FRENCH
Each module is eight weeks. No books required. Handouts will be provided and some extra charge might apply.
Beginners 1
This course will give you a basic overview of the French you will find useful in everyday situations, in an informal, interactive atmosphere, stressing on the spoken language:
- The Alphabet, French Pronunciation, Colours and Numbers
- Greetings: Saying Hello, Goodbye and the different French greetings for different parts of the day
- Introductions: Asking someone his/her name, telling him/her yours and introducing your friends
- Nationalities: Ask people where they come from and find out what languages they speak
- Your family: Learn all the vocabulary, how to use the possessive terms in French and how to describe people
- Your home: Find out how to say what sort of home you live in and whereabouts it is. Learn what all the rooms are called
- Looking for things: Learn vocabulary for things in and around the house, and how to locate them and say where they are
- Food and table talk: Learn the names of certain food, how to express likes and dislikes and useful expressions to use at the table with French friends or when eating out at the restaurant
- Your Hobbies: Talk about your interests, when playing a sport or an instrument and other recreational activities
- Telling the time: Learn all the necessary vocabulary and different times of the day and daily activities
- Arranging things: How to set up appointments and talk about getting together. Days of the week
- Asking Where Places are and Finding Your Way Around: Very useful when travelling. Learn to ask for and give directions. Talk about the different places in town
- Going Shopping: Learn the names of stores and businesses, greet salespeople and ask for prices
- Months and Seasons: All that; plus: first, second, etc, dates, birthdays and special events.
ALL THIS, AND HAVE FUN WHILE LEARNING IT!
French for Beginners
- Beginners 2
- Beginners 3
- Beginners 4
- Beginners 5
These levels are appropriate for people who are interested in studying the language in more depth and going beyond basic expressions and grammatical structures.
In these levels you will learn:
- How to go to a restaurant or a bar and order food and drinks
- How to go to a hotel and get a room
- How to go shopping and use the main expressions to get what you want
- Food preferences, recipes, menus and shopping list
- Likes and dislikes about hobbies
- How to move around in a city and ask for, and use, directions
- To express your daily routines and habitual actions
- To describe physical states and states of mind
- To describe professions and activities related to them
- To express plans and desires
- How to make comparisons of quality and inequality
- How to communicate using past tense.
French Pre-intermediate Levels
- Pre-intermediate 1
- Pre-intermediate 2
- Pre-intermediate 3
- Pre-intermediate 4
- Pre-intermediate 5
The Pre-Intermediate levels are a good introduction to a bit more complex structures. After completing these levels, you will be able to hold a longer conversation, write, read and listen to a variety of a bit more complex topics, and generally feel more confident in speaking conversational French.
These levels are a bit more challenging because they involve a bit more complex structures that are used in daily communication in the French language, such as:
- Structures that will allow you to express topics related to daily routine, housework, finding a place to live, accepting and rejecting invitations
- Useful expressions regarding travelling, shopping, bargaining, weddings, and accidents
- Communicating using future tense and conditional structures.
French Intermediate Levels
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Intermediate 3
- Intermediate 4
- Intermediate 5
If you have studied French at several institutions and followed different books and still have some gaps in grammatical structures and lack of confidence and fluency, these are the levels that will help you improve your French skills by having more challenging conversations on various interesting topics.
French Upper Intermediate Levels
- Upper Intermediate 1
- Upper Intermediate 2
- Upper Intermediate 3
- Upper Intermediate 4
- Upper Intermediate 5
If your goal is more ambitious and you would like to speak French fluently (and you already have some experience speaking French) then this is the level for you.
In this level you consolidate grammatical structures that have been studied in previous levels and revises all the knowledge gained throughout all the Basic, Pre- Intermediate and Intermediate levels.
After the Upper Intermediate level, you will be able to:
- Read longer articles from magazines, newspapers and internet articles
- Understand quite a lot when watching movies
- listen to music and understand the main idea and pick up quite a few words.
- sustain a conversation well with native speakers on relatively easy topics.
French Advanced Levels
- Advanced 1
- Advanced 2
- Advanced 3
- Advanced 4
- Advanced 5
This is the level where you master the language and you speak French fluently.
Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking skills are applied in a confident way. You are able to understand and communicate with native speakers, understanding their culture, their accent and their slang.
Chit Chat – levels 1 and 2
Our conversation classes are called Chit-Chats.
No books are required – Material will be provided.
Chit Chat 1: Students must have completed all basic and Intermediate levels in French Language, or their equivalent and/or have lived or studied in a French-Speaking Country.
Chit Chat 2: Students must be at a Superior level of French. They will have finished all the Advanced levels or their equivalent and/or have lived or studied in a French-Speaking Country. Students are able to speak fluently with native speakers.
Our courses are available at all levels from Beginners to Advanced and are structured taking into account the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels used by all well known European Language Centres worldwide.
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is a series of descriptions of abilities which can be applied to any language and can be used to set clear targets for achievements within language learning. It has now become accepted as a way of benchmarking language ability all over the world. |
VCE Preparation
'Get all the help you need to take you through your French VCE EXAMS and get the highest mark!'
Help and preparation for the French VCE to students years 11 and 12 is available with a native, qualified, experienced VCE Teacher. We will help you with all your VCE needs.