SHORT PROGRAM FRENCH COURSES - DELF PREPARATION

• Verbs ending in ER, IR and DRE
• Adjectives
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Prepositions
• “Avoir” and “être”: express a state
• The main irregular verbs (faire, prendre, aller, venir, pouvoir, vouloir)
• Negative and interrogative forms
• The future tense of the verb "aller"
• Simple past (être/avoir)
• Past historic (être)

• Understand and express basic information
• Express likes and dislikes possibility, subtleties, feelings and moods.
• Location
• Talk about your timetable, things to do, activities and your schedule
• Make plans
• Make reference to people and objects
• Describe and define
• Complain and criticise

• Fill in a simple form
• Write a postcard
• Write to a French host family
• Design a survey
• Tell a simple story based on a visual aid
• Write a simple advert, reply to an advert
  

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

• Development of basic communication skills :
  Introduce yourself
• Ask questions and reply simply
  - Politeness (tu/vous)
  - Say hello and goodbye
  - Thanking people
  -Express a basic wish
  - Ask permission
  - Order in a restaurant
  - Talk about plans (near future)
• Understand basic information (oral or written):
  - The alphabet
  - Numbers
  - Agree/Disagree
  - French onomatopoeia

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Role play for example find an address, everyday life situations, talk about your holiday plans....
• Teaching games: e.g. drawing dictation, spot the difference, guess the character, work in pairs, work from a cartoon, re-enact a story
• Mimes: tell the story of a mimed sequence, guess the character (questions/answers), treasure hunt
• Short stories (oral) based on photographs

• Verbs ending in ER, IR and DRE
• Adjectives
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Prepositions
• “Avoir” and “être”: express a state
• The main irregular verbs (faire, prendre, aller, venir, pouvoir, vouloir)
• Negative and interrogative forms
• The future tense of the verb "aller"
• Simple past (être/avoir)
• Past historic (être)
• Direct vs. indirect object

• Understand and express basic information
• Express likes and dislikes, possibility, subtleties, feelings and moods.
• Location
• Talk about your timetable, things to do, activities and your schedule
• Make plans
• Make reference to people and objects
• Describe and define
• Complain and criticise
• Study a grammar point using a French song
• Write short informal letters
• Short, simple dictation
• Group and pair work

• Fill in a simple form
• Write a postcard
• Write to a French host family
• Design a survey
• Tell a simple story based on a visual aid
• Write a simple advert, reply to an advert without using too much detail
• Read a menu or a bill
• Structural exercises

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

• Development of basic communication skills :
  Introduce yourself
• Ask questions and reply simply
  - Politeness (tu/vous)
  - Say hello and goodbye
  - Thanking people
  - Express a basic wish
  - Ask permission
  - Order at a restaurant
  - Talk about plans (near future)
• Understand basic information (oral or written):
  - The alphabet
  - Numbers
  - Agree/Disagree
  - French onomatopoeia
• Vocabulary (at the hotel, at the station...)
• Cultural themes e.g. events, French cuisine, French habits, recipes.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Role play e.g. get directions, everyday life situations, talk about your holiday plans, meet friends in an estate agents, in a shop....
• Teaching games: e.g. drawing dictation, spot the difference, guess the character, work in pairs, work from a cartoon, re-enact a story
• Mimes: tell the story of a mimed sequence, guess the character (questions/answers), treasure hunt
• Short stories (oral) based on photographs
• Debates
• Research and surveys

• Revision of present tense
• Pronominal verbs
• Verbs ending in ER, IR and DRE
• Personal pronouns (direct and indirect object)
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Revision of the simple past
• Use of the imperfect, the past historic and the simple past
• Relative pronouns (QUI-QUE-OU)
• Expression of time and duration

• Express likes/dislikes
• Talk about yourself and other
• Offer
• Ask, accept, decline
• Talk about an event
• Compare
• Express hypothesis
• Express the consequence of your actions
• Listening for gist (audio or video) with questionnaire to complete
• Teaching activities in pairs and in groups

• Fill in a form
• Write a postcard
• Tell a story based on a cartoon or on images
• Write an advert, reply to an advert
• Write the beginning of a story or fill in the blanks
• Write a letter of acceptance or of refusal to an invitation
• Structural exercises

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam

• Development of basic communication skills :
  - Express a necessity, an opinion, ownership, need...
  - Find an object, a place
• Ask for or give information
  - Recall past events
  - Recount past events
  - Define, describe
  - Ask questions, reply in the past
• Summarise extracts from films or from the news
• A phone conversation
• Advise/Advise against
• Cultural themes: for example French traditions, hobbies in France, festivals etc...
• Vocabulary: the weather, the body, the office, the house, everyday objects

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

• Listen to conversations (cassettes) and remember the main message
• Role play for example an accident, shopping
• Study a simple newspaper article
• Debate about a feature of French society
• Teaching games to practice the past tense e.g. discover a mysterious object or event
• Exercises based on the French film "Les fugitifs" and the news
• Practical language fieldwork: survey in Antibes, interviews
• Study of a French song

• Pronominal verbs
• Personal pronouns (direct and indirect object)
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Revision of the simple past
• Use of the imperfect, the past historic and the simple past
• Relative pronouns (QUI-QUE-OU)
• Expression of time and duration

• Express likes/dislikes
• Talk about yourself and other
• Offer
• Ask, accept, decline
• Talk about an event
• Compare
• Express hypothesis
• Express the consequence of your actions
• Listening for gist (audio or video) with questionnaire to complete
• Teaching activities in pairs and in groups
• Varied interactive exercises based on articles, reports, film extracts, adverts and other documents.

• Fill in a form
• Write a postcard
• Tell a story based in a cartoon or on  images
• Write and advert and reply to an advert
• Write a letter to introduce yourself to a French host family
• Structural exercises
• Tell a character’s life story
• Write the beginning of a story or fill in the blanks
• Write letters and documents adapted to various situations

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam

• Development of basic communication skills:
  - Express a necessity, an opinion, ownership, need...
  - Find an object, a place
• Ask for or give information
  - Ask and reply in the past tense
  - Define, describe
  - Ask questions, reply in the past tense
• Advise/Advise against
  - Summary and revision of the main past tenses
  - The conditional
  - Possessive and demonstrative pronouns
  - Personal pronouns used like indirect objects or prepositions
  - Common descriptive adjectives and adverbs
• Cultural themes: for example the media, French traditions, hobbies in France, festivals, cuisine, wines etc...
• Vocabulary: the weather, the body, the office, the house, everyday objects
  
  TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Listen to conversations (cassettes) and remember the main theme
• Role play for example an accident, shopping.
• Study a simple newspaper article
• Debate about a feature of French society
• Teaching games to practice the past tense e.g. discover a mysterious object or event, surveys, research, the “if” game etc...
• Make an advert e.g. the preview of a programme on TV, a script or film an advert using a video camera.
• Exercises based on the French film "Les fugitifs" and the news
• Practical language fieldwork: survey in Antibes, interviews
• Study of a French song
• Present the news based on newspaper articles

• Past tenses
• Conditional: to express a future situation in a past context
• Sequence of tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Introduction to the subjunctive (after conjunctions, after specific verbs)
• Relative pronouns QUI - QUE - DONT - OU - LEQUEL - DUQUEL
• Past and present conditional
• Expression of hypothesis
• Express consequences
• Present participle

• Recount an event in the past
• Express time and duration
• Tell a story or describe an event based on audio-visual equipment
• Advise
• Argue/debate
• Express yourself
• Make hypothetical comments
• Express doubt/certainty
• Express the simultaneity of an action
• Report facts
• Ask politely
• Teaching activities in pairs or in groups (e.g. a survey in Antibes)

• Make up a story based on film or documentary extracts.
• Summarise a newspaper article
• Design a magazine advert
• Write the main points from a debate or a meeting
• Prepare a case in preparation for a trial
• Write the front page of a newspaper after having seen the news.
• Prepare surveys on a theme + interviews in town + report in class

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam

• Development of basic communication skills :
  - Structure a speech
  - Use linking words
  - Recount a past event
  - Understand film dialogues, documentaries, news on the television, lyrics
  - Development of everyday language
  - Discussion in a formal environment (politeness)
  - Use idiomatic expressions and language structures
• Development of linguistic reflexes
• Work on pronunciation
• Skim reading: find and reproduce information for audio-visual material and answer a questionnaire.
• Facilitate spontaneous expression
• Understand specialist documents and report information

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Role play
• Reconstruct a story from an image or a mime
• Listen to dialogue and film excerpts
• Games: the alibi, guess the character, find the city
• Use of videos (associate images and ideas)
• Debate (1/1 and 2/2) on a topical subject
• Group work: a trial
• Study a French song
• Film a news report using the video camera and based on newspaper articles
• Practical language fieldwork: survey in Antibes, interviews
• Reviews of the papers followed by debates

• Past tenses
• Conditional: to express a future situation in a past context
• Sequence of tenses
• Direct and indirect pronouns
• Introduction to the subjunctive (after conjunctions and specific verbs)
• The imperative
• The subjunctive
• Relative pronouns
• Expression of hypothesis
• Express consequences
• Present participle
• Summary and revision of the conditional
• Agreement between tenses
• Uses of the subjunctive

• Recount a past event
• Express time and duration
• Tell a story or describe an event based on audio-visual equipment
• Advise
• Argue/debate
• Express yourself
• Make hypothetical comments
• Express doubt/certainty
• Express the simultaneity of an action
• Report fact
• Ask politely
• Activities in pairs or in groups (e.g. A survey in Antibes)
• Structure a formal letter, a report
• Highlight, develop an introduction, a summary and a conclusion

• Make up a story based on film or documentary extracts.
• Summarise a newspaper article
• Design a magazine advert
• Write the main points from a debate or a meeting
• Prepare a case in preparation for a trial
• Write the front page of a newspaper after having seen the news.
• Prepare surveys on a theme + interviews in town + report in class
• Prepare a tourist report about the city of Antibes

Course based on the various aspects of the final exam

• DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING SKILLS:
• Development of basic communication skills :
  - Structure a speech
  - Use linking words
  - Recount a past event
  - Understand film dialogues, documentaries, news on the television, lyrics
  - Development of everyday language
• Discussion in a formal environment (politeness)
  - Use idiomatic expressions and language structures
• Development of linguistic reflexes
• Work on pronunciation
• Skim reading: find and reproduce information for audio-visual material and answer a questionnaire.
• Facilitate spontaneous expression
• Understand specialist documents and report information

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Role play
• Reconstruct a story from an image or a mime
• Listen to dialogue and film excerpts
• Games: the alibi, guess the character, find the city
• Use of videos (associate images and ideas)
• Debate (1/1 and 2/2) on a topical subject
• Group work: a trial
• Study a French song
• Film a news report using the video camera and based on newspaper articles
• Practical language fieldwork: survey in Antibes, interviews
• Reviews of the papers followed by debates