DELF 30 lessons
8, 12 or 16 weeks

 
 

Teaching program for the 30 lesson/week training course:


  • NOTE: The table below is an example of the teaching content for elementary, intermediate and advanced levels,
    All the CECR     levels will find this adapted teaching method beneficial


  • Elementary level
    (Levels A1 and A2)
  • Intermediate level
    (Level B1)
  • Advanced level
    (Level B2, C1)

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams.


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Oral skills and know-how:  
    Notes and short letter writing
  • Grammar points
    - Present
    – Present perfect
    – Near future
    – Present conditional
    – Use of “tu” and “vous”
    - Uncountable nouns
    - Pronouns, possessive adjectives, prepositions
    – The interrogative form, la negation
    - Recent past, imperfect, simple future, imperative, introduction to the subjunctive
    - Personal pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, relative pronouns
    - Time and numbers
    – Making comparisons
    - Reported speech
  • Writing various messages (postcards, emails, invitations…)
  • Producing written work based on different instructions
  • Short informal letter writing
  • Very simple short dictation exercises
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Welcome and meeting
    - Work on pronunciation
    - Everyday situations
    - Everyday formal situations
    - Reported speech
  • Listening skills:
    - Rhythm, tone of the language
    - Successfully identify messages
  • Written comprehension skills:
    - Give information
    - Understand information from various texts
    - Understand and follow instructions
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Role plays
    - Pronunciation exercises
    - Simple surveys
  • Listening skills
    - Rewording different information
    - Conversations and telephone
  • Written comprehension skills
  • Reading for gist
  • Culture and civilisation
    - Recent events will enrich this part of the course about French life and its national or local events

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Improved writing skills +
    - You will be able to write simple, formal letters and adapt it to any given situation
  • Grammar skills you will learn+
    - Different hypotheses
    - Reported speech and its sequence of tenses
    - Past tenses and its sequence of tenses
    - Passive voice
  • Writing various messages: postcards, emails, invitations…
  • Producing written work based on different instructions
  • Very simple short dictation exercises
  • Improved listening skills +
    - Identifying and reproducing the whole French phonetic system
    - Identifying and understanding the gist of a conversation
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Role plays
    - Pronunciation exercises
    - Prepare simple surveys
  • Listening skills:
    - Rewording different information
    - Conversations and telephone messages
  • Written understanding skills:
    -     Reading for gist (TRUE/FALSE table...)
    - Culture and civilisation

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Improved writing skills +
    - Formal letter writing
    - Short letter writing
    - Detailed report writing
  • Grammar skills you will learn+
    - Everyday structures, express purpose
    - Present and past reported speech
    - Expression of time
    - Opposition/concession
  • Varied and interactive exercises
  • Opinion surveys at CIA
  • Visit to Antibes or its surroundings with :
    - Targeted questionnaires
    - A summary to write
    - Various written articles for the school’s newspaper
  • Daily homework
  • Improved oral skills and know-how +
    -     Communicate
    - Improved pronunciation
    - Present a chosen topic
  • Improved listening skills +
    -     The different language registers
    - Identify messages
  • Improved written comprehension +
    - Identify a document’s subject, extract the main message, understand the structure of a text, the author’s aim, the document’s tone and different information.
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Simulations, role plays
    - Language games and interactive activities
  • Listening skills:
    -     Rewording different information
    - Dialogues
    - Listening for gist with tables to fill in
  • Written understanding skills:
    -     Listening for gist (multiple choice table)
    - Rewording, commentaries and debates
  • Culture, social and French political news : News reviews, social documentaries

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Writing skills:
    - Formal letter writing
    - Short letter writing
    - Detailed report writing
  • Grammar points:
    - Consolidation of common past tenses
    - Conditional tense and when to use it
    - Consolidation of possessive, demonstrative, personal and object pronouns and prepositions
    - Descriptive adjectives, common adverbs
    - Common use of the subjunctive
    - Consolidation of relative pronouns
    - Everyday structures
    - Express purpose (verbal and nominal)
    - Reported speech in past and present tenses
    - Expression of time
    - Opposition/concession, the “si” clause
    - Past participle agreement
    - Passive voice
  • Varied and interactive exercises based on articles, reports, film extracts, adverts and other documents :
    -     Various letters and written output which have been adapted to suit the situation
    - Film reviews, summaries, development of CV
    - Logical series to create
  • Opinion survey at CIA
  • Visit to Antibes or its surroundings with :
    - Targeted questionnaires
    - A summary to write
    - Various written articles for the school’s newspaper
  • Daily homework
  • Improved oral skills and know-how +
    - Communicate effectively in various situations from agreement to disagreement
    - Handle everyday administrative situations
    - Learn to make a structured presentation of a chosen topic
    - Improve pronunciation
    - Add subtlety to your speech
  • Listening skills:
    -     Sense different registers
    - Succeed in identifying  messages
  • Written understanding skills:
    - Identify a document’s theme
    - Extract the main message
    - Understand the logical  structure of the text
    - Understand the author’s aim
    - Describe the document’s tone
    - Understand different information efficiently
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    -     Simulations, role play
    - Language games and interactive activities
    - Surveys and questionnaires
    - Pronunciation exercises
    - Oral presentations on a chosen topic
  • Listening skills:
    - Rewording different information
    - Dialogues
    - Listening for gist with tables to fill in
  • Written understanding skills :
    - Listening for gist (multiple choice table)
  • Culture and civilisation:
    -     Newspaper reviews
    - Intercultural discussion
    - Social documentaries

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Improved writing skills: +
    - Learn, understand and use new lexical fields
  • Grammar skills you will learn +
    - Further understanding of all the grammar points covered in the 8-week course.
  • Varied and interactive exercises based on articles, reports, film extracts, adverts and other documents.
  • Opinion survey at CIA
  • Visit to Antibes or its surroundings
  • Daily homework
  • A compilation of various articles

 
  • Oral skills and know-how +
    -     Communicate effectively in various situations from agreement to disagreement
    - Handle everyday administrative situations
    - Learn to make a structured presentation of a chosen topic
    - Improve pronunciation
    - Add subtlety to your speech
  • Listening skills :
    - Sense different registers
    - Succeed in identifying  messages
  • Improved written comprehension +
    - Identify a document’s subject, extract the main message, understand the structure of a text, the author’s aim, the document’s tone and different information
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Simulations, role-play
    - Language games and interactive activities
    - Survey and questionnaires
    - Pronunciation exercises
    - Oral presentations on a chosen subject
  • Listening skills:
    - Rewording different information
    - Dialogues
    - Different messages from various sources
    - Listening for gist with tables to fill in
    - Note taking for a written report
  • Written understanding skills:
    -     Listening for gist (multiple choice table)
  • Cultural, social and French political news :
    - Press reviews
    - Comparative intercultural discussions
    - Social documentaries

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Writing skills +
    - Translate a book extract, an article, an advert or a song, from your mother tongue into French
  • Grammar points +
    - Double object pronouns, compound relative pronouns
    - Reported speech
    - Story writing, articles about various subjects, in groups
    - Writing a text
    - General formal correspondence

 
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Handle various situations using complex structures
    - Recognise which register to use depending on the situation
    - Learn how to use idiomatic expressions
  • Listening skills:
    - Understand a TV programme
    - Recognise a witticism
  • Written understanding skills:
    - Summarise an article
    - Recognise the author’s aim or message
    - Differentiate between the various written press genres
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Simulations, role-plays, case studies
    - Presentations on various topics
    - Debates
    - Surveys and research of the Antibes
  • Listening skills:
    -     Questionnaires to complete whilst listening
    - Programme sequence summaries
    - Role-plays
    - Listening to new songs with the text
  • Written understanding skills :
    - National press reviews
    - Various written materials
    - Internet research
  • France and civilisation:
    -     France: the social and education systems, the world of work, administration, Internet, political life.

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Writing skills:
    - Structure a formal letter, a report, a story
    - Do a plan, an introduction, a summary and a conclusion
    - Write a CV, a letter
    - Translate a short extract from a novel
  • Grammar points:
    -     Consolidation of the conditional, sequence of tenses, past participle, hypotheses, uses of the subjunctive
    - Express doubt, uncertainty…
    - Connectives
    - Double object pronouns, compound relative pronouns
    - Reported speech, morphology of slang
    - Formal correspondence
    - CV and covering letters
    - Articles for the school newspaper
    - Games and research activities on the internet
    - Designing test, quizzes
    - Story writing, articles about various subjects, in groups
    - Writing a text

 
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    -     Handle various situations
    - Recognise which register to use depending on the situation
    - Cope with an interview
    - Learn how to structure presentations
  • Listening skills:
    - Achieve a good understanding of a TV programme
    - Recognise a witticism
    - Get the ear used to a wide range of linguistic complexities
  • Written understanding skills:
    - Summarise an article
    - Recognise the author’s aim or message
    - Differentiate between the various written press genres.
    - Get used to the internet in French
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Simulations, role-plays,
    - Presentations on various topics
    - Debates, surveys and research
  • Listening skills :
    - Questionnaires to fill in
    - Summaries of programmes
    - Role play
    - Listening to new songs with text
  • Written understanding skills :
    - National press review
    - Various written materials
    - Internet research
  • Culture and civilisation :
    - France: the social and education systems, the world of work, administration, Internet, political life.
    - Contemporary writers, song lyrics, recent films
    - Major national debates

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Writing skills  +
    - Translate a book extract, an article
  • Grammar points +
    - Double object pronouns, compound relative pronouns
    - Reported speech, morphology of slang
    • Story, article writing
    • Writing a text
    • General formal correspondence
    • CV and covering letters
  • Oral skills and know-how:
    - Handle various situations using complex structures
    - Recognise which register to use depending on the situation
    - Learn how to use idiomatic expressions
    - Learn to face an interview
    - Learn how to structure presentations
  • Listening skills:
    -     Understand a TV programme
    - Recognise a witticism
    - Distinguish between a wide range of linguistic complexities.
  • Written understanding skills:
    - Learn how to summarise a newspaper magazine article.
    - Recognise the author’s message
    - Differentiate between the various written press genres
    - Understand statistics
    - Get used to the internet in French
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Simulations, role-plays,
    - Presentations on various topics
    - Debates
    - Surveys and research
  • Listening skills :
    - Questionnaires to fill in
    - Summaries of programmes
    - Role play
    - Listening to new songs with text
  • Written understanding skills :
    - National press reviews
    - Various written materials
    - Internet research
  • France and civilisation :
    - France: the social and education systems, the world of work...
    - Contemporary writers, song lyrics, recent films
    - Great national debates

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam with specific mock exams


Morning lessons

Afternoon lessons

  • Improved writing skills +
    - Structure a formal letter, a report, a story
    - Do a plan, an introduction, a summary and a conclusion with ease.
    - Write any type of formal letter
    - Summaries and critiques of literary works
    - Write a text
    - Various exercises on formal correspondence
    - Articles for the school’s newspaper
    - Internet games and activities
  •  
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Cope with an interview
    - Express yourself with confidence
    - Take part in any oral situation
    - Expertly use language skills
  • Listening skills:
    - Understand almost all of a TV or radio programme
    - Easily recognise a witticism
    - Distinguish between a wide range of linguistic complexities.
  • Written understanding skills:
    - Feel comfortable with any written material
    - Bibliographical or internet research
    - Understand an author’s message
    - Distinguish between the different genres of written press
  • Oral skills and know-how :
    - Various role plays
    - Presentations on diverse and complex subjects
    - Class presentation of a programme
    - Various debates (1/1 or 2/2)
    - Translation exercises
  • Listening skills :
    - Questionnaires to fill in
    - Summaries of films
    - Work on speeches and lectures
    - Role play, simulation
    - Work based on new songs
  • Written understanding skills :
    - Work on understanding instructions
    - Do research and make a press pack
    - National press review

  






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