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Even if the writing of foreign students is grammatically correct and coherent, it can sometimes have an undesired impact on the reader because it is written in the wrong style. This webinar will give some guidance on what is usually considered good academic style. Students will then be asked to complete some exercises on Moodle.
In-Sessional English Conversation Hours
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 19 May 2021 | 12:00 | [Places] |
| Wed 2 Jun 2021 | 12:00 | [Places] |
One of the key areas in which non-native speakers of English have difficulty attaining native-level accuracy is in the use of prepositions. Although this webinar does not pretend to give students all the answers, it will provide a number of ways to conceptualise the use of prepositions and hopefully clarify this complex area of grammar. Students will then be asked to complete some exercises online.
The most common way for students to share their work with their colleagues is via presentations, using a variety of techniques and methods. This webinar, which dovetails with the Presentation Skills Practice workshop on 18 November, will introduce some ways in which you can make your work come across as coherent and effective.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 18:30 | In progress |
| Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 16:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
For more detailed information about the course please go to the Language Centre CULP page.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The course is delivered in a visual way
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 16:30 | In progress |
| Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 14:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 14:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre webiste.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At an advanced level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course.
One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students.
More detailed information is available on our website.
NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications.
Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 18:30 | In progress |
| Mon 19 Oct 2020 | 15:00 | In progress |
| Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 19:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
More detailed information is available on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 13:00 | In progress |
| Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 10:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
More detailed information is available on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 16 Oct 2020 | 11:00 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 13:00 | In progress |
| Wed 21 Oct 2020 | 10:00 | In progress |
(Part IB Paper 10 Elective Topics I (ii) Carmen in Context) This course aims to support students in their study of ’Carmen‘. It will give students a grasp of the essential features of the French language and will include the reading and translation of some extracts of the libretto and of the novella by Prosper Merimée on which the opera is based.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context.
More detailed information is available on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 10:00 | In progress |
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 18:30 | In progress |
| Fri 16 Oct 2020 | 13:30 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course.
More detailed information is available on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct 2020 | 15:00 | In progress |
| Mon 19 Oct 2020 | 12:00 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At an advanced level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course.
One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications.
Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct 2020 | 15:00 | In progress |
The concept underpinning this course is one of fostering the learning of higher Advanced German language through listening (mainly films), reading (mainly literature), speaking and writing (both film and literature).
Every session will offer a choice of extracts either from the German* literary canon or from critically acclaimed films, or indeed both, which illustrate the session’s theme. These passages will be analysed by means of listening, reading and communicative exercises and will lead to a discussion about their aesthetic, wider cultural, historical and political implications and relevance today.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.