Francois Simon

Sandrine Victor

Assumed prior knowledge:

Language skills and knowledge of French at B2/C1 level of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages are required.

Additional requisites:

Good command of the target language (B2/C1 CEFR level).

Admission into the course requires completing the online test, followed by a 1-2-1 appointment with a member of the teaching team. Please refers to the information on the LSE language centre webpage. 

Course Aim:

To establish the grammar awareness required to promote and facilitate further study of French.

To bring students to level C1-C2 of CEFR.

To develop students' grammatical and writing skills. 

To develop students' academic writing and methodology, critical and analytical skills, and intercultural competence. 

Communicative Content: writing e-mails, formal letters, understanding articles, etc.

Structural Content: Revision of the basics of French grammar. The function of the noun phrase, in more depth. Determiners. Articles. Verbs, tenses (revision, present, past future, conditional). In depth study of the subjunctive, present, past imperfect. The structure of complex sentences. Adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. Any grammatical point needed by individual students and/by the group as a whole. 

8 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.
11 hours of classes in the Winter Term.

• 8 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.
• 11 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
• 1 hour of group tutorial, as arranged by the teacher during the AT, WT or ST

Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

The students will be required to complete weekly language exercises.

Students will be advised on relevant materials at the beginning of the course.

Oral examination (30%).

Continuous assessment (70%).