French 3 (Level 4)
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
- Convenor: Agnès Calatayud
- Assessment: continuous assessment (20%), a listening in-class assessment (20%), written in-class assessment (35%), oral in-class assessment (20%) and class participation (5%)
Module description
This 24-week module is taught at CEFR* B2 (Upper Intermediate)/A-level+ level. It will give you upper-intermediate listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in French, as well as improving your pronunciation and your cultural competence.
You will learn how to speak and write about:
- your identity and roots
- your body and health
- relationships
- education
- sports
- travel
- new technologies
- work and unemployment
- the economy
- towns and their evolution (architecture, suburbs, environment)
- life's little pleasures (gastronomy, literature, art)
- beliefs, citizenship, politics, traditions
- immigration
- Europe and globalisation.
Each 2.5-hour class will be conducted in French from day one, using the textbooks Alter Ego 3+ and Alter Ego 4+
* Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please note: this is only an approximate equivalence.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions
- interact regularly with native speakers with a degree of fluency and spontaneity
- produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects
- explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.