French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who have either learned a little at school but a long time ago and have forgotten almost everything or those who have started learning with an app but find they need a teacher to explain things better to them and give them chances to say what THEY want to say rather than what the app wants them to say.
In this unit we will learn how to talk about: where we are going to go on holiday (town, country, terrain),when (seasons, months, days) and why (weather); how we are going to go about organising it (travel, accommodation, events, activities) and how we are going to deal with inconveniences (illness, loss, theft, car problems).
From a grammar point of view, we will be conjugating a number of regular verbs and using the two important irregular verbs ‘to go'(which helps form a kind of future tense too) and ‘to do’.
However, don’t worry if your grasp of grammar isn’t great; communication is more important than perfection.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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