Module LXN-1022:
Beginners' French Plus
Beginners' French Plus 2023-24
LXN-1022
2023-24
School Of Arts, Culture And Language
Module - Semester 2
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Ruben Chapela-Orri
Overview
This module runs during the second semester and is aimed at post-beginners. The course is based on a communicative approach and helps students to develop all the key language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. After each of the contact hours, students are expected to spend at least 30 minutes of self-study to revise and consolidate what they have learned in class.
Textbook: Foundations French 1, Palgrave Foundations Series Languages (3rd edn), by Dounia Bissar, Helen Phillips, Cécile Tschirhart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
By the end of this course students will reach level A1-A2 Waystage as defined by the Common European Framework, Language Assessment Scales*
*Level One: Competent in a limited range of predictable and simple language tasks, using mainly set expressions and simple combinations of these. Capable of some rehearsed grammatical manipulations. This applies to all the 4 language skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing.
Learning Outcomes
- An understanding of the following grammar:
- Nouns
- Adjectives (including possessive adjectives)
- Subject and object pronouns
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Some common prepositions
- The present tense of all regular verbs and some irregular ones (e.g.: être; avoir; aller; faire; pouvoir; devoir; il faut)
- The perfect tense
- The imperative
- The conditional
- An understanding of the following topics and functions: - Talking about oneself and others both in the present and in the past: family; daily routine; preferences; likes/dislikes; hobbies and free time (including travel and means of transport); home; rooms and furniture - Asking and answering questions about jobs; writing a C.V. - Ordering food and drinks - Asking for/ Giving directions - Numbers - Colours
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
30%
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
70%