Level 2
Elementary French
Basic previous knowledge of French (similar to the beginner level).
Objectives
- To build your confidence in speaking French by practising simple sentences, talking about everyday topics, and gradually expressing your ideas more naturally and at a quicker pace.
- To develop your vocabulary and learn useful everyday expressions, helping you to understand and use basic French in real-life situations.
- To consolidate the present, past, and future tenses.
- To explore French culture and simple current topics, and to share your own stories or experiences in a supportive and encouraging environment.
Topics we may explore
This is a flexible outline and will be adjusted to meet your needs and interests.
- Asking for what you want in shops, clothes and shoe shops.
- Identifying and describing your own possessions and other people's.
- How to get to places. Enquiries about transport and health. Looking ahead.
- 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.
- How to talk about events in the past.
- Giving orders. Going to the doctor's and the chemist's. Dealing with pre-recorded messages.
- Making holiday plans. Saying what you want to do, can do or have to do. Talking about what you know.
- Discussing the news and French culture.
Grammatical structures covered
Elementary Level 1
- More numbers.
- Revisions of question words.
- More adjectives.
- Colours, comparatives: more, less.
- More possessive adjectives.
- Present tense revisions of the 3 groups, to go and immediate future.
- Direct pronouns: le, la, l', les, me, te, nous, vous.
Elementary Level 2
- Present tense consolidation.
- Il faut (it's necessary…).
- Pronouns revisions and indirect pronouns: lui, leur.
- Present tense of reflexive verbs.
- Introduction to the perfect tense (passé composé).
Elementary Level 3
- Revision and consolidation of the perfect tense.
- The imperative.
- Want (vouloir), pouvoir (can), devoir (must).
- Verbs to know (savoir and connaître).
- The future tenses.
Courses at this level
Elementary 1Wednesday
(New) Elementary 1 — Wednesday
19:30–20:45 · 14 Jan – 1 Apr 2026
Builds confidence in conversational French — talking about everyday topics, expanding vocabulary, and starting to use the past and future tenses.
£180
per 12 week term
Elementary 2Monday
Elementary 2 — Monday
19:30–20:45 · 12 Jan – 30 Mar 2026
Consolidates the perfect tense, introduces the imperative and modal verbs (vouloir, pouvoir, devoir), and explores the future tense.
£180
per 12 week term
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