Beginner:

No previous knowledge of French required.

Objectives : To build basic conversational French and learn essential expressions for travelling with confidence in France.

*This is a working outline, which will be adapted to suit your goals and preferences.

Unit 1 to 12

Term 1 – Unit 1 – 4

  • Introducing yourself and identifying others.
  • Talking about your job and place of work – filling an online form.
  • How to order drinks and snacks – giving details of family and personal possessions.
  • A coach tour of Paris. Booking a room at a hotel. Identifying objects and places. Making enquiries. Spelling names/email addresses.

Structures covered:

  • Present tense of To be and to have.
  • Definite and indefinite articles (The, a)
  • Possessive adjectives singular (My).
  • Numbers up to 60, plurals. The French alphabet.

Term 2 – Unit 5 – 9

  • Having a meal in a restaurant. How to ask for a table, choose a menu and ask what is available.
  • Asking and giving your age. Saying you are hungry/thirsty, hot/cold, expressions with to have.
  • Saying where things are and to whom they belong. Place words.
  • Places in town. Finding your way around, and making enquiries. More place words.
  • More activities. Family relationships. Rooms of a house. Making a reservation at a B&B and leaving an answerphone message.

Structures covered:

  • Partitive (some, any, no…, more of…)
  • Possessive adjectives (sing + pl Your).
  • Present tense of …ER verbs. “Since / for” (depuis).
  • Present tense of faire. Expressions with faire.
  • More …ER verbs. Negative.
  • Direct pronouns him, it, her, them (le, la, l’, les).

Term 3 – Unit 10 – 12

  • The weather and seasons. Finding out about people’s hobbies. Asking more precise questions.
  • Housework and shopping. Telling the time and describing a sequence of events. Asking for precisely what you want in food shops. Talking about important days, dates and events. Quantities and prices, days and months.
  • A weekend at the seaside. Travelling by train. Buying tickets. Making enquiries at a tourist office.

Structures covered:

  • More …ER verbs.
  • Questions with Who ?, What ?, when ? How ?, why ?
  • Frequency adverbs (always, sometimes… ).
  • Indirect object pronouns ( To him, to her. ).
  • Present tense of …RE verbs.

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