Course starts: 25 Sept 2023
The weekly course schedule below is intended to give an overview of the main topic(s) likely to be covered in each session. Please note that these may sometimes change at the tutor’s discretion to reflect the interests of course participants.
Week 1: Introductions. Saying who we are and what we do. Talking about our language learning experiences. Talking about our hobbies and tastes.
Week 2: Biographies. Discovering famous French people and establishing chronologies using the past tense.
Week 3: Receiving, accepting and refusing social invitations. Suggesting an outing and discussing cultural activities.
Week 4: Recounting memories and narrating past events using the imperfect tense.
Week 5: Travels and sight-seeing. Talking about holiday experiences. Describing the weather.
Week 6: Choosing and describing different types of accommodation. Talking about interiors.
Week 7: Comparing lifestyles, places and living conditions. Discovering two French-speaking cities: Paris and Montreal.
Week 8: Discussing innovations and professions in the future. Talking about changes in the workplace and in daily life.
Week 9: Expressing opinions about the Internet and social media. Expressing opinions about means of communication and new technologies we use.
Week 10: French celebrations and traditions. Discussing one's plans for the festive season.
Key grammar points:
- Perfect tense + agreement
- Time structures depuis, il y a, pendant
- Imperfect tense
- Relative pronouns qui, que, où
- Comparatives
- The future tense
Key functions:
- Narrating past events and experiences
- Understanding short texts, articles and ads
- Describing and comparing locations
- Presenting one's accommodation
- Writing texts or short emails to invite, accept or refuse an invitation