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Introduction to French pronunciation
Present tense of être - to be
Introducing yourself and identifying others: giving name, place of origin and
nationality, saying where you were born.
Countries and nationalities
Days of the week
Months of the year
Simple questions for finding personal information
Yes/no questions.
Greetings
Negatives
Jobs and professions
Possessive adjectives: mon, ma, mes
Family vocab for immediate and extended family.
Conjugation of regular –er, -ir and –re verbs.
How to order drinks and snacks.
Giving details of family and personal possessions.
Present tense of avoir – to have.
Indefinite articles un, une and des.
Numbers from 1 – 60.
Booking a room at a hotel.
Identifying objects and places.
Describing houses: rooms and furniture
Making enquiries.
Spelling names/email addresses.
Definite and indefinite articles (le, la, l’, les; un, une, des)
Pronunciation of the French alphabet.
Having a meal in a restaurant.
How to ask for a table, choose a menu and ask what is available.
Partitive: du, de la, de l ´, des, pas de, plus de.
Je voudrais/Je prendrai…
Asking and giving your age. Saying you are hungry/thirsty, hot/cold.
Expressions with avoir: avoir faim/soif, chaud/froid.
Saying where things are and to whom they belong. Place words. Possessive
with de, du, de la, etc. possessive adjectives: ton, ta, tes, votre, vos.
Places in town. Finding your way around, and making enquiries.
More place words. Pour aller…? Il y a… par ici?
Finding out where people live and work, what they do/have been doing, and
for how long.
Present tense of –er verbs. Depuis.
More activities. Family relationships. Rooms of a house. Making a reservation
at a B&B and leaving an answer phone message.
Present tense of faire. Expressions with faire. More –er verbs. Negative.
Direct object pronouns: le, la, l´, les.
The weather and seasons. Finding out about people´s hobbies. Asking more
precise questions.
More –er verbs. Questions with Qui? Que? Quand? Quel? Comment?
Pourquoi? Frequency adverbs.
Housework and shopping. Telling the time and describing a sequence of
Elementary
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Elementary
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events. Asking for precisely what you want in food shops. Talking about
important days, dates and events.
Quantities and prices. Days and months.
Indirect object pronouns: lui, leur.
A weekend at the seaside. Travelling by train.
Buying tickets. Making enquiries at a tourist office.
Present tense of –re verbs
Pre-intermediate
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Pre-intermediate
stage 2
Describing what people are wearing. Asking for what you want in
clothes and shoe shops. Ordering on internet.
More numbers. More adjectives, colours. Comparative: plus, moins,
Identifying and describing you own possessions and other people´s.
More possessive adjectives.
How to get places. Enquiries about transport and health. Looking
ahead. Present tense of aller and immediate future. Pronoun y.
Finding out more details of people’s employment. Going to the petrol
station.
Present tense of –ir verbs, including venir. Il faut.
Moving house. Furniture and household items.
Saying what you have just done: venir de.
More direct object pronouns: le, la, l’, les.
Giving more information about your daily routine. Problems with
children.
Present tense of reflexive verbs. More adverbs. More pronouns.
How to talk about events in the past.
Perfect tense of regular verbs, some common irregular ones and aller.
Giving orders. Going to the doctor’s and the chemist’s. Dealing with
pre-recorded messages.
The imperative. Avoir mal.
Intermediate
stage 1
Describing your physical appearance. Making holiday plans. Saying what you
want to do: vouloir, pouvoir, devoir. Talking about what you know: savoir
and connaître
Introducing yourself and identifying others. Exchanging personal details.
Revision of present tense; habiter + à + en, etc. Use of depuis + present
tense.
Agreement of adjectives.
Talking about activities in the past. Replying to invitations and other formal
letters.
Revision of the perfect tense with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs;
also some verbs conjugated with être.
Agreement of preceding direct object. Il y a meaning ‘ago’.
Giving details of an area with which you are familiar.
Discussing location of flats and houses, and the accommodation offered.
Being eco-friendly at home.
Use of the relative pronouns qui, que and dont. more adjectives.
Ordering meals, stating preferences and making complaints. Discussing
different types of food and drink.
Interrogative pronouns (lequel/laquelle? etc.)
Demonstrative pronouns (celui/celle, etc.)
Intermediate
At the supermarket, the post office and the bank.
stage 2
Upper Intermediate
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Upper Intermediate
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Asking for what you want, making transactions, expressing your
opinion on services offered.
The perfect tense with être.
Describing a holiday. Making enquiries about facilities available.
Writing a letter to a campsite.
More perfect tenses with être. Use of on meaning ‘we’.
Discussing TV programmes. Making plans to go out. Relating personal
experiences in the past.
Perfect tense of reflexive verbs.
Taking about work. Answering advertisements and applying for jobs.
Planning the future and making simple comparisons. Enquiring about
places of interest.
The future tense. Comparatives.
Understanding weather bulletins. Finding your way round a DIY
website.
More future tense. The present participle.
The world of business. Making phone calls and discussing conditions of
work.
Dealing with safety issues.
Descriptions and regular activities in the past.
Discussing means of transport.
The imperfect tense. Reported speech.
Making more comparisons. Stating your own preferences and giving
your opinion. The comparative and superlative. Possessive pronouns
(le mien/ la mienne, etc.).
Reporting accidents and dealing with different problems.
The perfect and imperfect tenses contrasted.
Coping with difficulties and accommodation.
Narrating what has happened.
Giving the pros and cons of different forms of transport.
More perfect and imperfect tenses.
The passive voice.
Saying what you could and would like to do.
The conditional tense and some uses of the subjunctive.
Talking about cars. Dealing with medical problems.
The pluperfect and the conditional perfect tenses.
Discussing French history and culture.
Sampling French literature.
The past historic tense. More on the passive voice.