French Classes (online & on-site) – Spring 2025

No prerequisite

This class is designed for complete beginners.  The emphasis of French 101 is on very basic conversational skills. You will be able to introduce yourself and others, answer basic questions regarding your life and express personal likes and dislikes. You will also have learned the French alphabet, numbers and basic vocabulary

• Grammar skills : personal pronouns, alphabet and the accents, gender of countries, definite and indefinite articles, conjugation of verbs être, s’appeler, ER verbs, verb avoir,  C’est / il est, interrogative adjective quel, parce que / pour, possessive adjectives in the singular form.  (Cosmopolite 1 – dossiers 0, 1)
• Please order Cosmopolite 1 (for all A1 classes) – textbook EAN: 978-2014015973, workbook EAN: 978-2014015980

Tuesdays (April 8 – June 3), 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 18 hours, online : zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite A1-1 or equivalent

Designed for students who have completed 101 or ‘false beginners,’ (those who have taken French before but believe they have forgotten everything).  The focus of this class emphasizes basic conversational skills.  You will be able to ask and answer questions about personal details such as where you live, people you know and things you own. You will be able to describe or make simple requests and invitations, understand date and time, and explain basic hopes and opinions.

• Grammar skills :  prepositions of location, contracted articles, conjugation of verbs aller, prendre, habiter, venir, negation of the verbs, demonstrative adjectives, est-ce que and inversion to ask questions, etc ;  (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 2 ) 
• Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Tuesdays (April 8 – June 3),  7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite A1-2 or equivalent

You will be able to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and phrases aimed at asking for directions, describing a place, giving orders, talking about the weather. You will also be able ask for information and tell a story with the use of past tenses.

• Grammar skills : possessive adjectives in the plural form, the gender and number of descriptive adjectives,verbs of preference aimer, adorer, more ER verbs, verb faire + du/de la/ de l’/ des, disjunctive pronouns, expression “avoir mal” + body parts,  (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 3 )
• Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Mondays (April 7 – June 9),  6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.
No class on Memorial Day, May 28.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite A1-2 or equivalent

You will be able to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and phrases aimed at asking for directions, describing a place, giving orders, talking about the weather. You will also be able ask for information and tell a story with the use of past tenses.

• Grammar skills : possessive adjectives in the plural form, the gender and number of descriptive adjectives ,verbs of preference aimer, adorer, more ER verbs, verb faire + du/de la/ de l’/ des, disjunctive pronouns, expression “avoir mal” + body parts,  (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 3 )

• Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Thursdays (March 26 – May 21),  6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours

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Prerequisite A1-4 or equivalent

You will be able to talk about past events, talk about recent experiences or plans, understand biographical information, describe a person physically, give advice.

• Grammar skills: passé composé tense (part1 & 2), recent past and near future, verb dire, être + adjective, avoir + noun, the imperative mood ( Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 5 )
• Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Tuesdays (April 8 – June 3),  5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.
(Please note that the instructor may ask to start the class a little bit earlier, at about 5:15 pm)

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Prerequisite A1-6 or equivalent

You will be able to understand a menu, run errands, compare products, talk about a development, buy clothes, make a positive or negative assessment.

• Grammar Skills: indefinite and partitive articles, pronoun en, comparative expressions, the imparfait tense, verb payer in the present tense, reciprocal reflexive verbs. (dossier 7)
• Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Thursdays (April 10 – June 5),  6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite Beginner A2 courses or equivalent

You will be able to express a desire and ask politely, talk about household chores, give advice, make proposals and suggestions, express an obligation, a wish, a hope

• Grammar skills: Present conditional, imperative mood, il faut / c’est nécessaire / devoir, conditional of devoir/pouvoir + inifinitive, si + present ( Inspire 2 – dossier 4)
• Please order Inspire 2: textbook isbn: 9782015135793; workbook isbn: 9782015135809

Wednesdays (April 9 – June 4),  6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite all A2 courses or equivalent

You will learn to introduce yourself, talk about yourself, about your preferences, your activities, compare, give advice and explanations, identify cultural differences, express opposition, report some recent and past news, etc.

• Grammar skills: present tense (indicative and conditional moods), recent past, near future, relative pronouns (qui, que, où, dont), comparative/superlative, expressions of cause and consequences, expressions of opposition, passé composé / imparfait (B1 book : dossier 1) 
• Please order Inspire 3 – textbook isbn: 9782017133452; workbook isbn: 9782017133469:

Wednesdays (Jan. 15 – March 12),  6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, Online: zoom meetings.

Prerequisite B1-5  or equivalent

You will learn talk about a work of art, nuance an opinion, discuss the role of art.

• Grammar skills: the passive voice, placement of adjectives, pronouns Y and EN, the expression of concession, connectors to organize set of events. (B1 book: dossier 6)

Thursdays (April 10 – June 4),  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 hours, Online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite B1-8 or equivalent

You are going to learn to tell in the past tense, explain a motivation, describe a trend, make forecasts, express feelings, understand a poetic text, discuss travel.

• Grammar skills: tenses to tell a story in the past, anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority, compound relative pronouns, future anterior tense (awareness), subjunctive mood (part 4)
• Please order Inspire 3 – textbook isbn: 9782017133452; workbook isbn: 9782017133469

Mondays (March 24 – May 19),  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 hours, online : zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite all B1 courses or equivalent

You will learn to talk about your motivations, regrets, dreams, obstacles to achieving your dreams.

• Grammar skills: asking questions, using the past infinitive mood, the present and past conditional mood, the verbs “recommend and adivse, long adverbs (Entre Nous 3, dossier 3)
• Please order Entre Nous 3; textbook EAN: 978-8416273249

Wednesdays (March 26 – May 21), 6:30 am – 8:30 pm , 18 hours, on-site.

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