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| Standard French course teaching content |
| PUBLIC |
• General |
| OBJECTIVES |
• Acquiring the fundamentals
of French grammar
• Developing pratical communication skills in speaking and writing |
| LEVEL |
• Beginner to Avanced |
| PROGRAM |
• Grammar program according
to the group level
• Oral comprehension and expression
• Written comprehension and expression |
| METHODOLOGY |
| • Use of various teaching
aids supporting our interactive
method: |
• Specialized
handbooks and material
created by our teaching
staff
• Authentic documents as well as entirely made up material (visual, audio,
or written material) |
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• Creating real life
situations/ Role playing
• Didactic activities in speaking and writing |
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| ORGANIZATION |
• 12 persons in a group (maximum)
• Time: 15 hours a week ie 20 lessons (3 hours = 4 lessons a day) |
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TEACHING CONTENT |
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Note: The standard courses programs
hereafter are samples programs for three
weeks at the ELEMENTARY, INTERMEDIATE and
AVANCED levels. They can be modified according
to teaching needs (group size, lengh of stay,
themes, levels...) |
Teaching
for elementary level (beginners) |
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GRAMMAR PROGRAM |
ORAL COMPREHENSION
AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN EXPRESSION |
week 1 |
• Evaluation Test
• ER verbs
• Regular adjectives
• Definite/indefinite articles
• IL Y A
• The IR and DRE verbs
• Some reflexive verbs
• Prepositions
• AVOIR / ÊTRE (expressing a state of being) |
• Introducing oneself / Introducing
others
• Greeting / taking leave / welcoming
• Understanding simple informations
• Speaking of oneself
• Describing people, objects, places
• Expressing likes / dislikes
• Situating / Locating
• Expressing a mood / a sensation/thanking
• Didactic activities in groups or pairs
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• Filling out a simple form
• Writing a simple postcard
• Telling a story from a comic strip or story board
• Games for writing
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week 2 |
• Common irregular verbs "Faire
/ prendre / aller / venir / pouvoir
/ vouloir"
• Negative and interrogative form
• Stressed pronouns
• Futur tense with « ALLER »
• « Je voudrais » (I would like)
• Verbs + infinitive form
• Passé composé (AVOIR et etre)
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• Asking / answering politely
• Inviting
• Asking for permission
• Apologizing
• Identifying characters
• Speaking about one’s schedule
• Making plans
• Speaking about one’s duties, occupations and activities
• Ordering
• Narrating past events
• Expressing capacity
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• Small invitation letter
• Accepting /declining an offer
• A shopping list
• Reading a menu, a bill
• Simple messages
• Creating surveys / polls or interviews
• Structural exercises |
week 3 |
• Passé composé with
AVOIR/ ÊTRE (simple past)
• Direct object pronouns (LE-LA-LES-L’)
• Introduction to Indirect object pronouns (LUI / LEUR) |
• Telling events
• Refering to people or objects
• Qualifying and defining
• Expressing nuances
• Complaining / Making reproach
• Didactic activities in groups or pairs
• Use of a French song to stress a grammar point
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• Writing a simple story based
upon a visual support
• Newspaper adverts, classified ads: making a simple ad, answering a classified
ad
• Advice column
• Structural exercises |
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Teaching for intemediate level |
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GRAMMAR PROGRAM |
ORAL COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN EXPRESSION |
week 1 |
• Evaluation Test
• ER verbs
• Regular adjectives
• Definite/indefinite articles
• IL Y A
• The IR and DRE verbs
• Some reflexive verbs
• Prepositions
• AVOIR / ÊTRE (expressing a state of being)
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• Introducing oneself / Introducing
others
• Expressing likes / dislikes
• Speaking about oneself / occupation
• Making plans
• Describing people, things, places
• Proposing / offering
• Asking / accepting / declining
• Questioning / answering
• Didactic activities in groups or pairs |
• Filling out a form
• Writing a postcard
• Telling a story from a comic strip on pictures
• Introductory letter to one's host family in France
• Structural exercises |
week 2 |
• Imperfect past tense
• Use of imperfect / simple past passé composé
• Stressed pronouns
• Relatives pronouns (QUI - QUE - OÙ)
• Expressing time and duration |
• Narrating events
• Asking for /giving out information
• Advising / commanding
• Inviting
• Defining
• Expressing a wish / refusing
• Speaking about one's obligations |
• Telling the life story of
a character
• Writing / responding to a classified ad
• Completing the beginning of a story, or filling the blanks
• Invitation or declining letter
• Structural exercises |
week 3 |
• Simple future
• Conditional
• Adjectives / adverbs
• Comparative and superlative |
• Expressing future events
• Hypothesis
• Expressing consequence of actions
• Asking very politely
• Suggesting
• Comparing |
• Writing simple press articles
• Letter of complaint
• Common correspondence (letters to friends)
• Occasional correspondence (congratulations, wishes , advice, thanks)
• Structural exercises |
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Teaching for advanced level |
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GRAMMAR PROGRAM |
ORAL COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION |
WRITTEN EXPRESSION |
week 1 |
• Evaluation Test
• Past tenses (Le passé composé): Imperfect past tense, Pluperfect
• Conditional as future of the past
• Sequense of tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Introduction to subjunctive |
• Narrating past events
• Identifying people / things
• Expressing time / duration
• Telling an event / a story based on an audio or a visual document
• Expressing likes / dislikes
• Situating / Locating
• Expressing a mood / a sensation / thanking (Ex: TV news program) |
• Creating a story with excerpts
from a literary piece, a film or documentary
• Summing up a press article
• Creating magazine adverts for a newly marketed product (image + text +
slogan) |
week 2 |
• The imperative
• Subjonctive: after conjunction, after specific verbs
• Relative pronouns QUI - QUE - DONT - OU - LEQUEL - DUQUEL |
• Advising
• Argumenting / debating
• Giving an opinion
• Nuancing one's thoughts
• Defining
• Giving orders
• Comparing
• Speaking about one’s duties, occupations and activities
• Ordering
• Narrating past events
• Expressing capacity |
• Writing out the main points
of a debate / a meeting
• Preparing a simple case for a trial
• Creating the front page of a newspaper after listening to TV news |
week 3 |
• Present and past conditional
• Hypothetical sentences
• Consequence expression
• The present participe
•The gerund |
• Making hypothetical comments
• Expressing consequence
• Expressing doubt / certainty
• Suggesting, proposing
• Reporting facts
• Expressing simultaneity of an action
• Requesting very politely
• Didactic activities by pairs or in groups (ex : preparing a survey
in Antibes) |
• Creating a touristic report
about Antibes
• Writing a letter of advice to a friend
• Common correspondence (let-ters to friends)
• Preparing surveys on a theme + interviews in town + report in class |
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