Advanced Beginner(A2)
1 hour 30 per week for 10 weeks
2 sessions: Starting September 17, 2026, and September 18, 2026
At French Library
Florine Moreno
Lucile Chaurin Ablandeo
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 textbook: Édito A2, 2022 edition
In this course, the plan is to cover half of unit 2 and unit 3. But we are calling this class, "at your own pace" so that we might go slower or faster based on the students' progress.
Requirement: have attended A2-1 slow-paced Part 1 or early A2 Level. In preparation for CECR: A2
Content you will cover in Unit 2:
Je me souviens
Learn How To- Tell a memory; Express liking and disliking; Ask about a memory.
- The imperfect tense: use, formation, verbs to have, to change, to move; The pronouns y and en; The place of the adjective.
- Corsican flavors - literary excerpts by David Foenkinos - Morne Brabant, Mauritius - Carcassonne, medieval city - cult objects from the 70s, 80s and 90s; What's the weather like? Oh, the cliché! "It rains in the north of France, it's sunny in the south " ; Expressions about the weather ; Souvenirs from French vacations ; A desire for freshness.
- Memories: memory, senses, souvenirs, qualifying a memory ; Landscapes and weather: at the seaside, in the countryside, in the mountains, the weather.
- Compulsory liaisons
Content you will cover in Unit 3:
Comme à la maison
Learn How To- RDescribe accommodation; Rent accommodation; Express disappointment; Console, comfort.
- Relative pronouns qui, que, où ; Comparisons (with adverb, adjective, verb, noun) ; Conditions.
- student housing in France - literary excerpt by Virginie Grimaldi - Art Nouveau - illustrator Margaux Motin - urban planner Carlos Moreno and the quarter-hour city - intergenerational solidarity housing; Art Nouveau in Brussels Oh, the cliché! "The French life in houses in the countryside"; Types of apartments ; Names of the sofa; Victor Horta, Belgian architect; Habitat solidaire in Belgium; Neighbors in solidarity.
- Housing and renting: types and rooms, building/house, real estate adverts, fees and services, inhabitants ; Furniture and living environment: furniture, decoration, equipment, the town and the neighborhood.
- The sounds [j] [ɥ] [w]