Adult & Higher Education

This course is for adults who feel ready for A-level grammar, have completed at least four years of study or equivalent, and have already read a novel or watched a film in French.

Homework is given on a weekly basis. To benefit most from the course, you will be encouraged to read the materials used during lessons and refer to the course book.

You will expand your vocabulary and grammar using all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) on practical topics to enable you to communicate. 

We will cover a range of topics, which may include: 

• Talking about yourself – activities in the recent past, views and preferences in the present tense, & future plans
• Continued practice of real dialogue exchanges
• Using clips from TV news or documentaries, as well as whole articles from French newspapers and magazines, discovering & discussing cultural topics, then exploring related vocabulary themes
• Study of two films and two short novels

You will also be studying the grammar of the language. Some of the grammar points to be studied are:

• Consolidating the perfect past, the imperfect past, the simple future and the conditional present, and the subjunctive present
• Learning the past historic for novel-reading
• Study of A-level grammar points, with alternation of revisiting basics.

To join at this level, you should:

• feel happy speaking in the past and present tenses, 
• have already studied the subjunctive and the conditional, 
• be familiar with sentence extenders (qui, que, lequel…) and pronouns (demonstrative, possessive, direct, indirect, etc…),
•  understand the meanings of many infinitive verbs and 
• be comfortable writing half a page or more for homework. 

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

Textbook will be discussed at the first session. Please bring pen, paper and a folder.

We offer a Semester 2 course in the summer term. It 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. After completing this course students can progress to the next level of the language.