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FL10171: French upper intermediate (part 2)

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Credits: 3      [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 60
Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework - Reading (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Writing (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Listening (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Speaking (CW 25%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Reassessment not allowed
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take FL10168 or equivalent.
Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the for information regarding enrolment.
Aims:
The course aims to consolidate and extend language already acquired, for example in Upper Intermediate (Part 1), and to significantly improve students' accuracy when writing, and fluency when speaking the target language, to extend their vocabulary range, including idiomatic expressions, and to introduce them to more complex authentic reading and listening texts, relevant to events and the culture of the country/ countries where the target language is spoken.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students will be able to:
* Communicate confidently and spontaneously in a wide range of situations.
* Take an active part in discussions accounting for and sustaining their views.
* Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes with some support.
* Read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems, in which the writers adopt particular attitudes and viewpoints.
* Write a review of a film, book or play.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Â鶹´«Ã½ and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
The course consolidates previously acquired language structures and skills and further develops the four core competences of listening, speaking, reading and writing by extending the students' active and passive vocabulary, including idioms, and cultural knowledge and understanding through the use of culturally relevant and topical audio and reading materials. The course develops fluency, spontaneity and constructive reasoning through debates.
Programme availability:

FL10171 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Foreign Languages Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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