French - Improver
This course is ideal for:
those who have done French before and feel fairly confident already with certain basic communication scenarios like shopping, ordering food/drink in a restaurant/ bar, buying travel/event tickets and getting around on foot and by local transport to tourist attractions and event venues (we covered all this in the Beginners units). They will have some knowledge of language structures but know that they need some reinforcement of these before going on to anything more diffiult.
The Improvers 1 unit goes back to personal introductions and social situations with local French people – like going out/round for drinks and nibbles and talking about travel and holidays. However, it goes about it in a much more detailed/sophisticated way than in Beginners 1. You will learn some cool uses of the present tense to convey other tenses as well as having a first glimpse of what the future tense looks like. You will also get lots of communications ‘hacks’, pronunciation tips and cultural advice to help you get just that little bit more out of your time in France.
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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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