Teacher: Serge Youmbi (London)
(Teacher originally from Corby, UK. Speaks English, Spanish, German.)
This course gives students the opportunity to improve in all aspects of French, focusing on developing grammar, vocabulary, listening and writing skills. On completion you will be able to understand, speak and write French with more confidence and fluency, and use French in daily situations.
Structured Input Activities:
Present one thing at a time. Keep meaning in focus. Move from sentences to connected discourse.
Use both oral and written input. Have the learners do something with the input.
Keep the learner's processing strategies in mind.
Structured Output Activities
Comparing with someone else. Taking notes, then writing a paragraph about what was said.
Making a list of follow-up questions and interviewing a partner to get the new information.
Structured Input Activities
Present one thing at a time.
Keep meaning in focus.
Move from sentences to connected discourse.
Use both oral and written input.
Have the learners do something with the input.
Keep the learner's processing strategies in mind.
Structured Output Activities
Comparing with someone else
Taking notes, then writing a paragraph about what was said
Making a list of follow-up questions and interviewing a partner to get the new information
Filling out a grid or chart based on what was said
Signing something
Indicating agreement or disagreement
Determining veracity of the statement
Responding using any of several scales
Drawing something
Answering a question
Lessons in person:
Hourly rates: (GBP £)
1 student: £15.00
2 students: £10.00
3+ students: £7.00
Fees apply. View details.
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Why learn French? French has a long tradition as a language of international diplomacy, and many say it is the language of love!
In any case, it is good to know this: French is spoken officially in close to 40 countries in all five continents. French is the most widely learned second language (after English). In addition to opening for you the doors of francophone companies in France, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and Africa, French is the language of cooking, fashion, theatre, visual arts, dance and architecture. French is easy to learn, especially for speakers of English and other European languages, and learning French will make learning Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian much easier for you.
London has been a major settlement for more than two thousand years and is now a leading global city and a world cultural capital. Nearly 37% of the city's population is foreign-born, making London the second most cosmopolitan city in the the world, just behind New York.
The most represented ethnicities are white (60%), asian (18%) and arab (14%). Although English is the official language and is spoken by 98% of the population, immigrants have brought with them mainly: Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic, Turkish, Polish, French, Portuguese and Lithuanian, among others. London is the perfect place to learn and practice foreign languages!