This final-year module is compulsory for single-subject, Modern Languages and Modern Language Plus students and optional for ESPS and History with a European...

This final-year module is compulsory for single-subject, Modern Languages and Modern Language Plus students and optional for ESPS and History with a European Language students. Three skills are focused on: résumé in French of a passage of discursive French; translation from English into French (literary); translation from French into English (non-literary). The module is taught in French.

This module aims to teach the skills of written French to an advanced level, as well as to provide training in analytic and interpretative responses to written French texts. The summary is an exercise in both comprehension and expression; it also enables students to develop the practical skills of synthesis which are crucial for any kind of research. The prose exercise is designed to help students consolidate their technical command of the language (grammar, vocabulary, syntax) as well as their capacity to draw on their knowledge and experience to find idiomatic alternatives when confronted with a difficulty. The translation into English requires students to consolidate their understanding of the close workings of the language and their sensitivity to cultural differences in order to render a complex, discursive, non-literary passage into fluid and idiomatic English.

This second-year module requires students to respond in French to a variety of texts and other stimuli in linguistic situations such as dialogue, group presentation, synopsis, judgment etc. A variety of topics (all linked to French or francophone culture and actualités) will be covered.

The aim of this second-year module is to develop further the grammatical, comprehension and writing skills acquired in first year. Work on French texts will focus on grammatical and syntactical skills, comprehension and interpretation. Students will also work on translation. The module is taught in French.