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French: Level Three (Fast Track)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Requisites

Assumed prior knowledge:

Language skills and knowledge of French at A2 level of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages are required.

Additional requisites:

Admission into the course after completion of the online test and upon tutor’s approval during the Needs Analysis Interview.

Students should have successfully completed LSE Level 2 course or have learned equivalent content, see the description of "Communicative content" and "Structural Content" of Level 2 course (LN723 or LN724).

Students should demonstrate full commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, and all pieces of continuous assessment and dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework, in addition to classes .

This level is suitable for students who learnt French for some time (a few years) a long time ago (secondary school). A good foundation in the target language. Students express themselves with confidence or at least are willing to try. This level can also be taken by post GCSE students.

Course Aim: To bring students to level B1 of CEFR.

SPEAKING AND SPOKEN INTERACTION:

• Use a series of phrases and sentences to describe in simple terms family and other people, living conditions, educational background and present or most recent work.
• Produce talks on simple topics relating to the Social Sciences.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and express opinions in discussion of familiar topics.

WRITING:

• Write short simple notes, messages and e-mails relating to matters in areas of immediate need or paragraphs or short essays in areas of interest relating to the Social Sciences.

LISTENING:

• Understand phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related not only to areas of most immediate personal relevance (e.g. personal and familiar information, shopping, local geography, and employment), but also to topic areas relating to the Social Sciences.

READING:

• Read short and simple texts related to news and current issues, find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material such as advertisements, prospectuses, menus and timetables, and understand items of both personal and professional written communication e.g. Email and web-based material + social science related articles.

Communicative Content:

• To introduce oneself, talk about opinions, beliefs, political views.
• Talk about daily activities.
• Make an appointment, reschedule, accept, refuse.
• Give your opinion and justify it.
• Talk about a past event, past experiences…Take/ give advice and make/respond to suggestions.
• Future plans and projects. Express a wish, a will.Express doubt, certainty, possibility.
• Express cause, consequence, obligation, aim.

Structural Content:

• Consolidation of major grammatical points (direct, indirect pronouns y & en…).
• Perfect, past tenses, conditional.
• Present tense irregular verbs consolidation.
• Question formation with a wide range of tenses.
• Adjectives, place, agreement. Express duration (depuis, pendant, pour).
• Use of relative pronouns (qui/que, ce qui/ce que).

22 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
16 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of group tutorial time, as arranged by the teacher during the AT, WT, ST. 

The students will be required to complete weekly language exercises.

A textbook as recommended by your teacher

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)