This is a module designed for students who completed French Beginners A1 Part 2 or who have studied French language for around 40 hours or have completed some further study towards a GCSE. This module aims to provide you with a broader but still limited range of oral, aural and written skills, sufficient for coping with everyday situations with predictable content and simple survival needs.

This module is the third part of the preparation for CEFR A1.

In 2017-18, students who achieved 55% and above were awarded a UNILANG certificate of recognition for CEFR A1.

• Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

• The things you have done (talk about what you did last week end, describe places and the weather).
• Your background (education, work experience)
• Talking about your intentions (to ask / give opinions, agreeing and disagreeing)

Foundations French 1 (Palgrave Foundation Series Languages), 2016, 3rd Edition; D. Bissar, H Phillips, C. Tschirhart; Palgrave Macmillan; Basingstoke (Units 8-10).

Grammaire Progressive du Français, Niveau débutant, 2010, 2^nd Edition; M. Grégoire; CLE International.

Preparation for DELF A1/A2:

• Réussir le DELF A1, 2010; B. Girardeau and N. Mous; Didier.
• Préparation à l'Examen Du Delf A1, 2006; C. Veltcheff and S.Hilton; Hachette.
• Réussir le DELF A2, 2010; M. Dupuy and M. Launay; Didier.