Intermediate:

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.

Term 2 – Unit 4- 6

  • Ordering meals, stating preferences and making complaints. Discussing different types of food and drink.
  • At the supermarket, the post office and the bank.
  • Asking for what you want, making transactions, expressing your opinion on services offered.
  • Describing a holiday. Making enquiries about facilities available. Writing a letter/email to a campsite.

Structures covered:

  • Interrogative pronouns (lequel, laquelle? etc).
  • Demonstrative pronouns (celui, celle, etc).
  • The past tense (perfect tense) with être. Use of on meaning we.

Term 3 – Unit 7-9

  • Discussing TV programmes. Making plans to go out. Relating personal experiences in the past.
  • Talking about work. Answering advertisements and applying for jobs.
  • Planning the future and making simple comparisons. Enquiring about places of interest.

Structures covered:

  • Perfect tense of reflexive verbs.
  • The future tense.
  • Comparatives.

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.

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.

Term 2 – Unit 13 – 15

  • Stating your own preferences and giving your opinion.
  • Reporting accidents and dealing with different problems.
  • Coping with difficulties over accommodation. Narrating what happened. Giving the pros and cons of different forms of transport.

Structures covered :

  • The comparative and superlative.
  • Possessive pronouns ( “le mien, la mienne”, etc).
  • The perfect and imperfect tenses contrasted.
  • The passive voice.

Term 3 – Unit 16 – 18

  • Saying what you could and would like to do.
  • Talking about cars/travelling. Dealing with medical problems.
  • Discussing French history and culture. Sampling French literature.

Structures covered :

  • The conditional tense and some use of the subjunctive.
  • The pluperfect and the conditional perfect tenses.
  • The past historic tense.
  • More on the passive voice.

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