CULP: French Upper-Intermediate Through Stories and Films

Prerequisites£

• For the link to make a payment please contact CULP Administrator on culp@langcen.cam.ac.uk

A language course for students who have an intermediate command of the French Language (completed B1), ideally suited to those students who have completed the CULP Intermediate 2 course. The level is upper-intermediate working towards CEF B2.

For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.

• University staff and students
• Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available

• CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference): B2

Number of sessions: 8

Among others, these legends/stories (graded at B2) and films will be used in this course: Stories:

• Le petit chaperon rouge
• Le chat botté
• La Belle et la Bête
• Les Moitiés (a fairystory from Haïti)

Films:

• Huit femmes -François Ozon
• Le dîner de cons -Francis Veber
• Amélie

By the end of the Course students will be able to:

• Listening/Speaking: Contribute effectively to discussions about mythical, historical, and geographical topics as portrayed in the oral tradition and film and keep up a casual conversation with a good degree of fluency, coping with narrative and some idiomatic expressions.
• Reading: Read graded written works and film reviews with a good degree of understanding, enough to cope with an advanced course, to read the media for information as well as to understand some non-standard pieces.
• Writing: Construct a narrative/descriptive piece and write a well-structured essay about a story and a film and/or other topics of their interest.

The Course will introduce students to the following upper-intermediate learning skills and:

• Help in working towards achieving CEF B2
• Achieve spoken fluency using appropriate vocabulary and descriptive/narrative grammatical structures
• Apply their language skills effectively to storytelling
• Acquire an understanding of the main aspects of mythical, historical, political, and cultural events connected with the countries where French is spoken
• Be introduced to some colloquial French spoken in several countries through the audio-visual input
• Improve their reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on the narrative/descriptive styles
• Improve their delivery of oral presentations and debate in French
• The Course aims also to empower the learners and establish them as life-long language learners.

• Presentations, practicals and online learning

• Students Fees: £160 to be paid online. Please select ‘Concessionary’ under the course fee when you make your booking. For the link to make a payment please contact CULP Administrator on culp@langcen.cam.ac.uk
• Staff Fees: £175 to be paid online. Please select ‘All charged’ under the course fee when you make your booking. For the link to make a payment please contact CULP Administrator on culp@langcen.cam.ac.uk
• Non-University members: £190 to be paid online.
• Links to the online store will be provided with your confirmation email.
• Payment is required within 24 hours of your booking to secure your place.
• Refunds available after the first lesson only.
• Payment for the courses is made on the Online Store (CULP General Purpose courses), (Raven log in).
• Course materials can be found on Moodle (Raven log in), once the course has started.

This course will be assessed upon the completion of the submission of 1 essay and oral presentation and participation and attendance (attendance required is at least 6/8 sessions). Upon completion, students will be awarded a Certificate of attendance issued by the Language Centre.

• Students are required to attend 80% of sessions
• Full details of all Language Centre programmes can be found on the Language Centre website and Language Centre Online website.

Eight taught sessions of two hours plus online learning

Subject to demand

• CULP: French Basic 1
• CULP: French Basic 2
• CULP: French Intermediate 1
• CULP: French Intermediate 2
• CULP: French Advanced
• CULP: French Advanced Plus