Intermediate French
September 29 @ 7:30 pm
Lower Intermediate:
You should be confident with basic tenses (present, past (perfect), immediate future).
Objectives :
- To improve your confidence in conversational French.
- To consolidate sentence structure and grammar / Includes revisions of the present, past, and future tenses.
- To enrich your vocabulary, learn some idioms, and more useful colloquial expressions.
- Discussing French culture.
*This is a working outline, which will be adapted to suit your goals and preferences.
Unit 1 – 9
Term 1 : Unit 1 – 3
- Introducing yourself and identifying others. Exchanging personal details.
- Talking about activities in the past. Replying to invitations and other formal letters/emails.
- Giving details of an area with which you are familiar. Discussing location of flats and houses, and the accommodation offered. Being eco-friendly at home.
Structures covered:
- Revisions of present tense, “habiter +a + en etc.
- Use of « depuis » + Present tense.
- Agreement of adjectives. Possessive adjectives.
- Revision of the past tense (perfect) with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs, also some verbs conjugated with être.
- Agreement of preceding direct object.
- “Il y a “meaning “ago”.
- Use of the relative pronouns “qui” “que” and “dont”.
- More adjectives.
12 week course.
Term 1: 29/09/25 – 19/12/2025 – 6pm or 7:30pm
Times subject to change depending on number of students enrolled.
Higher Intermediate:
You should be able to understand more complex sentences and grammatical structures, and express yourself with minimal hesitation.
Objectives :
- To improve your French conversational fluency on a variety of topics.
- To enrich your vocabulary, learn more idioms, and more useful colloquial expressions.
- Discussing French culture.
*This is a working outline, which will be adapted to suit your goals and preferences.
Unit 10 – 18
Term 1 – Unit 10 – 12
- Understanding weather bulletins. Finding your way round a DIY website.
- The world of business. Making phone calls and discussing conditions of work. Dealing with safety issues.
- Descriptions and regular activities in the past. Discussing means of transport.
Structures covered:
- More future tense.
- The present participle.
- The imperfect tense.
- Reported speech.
12 week course.
Term 1: 29/09/25 – 19/12/2025 – 6pm or 7:30pm
Times subject to change depending on number of students enrolled.
***To register for this event, please complete the form here and we can arrange your call to confirm your place with you.***