Online French courses

The objectives of the A0 level

This course is designed for students who are beginners. It aims to develop communicative competence to enable students to make themselves understood and to understand in very simple everyday situations.

Communicative objectives

• get in touch
• describe a person
• describe daily activities
• express your preferences
• to situate oneself in time
• describe past actions in a simple manner
• make and schedule an appointment
• describe a project

Grammatical objectives

• present tense of regular and basic verbs
• some verbs in the past tense
• negation
• near future
• why/because
• prepositions
• demonstrative adjectives
• qualifying adjectives

The objectives of level A1

This course is designed to enable students to participate in simple conversations, to improve their communication strategies, and to understand audio documents.

Communicative objectives

• describe a schedule
• recounting past events
• talk about his professional experience
• talk about the future
• express the obligation
• express an opinion
• provide guidance
• compare objects, people
• request information
• ask someone to do something
• express cause and consequence
• describe quantities

Grammatical objectives

• present tense of irregular verbs
• near future and simple future
• past tense of common verbs
• pronominal verbs
• modal verbs
• conditional of politeness
• comparison
• partial articles

The objectives of level A2

This course is designed to enable students to participate in simple conversations, to improve their communication strategies, and to understand audio documents.

Communicative objectives

• describe a schedule
• recounting past events
• talk about his professional experience
• talk about the future
• express the obligation
• express an opinion
• provide guidance
• compare objects, people
• request information
• ask someone to do something
• express cause and consequence
• describe quantities

Grammatical objectives

• present tense of irregular verbs
• near future and simple future
• imperfect tense
• compound past tense of common verbs
• pronominal verbs
• modal verbs
• conditional of politeness
• comparison
• time indicators
• partial articles
• direct and indirect pronouns
• simple relative pronouns

The objectives of level B1

The objectives of the B1 course are to help the student fill in the gaps by quickly reviewing the knowledge acquired in A2 and to lead him/her towards independence. It is composed of 2 sub-levels B1.1 (125h) and B1.2 (125h).

Communicative objectives B1.1 (125h)

• take part in conversations on specific topics
• express your opinion in a nuanced way
• tell a story by articulating the different moments
• express the hypothesis and the condition
• to justify oneself
• report a speech
• define specific contexts
• know how to order a speech
• express feelings
• request simple information in writing

Grammatical Objectives B1.1

• revision of past tenses (past compound and imperfect tense of description)
• liabilities
• time markers
• present conditional
• concordance of tenses
• subjunctive (wish, will, need)
• simple logical articulators
• adverbs
• hypothesis with the present and the future

Communicative objectives B1.2 (125h)

• express your opinion in a nuanced way
• recounting events in detail
• know how to organize and articulate a speech
• describe a process
• take part in conversations on general or specific topics
• know how to summarize
• be able to illustrate what you say
• interact in professional situations
• express opposition and concession
• ask for and give advice
• master the correspondence code
• understand a literary text

Grammatical Objectives B1.2

• revision of past tense concordance
• adverbs of time, cause, purpose and consequence
• personal pronouns
• pronouns y and en
• past conditional
• compound relative pronouns
• subjunctive and indicative
• gerund
• passive and impersonal forms
• simple nominalisation
• markers of opposition and concession
• past historic

The objectives of level B2

This course is designed for students who have already acquired the threshold level (B2). It allows them to become more independent by developing the 4 skills and to become more comfortable in interactions.

Communicative objectives

• give a presentation
• explain a reasoning
• conduct a negotiation
• make assumptions about the present, past and future
• express regret and blame
• give instructions
• argue
• convince
• define in detail
• report words
• converse
• compare data
• to tell in writing

Grammatical objectives

• revision of the indicative tenses
• impersonal forms
• uses of the conditional
• uses of the subjunctive and the indicative
• nominalisation
• discourse connectors
• complex sentences
• pronoun system (demonstrative, possessive, personal, indefinite)
• uses of the present participle and the gerund
• turns of correspondence

The objectives of the C1 level

This course is designed for experienced students who want to use a flexible and effective language in all professional and personal situations.

Communicative objectives

• express themselves with ease and spontaneity
• produce a clear and well-constructed speech in a presentation
• explain a reasoning
• understand all types of audio and written documents
• master the language levels
• avoid repetition
• negotiate
• write routine correspondence in a fluent manner
• know how to reformulate
• write elaborate texts

Grammatical objectives

• systematization of the concordance of tenses
• indicative and subjunctive modes
• logical connectors of the discourse
• expressions of the assumption
• expressions of purpose
• expressions of cause and consequence
• expressions of opposition
• revision of the pronoun system
• idioms
• familiar language