Intermediate French Lessons - Course Outline

Themes include the following elements

• A wide range of possibilities, inc.
  Entertainment, mass media, work, education, the environment, tourism & travel, news, social & political issues, books, generation changes, cities, people, relationships, the arts, technology, health & fitness, social life, night life, national traditions/customs & culture, consumerism, globalisation, philosophy, science, poetry, literature, speeches, psychology, esoterica

Grammar

• Review, consolidate & extend connected English

Include:

• Nuance
• Complex sentences
• Narratives
• Exceptions to the rule

Other vocab

• Review, consolidate & extend the following:
• Word-building (prefix and suffix patterns)
• Word families (noun-verb-adjective-adverb)
• Idioms
• Common linking words
• Wide range of functions
• Collocations
• Compound words
• Metaphor
• Phrasal verbs
• Register

Introduce:

• Stylistic/stylised writing
• Literary devices, eg. alliteration, onomatopoeia
• Cliché
• Regional differences

And..

• Lots of listening
• Pronunciation