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Towards the end of the Michaelmas Term, most students start to prepare written work for submission and evaluation. This workshop, which follows on from the academic writing style webinar earlier in the term, offers some key ideas about the larger structure of a piece of academic writing, and shows students how best and most effectively to present their ideas.
This end-of-term workshop uses short video clips, reading and discussion to explore an important aspect of British culture, the class system, and how it relates to universities.
This is a workshop which will concentrate on intonation and stress within normal spoken and written English, and will aim to give students some idea of how stress and intonation work at the level of the sentence or even the paragraph. It should help students understand how intonation is used in English to convey meaning beyond the surface value of individual words, and should help them to use this technique as well.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a 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.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 17 Oct 2019 | 17:00 | In progress |
| Tue 22 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a 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 go to the Language Centre CULP page.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The course is delivered in a visual way
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a 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.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 22 Oct 2019 | 13:00 | In progress |
| Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 10:30 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a 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.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 22 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre webiste.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
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 on our website.
NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications.
Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 17 Oct 2019 | 19:00 | In progress |
| Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 17:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At an 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 to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students.
More detailed information is available on our website.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a 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 website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 17 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | In progress |
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At a 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 on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 18 Oct 2019 | 11:30 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 22 Oct 2019 | 11:30 | In progress |
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 on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 17 Oct 2019 | 09:30 | In progress |
| Fri 18 Oct 2019 | 13:30 | In progress |
| Mon 21 Oct 2019 | 13:00 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At intermediate 2 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.
More detailed information is available on our website.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 17 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | In progress |
| Mon 21 Oct 2019 | 12:00 | In progress |
| Mon 21 Oct 2019 | 17:00 | In progress |
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research.
The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion.
Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud.
For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
Music in Jazz-Age Paris
This weekly class will enable students to develop their skills in reading the French documents they need to deal with in their studies. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar and tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original French texts. Each week you will be required to prepare a translation into English of a French passage. Texts will include the writings of Emile Vuillermoz and Boris de Schloezer.
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
At an 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 to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications.
Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
| Date | Availability | |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 21 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | In progress |
The concept underpinning this course is one of fostering the learning of higher Advanced German language through listening (mainly films), reading (mainly literature), speaking and writing (both film and literature).
Every session will offer a choice of extracts either from the German* literary canon or from critically acclaimed films, or indeed both, which illustrate the session’s theme. These passages will be analysed by means of listening, reading and communicative exercises and will lead to a discussion about their aesthetic, wider cultural, historical and political implications and relevance today.
More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.