WHAT DO WE COVER IN EACH LEVEL?
French A1 Overview
(Levels 1-5) - Textbook: Entre Nous 1 // Version Originale 1 (transitioning towards Entre Nous 1 for all levels)- Greetings
- Asking basic questions to the teacher and classmates
- Alphabet & key sounds’ pronunciation
- Introducing yourself and others (name, age, nationality…)
- Describing people and things (verb “être”)
- Masculine and feminine, singular and plural of adjectives and nouns
- Expressing possession and asking for things (verb “avoir”)
- Numbers 0-100
- Inquire about price
- Ordering at the bar/café
- Vocabulary for expressing tastes and interests (aimer/détester)
- Present tense of verbs ending “-er” (travailler)
- Revision of level 1
- Ask questions(quel/quelle, est-ce que, qu’est-ce que?)
- Possessive adjectives
- Negative sentences
- Describe your city or town (“il y a/ il n’y a pas de…”)
- Locating sites, establishments and services of a town
- Prepositions of places
- “On” pronoun
- Ask for directions
- Vocabulary of transportation
- Verb “aller” (to go)
- Revision of previous levels
- Describing people close to you (family, best friends,…)
- Some irregular verbs in the present tense like “prendre” (to take), “faire” (to do), “écrire” (to write), “venir” (to come), “sortir” (to go out)
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Expressing agreement and disagreement
- Talking about interests and hobbies
- Talking about habits and routines
- Expressing time
- Revision of previous levels: self introduction, regular and irregular verbs in the present tense, how to say the time in French
- How to ask questions
- Going to the cinema, going out, inviting a friend
- Introduction to Reflexive Verbs
- Introduction of the past tense: passé composé with AVOIR and with ETRE
- Negative sentences
- Talking about our work, our skills
- Talking about the associative sector
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Talking about the weather
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Vocabulary about fashion and clothing
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Colours, sizes and materials
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Buying or selling a product
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Talking about your food preferences
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In a restaurant: ordering and taking orders
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Expressing quantity (partitives)
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Le futur proche: aller + infinitive
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The verbs “savoir”, “pouvoir” and “devoir”
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The direct object pronouns
French A2 Overview
(Intermediate 1-5) - Textbook: Entre Nous 2- Revision of the past tense (passé composé)
- Giving your opinion
- Expressing emotions and difficulties
- Talking about school experiences
- Going to school in France
- Indirect pronouns
- Vocabulary related to housing and furniture
- Describing your house
- Renting a place in France
- Lifestyle
- Comparison (superiority, inferiority, equality)
- Superlative
- Y pronoun
- Talking about past events, past habits
- Introduction of the “Imparfait” Tense
- Compare past and present
- Time markers
- Expressing continuity and discontinuity
- Indefinite adjectives and indefinite pronouns
- Using Imparfait and Passé Composé together
- Important events and characters of France
- French history and culture
- Using Imparfait and Passé Composé together – revision
- Telling an anecdote and reacting to an anecdote
- Relative pronouns: qui, que, où
- Talking about sport
- Imperative tense
- Talking about sport – revision
- Imperative tense – revision
- Talking about health: vocabulary of body parts, describing pain and symptoms
- Future tense
- Temporal markers of the future tense
- Expressing hypothesis – the “if- clause” (“Si”)
- Expressing different degrees of certainty
- Talking about ecology and our consumption
- Adjectives
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Expressing goals
- Express advice, what is forbidden, what is mandatory
- Politeness, etiquette
- Ask for a favour, accept or refuse an invitation
- Introduction of the conditional tense
- Express feelings
- Si clause, express hypotheses
- Talking about your job
- Express wish
- Express opposition
- Adverbs
French B1 Overview
(Advanced 1-5) - Textbook: Entre Nous 3- Topic 1 : Tourism, going abroad, traveling
- Direct Object pronouns (COD) – review
- Possessive pronouns
- Plus-que-parfait – intro
- Agreement of the past participle with AVOIR
- Topic 2 : Music
- Express emotions
- Informal French, argot
- Topic : Dreams, projects, fears, obstacles
- Express emotions – review
- Gérondif et present participle
- Infinitif passé
- Express regrets
- Si clause with plus-que-parfait and past conditional
- Topic 1 : beliefs, superstitions
- Review of past conditional
- Adverbs
- Topic 2 : social media, appearances and reality
- review of relative pronouns QUI, QUE, OU
- Relative pronouns CE QUE and CE QUI
- Express opinion
- Subjunctive – introduction (with opinions and “il faut que”)
- Topic : consumption, responsible consumption, scams
- Review of passé composé and imparfait
- Subjunctive – review
- Impersonal structures (il faut, il pleut…)
- Express discontent, complain
- Direct Object pronouns (COD) and agreement of the past participle – review
- Indirect Object pronouns (COI)
- COD and COI
- Y pronoun – review
- EN pronoun – introduction
- Structure a sentence with 2 pronouns
- Topic : cinema
- Express emotions and reactions
- Talk about movies
- Review of past tenses (passé composé, imparfait, plus que parfait)
- Review of subjunctive : when to use indicative, when to use subjunctive
- Express emotions
- Topic : cinema (continuation)
- Adjectives : place in a sentence, exceptions, vocabulary
- Relative pronouns QUI, QUE and OU – review
- Relative pronoun DONT – introduction
- General review of Adv.6
- Topic : education, school, alternative education, arts at school
- Reported speech – introduction : direct and indirect speech (change of tense when the introductory verb is in the past)
- Read and analyse a graph
- Topic : information, the media, means of communication, fake news
- Nominalisation
- Passive voice
- Verb “se faire”
- How to communicate uncertain informations
- Review of the two conditional tenses (present and past)
- Express cause and consequence
- Pronoun EN – review
- Topic : social movements
French B2.2 Overview
(Upped Advanced 1-5) - Textbook: Entre Nous 4- Topic: health and food
- The future of food
- Cooking
- Ethics and consumption
- Nominalisation – revision
- Indirect speech – revision
- Composed relative pronouns
- Topic: youth, adulthood, old age, the generation gap
- Relative pronouns (simple and composed) – revision
- Comparison (progression and intensity)
- Talking about your family
- Expressing concession
- Using sentence connectors
- Topic: discrimination
- Sentence connectors
- Futur simple – revision
- Future perfect (futur antérieur) – introduction
- Passive voice – revision
- “Se faire”, “se laisser” – verbs with passive meaning
- Negative and restrictive structures
- Topic: love and friendship
- Expressing feelings
- Expressing regrets
- Agreement of the past participle
- Expressing purpose
- Talking about ecology and means to help the planet
- Impersonal expressions
- Indefinite pronouns
- Express cause
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Discussing associations and engagement
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Prefixes
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Composed words
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Registers of language: Argot et français familier
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Discussing art: contemporary art, all the forms of artistic expression
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Presenting a piece of art or a museum or an artist
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Express subjectivity
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Past subjunctive
- Talking about immigration
- Oral presentations
- Expressing consequence and intensity (revision and development)
- Le passé simple
