FRENCH ELEMENTARY (2): SYLLABUS

The focus for this session will be on basic vocabulary revision to increase awareness of key elements of everyday life and enable you to deal with most everyday situations. My objective is that you revise essential notions and progressively build on them. We will use various techniques, including audio files on specific issues, as well as the internet for extra homework outside the classroom.

As far as grammar is concerned, the emphasis is going to be on the present and the past, including how to use both tenses appropriately. Interactive play/discussion will help you learn hopefully effortlessly, so that you develop a more spontaneous, natural use of more complex structures.


Week 1-2
Your life : Leisure : Simple present, questions, negatives
Your life : Jobs : Descriptions
Your life : Relationships : friends and family : Comparative, past tenses

Week 3
Health : The body : sports, describing symptoms : Past tenses, descriptions

Week 4
Money : Banks, shops, presents : Prepositions, more descriptions, some past

Week 5
Restaurant : Food, ordering food, complaining, getting what you want : Conditional

Week 6
Restaurant : Good manners, small talk

Week 7
The city : Shops : Directions

Week 8
The city : Clothes : Size, numbers

Week 9
Transports : Ordering a ticket, knowing where you are, getting where you want to be, timetables : Times, dates, numbers

Week 10
Problems : Lost or stolen documents, police matters : Past, complaining

Week 11
A bit of culture… : French history : the important dates & people! : General revision

Week 12
Discovering French regions: important monuments, mountains and rivers : General revision