French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who have just done did Beginners 1, 2 and 3 of the Language for Fun methodology and don’t feel ready to move on quite yet because they need to practise more what they have just learned; those who got further than this unit (perhaps Beginners 4 or Improvers 1 and who want to go back a step or two to re-remember before learning even more; those who did French at school and who have forgotten A LOT but not so much that they need to learn from scratch at the slower pace of a complete beginner.
A range of topics will be reworked in this revision unit: personal introductions, buying food and drink in shops and in restaurants; getting around town on foot, in a car or on public transport; travelling further afield and describing the geography of a country; booking holiday transport, accommodation and activities; dealing in a very simple manner with loss, theft, illness and your car breaking down!
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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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