Learn French: Beginner course

About the course 

Learn French for travel, working abroad or just for fun with our French Beginners weekend class. You will cover basic topics, useful for everyday conversation, including talking about yourself and your profession and making hotel or dinner reservations. You will be introduced to various language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing skills with group exercises and weekly homework) and how to approach some authentic materials. Some transferable skills will also be covered. 

This course will give you a solid understanding of beginners French, working towards CEFR A1/2 of the Common European Framework Reference of languages, when it is combined with the beyond French 1.2 beginner course. 

Also, if you wanted to join the elective French 1 modules but could not due to the limited seats, this is a good chance for you to come – and here you do not need to worry about tests! Follow steps to be able to do the final assignment at the end! Plus, watch some clips, and learn together, what fun will it be! 

Format  

This course consists of 12 lessons. Each lesson includes a lecture, keywords, a sample audio conversation, a quiz, and supplementary materials (homework, worksheet and answer keys).  

Do I have to do the homework? 

We strongly recommend completing all the worksheets along with the quizzes for each section. Research has shown that doing homework after learning a concept will help the student learn the material quicker.

Learning objectives 

What will I get out of this course?

On successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

• Exchange simple greetings, introduce yourself
• Identify your personal documents
• Give personal information about family, job or studies
• Use numbers 1-100, express dates, time, prices
• Talk about the weather 
• Order meal at a restaurant and talk to people you’ve just met
• Arrange time and place to meet
• Found your way around in the city

Expected Learning Outcomes 

• To help develop a positive attitude towards language learning.
• To have successful experience in language learning.
• To encourage students to work productively and cooperatively.
• To give students control over their own learning.
  
  

Course content 

• Lesson 1: Greetings and introductions.

• Lesson 2: Alphabet, writing French words, (punctuation), reading French words. 

• Lesson 3: Politeness, (articles, masculine/feminine), listening French words. 

• Lesson 4: Cultures, introductions, La France. 

• Lesson 5: Personal information, age, occupation, family, (ETRE & AVOIR verbs). 

• Lesson 6: introductions: dates, languages, nationalities, place of living. (prepositions) 

• Lesson 7: Asking questions about identities, contact details, (possessives) 

• Lesson 8: Get to know someone, living in Nantes 

• Lesson 9: Order at the restaurant. (PRENDRE Verb, articles) 

• Lesson 10: Describing cities. Paris. (plural forms, FAIRE verb, ON) 

• Lesson 11: Suggest someone to go out, time & location. (ALLER&VENIR verbs, negation) 

• Lesson 12: At the restaurant. Welcome to Paris. 

PDF files of textbooks, along with exercises (also PDF files) will be provided, and students are strongly recommended to do homework as the teacher instructs. Visual materials will also be provided. At the end of the course, students have to present on a topic (3-5 mins) in French as a final assignment.