Continue developing your beginner French fluency and confidence with our Beginner French: A1.2 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner French: A1.1 Course or have approximately 20 hours of prior study. This course helps you build stronger communication skills for everyday situations while expanding your understanding of French grammar and vocabulary. It is ideal for learners interested in learning French for cultural interest or personal enrichment in a supportive and interactive learning environment.

You will practise everyday communication such as introducing yourself, talking about your French class, referring to countries and cities, giving directions, describing accommodation, and discussing transportation. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context to help you form questions, use adjectives and articles correctly, and describe locations and personal information with greater confidence. Phonetics is integrated throughout the course, with focused practice on key French sounds, liaison, elision, and intonation to help you develop clearer and more natural spoken French.

DELIVERY MODE

Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: Microsoft Teams

TEXTBOOK

• Cosmopolite 1 A1 Livre d'Eleve Book (Hachette: 2017), ISBN: 9782014015973

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Asking about the identity
• Speaking about our French class
• Informing about the objective of learning French
• Referring to countries and cities
• Naming and locating the different places of a city
• Locating a place and indicating a means of transportation
• Getting to know each other
• Talking about and exchanging information about accommodation

Grammar

• Interrogatif adjectives : quel(s)/quelle(s)
• Possessive adjectives
• Parce que (because) and pour (for, in order to)
• Punctuation
• Prepositions (for countries and cities)
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Prepositions of place and contracted articles
• The articles au, à, à l’, aux and the cardinal points
• Prepositions (for the different means of transportation)
• Present tense verbs: aller, avoir, habiter, prendre and venir
• The negation
• Demonstrative adjectives
• Asking questions

Phonetics

• The sound [z] and the verbal liaison for nous, vous, ils, elles
• Recognise a question (according to the intonation)
• Ask a question (giving the right intonation)
• [ə] and [e] to differentiate singular and plural
• Elision of [ə] and [a] before a vowel
• The sound [z] and the liaison with nous and vous
• [ə] and [e] to indicate words in singular and plural

Vocabulary

• The identity
• Reasons for learning a foreign language
• Names of countries and cities
• Places of a city
• The cardinal points
• The means of transportation
• Expressions used for getting to know each other
• Accommodation

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Engage in simple conversations in French about personal identity, cities, accommodation, and travel.
2. Ask and answer questions, give reasons, and exchange basic information using common sentence structures and present tense verbs.
3. Communicate more clearly in spoken French by applying correct pronunciation, intonation, and key grammatical patterns in everyday contexts.