Elementary:

Basic previous knowledge of French.

Objectives :

• To improve basic French conversational fluency and build confidence in real-life situations / Includes useful colloquial expressions.
• To consolidate the present, past, and future tenses (futur proche).

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

Unit 13 to 21

Term 1 – Unit 13 – 15

• Asking for what you want in shops, clothes and shoe shops. Ordering on the internet.
• Identifying and describing your own possessions and other people’s.
• How to get to places. Enquiries about transport and health. Looking ahead.

Structures covered:

• More numbers.
• More adjectives.
• Colours, comparatives : more, less.
• More possessives adjectives.
• Present tense of to go and immediate future.
• Pronoun there (y).

Term 2 – Unit 16 – 18

• Finding out more details of people’s employment. Going to the petrol station.
• Moving house. Furniture and household items.
• Giving more information about your daily routine.

Structures covered:

• Present tense of …IR verbs, including Venir. Saying what you have just done using ‘venir de’.
• Il faut (it’s necessary…).
• More direct pronouns, le, la, l’, les.
• Present tense of reflexive verbs.
• More adverbs.
• More pronouns.

Term 3 – Unit 19 – 21

• How to talk about events in the past.
• Giving orders. Going to the doctor’s and the chemist’s. Dealing with pre-recorded messages.
• Describing physical appearances. Making holiday plans. Saying what you want to do, can do or have to do. Talking about what you know.

Structures covered :

• Perfect tense of regular verbs, some common irregular ones and ‘to go’ (aller).
• The imperative.
• ‘To be sore (avoir mal).
• Want (vouloir), pouvoir (can), devoir (must).
• Verbs ‘to know’ (savoir and connaître).

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