Adult & Higher Education

This course is a continuation of the Year 4 class of 2024 to 2025 and is also suitable for students with approximately 3 years of French study or equivalent, or perhaps more if this was some years ago. Students will be able to revise and improve their ability to speak and understand French along with consolidating and extending their competence in French grammar.

You will expand your vocabulary and understanding of grammar using all 4 language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) with a variety of topics, some practical and others which are cultural or linguistic. 

• We will be revising the perfect and imperfect tenses, practising the pluperfect tense and learning other compound tenses such as the future perfect. 
• After an introduction to the future and conditional tenses in 2024/2025, we will practise and consolidate those tenses. 
• We will also work on many other grammar topics such as adverbs, adjectives, present participles and a range of pronouns along with pronunciation and reading/listening strategies. 

Possible topics include:

• How to talk about future plan plans as well as events in the past. 
• Saying what you would do or would have done in certain circumstances.
• Asking for information in a tourist office and in other situations while travelling in France. 
• Asking how to get somewhere. 
• Going to the doctor’s or dentist’s and talking about your health, being able to describe pain and symptoms.
• Talking more about yourself including likes and dislikes and hobbies. Giving more information about your family and home and giving your opinion on a range of topics.
• Learning French expressions and reading articles on a range of topics covering different aspects of French life and culture, many of these articles coming from Bien-dire French language magazines.

To join at this level, you should:

• have a reasonable range of vocabulary and 
• be able to use the present, immediate future, perfect and imperfect tenses 
• have some knowledge of future and conditional tenses. 

If you have any questions regarding your suitability for this course, please contact us ahedlanguages@psc.ac.uk

We will be continuing with the 6th edition of the Façon de Parler 1 course book. New students do not need to purchase the course book before the start of the course. Other materials will be provided by the tutor. Please bring pen, paper and a folder. Students will be given a resumé of the work covered in last year’s class at the beginning of the course.

We offer a Semester 2 course that begins immediately after Semester 1 and is an integral part of the course, the exact length of which will be decided in the spring term. You would then be able to progress to the next level.