UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES
& INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
SSCs 2015-2016
Successful completion of French Syllabus A at the UCL CLIE or a similar course and have limited experience of dealing with authentic material.
Year 1 students: double-block (16 x 3-hour classes. Block 1: 8 x 3-hour classes; Block 2: workshops and tutorials related to Project).
Year 2 students: single block (8 x 3-hour classes).
40 hours in total.
LCFM6002.
The aim of the course is to give students an opportunity to revise their survival skills and acquire more sophisticated ways of dealing with practical matters. This includes revision and consolidation of vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics. Medical related issues/vocabulary will also be covered.
On completion of the course students should be able to communicate in and understand French on many practical everyday matters related to various aspects of French culture. Cultural awareness will be developed. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach authentic material, will be enhanced. Some transferable skills will also be covered.
 making contact with others;
 meeting others;
 describing people and places;
 tackling practical matters;
 planning for the near future (holidays and work experience over holidays);
 relating stories and events (in the passé-composé); introduction of the imperfect;
 expressing basic opinions.
Main topics/themes to be covered
 your student life (first contacts, daily life and interests);
 practical matters (bookings);
 awareness of cultural codes and registers;
 news in brief;

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 talking about the life of famous personalities; cultural lifestyles and eating habits / fashion.
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Phonetics
 revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken French.
Grammar
 revision of present;
 revision of basic interrogative and basic negative structures;
 adverbs and adjectives (revision and new acquisitions);
 passé-composé;
 revision of “de” as a partitive article (de la, du, des) and the negation of the partitive indefinite article (pas de + no indefinite article + noun); pronouns following a preposition (chez lui, avec moi, pour eux…) ; introduction ; revision of demonstrative articles (ce, cette, cet, ces) and possessive articles (mon, ma, mes…); agreement in gender and number of the adjectives in descriptions; basic use of imperfect; introduction to contrasted use of the past tenses; basic relative pronouns (qui, que); direct and indirect pronouns (le, la, les and also lui, leur); immediate future; basic comparatives and superlatives (plus… que, moins… que, aussi… que; as well as, “ le plus…, le moins…”); y/en (introduction).
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Alter Ego + (A1) – Textbook (ISBN: 9782011558107) and Workbook (ISBN: 9782011558114)
Santé-médecine.com CLE INTERNATIONAL (2004); www.cle-inter.com
for medical vocabulary: to check with
 tutor if this is for reference only or to be purchased.
Bilingual Dictionary – Pocket Edition (Collins/Robert)
A selection of authentic material will also be used.
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials available for self-study in the Self-Access Centre.