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.
This mini-unit comprises of the three lessons from the full-length Beginners 1 unit that are to do with shopping for simple food and drink in shops with the three lessons from the full-length Beginners 2 unit that are to do with ordering food and drink in a restaurant and being the perfect dinner guest in a French home. So you WON’T do the REALLY basic meeting and greeting, personal details etc (that are in the first six lessons of full-length Beginners 1 unit) and you WON’T do the names of shops and amenities in town, saying where things are located if you can see them (next to, opposite etc) and how to get to them if they cannot be seen (take the second road on the right etc) and how to use public transport to get to further away places in the area (as these are in the first six lessons of the full-length Beginners 2 unit). We will also do numbers from 60 onwards.
There will be an opportunity to go on to the mini-unit about ‘getting around’ between Easter and Whit and then to do another mini-unit about booking holiday travel, accommodation and activities between Whit and Bastille Day.
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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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