What you will study
This short course is designed to give you a solid foundation in the French language. You’ll learn the essentials of reading, writing, speaking and listening in French. You’ll also develop key skills that will enhance your future study of the language. Delivered through user-friendly, ‘bite-sized’ blocks, in each unit you’ll discover basic vocabulary and set phrases. Audio material, featuring recordings by native speakers of French, and a wide variety of speaking activities will aid your pronunciation.
Throughout the course, you’ll build up your own French phrase book covering varied topics such as:
- leisure activities (sporting, creative and cultural activities)
- ways of expressing likes and dislikes and how often you do something
- the weather (forecast, temperatures, conditions and what you do in them)
- television and shows in France
- ways of describing activities you used to do (the past tense)
- holiday destinations, activities and holidays outside mainland France
- ways of making travel arrangements (including enquiries and bookings)
- ways of describing the holidays you took
- writing postcards.
At the end of the course, you’ll have studied French verbs (passé composé and the imperfect), adverbs, pronouns, the superlative and expanded your vocabulary and knowledge of French-speaking countries. Along with completing the activities and a quiz in each unit to strengthen your learning, you’ll have gained a solid foundation of French.
Please note that although this course is non-accredited, it can be used towards the module Making your learning count (YXM130) to gain OU credits.
You will learn
The course is designed to help you achieve a level of language proficiency equivalent to level A2 of the Council of Europe Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).
Learner support
You will have access to discussion forums that you are strongly encouraged to participate in as these forums combine support from fellow students with input from a language-specialist learning adviser. Other support is available via the StudentHome website and Computing Helpdesk.
If you have a disability
The course is delivered online and makes use of a variety of online resources. If you use specialist hardware or software to assist you in using a computer or the internet you are advised to contact us about support which can be given to meet your needs.
The OU strives to make all aspects of study accessible to everyone and this Accessibility Statement outlines what studying LGXF004 involves. You should use this information to inform your study preparations and any discussions with us about how we can meet your needs.