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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.

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