarily to improve your speaking and listening skills and to develop a basic level of intercultural awareness in the context of social communication. You will also learn and practise new grammatical structures and will be encouraged to develop your reading and writing skills in your own time.
Learning outcomes
By the end of your course, learners will be able to:
- interact in a simple way using a basic range of language in routine everyday contexts;
- understand and respond to basic spoken or recorded language relating to very familiar everyday situations;
- demonstrate comprehension of very short, simple texts containing high frequency vocabulary and basic grammar structures;
- write very short texts to provide basic personal information or simple descriptions.
Assessment methods
You will be set short, optional assignments to consolidate your learning and to allow you to progress at your own pace.
Application
Please use the 'Book' or 'Apply' button on this page. Alternatively, please complete an enrolment form (Word) or enrolment form (Pdf).