French for Beginners

What You Will Study

This five-week course will teach you the basics of the French language.

You will cover:

• Week 1 – Greetings through theatre (basic phrases; present tense; paired introduction workshop around theatre)
• Week 2 – Self-introduction though poetry (talking about oneself; past tenses; presentation workshop around poetry)
• Week 3 – Regional contexts and etymology through film (‘where words come from, and why are they used a certain way?’ future tense; workshop around connections with English and other languages)
• Week 4 – Phonetics and pre/suf-fixes though song (covering more in depth pronunciation through homonyms and accent marks; conditional tense; conversation improv workshop)
• Week 5 – Figures of speech and semantics (students to bring a piece of French-spoken media of their choice; imperative mood; combo of weeks 1-4’s workshop but centred around tone )

This course will run on Wednesday evenings.