Once-a-week French Course - Beginner

Course details

Following an average pace, everyone will be able to follow the teacher.As for the once-a-week, you will learn the 4 aspects of the language (speaking, reading, writing & listening) and how to use the language in real life situations.

Our native and experienced teachers will guide you through your learning experience and help you reach the fluency goal you you are aiming for in a professional yet fun and inspiring atmosphere.

Beginner 1

General

• How to present yourself, and how to greet someone
• How to describe someone/an object/a place
• Ask and give directions

Conjugation

• Present tense (to be, to have, to be called)
• Imperative

Grammer

• Masculine/feminine
• Plural/singular
• Indefinite and contracted articles
• Some prepositions
• Possessive and demonstrative adjectives
• Stressed pronouns
• Negation “ne...pas”
• Questions with “comment” “combien” and “quel”

Beginner 2

General

• Explain where a place is located
• How to talk about the date and time
• How to talk about your habits/things you are doing
• How to talk about events in the past

Conjugation

• “Passé composé” with “avoir” and “être”
• Past participle
• Present tense

Grammer

• Gender of nouns
• Partitive article
• Some prepositions
• “c’est” and ”on”
• Questions with “quand”

Beginner 3

General

• How to express a possibility/prohibition
• How to express your preferences/tastes
• How to suggest something and give your opinion/advice

Conjugation

• Present tense
• Imperative
• “Passé composé"
• Pronominal verbs

Grammer

• Direct/indirect objects
• “il faut”
• Pronouns “en” and “ça”
• “beaucoup”/”peu”/”trop”/"assez”/”tout”
• Negation “ne…plus”

Beginner 4

General

• How to talk about past events
• How to express your intentions
• How to give conditions
• How to express a probability/talk about something you’re sure about
• How to place events in time precisely

Conjugation

• Uses of “passé composé" and “imparfait”
• Recent past with “venir de”
• Futur tense

Grammer

• When to use which tense
• Express a goal with “pour + verb”
• Assumption using “si”

Elementary 1

General

• Some revision of the Beginner levels (presenting yourself, describing others)
• Talking about your family
• Talking about your daily life as well as others’ (living environment, job, habits, likes and dislikes etc.)
• How to talk about your aspirations
• How to describe where you live (house/town)

Conjugation

• Recent past and near future
• Conditional

Grammer

• “quel”=what
• “lequel”=which
• “qui”=who”
• “que”=which/that
• Different ways to ask a question
• Stressed, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Some adverbs like “souvent” “parfois” etc.
• The position of the adjective in a sentence
• The comparative

Elementary 2

General

• Talking about the town/city you live in
• Talk about the ways to live a healthy life (sports, healthy eating, no smoking, New Year’s resolutions)
• How to talk about your working/professional life (being jobless/how to look for a job, describe your career)
• How to talk about your school life, compare your education system with different systems

Conjugation

• Subjunctive (present)
• “devoir” + infinitive

Grammer

• Superlative
• Indefinite pronouns like “chaque”=each, “quelques”=some etc.
• The pronouns “en” and “y”
• How to form certain adverbs
• “ne...que”=only
• How to indicate time
• Obligation
• The use of different tenses for narration

Elementary 3

General

• How to talk about your hobbies (hangouts, activities, the internet)
• Discuss things around the theme “Communication”
• Talking about your holidays and travels/past events

Conjugation

• Past participles
• Gerundive
• Future

Grammer

• Negation “ne”+”pas/jamais/plus” etc
• Different ways to talk about the cause of something
• Time indicators
• How to place an event in a timeline
• Different ways to talk about the consequences
• Different expressions for a duration
• Agreement for past participles
• Different ways to talk about the future

Elementary 4

General

• How to talk about your holidays/travels, past events (continued)
• How to express your opinions
• How to argue for things you support

Conjugation

• When to use the indicative or the subjunctive

Grammer

• Direct and indirect pronouns and their position in a sentence
• Indirect speech
• Words to express opposition or concession
• “ce qui”/”ce que” = that which