Continue developing your intermediate French fluency and confidence with our Intermediate French: B1.5 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Intermediate French: B1.4 Course or have approximately 320 hours of prior study. This course helps you communicate more confidently in French by discussing cities and places, expressing wishes and intentions, giving advice, describing hypothetical situations, sharing information by phone, and talking about travel and everyday life. It is ideal for learners interested in learning French for cultural interest or personal enrichment in a supportive and interactive learning environment.

You will strengthen these communication skills while developing greater accuracy with the present conditional, adjective placement, relative pronouns, and verb patterns used to express intentions and advice. Vocabulary related to accommodation, cities, travel, daily life, and expatriation is introduced naturally through practical communication activities, while pronunciation develops liaison and features of familiar spoken French.

DELIVERY MODE

Language courses are offered in two delivery modes:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: via Zoom or Microsoft Teams

Please check the delivery mode listed before enrolling, as some classes are face-to-face and others are online.

TEXTBOOK

• Cosmopolite 3 B1 Livre d'Eleve Book (Hachette: 2018), ISBN: 9782015135472

Suggested Textbook Suppliers: Abbey's Bookshop · Intext Book Company / Language International Bookshop · The Language People

The textbook is not included in the course fee. Please check textbook availability with the supplier and wait until your course is confirmed before purchasing. WEA Sydney cannot accept responsibility for textbook purchases if a course is cancelled. Courses are confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days before the start date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Identifying criteria and reporting rankings
• Warning someone about a situation or social phenomenon
• Expressing wishes, intentions, and polite requests
• Sharing information over the phone
• Classifying and describing places
• Giving advice and describing hypothetical situations
• Talking about ties to a city
• Describing memories and first impressions of a foreign city

Grammar

• Prepositional verbs related to expatriation
• Expressing intentions and ambitions
• Present conditional tense for polite requests and wishes
• Placement of adjectives
• Present conditional tense for advice, hypothetical situations, and suggestions
• Pronouns où and dont for providing details about places

Phonetics

• Pronunciation: liaisons and consonant linking
• Pronunciation: markers of familiar spoken French

Vocabulary

• Criteria for choosing a town or city
• Reporting rankings
• Warning about social peculiarities
• Accommodation and housing information
• Practical information exchanged by phone
• Describing places to live
• Expressing feelings about a city
• Describing first impressions of a foreign city

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Communicate in French about cities, accommodation, social experiences, and hypothetical situations with increasing fluency and confidence.
2. Use key grammar structures including the present conditional, adjective placement, and relative pronouns with improved accuracy.
3. Apply relevant vocabulary and pronunciation features in practical spoken and written interactions related to travel, expatriation, and daily life.