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Wed 16 Nov 2016

Wednesday 16 November 2016

09:30	CULP: French Basic 2 (5 of 15) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available at http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/culp/french/culp-french.html
10:00	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Japanese Finished 10:00 - 10:20 John Trim Centre A one-to-one practice speaking session with a volunteer native Japanese speaker
10:20	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Japanese Finished 10:20 - 10:40 John Trim Centre A one-to-one practice speaking session with a volunteer native Japanese speaker
10:30	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 10:30 - 11:00 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
10:40	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Japanese Finished 10:40 - 11:00 John Trim Centre A one-to-one practice speaking session with a volunteer native Japanese speaker
11:00	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 11:00 - 11:30 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
11:30	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 11:30 - 12:00 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore learning opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on strategies for autonomous learning across a range of 160+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. (Please note that midway through the academic year, if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad
12:00	JTC: Advanced English Conversation Hours (5 of 6) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Advanced Conversation Hours are a great way to practice the spoken English of academic discussion and debate. They are suitable for learners comfortable in spoken interaction at level c1 and above. The weekly sessions encourage a relaxed and fun approach to communication designed to both aid interaction and build confidence. If the course is already 'in progress' please click on 'register your interest' in order to book a place. Cost for 6 sessions £28 Students, £38 Staff, £48 Partners and Visiting Scholars
13:00	CULP: Russian Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Faculty of English, GR04 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
	CULP: French Intermediate 1 (5 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available at http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/culp/french/culp-french.html.
	CULP: Chinese (Mandarin) Basic 1 (5 of 15) CANCELLED 13:00 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 13:00 - 13:20 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:20	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 13:20 - 13:40 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:30	JTC: Making your own way: Reading for academic purposes in your target language Finished 13:30 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 If you are learning a language to be able to read academic text, this workshop can help you to work on your method. No single way is right for everyone: come prepared to make your own. With support, explore some helpful reading strategies and the choices you can make in how you approach your text. Bring: a typical text in your target language that you need to read. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your current approach? How could you develop it further? How could your language learning, and by extension your reading, be more efficient? This workshop aims to help you to: 1.) Use a tool to evaluate your current reading technique. 2.) Bridge the gap between your current level of proficiency and your text. 3.) Tackle frequent challenges such as: increasing your reading speed, dealing with volume/quantity, measuring your progress. This informal workshop is open to learners of any language, at any level.
13:40	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 13:40 - 14:00 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
14:00	CULP: Swahili Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Institute of Criminology - B3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Italian Finished 14:00 - 14:20 John Trim Centre Speaking practice with an Italian native-speaker volunteer.
14:20	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Italian Finished 14:20 - 14:40 John Trim Centre Speaking practice with an Italian native-speaker volunteer.
14:40	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Italian Finished 14:40 - 15:00 John Trim Centre Speaking practice with an Italian native-speaker volunteer.
15:00	CULP: Arabic Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Chinese (Mandarin) Basic 2 (5 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: German Intermediate 2 - For Business (5 of 15) POSTPONED 15:00 - 17:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 If you are thinking of finding a job, joining a research institute or doing an internship in a German speaking country this is the course for you. Germany is the economic powerhouse of the European Union. The competitiveness of their products is well known, as is Germany's commitment to research and innovation. German is a key language in the European Union and increasingly significant for doing business in the new economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Being able to speak German provides you with excellent career opportunities. Learning German will improve your chances of success in today's job market and your business relations, it helps to build rapport and strengthen relationships with German-speaking colleagues, demonstrates goodwill and facilitates international communication at both a personal and organizational level. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Japanese Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The courses are delivered in a blended-learning mode, face-to-face and online through CamTools (the Cambridge University virtual learning environment). The focus is on spoken, oral/aural communicative competence. Students are required to attend to online multimedia materials and read the proscribed texts in their own time so that the classroom time is dedicated to face-to-face communication/discussion. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
16:00	CULP: Russian Basic 2 (5 of 15) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Faculty of English, GR03 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic 2 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
16:30	CULP: Arabic Elementary 2 (5 of 15) CANCELLED 16:30 - 18:30 Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
	CULP: Swahili Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 16:30 - 18:30 Institute of Criminology - B3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
17:00	CULP: Italian Through Film (Italiano e Cinema) (5 of 15) CANCELLED 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of English, GR04 Italian through Film is a content-based language course for students who already have a good command of the Italian Language (at least B1 and preferably B2, for information about these levels please see the CULP enrolment 'Italian levels and assessment' page). The course is based around classic Italian films that are readily available from the John Trim Centre for Independent Learning at the Language Centre. Italian through Film will begin with a general introduction to the Italian language with special reference to film-related terminology. Every film will be introduced by a session (2 lessons) devoted to its linguistic features and a range of relevant listening, reading and subsequently communicative exercises. After the viewing of the film (students will do this in their own time at the John Trim Independent Learning Centre here at the LC) there will be a session devoted to the artistic (director, actors, style of expression etc.) context followed by a further discussion about the film's aesthetic, wider cultural, historical and political implications. All teaching and discussions will be in the Italian language and students will be expected to actively participate and contribute. This course features no assessment component upon completion.
	CULP: Italian Basic 2 (5 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of Classics, Room 2.03 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. The course will take place at the Faculty of Classics, Room 2.03.
	CULP: Arabic Elementary 1 (5 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
	CULP: French Advanced (5 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At advanced level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater for the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. More detailed information is available at http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/culp/french/culp-french.html NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
	CULP: Spanish Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Portuguese Finished 17:00 - 17:30 John Trim Centre « Description not available »
17:30	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Portuguese Finished 17:30 - 18:00 John Trim Centre « Description not available »
18:00	CULP: Russian Intermediate 2 (5 of 15) Finished 18:00 - 20:00 Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, Room 207 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
19:00	CULP: Spanish Advanced (5 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At advanced level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater for the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
	CULP: Japanese Basic 1 (5 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 2 The courses are delivered in a blended-learning mode, face-to-face and online through CamTools (the Cambridge University virtual learning environment). The focus is on spoken, oral/aural communicative competence. Students are required to attend to online multimedia materials and read the proscribed texts in their own time so that the classroom time is dedicated to face-to-face communication/discussion. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: German Basic (5 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Portuguese Basic (5 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.