French - Next Steps - Bingham Library - Adult Learning

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.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• 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.

• Prepare a presentation and present it to the group.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below, or

Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire).

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.