FRENCH B1 level course SYLLABUS

 

FRENCH B1 LEVEL

Vocabulary Topics

Personal life & routine activities: describing family, interpersonal relationship, hobbies, going out, shopping, transport, travel, accommodation, authorities
People: their physical appearance, health, character, clothes
Feelings: happiness, sadness, disappointment, worries, fear, regret, surprise, curiosity, indifference
Places: city, countryside, regions, natural reserves
Events: meetings, narrating incidents, accident, natural phenomena, past happenings
Work: work profiles, job types, designation, employee roles & benefits, employment exchange
School: school system, courses, modules, levels
Media: TV programmes, newspapers, Internet, print & visual media, journals
Books: short stories, novels, magazines, weekly, monthly, comics, fables
Current affairs: daily life, news, stories, social trends
Leisure: cinema, theatre, painting, shows

 Grammar Topics

Past tenses, Agreement of Past participle with the subject and the Direct Object
Future tenses
Present conditional: wish and hypothetical events
Past conditional: regret and hypothesis
Reported Speech: In present and past
Subjunctive
Active-Passive Voice
Gerunds and present participle
IF conditions
Double pronouns
Pronouns : Relative, Possessive, Demonstrative
Impersonal phrases and verbs with il :Il est interdit de, Il est utile de, Il est important de
Adverbs: time, manner, place, frequency
Comparatives & Superlatives of adjectives and adverbs
Negations
Connectors / Conjunctions and articulators: Cause, Consequence, Opposition

 Speaking Topics

Introduce someone: Talk about your daily routine
Describe a person – Physical appearance, Character
Health problems
Describe an object, place, natural phenomenon, society
Make comparisons, express opinions
Ask someone for information or request a review
Ask for advice or suggestion, take or grant permission
Ask for a service: Make Claims
Give instructions and advice
Acceptance and refusal / agreement or disagreement
Locate events in time : Indicate the origin, the moment of an action and its duration
Express feelings/ justify tastes, preferences and his interests
Complain about a product or service
Express an opinion / judgment, possibility, certainty and doubt
Talking about the past: news item, personal experience, a story (real or fictitious)
Talk about the future : wishes, intentions, plans, projects, forecasts
Argue, analyze, convince, give solution
Participate in a conversation, start, continue and end a conversation

 Sociocultural Topics

Different registers : formal, informal gestures
Argumentative structure of discourse
Speaking: Interrupting someone, clarifying, convincing
The difference between the professional and political world
Communication skills:

Giving and understanding a formal speech
Written communication at work
Variety of letters ( formal and informal) to authorities, superiors, editor etc.

By the End of Level B1 you will be able to do the following :

Understand and write down key points if they are familiar topics relating to work, school, leisure, etc.

Understand the content and essence of many radio or television broadcasts on current affairs or subjects of personal or professional interest.

Read and understand texts written mainly about familiar routine topics and job-related texts.

Describe events, express feelings, and wishes in informal letters/ e-mails, etc.

Write simple, straightforward text on familiar topics or of personal interest.

Express personal experiences, events, dreams, hopes, or goals.

Briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions or plans.

Discuss a story or the plot of a book or movie and give reactions.

Cope with the majority of situations one might encounter in a French-speaking region.

Possess enough linguistic knowledge and sufficient vocabulary to deal with a variety of familiar topics such as family, leisure, and centers of interest, work, travel, and news.

Present a series of short, simple, and distinct elements in a clear, organized, and coherent way

French DELF A1 | CANADA | FRENCH LANGUAGE LEARNING

 

FRENCH  A1 LEVEL

By the End of LEVEL A1, you will be able to do the following: 

Greet Someone

Present Oneself

Talk about your City

Present your Family

Tell your preferences

Buying & Selling different products

Ask Date, Time & Day from someone

Acceptance & Refusal (Proposal/Invitation/Messages)

Reading Short Texts such as E-Mail, Advertisement, Posters

Fill-in variety of Forms.

Write an E-Mail, Letter, Postcard

Vocabulary Topics

Alphabet
Salutations
Family name & First Name
Marital status (married / single)
Residence
Days of the week
Months
Cardinal and ordinal numbers
Colours
Adjectives
Seasons
Personal items
Various objects near you (in your office, in your room, at your home, at your desk)
Places in the town
Time
Nationalities
Professions
Routine Activities
Animals
Food & Beverages
Body parts
Countries & Cities
Family
Prices
Weather / Climate
Means of transport
Directions
Rooms & objects in the House

 Grammar Topics

Subject pronouns
Present tense
Helping verbs: to be, to have
Regular ER, IR and RE verbs
Irregular ER, IR, RE verbs
Affirmative and Negative sentences
Answering a negative question
Interrogation (the 3 forms)
Interrogative pronouns: Where, When, How much etc
Interrogative adjectives
Definite and Indefinite articles
Partitive articles
Contracted articles
Demonstrative adjectives
Possessive adjectives
Agreement of Adjectives
Position of adjectives
Adverbs of quantity (a few, a lot)
Expressions of Places: go to / come from a city or country/ live in a city or country
There is / There are
Reflexive verbs
Connectors: and, or, but, because

 Speaking Topics

Greet somebody
Introduce yourself or somebody else : tell your name, spell your name, tell your age, nationality & profession
Talk about your family
Talk about your hobbies
Describe something or somebody
Ask and tell the price of an object
Talk about quantity
Describe the weather
Ask about the day, date and time
Ask for a service
Give directions for a city / a country
Give instructions or advice
Accept something: Agree to something
Refuse something: Disagree with something

 Sociocultural Topics

Greetings (when meeting people)
Simple expressions to express politeness: excuse me, please, sorry, thank you
Informal you and Formal you
Communication skills:

How to write an informal letter, message, invitation, postcard, email
Filling up forms
Reading short notices, posters and advertisements