or equivalent.
Aims & Learning Objectives: To build further on the French covered in French stage 2A and 2B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
On completion of this unit students will be able to deal effectively with a wide variety of situations and contexts within a French-speaking environment, productively and receptively, in all four skill areas.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to a selection of topics.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to French-speaking countries and may include short works of literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/ or participating in informally arranged conversational groups and in events at which French is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.
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