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French: Lower Intermediate - Part 2

Course Details

Code: O25P554XFW
Fees: Ł300.00
Dates: 21 Jan 2026 - 25 Mar 2026
Sessions: 10
Day of week: Wednesday
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Ewert House, Ewert Place, Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DD

Overview

This 10-week course is pitched at level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and completion of the course will help you meet most, or all, of the level requirements.

Programme Details

Week 1: Discussing innovations and professions in the future.
Week 2: Expressing opinions about the internet and social media. Talking about communication technologies.
Week 3: Identifying and talking about different foods. Understanding instructions in the kitchen.
Week 4: Communicating in a restaurant. Understanding explanations. Giving a positive or negative review.
Week 5: Talking about fitness and health. Identifying parts of the body.
Week 6: Visiting the doctor. Giving advice on healthy habits and routines.
Week 7: The press. Discussing one's preferences.
Week 8: Talking about the media. Expressing one's interests regarding radio, TV, films.
Week 9: Discussing new trends in sharing products and services. Expressing wishes.
Week 10: Focus on French and Francophone culture: class choice.

Key Grammar Points

The future tense (le futur simple)
Si + condition
The pronoun to express quantity
The restrictive ne... que
The pronouns and
The superlative
The subjunctive
The conditional

Key Functions

Expressing future actions and events
Understanding instructions and asking for explanations
Expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Giving advice
Expressing one's point of view
Expressing one's preference

Recommended Reading

Grammaire progressive du français, niveau intermédiaire (A2/B1), 4čme édition (CLE International, ISBN: (978--0)
Collins French/English Online Dictionary

Textbooks

ÉDITO A2, Méthode de français, 2čme édition / Fafa, Clémence; Gajdosova, Florence; Horquin, Alexandra; Pasquet, Airelle; Perrard, Marion; Petitmengin, Violette; Sperandio, Caroline - Éditions Didier 2022, ISBN : 978-9 / 978--6

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be issued with an official digital badge from the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford.

Fees

Course Fee: Ł300.00

Funding

If you are in receipt of a UK state benefit, you are a full-time student in the UK or a student on a low income, you may be eligible for a reduction of 50% of tuition fees.

Tutor

Mrs Danae Lemos-Theologis

Course Aims

To help students to practise and consolidate their interactive skills in the target language in a wider range of simple and routine everyday situations requiring straightforward descriptions and direct exchange of information on family and other people, living conditions, educational background and work.

Course Objectives

To further develop the language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at level A2 of the CEFR.
To consolidate listening and speaking skills to enable students to communicate in a wider range of simple everyday work and leisure settings and matters in areas of most immediate relevance.
To equip students with the vocabulary items and grammatical structures required to read and write short, simple texts on familiar topics.
To develop an insight into the cultural practices relating to simple everyday work, study and leisure settings.

Teaching Methods

You will learn through a communicative teaching approach with the emphasis on actively engaging in classroom activities in the target language.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be better prepared to:

Communicate in simple everyday situations requiring direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
Understand and respond appropriately to simple spoken language in everyday situations provided speech is slowly and clearly articulated.
Read and demonstrate comprehension of a wider range of short simple texts on familiar matters of concrete type and consisting of everyday language.
Write short, simple notes, messages, descriptions and/or personal letters.
Demonstrate intercultural awareness in everyday social situations and language use generally.

Assessment Methods

You will be set optional assignments to consolidate your learning and to allow you to progress at your own pace.

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Selection Criteria

Our public programme is open access, and most adult language classes are mixed ability. To benefit from this course, participants will have completed our Lower Intermediate - Part 1 course.

French: Lower Intermediate - Part 2

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