Beginner(A1)
3 hours per week for 10 weeks
2 sessions: Starting January 13, 2025, and January 15, 2025
At Online via Zoom
Farida Talantikit
Julien Delbasty
Time Slots
About this Class
Our core language classes will strengthen your French through speaking, writing and comprehension activities while providing insights into Francophone culture. Our teachers and curriculum use cutting-edge methods and resources to develop your skills and confidence in French. With full immersion from day one and a communicative, task-based approach you'll gain the knowledge you need to embrace the Francophone world!
Required: Beginner French 3 or equiv. Prepare for CECR A2
Required textbook: Édito A1
In this course you will cover Units 9 & 10 : p.129-155.
Level A1-3 required or equivalent. In preparation for CECR: A1.
Content you will cover in Unit 9:
Bonnes vacances !
Learn How To- Book a hotel room; Describe a city, a country; Describe a landscape; Express preference; Write a postcard.
- Comparisons (moins/aussi/ plus + adjectif + que) ; Prepositions before the names of cities and countries; Past tense with to be (aller); Impersonal verbs in the imperfect tense (c’était, il y avait, il faisait)
- The French and vacations - paintings (Courbet, Cézanne, Monet, Morisot) - Martinique - postcard Smile in Marseille - work by Raoul Dufy - Calvi; Holidays in Brittany; Breton places, activities, sports, cuisine, words; The village of Mélin (Belgium)
- Holidays: places, destinations, accommodation, booking, means of transport, activities; Nature: places, the flore, animals, activities.
- Consonants [f] and [v]; Consonants [k] and [g].
Content you will cover in Unit 10:
Au travail !
Learn How To- Talk about your studies and university; Talk about your skills; Talk about your career plan; Talk about your job.
- COD pronouns (me, m', te, t', nous, vous); Duration, continuation; Relative pronouns qui and que; Intensity.
- Student ambassador affiche (University of Toulouse) - Hexagone exhibition (photos) - "Je fi lme ma formation" competition; Studying and afterwards?; Presentation of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Careers of personalities in the arts and sports.
- University, studies: campus, studies, people, disciplines; Business, professional life: working conditions and places, professions, tasks, communication tools, people.
- Consonants [t] and [d]; Consonants [p] and [b].