
Certificate Course in French
(Level A1-A2)
Duration:
- Regular classes (four days a week) 3 Months
- Weekend classes (three hours on each day) 4 months
Course Fee:
- For fee discussion please contact us
Course Content
A1 Vocabulary Topics
- Alphabet
- Numbers
- Family name & Given Name
- Residence
- Personal items
- Classroom objects
- Nationalities
- Professions
- Marital status (married / single)
- Countries & Cities
- Hobbies
- Family
- Time
- Prices
- Weather / Climate
- Date
- Days of the week
- Descriptions (small, big, old, young, etc)
- Colors
- Seasons
- Places
A2 Vocabulary Topics
- Talk about yourself, your educational background, your job, your family, your neighborhood
- Talk about your hobbies and daily activities
- Ask for goods in a shop where goods are displayed
- Order a meal in a restaurant if dishes are either displayed or illustrated on the menu
- Book a hotel room (face to face)
- Ask for basic services in a post office or bank
- Indicate the nature of a medical problem to a doctor
- Make inquiries about a journey at a travel agency
- Use public transport (buses, trains, and taxis)
- Ask your way and give directions
- Buy tickets
- Read notices, posters, catalogs, timetables, brochures, menus, advertisements, signs
- Write notes and simple messages
- Note down times, dates, and places from notice boards and announcements
- Note down instructions and requests such as client orders and delivery dates.
- Describe events and daily activities
- People: Family, Physical description
- Places: Cafe, Restaurant, Shops, Bank, Post office, Hotel, Road
- Hobbies: Sports, Going out, Shows, Holiday trips
- Public transportation: Subway, Train, Bus, Taxi
- Daily Life: Work, Shopping, Daily activities
- Accommodation: Units in the house, interior decor
- Everyday objects
- Food ingredients, Cooking, Meals, Recipes
- Common animals
- Countries & Cities
- Itinerary, Weather forecast
- Actions in daily life
- Events: Meetings, Evening out, Family events, Visits, Excursions, Accidents, TV news
- Money and payments
Grammatical Contents
A1 Grammar Topics
- Personal subject pronouns
- Tonic pronouns
- Present tense - State, Description
- Common verbs: be, have, do, to be called
- ER Verbs: to live, to work, to talk
- Verb: to understand (I and You forms)
- Conditional for politeness (I would like to)
- Interrogation (the 3 forms)
- Interrogative words: Do you, what do you
- Interrogative pronouns: Where, When, How much
- Interrogative adjectives (what)
- It is / This is / Here
- Definite and Indefinite articles
- Zero articles for professions
- Cardinal numbers
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Masculine/Feminine & Singular/Plural
- Agreement of Adjectives (for nationalities)
- Some descriptive adjectives (big, small,)
- Position of adjectives
- Affirmative and Negative sentences
- Negation (not)
- Possessive’s to show belonging
- Possessive adjectives
- Partitive articles (of the)
- Adverbs of quantity (a few, a lot)
- Uncountable
- Countable
- Impersonal 'it' for the weather
- Expressions of time (now, this morning, tomorrow)
- Expressions of time (days, months, seasons, year)
- Expressions of Place: go to / come from + a city or country; live in + a city or country
- There is / there are
- Connectors: and, or, but
A2 Grammar Topics
- Present Simple tense - Habit, State
- ER, IR, OIR, and RE verbs
- Pronominal verbs: verbs reflechis and pronominal verbs
- Common verbs, e.g.: come, go, do, know, see, take
- Some Verbs + infinitive: want to, able to can do
- Have to + infinitive
- Past Simple - events in the past
- Past participles
- Imperfect tense - descriptions in the past (it was, there was)
- Imperative - Affirmative and Negative - for instructions and commands
- Near Future Tense
- Future simple tense -
- Recent Past tense - to have just done sth
- Present Progressive - to be in the process of doing something
- Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
- Adjectives - Position and Agreement
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Transitive and Intransitive verbs - Direct and Indirect object
- Relative pronoun 'there' - place
- Relative pronouns - who, that/which
- Prepositions of time: when, while
- Prepositions of place: go to, be at, come from + a place
- Connectors: but, because
Speaking Activities
- Entrer en contact avec qn: saluer qn prendre congé demander/donner des nouvelles à qn
- Présenter qn: donner son identité ou l’identité de qn donner son nom épéler son nom dire son âge dire sa nationalité dire sa profession
- Parler de son environnement quotidien donner son adresse/son e-mail donner son numéro de téléphone parler de sa famille parler de ses loisirs
- Décrire un objet/une personne désigner qch ou qn dire le prix d’un objet exprimer l’appartenance exprimer la quantité dire le temps qu’il fait
- Demander une information poser des questions personelles demander la date demander l’heure demander un service
- Situer des événements dans le temps dire la date dire l’heure
- Se situer dans l’espace : situer un lieu localiser une ville/un pays
- Donner des instructions/des indications
- Accepter qch : répondre par l’affirmative
- Refuser qch : répondre par la négative
- Participer à une conversation dire qu’on ne comprend pas
After completing the A1 level course, you should be able to accomplish the following:
- Greet people
- Talk about yourself
- Talk about where you live
- Talk about the people you know
- Engage in a simple buy-and-sell situation
- You can make daily conversation
- You can talk about your like and dislike
- Ask about the day, the time, weather, and the date
- Read simple notices, posters, and catalogs
- Fill in a simple form
- Write a simple postcard
A2 Sociocultural knowledge
- Everyday expressions to express politeness
- Conditionals present to be polite or to make a suggestion (We could + infinitive)
- Welcoming somebody: greetings, asking for news, reaction to the response
- How to write a personal message, different models of business-related messages, and administrative message
- How to get into a conversation, start talking, call out somebody, and take leave
- How to get somebody's attention (Excuse me, Sir ≠ Hoy, Hey you there, etc)
- Informal conversation
- How to do a phone conversation
- Inviting
- Giving thanks
- Apologizing
