French - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who did French to GCSE at school but who have forgotten a fair amount but not so much that they need to go back to real basics. This unit will clarify all the stuff you just guessed at in school because your teacher wasn’t in a position to explain things in too much detail to a class of 30 teens. We cover the present tense of most verbs you will ever need to know through some amusing dialogues and scenarios (like talking about the antics of our pets, about our weirdest dreams and how long our commute to class took and why!) and I also teach you some cunning uses of the present tense to convey other tenses too. I do a lot of practice of pronunciation so that you don’t sound like the policeman in ‘Âllo, Âllo’!
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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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