French A1

TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CONTENT

1. Personal identification. Forms of address and greetings.
2. Vocabulary relating to the classroom and computers.
3. Personal/everyday objects.
4. Human and social relations. The family.
5. Countries, nationalities.
6. Everyday activities.
7. Vocabulary relating to leisure. Sports.
8. Travel. Accommodation (furniture and fittings).
9. The town (shops and services).
10. Means of transport.
11. Location, movements.
12. The date, the months of the year, the seasons.
13. The weather.
14. The world of work. Professions and roles within a company. Sectors of activity.
15. Food, cooking.
16. Clothing and accessories.
17. Email addresses.
18. Common phrases used in emails.
19. Telephone expressions.
20. The figures.
21. Weight (kilo…), measurements (metre…), quantities.
22. Common expressions for the functions covered (allô, çà va, voilà, s’il vous plaît, avec plaisir, désolé, excusez-moi…)
23. Related fields of the topics covered.
24. Common synonyms and antonyms.
25. Commonly used interjections.
26. Abbreviations, initialisms and acronyms.
27. False friends.

TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS

1. Prayer
2. Nouns and adjectives
3. Determinants
4. Pronouns
5. Verbs
6. Adverbs and phrases
7. Conjunctions/prepositions

TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT

1. Copy common words relating to dates, times, prices… and expressions on everyday topics.
2. Spell out individual words relating to your identity, personal details, telephone number and nationality.
3. Graphical representation of phonemes and sounds.
4. Write short phrases that are relatively phonetically accurate (though not necessarily orthographically accurate) using short words as they are used in spoken language.
5. Write in accordance with subject-verb agreement and agreement between gender and the noun and noun phrase.
6. Punctuation marks.
7. Question marks and exclamation marks.
8. Auxiliary marks (accents, cedilla, apostrophe, umlaut, short hyphen “trait d’union”).
9. Capitalisation of proper nouns and nationalities.
10. Commonly used symbols: @, €.

TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL CONTENT

1. The pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet.
2. Vowels, consonants, semi-vowels and semi-consonants.
3. The “silent e”.
4. The pronunciation of final consonants.
5. “Liaisons”.
6. Interrogative and negative intonation.
7. Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives.
8. Verbal distinction between masculine and feminine forms.
9. ”Elision”.
10. The stress and rhythm of the sentence.

TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT

1. Greetings (“Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur…”).
2. The use of ‘tú’ and ‘usted’.
3. Phrases for extending invitations, expressing thanks and apologising.
4. Standard phrases used in emails and on the telephone.

TEACHING UNIT 6. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT

1. Using everyday expressions from French lessons.
2. To approach someone and ask for something.
3. To get to know someone.
4. To introduce oneself / to find out someone’s identity / to introduce someone.
5. Saying hello / saying goodbye / saying thank you / apologising.
6. Ask them to repeat, to spell it out, to explain, to speak more slowly.
7. Asking for and providing personal information.
8. Book an appointment (confirm / bring forward / postpone / cancel).
9. To congratulate / To make a wish.
10. Inviting / Offering: declining, accepting, saying thank you
11. Ask for and give explanations about routines, habits and schedules.
12. To ask for and give news about someone.
13. Talking about their tastes.
14. To talk about their projects.
15. Ask for information about places / Describe places.
16. Ask for information about people / Describe people.
17. Asking for information about things / Describing things.
18. To ask for or give directions, an itinerary.
19. Request information or assistance.
20. Counting: asking and telling the time, timetables, prices, stating the date
21. Expressing quantities and measurements
22. To go shopping; to purchase a good or service.
23. To talk about the different modes of transport and be able to use them.
24. Making a booking at a restaurant.
25. Ordering at a restaurant.
26. To express agreement, disagreement or uncertainty.
27. To express an opinion, a wish, or an intention to do or not to do something.
28. To report on routines, habits, preferences, plans and decisions.
29. Describe physical sensations: cold, heat.
30. Expressing attitudes or feelings in certain situations: happiness, sadness, tiredness, anger…
31. To describe a person or a thing.
32. To express an obligation to do something, or a prohibition.
33. To ask for or give instructions on how to do something, or to suggest it.
34. To ask for and provide information or help regarding something.
35. To ask for an explanation or clarification about something.
36. To ask permission to do something.
37. Invite someone/accept/decline
38. To suggest doing something
39. To describe experiences, actions and projects relating to past, present and future events.

TEACHING UNIT 7. DISCURSIVE CONTENT

1. Starting and ending a conversation.
2. Connectives used to organise the text and provide context in terms of time and place (alors, d’abord, ensuite, enfin...).
3. Some simple connecting words such as «et», «ou», «parce que» and “mais”
4. Interrupt politely to ask them to repeat themselves.