French Basics

Language Room

Course outline (applicable to the remainder Semester2, 2024, and Semester 1, 2025)

Starting Friday 29 August from 10.00am, French Basics tutor Oj Rugins is offering a 12-week course with the title ‘AIM to learn the basics’, where AIM stands for the Accelerative Integrated Method, distinguished by its use of gestures or actions. This series of hour-long sessions is intended for absolute beginners in French, but those with some prior knowledge could think of themselves as being ‘trained to teach French’ using gestures. Think charades with a structure! ‘Sampler sessions’ will be held on Fridays 19th August and 5th September from 10.00 to 11.00am. The current 11.30am French Basics class will continue ‘as is’ to the end of the year. Compared with traditional methods, the AIM has been shown to be highly successful for increasing fluency among school age learners and its effectiveness with adults is now beginning to emerge. Registration and further information via info@u3anoosa.com.au

This course will enable you, as a beginner, or experienced but perhaps ‘rusty’ user of the language, to rapidly get your French ‘on track’ towards a more than satisfactory level of fluency. The most effective elements of recently developed programmes will be used, most importantly in an immersion setting, embedded in a flow of fun classroom interactions, to give you confidence in speaking and writing.

About the Tutor:

Oj Rugins – user of two languages (English and Latvian) from birth, had the ‘blinkers off’ when exposed to French in Primary school, and a second modern language (German) in high school. He brings experience from a teaching career of forty years; 13 in Physical Education in the UK, the remainder in Languages with Education Queensland. An active member of the Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Queensland and the Sunshine Coast Alliance Française, he returns to U3A Noosa in a Languages role again, having had local primary school students perform here on a now distant Friday afternoon.