French - Next Steps - Online Courses - Adult Learning

About this course

This is the course for you if you have done some French before: a beginners course, GCSEs when you were young, read your phrase book twice, a 300-days streak on Duo Lingo, or in any other form.

On this course, you will practise what you know, improve your pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and much more. You will meet other learners who like to travel and there will be opportunities to learn about French culture in a relaxed class. Only basic skills are required, such as ordering and buying food, talking about yourself and your family, using short sentences.

During the course, we will cover topics to help when travelling: booking an accommodation, talking about the weather, health, your plans, choosing a restaurant, etc. We will also cover the present, past and future tenses so that you can have conversations on different topics.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

• Converse in French with other learners about some topics such as holidays, travels, health.

• Be able to understand the main ideas and some specific details in beginner to intermediate-level French videos and spoken conversations.

• Increase your knowledge of Francophone culture.

• Read and write texts about familiar topics.

• Use the most common verbs correctly when speaking.

• Develop IT skills : use Teams and take part in online meetings, prepare a Powerpoint presentation.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.