Intermediate French Lessons - Course Outline

Themes include the following elements

• A wide range of possibilities, inc.
  Entertainment, mass media, work, education, the environment, tourism & travel, news, social & political issues, books, generation changes, cities, people, relationships, the arts, technology, health & fitness, social life, night life, national traditions/customs & culture, consumerism, globalisation

Grammar

• Review & practise ‘pre-intermediate’ level grammar
  (eg. through mixed tense/aspect work – present/past/future simple/continuous/perfect)
• Consolidate & extend the following concepts & structures:
• Comparatives & Superlatives
• Reported speech
• Conditionals (if…)
• Passive
• Relative clauses

Introduce:

• Modal Perfect - Vouloir/pouvoir/devoir au passé
  Wish - Le souhait

Other vocab

• Review & practise ‘pre-intermediate’ level vocab
  (eg. through dialogue creation)
• Consolidate & extend the following:
• Word-building (prefix and suffix patterns)
• Word families (noun-verb-adjective-adverb)
• Common idioms
• Common linking words
• Wide range of functions – inc. social language, advice, ordering, booking, making enquiries

Introduce:

• Common collocations
• Language to express opinions, eg. dis/agreement, uncertainty
• Compound words

And..

• Lots of speaking/active practice
• Lots of listening
• Pronunciation