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A0 Complete Beginners

Adults Group Class Level A0 Complete Beginners

Collective Courses Adults
Complete beginner? Welcome!
No prior assessment needed.

At the end of the term, you will be able to:
• Greet, introduce yourself and someone else;
• Give and ask for personal details (name, address, telephone number, age, nationality);
• Count and use numbers;
• Communicate in French in the classroom with the teacher and other students;
• Greet and use formulas of courtesy 
 Introduce and present someone
• Ask how much a thing cost.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours/ week over 11 weeks

Adults Group Class Level A1.1

Collective Courses Adults
Throughout this course, you will learn how to :
• Master self-introductions: age, occupation, origin, country of residence, languages spoken
• Prompt others for self-introductions (exchange contact information and asking questions)
• Introduce your family and comprehend a family tree
• Express preferences and dislikes, agreements and disagreements

Main Grammar topics: Negative sentences, definite and indefinite articles, possessive articles, question words, rules for adjectives: gender and number, gender of countries, nationalities and cities and prepositions, present tense, special verbs: être, avoir, aller, venir, aimer.
Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours/ week over 11 weeks
A1 Beginners

Adults Group Class Level A1.2

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to : 

  •        Express and gather details about accommodations (housing, renting, etc.)
  •        Describe interior design, space and furniture
  •        Discuss daily routines and habits
  •        Inquire about and provide the time, the date and duration.

Main Grammar topics:

Il y a / Il n’y a pas, c’est + adjective, colors, gender and number of French adjectives,  verbs : pouvoir, sortir, dormir, prendre and devoir, Il faut + infinitif, reflexive verbs, adverbs of frequency.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours/ week over 11 weeks

Adults Group Class Level A1.3

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to :

• Express and gather details about accommodations (housing, renting, etc.)
• Describe interior design, space and furniture • Discuss daily routines and habits
• Inquire about and provide the time, the date and duration.

Main Grammar topics: Il y a / Il n’y a pas, c’est + adjective, colors, gender and number of French adjectives, verbs : pouvoir, sortir, dormir, prendre and devoir, Il faut + infinitif, reflexive verbs, adverbs of frequency.
Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks

Adults Group Class Level A1.4

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to : 

  •        Engage in shopping activities
  •        Describe and inquire about clothing & shoes and their price
  •        Talk about your preference and taste in food, give a recipe
  •        Relate a culinary experience
  •        Relate a life journey

Main Grammar topics:

Imperative mood, demonstrative articles, partitive articles, adverbs of quantity, le passé composé (past tenses : negation, auxiliaries, irregularities)


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours/ week over 11 weeks
A2 Intermediate

Adults Group Class Level A2.4

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to :

•             Describe a location or place
•             Introduce a book/TV show/movie
•             Give an opinion about a piece of art
•             Plan and  relate a trip
•             Describe a landscape 

Main Grammar topics:

Past tense (l’imparfait), temporal prepositions, the different negatives (restrective negation), adverbs ending in "-ment", use the passé composé and imparfait together, adverbial pronouns "y" and "en", gerunds form to express simultaneous actions, adjectives placement and order.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks
B1 Independent

Adults Group Class Level B1.2

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to :

•             Express your interest and your opinion (agreement and disagreement)
•             Formulate hypotheses
•             Talk about the origins and influences of a language
•             Talk about your relationship to languages and language learning 

Main Grammar topics: 

Stressed pronouns, time markers, compound relative pronouns ("auquel", "lequel", ...), verbs of opinion with indicative or subjunctive, indefinite pronouns ("certains", "plusieurs", "quelques"), “si” to express hypothesis


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks

Adults Group Class Level B1.5

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Throughout this course, you will learn how to :
• Discuss new technologies and internet habits,
• Report a speech accurately
• Discuss the media and information and influence of advertising
• Debate on public health

Main Grammar topics: Past and present subjunctive, the pasive form, reported speech in past tense.
Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours/ week over 11 weeks
B2 Advanced

Adults Group Class Level B2.2 Avancé

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Broaden your knowledge of the structure and use of French language at the Advanced B2 level while speaking with a degree of fluency.

In this level, you will learn to express your opinion and debate about a wider range of topics, to use and understand complex vocabulary, based on authentic documents drawn from French media.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks

Adults Group Class Level B2.7

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Conversation Class

Adults Adults Conversation Group Class Level C1 C2

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Sur la base de documents authentiques, de fragments de textes, d'extraits audio et vidéo, vous travaillez à l'enrichissement du vocabulaire et à l'amélioration de l'expression orale. Une place est également laissée à l'apport des étudiants eux-mêmes. Les enseignant.e.s identifient les centres d'intérêt des participant.e.s et préparent les cours en conséquence.

A nice course in which speaking is central ! Improve your spoken French through discussions on French culture and contemporary issues as presented in authentic articles and videos from the French press.  To attend a conversation course, you must have minimal expression (level C1.1 of the European reference framework) in French. The teachers identify the areas of interest of the participants and prepare the lessons accordingly.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks

Adults Conversation Group Class Level B1-B2 (Independant)

Collective Courses Adults

A nice course in which speaking is central ! Improve your spoken French through discussions on French culture and contemporary issues as presented in authentic articles and videos from the French press.

To attend a conversation course, you must have minimal expression (level B1.1 of the European reference framework) in French. The teachers identify the areas of interest of the participants and prepare the lessons accordingly.


Pace: Standard Course - 2 hours / week over 10 weeks

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