This module is designed for students with a little knowledge of French: perhaps one year at school or module CE1091 French Language A. The primary focus will be upon the skills required for oral communication in social, survival and study situations. Some attention will be given to reading skills and basic writing skills will be introduced. At the end of this module, students should be able to sit DELF A1 (every June at the Centre).   Students with a GCSE in French are not permitted to take this module.
 

METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of digital language laboratory and Learning Central.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20% ii) Oral end test 30%/Continuous Assessment 10% iii) Aural end test 40%.

Email: Languages@cardiff.ac.uk

• Communicate orally at a basic level in French in given survival, social and study settings.
• Demonstrate understanding of spoken French at basic level in survival and study settings.
• Demonstrate some competence in basic syntax.

This module will be taught in small groups to encourage interaction. The emphasis will be on communication. The module is taught over 12 weeks.

Intellectual Skills             -  integrate information provided in taught sessions and private study.

 Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• demonstrate their ability to understand simple instructions and respond appropriately in everyday situations,
• demonstrate their ability to communicate in spoken and written form using limited vocabulary and formulaic expressions,
• collect information from short texts in the target language.

Employability Skills:      - to be responsive to the discipline of working with others as part of a group,

                                    - to understand and reflect upon different cultures and societies

• Revision of basic elements of lexis, syntax and phonology
   
• Oral/Aural practice in a range of appropriate language functions in a widening variety of situations
   
• Development of basic notional language: time, number, space, abstractions
   
• Aspects of the “Cultural Briefing”: (eg customs, civilisation, politics)  presented as reading or aural comprehension passages
   
• Reading comprehension
   
• Introduction to writing skills

Required:

The French Experience 1 Coursebook, 2003

Suggested:

Grammaire Progressive Du Français: Grammaire Progressive - Niveau Débutant, CLE International, 1998

R'eussir le DELF A1 - B Girardeau, N Mous. Didier, 2010