Languages & Certifications

Module 1:

Topics

• Greetings in French
• Understand days of the week and months of the year.
• Count (numbers)
• Spell words
• Introduce yourself (give your age, your job, talk about your family, say where you are from, where you live, say the languages you speak)
• Ask questions
• Learn basic vocabulary

Grammar

• Auxiliary verbs (to be/to have)
• Genders (masculine/feminine)
• Deinite and indeinite articles
• Plural form
• Possessive adjectives (my, your, his/her…)
• Regular verbs at the present tense (-er verbs)

Module 2:

Topics

• Understand a menu/Order at a restaurant
• Ask questions
• Understand and give directions
• Speak about the weather
• Say the time
• Suggest an outing
• Buy in shops

Grammar

• Plural of nouns
• “on” pronoun
• Negation
• Prepositions of location (in, on, next to, in front of…)
• Use « Quel », « Est-ce que » and « Qu’est-ce que » in a question
• Demonstrative adjectives (this, that)

Module 3:

Topics

• Do your grocery shopping
• Indicate a quantity
• Speak about the future
• Make a positive/negative comment
• Describe someone

Grammar

• Partitive articles
• Answering a negative question
• Futur Proche (future tense)
• Relexive verbs (se lever…)
• Imperative Form

Module 4:

Topics

• Speak about the past
• Talk about a duration
• Talk about your studies
• Give advice, order

Grammar

• Passé Composé (past tense)
• Présent Continu (Present continuous)
• Direct pronouns
• Time markers

Module 1:

Topics

• Speak about what sport you enjoy doing
• Speak about the future
• Give advice
• Speak about your goals
• Express a decision

Grammar

• Revisions of A1 Curriculum
• Futur Simple (Future tense)
• Hypothesis in the future
• The negative imperative
• Express a cause/reason and a purpose

Module 2:

Topics

• Express frequency
• Describe your home
• Understand an ad for a lat
• Give directions
• Make a comparison
• Explain a choice

Grammar

• Present tense
• The preposition “Depuis”
• Relative pronouns (qui/que)
• Comparative/Superlative

Module 2:

Topics

• Express frequency
• Describe your home
• Understand an ad for a lat
• Give directions
• Make a comparison
• Explain a choice

Grammar

• Present tense
• The preposition “Depuis”
• Relative pronouns (qui/que)
• Comparative/Superlative

Module 3:

Topics

• Speak about the past
• Make a description
• Indicate a chronology
• Understand a biography
• Speak about a life-changing event
• Explain a problem/give solutions

Grammar

• Le Passé composé and l’Imparfait (past tenses)
• « Il y a » / « Pendant »
• Chronology
• Cause/Reason
• Consequence

Module 4:

Topics

• Give an opinion
• How to avoid repetitions
• Give advice
• Express a certitude
• Express wishes

Grammar

• Plural of -al words
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Adverbs of manner
• Imperative+Direct and indirect pronouns
• Subjunctive form
• Conditional
• Irregular verbs

Module 5:

Topics

• Describe a place
• Talk about citizenship
• Organize a speech
• Ask questions about an object
• Describe material

Grammar

• Y pronoun
• Où Relative pronoun
• Indeinite adjectives (tout/toute/chaque/quelques)
• Opposition/Concession
• Interrogative pronoun « lequel »
• Demonstrative pronouns (celui-ci/celui-là…)

Module 6:

Topics

• Understand a written/oral advertisement
• Give your opinion
• Understand a lealet
• Make a demand

Grammar

• Gerundive form
• En pronoun
• Indicative/Subjonctive
• Negation
• Prepositions of localisation

Topics & Vocabulary

• Talking about past experiences and encounters
• Expressing aims and causes – comme, puisque and parce que
• Providing a detailed description
• Describing personal motives
• Justifying a choice
• Talking about travels
• Making suggestions
• Giving your opinion
• Hypothesising
• Talking about countries and regions
• Describing a ictional character
• Describing feelings and emotions
• Talking of hopes and aspirations
• Expressing regrets
• Expressing, promoting and justifying opinions
• Debating: politics, recycling, the environment, new technologies, social issues, consumerism
• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing obligation, possibilities and restrictions
• Writing a variety of texts (text messages, emails, letters etc.)
• Talking about movies (storyline and characters)

Grammar

• Review of the past and future tenses
• Plus-que-parfait (Past perfect)
• Agreement of the past participle with avoir (passé composé tense)
• Direct pronouns (le, la, les)
• Conditional tense
• Hypothesis : si + imparfait
• Prepositions with countries and regions
• Past conditional
• Adverbs in ‘-ment’
• Linking words
• Subjunctive
• Verbs to express opinion – je crois que, je pense que etc.
• Impersonal structures – il faut que etc.
• Gerund : ‘-ant’
• Direct vs indirect pronouns
• Structures with verbs expressing feelings – je regretted que/ je regretted de etc.
• Pronouns order
• Relative pronouns – ce qui, ce que, ce don’t
• Word order : the adjective
• Style and register: formal/ informal

Cultural Content

• French regions
• French people and their holidays
• Popular French tourist sites
• The French artistic scene
• Political life in France
• Environmental issues
• New technologies
• Social causes
• French cinema (ilms, directors and actors)

Skills Work

• Speaking/active practice
• Listening Practice
• New vocabulary
• Pronunciation
• Speaking/debating
• Producing various styles of written French

Topics

• Summarising and reporting information
• Presentations – structures and phrases
• Talking about the professional world
• Details of business etiquette
• Inequalities at work
• Expressing feelings and ideas
• The media
• Explaining the meaning of a word
• Playing with words – poetry, proverbs, word-play, word creation, metaphors, stylized writing
• Language register – colloquial idioms
• Deining words, concepts, and objects
• French slang
• Reporting uncertain information
• Origin of some French words
• Advertising and slogans
• Colloquial expressions
• French sayings
• Advising according to different registers
• Genuine spoken French
• Expressing feelings and sensations
• Playing with the language
• French literature
• Writing a text message
• Describing a picture in details
• Presenting a document

Grammar

• Reported speech – structures and tense agreement
• Collective nouns agreement – une majorité de, la plupart de etc
• Sufixes
• Passive tense
• Pronoun ‘en’
• Linking words
• Nominalisation
• Language register
• Complex relative pronouns – avec lequel, sur lequel etc
• Past and present conditional
• C’est, ce sont…qui/que
• Nominal sentences
• Adverbs
• Exlamation – ‘Comme c’est grand !’
• Negative sentences
• Word order: adjectives
• Subjunctive
• Past participle agreement
• Punctuation
• Pour vs par
• Imperative
• Prepositions of place

Cultural Content

• Equality at work
• The French Educational system
• French people and the media
• Songs in French
• Francophonie
• French poetry
• Slam
• Origin of some French words
• The media
• Advertising
• French music
• Comic books
• French authors and literature
• French poetry
• History of the French language/different varieties of French

Skills Work

• Speaking/debating
• Listening
• Understanding different accents
• Producing various styles of written and spoken French

Topics & Vocabulary

• Making a presentation
• Putting forward arguments
• Cause/consequence
• Expressing opinions and feelings
• Hypothesising
• Reporting a message
• Expressing nuance
• Talking about memories
• Aesthetics
• Current events
• Social issues

Grammar

• Presentations: words and structures
• Subjunctive: present, imperfect, and past perfect
• Nominalisation
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Past participle vs gerund
• Si + tenses
• Conditional: present and past
• Past perfect
• Adjectives
• Structures for reported speech

Cultural Content

• The French education system
• French ine arts
• French music
• French cinema
• French literature
• French history
• Doing business in French

Skills Work

• Lots of speaking/debating
• Lots of listening
• Understanding different accents
• Producing various styles of written and spoken French

Topics

• Expressing thoughts and feelings
• Subjectivity vs objectivity
• Structuring your speech
• Language registers
• Political and social issues
• Stereotypes
• Regional differences
• History
• Current events

Grammar

• Subjunctive
• ‘Ne’ explétif
• Nominalisation
• Linking words
• Complex use of grammar to contribute to a debate

Cultural Content

• French institutions
• French values and symbols
• Francophonie
• French philosophy
• The media in France
• French politics
• French arts
• French gastronomy
• French body language

Skills Work

• Lots of speaking/debating
• Lots of listening
• Understanding different accents
• Producing various styles of written and spoken French

• Business Communication
• Preparation for the Interview
• Presentation Skills

• Business Communication
• Preparation for the Interview
• Presentation Skills