French Language (Level 1 to 4)

French Language (Level 1-4)

How is the course structured?

The French Language course is divided into four levels:

French Level 1

Level 1 French will teach you an extensive vocabulary and basic grammar in 10-12 hours, enough to communicate effectively in a large number of situations you will meet abroad. It is ideal for Travel, Business or Schoolwork and for all ages.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Animals
• Section 2: Hotel, Home, Colours
• Section 3: Clothes, Family
• Section 4: More useful words, Time words
• Section 5: In the Restaurant, Numbers, Time
• Section 6: Food & Drink
• Section 7: The Workplace, Shopping
• Section 8: Travel
• Section 9: Leisure Activity
• Section 10: The Doctor, Emergency, other useful words
• Glossary

Main Grammar Points:

• Genders
• “IS”
• Adjective agreements and endings
• Definite article
• Personal pronouns
• Conjunctions
• Indefinite article
• Plurals
• Asking questions
• Negatives
• Prepositions
• Telling the time
• “Was and Were”
• Asking Questions 2
• Personal pronouns and verbs
• Prepositions
• Days of the week
• Adverbs
• My, His, etc
• Possessives
• “Some”
• My, Your, etc

French Level 2

The Level 2 course will extend your vocabulary by about 100% beyond Level 1, and significantly increases the level of grammar taught for schoolwork, business, or travel. The course has interactive quizzes throughout each section to strengthen French retention. Level 2 is also an ideal revision course for anyone with a basic knowledge of French who wants to brush up their knowledge quickly.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Food, Family and Sailing
• Section 2: Town and Travelling
• Section 3: Travelling and Food
• Section 4: Weather and In the Garden
• Section 5: Tools and In the House
• Section 6: Bits & Pieces and Family
• Section 7: Miscellaneous Useful Words, Seasons
• Section 8: Car Parts, Trades and Professions
• Section 9: Useful Words, Parts of the Body, Travelling
• Section 10: Miscellaneous Words, Camping
• Section 11: Useful Phrases
• Glossary

Main Grammar Points:

• Asking or answering someone
• Possessives 2
• Comparatives
• I am going to.
• Him, her, it, etc
• This and That
• I have to
• Past tense
• I, you, he, she etc with verbs
• I am eating
• Useful phrases based on what has been learned

French Level 3

Level 3 French teaches a further extended vocabulary and more complex grammar.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Animals, Flying
• Section 2: Clothes, etc., Biggest, As Big As
• Section 3: In the Country, Have Liked
• Section 4: Flowers, Better, Best, Verbs
• Section 5: Irregular Verbs, The Theatre
• Section 6: Business, Questions
• Section 7: Revision
• Section 8: The House, Food, Adjectives
• Section 9: Household Goods, Will, Shall
• Section 10: Parts of the Body, Using “No”
• Section 11: In the House, There and Some
• Glossary

Main Grammar Points:

• You, formal and informal
• Infinitives
• “Going to”
• “Must”
• “Can”
• My, Your etc
• Superlatives
• “Best, worst”
• “To Have ”
• Adverbs
• Irregular verbs
• Questions 3
• Past with negatives
• Questions 3
• “By”
• Negatives with questions
• Before, along
• Questions 4
• Other, some, something, all
• More irregular verbs
• “To Come, want, ,do, see, be, go, know”
• Adjectives before nouns
• To me, to you etc
• Future
• Verbs taking “I am” in the past
• I eat x (general) v. I eat some x
• About
• There and some

French Level 4

By the time you have completed level 4 you will be able to read and understand the average newspaper article, write letters in French, and be able to communicate effectively in a very large number of situations you will meet in France.

You will feel confident that you can go on to be fluent in French. Level 1-4 courses are ideal for anyone travelling for pleasure or business, for anyone wanting to live in France, and for schoolwork, since all the major grammar points for GCSE are also covered in the courses.

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Numbers: One to a Thousand
• Section 2: By the Seaside, Past Tense
• Section 3: Revision, Pronouns, Verbs
• Section 4: Sports, Prepositions, Music, Feelings
• Section 5: The Car, “I Would”, Pronouns
• Section 6: Animals, “This” and “That”
• Section 7: I Had…, Useful Words
• Section 8: Verbs, More Useful Words
• Section 9: Adjectives, Nouns, Writing Letters
• Section 10: Revision
• Section 11: Verbs, Sensible Sentences
• Glossary

Main Grammar Points:

• Numbers to 1000
• First, second etc
• Past tense patterns
• “In”
• “For”
• “So and when”
• “Since”
• “Never, Nothing, nobody”
• “Would and should”
• Emphasis
• “Mine, yours etc”
• “This and That”
• I had
• “Eating, going, doing”
• Commands
• “Myself, yourself, etc”
• “Here is, there are”
• “Which, who, whom”
• Letter writing