YCOFR 350 - High Intermediate French for Social Services (Online Self-Directed)

Description

High Intermediate French for Social Services (Online Self-Directed) is designed for current or future social service workers who wish to improve their communication skills in French. The course focuses on oral skills necessary to function effectively and professionally in real-life social worker settings. It is comprised of five learning modules, each with approximately six hours of learning time. The first four modules will contain presentations, videos, exercises, and interactive activities in four main areas: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and listening comprehension. The fifth module is a learning assessment module. It involves three tasks in which learners are asked to demonstrate their knowledge from the previous four modules. These tasks assess their skills in oral comprehension, written comprehension, and written expression.

Topics Covered

Topics and Vocabulary:

• Education, experience, and career history.
• Social service workers situations and follow-up procedures.
• Expressions of time and sequence of events.
• Polite phrases and breaking bad news.
• Mental health and social issues.
• Workplaces, cardinal points, and expressions of place.
• Vocabulary related to medical follow-up and recommendations.
• Expressions for agreeing and disagreeing, opinions, and advice.
• The healthcare system and professions in the social sector.
• Emotions and reactions in a professional context.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication between colleagues.
• Project organization, planning, and looking ahead.

Learning Outcomes

• ntroduce themselves in a professional context and get acquainted with their colleagues.
• Talk about their training, experience, and daily work life.
• Describe and situate past actions or daily actions in time.
• Conduct a consultation with clients and ask about their medical history.
• Describe a series of events and deliver bad news.
• Describe staff duties and adapt their speech according to the person they are talking to (informal/formal).
• Give instructions and guide a client or patient during a follow-up appointment.
• Talk about a patient's or client's treatment or intervention plan.
• Make recommendations to a patient, a client or a colleague.
• Express their opinion, participate in a debate, or give their professional opinion.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and collaborate on problem solving.
• Make hypothetical statements and describe emotions at work.
• Organize a future event, project, or activity.
• Talk about their professional future.

In terms of grammatical concepts, participants should be able to use:

• The present tense (regular verbs, irregular verbs, and special cases).
• The present perfect tense (reflexive verbs, agreement, and special cases).
• Verbs of movement.
• The imperative (instructions, orders).
• Prepositions and expressions of place.
• The present subjunctive (emotions, obligations, wishes).
• The present conditional (recommendations, hypotheses, wishes).
• Modals: devoir, falloir, pouvoir.
• The different futures and tense agreement in the future.

Notes

As the course will be delivered online, students must be equipped with:

A computer or tablet; Internet connection.

In order to continue to the next level, learners must complete both the online self-directed and the online synchronous (face-to-face) conversation courses for this level

Who Should Attend?

Current or future social service workers with little or no previous exposure to French.