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Overview
What you will study
To help develop your fluency in the language, the French - Beginners course offered by University of Oxford will focus primarily on speaking and listening skills, but will also include practice in reading and writing. You will have plenty of opportunities to practise the target language through hands-on collaborative class activities such as conversations and role-plays.
Key grammar points:
- Subject pronouns
- Stressed pronouns
- Present tense of auxiliary verbs être and avoir
- Present tense of -er verbs and verb s'appeler
- Gender agreement of adjectives (nationalities)
- Definite, indefinite and partitive articles
- Prepositions with towns and countries
- The negative form
- Present tense of irregular verbs aller, prendre and faire
- Interrogative adjective quel
Key functions:
- Understanding, asking for and giving simple personal information
- Understanding, asking for and giving directions
- Talking about likes and dislikes (leisure activities, interests, means of transport)
- Shopping for food and ordering in a café, at a restaurant
- Describing what one is wearing
- Talking about the weather
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Greetings and leave taking. Basic social pleasantries. Numbers 1–31. The alphabet.
- Basic information about the self: where you live, where you come from, your nationality, what you do.
- Talking about leisure activities. Numbers 32-69.
- Giving personal information. Discussing dreams and interests. Numbers 70-100.
- Locating and presenting places in a town. Asking for and giving directions.
- Discussing means of transport. Expressing likes and dislikes.
- Shopping for food: identifying food shops, discussing opening and closing times, expressing quantities.
- Ordering at a restaurant/cafe. Describing recipes and listing ingredients in a dish.
- Talking about clothes and fashion. Describing what you wear and naming colours.
- Talking about the weather. Traditions and celebrations in France.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
French studies View 13 other Short Courses in French studies in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- is for complete beginners in the language and those who have acquired some expressions informally through travel or socialising
Tuition Fee
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International
251 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 251 GBP for the full programme during 3 days. -
National
251 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 251 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.
Living costs for Oxford
939 - 1530 GBP /month
Living costs
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