This 10-week course is pitched at level B1 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 discussions and role-plays.
French: Intermediate - 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: 21 Jan 2025
The weekly course schedule below is intended to give an indication 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: Sustainable consumption
Week 2: Sports and games
Week 3: Performing and sharing on social media
Week 4: Political engagement (everyday life)
Week 5: Art as a way to promote culture
Week 6: Protecting national heritage sites
Week 7: The future of travel
Week 8: Healthy at work
Week 9: Grammar focus
Week 10: Twentieth-century French society through songs
Key grammar points:
* Active and passive sentences
* Verbs and adjectives with prepositions: when are prepositions needed? which prepositions?
* The simple future and near-future verb forms: when should you use which?
* Indefinite articles and pronouns: when quantities can't be numbered
* The present participle and gerundive forms: how to form them? why are they different? when to use them?
Key functions:
* Discussing future plans
* Talking about indefinite quantities
* Narrating events
* Expressing opinions and viewpoints
* Giving reasons
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
- Edito B1 / Heu, Elodie; Gatin, Marie; Perrard, Marion, Petitmengin, Violette; Spérandio, Caroline; Nicolas, Emmanuel
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
Dr Coralie Schneider
Coralie is an experienced teacher and holds both a PGCE (French with Spanish) and a PhD in Linguistics. She has also taught French in secondary schools, in a sixth form college, at the Universities of Oxford and Buckingham and at the Alliance Française of Oxford. A native of Paris and a keen traveller, she enjoys sharing her knowledge of French language varieties and cultures with students of all ages and levels.
Course aims
To help you to practise and consolidate the language required to express yourself with a degree of fluency and spontaneity in most situations regularly encountered at work, educational settings, leisure centres and while travelling abroad.
Course objectives:
- To develop the learners’ language skills to be able to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
- To consolidate reading comprehension skills to enable learners to understand texts written in everyday and job-related language.
- To equip learners with the vocabulary and grammatical structures required to write straightforward, connected texts on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
- To increase the learners’ intercultural awareness and understanding of the differences and similarities in social and everyday practices between their own and the target culture.
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, collaborative and informal learning environment.
The course has been structured to help you primarily to improve your speaking and listening skills and to deepen your intercultural awareness of the practices and frames of understanding in the target culture. You will also learn and practise new grammatical structures in a communicative context and will be encouraged to develop your reading and writing skills in your own time.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- exploit language to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the target language is spoken;
- understand the main points of clear standard speech on most familiar matters regularly encountered at work, educational settings and leisure centres;
- read and understand simple texts which include job-related language, descriptions of events, reasons or opinions;
- write straightforward connected texts on familiar topics or matters of personal interest.
Assessment methods
You will be set 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).
Level and demands
Selection criteria
Our public programme is open access, and most adult language classes are mixed ability. To benefit from this course, learners will have completed our Intermediate Part 1 course in the language.