

Beginners French Course Outline
Beginners French Course Outline
For learners looking to study French while meeting and learning alongside other Complete Beginners students, this Open-Group Course is the perfect choice. Throughout, you will acquire essential words, phrases, question words, and grammar techniques, so you can start having conversations with your new friends in French as soon as possible. In each lesson, you and your classmates will learn from your teacher and communicate with each other to complete engaging exercises that teach you how to greet others, how to ask and answer personal questions, and how to achieve simple tasks, like asking for and giving directions.

Lesson 1
You will learn greetings; how to introduce yourself and another person; the alphabet; how to spell your name; how to pronounce French words (with or without accents).

Lesson 2
You will learn names of countries; numbers 1-69; seasons, months, and days; how to say the date; the definite articles; useful classroom phrases (e.g. Can you repeat that, please?).

Lesson 3
You will learn formal and informal greetings; to ask/answer “how are you?”; the indefinite articles; how to ask and give information (who, where, when, what); numbers 70-100.

Lesson 4
You will learn how to say when and where events take place; professions; how to conjugate the verb être (to be); nationalities; how to talk about yourself.

Lesson 5
You will learn the verbs s’appeler (to be called) and parler (to speak); to ask somebody’s age & say your own; to ask for somebody’s telephone number and address, how to give yours, too.

Lesson 6
You will learn the interrogative adjectives; to ask and answer questions; how to participate in an online written conversation; the possessive adjectives; how to use il y a (there is, there are).

Lesson 7
You will learn how to give reasons for doing something; how to use parce que (because) and pour (for); intonation; about French names used throughout the world.

Lesson 8
You will learn the names of cities in French; to use prepositions with cities/countries to express destination or place of origin; how to speak about a place where you want to live.

Lesson 9
the names of places in town; how to use the indefinite and definite articles with locations; directions; means of transportation; the verbs aller (to go) and prendre (to take).

Lesson 10
You will learn to form negative sentences; demonstrative adjectives; the verbs habiter (to live), venir (to come), and plurals of nouns; to book a taxi, a table at a restaurant, and a room.

* You do not need to buy a textbook to complete your course. Your teacher will share their materials (excerpts from textbooks, audio files, videos, etc.) with you during the classes using screenshare. Your teacher may also recommend other textbooks and grammar books to help supplement or continue your studies, but Language Trainers bears no responsibility for your decision to make such a purchase.

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