French Upper Advanced 3 (B2.3) — Term 4, 2026
Course is not currently scheduled for this term.
New classes are added throughout the year as groups move through levels and demand increase. Contact us to register your interest or view currently available courses.
Continue developing your French at B2 level in a structured, supportive course focused on more sustained and precise communication.
You’ll explore beauty standards, discrimination and changing attitudes towards the body while learning to discuss future developments, describe consequences and connect complex ideas more effectively.
Course: French Upper Advanced 3
Level: Upper Advanced / B2.3
Format: Small-group class
Course length: 10 weeks
Lesson length: 90 minutes per week
Textbook: Défi actuel 4
Best for: Students who have completed French Upper Advanced 2 or already understand its main content
What You’ll Cover
- revision and consolidation of French Upper Advanced 2
- discussing the body and changing beauty standards
- exploring appearance-based discrimination
- examining the influence of media and social expectations
- discussing cosmetic procedures and technological developments
- exploring disability, accessibility and inclusion
- discussing sport, physical performance and the body
- examining workplace expectations and discrimination
- making predictions about future developments
- forming and using the future tense
- forming and using the future perfect
- expressing relationships between future events
- using passive structures
- using restrictive and negative forms
- connecting and organising complex ideas
- expressing nuanced opinions about social change
- responding more spontaneously to contrasting viewpoints
Is This the Right Level?
This course is designed for students continuing directly from French Upper Advanced 2.
You should already be comfortable discussing food systems, responsible consumption and sustainability, expressing concession and opposition and developing and defending opinions in extended conversation.
Students with previous French experience can review the full French Course Level Structure or contact ILB for help choosing the right class.
Course Book
The required course book is Défi actuel 4 and is purchased separately.
Students continuing from French Upper Advanced 2 will normally already have this textbook. The same textbook is used throughout the French B2 Upper Advanced sequence.
French Upper Advanced 3 covers Unit 3, En chair et en os, of Défi actuel 4.