French Courses: From Beginner to Proficiency

Level: A1.1

• Introduce yourself, spell your name, state your nationality, indicate which language you speak
• Ask others to introduce themselves
• Count numbers
• Communicate in the context of the class
• Greet someone
• Ask and give someone personal information
• Talk about your hobbies and dreams

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A1.2

• Talk about your town
• Inquire and give an explanation
• Get information and book an accommodation
• Understand and provide a simple itinerary
• Indicate the method of travel
• Write a postcard
• Give an impression about the place
• Request and indicate the country of origin and the designated country
• Talk about the weather
• Talk about your tastes, interests, and activities  
• Talk about your profession
• Describe a person

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A1.3

• Talk about your family
• Understand and announce a family event
• React to a family announcement and congratulate the person
• Understand, inquire, and give information about a person
• Understand, inquire, and provide the time and schedule information
• Express an obligation
• Understand and describe your daily activities and schedule
• Propose, accept, and refuse an invitation to go out
• Schedule a meeting
• Speak about your future plans
• Recall past events

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.1

• Understand a questionnaire
• Ask questions
• Talk about celebrations and traditions
• Call someone and speak over the phone
• Give advice
• Recall past events
• Understand biographical information
• Describe someone's physical appearance and take a note of resemblances
• Talk about the seasons
• Express sensations, perceptions, and feelings
• Understand simple information about the weather
• Find an event in the year
• Locate a place geographically
• Present and describe a location
• Talk about outdoor activities

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.2

• Understand/ write an itinerary
• Talk about hobbies and cultural activities
• Write a letter while on vacation
• Talk about personal tastes and diet
• Understand/ write a menu
• Describe an outfit
• Make a positive/ negative observation (clothes, people, etc.)
• Ask for/ specify the size of clothing
• Give advice
• Choose a gift for someone
• Describe an object and indicate its function

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.3

• Make a shopping list and identify food products
• Shop for everyday items and express precise quantities
• Suggest an outing and give a reaction
• Characterize a restaurant and understand a menu before ordering
• Order and express satisfaction/dissatisfaction at a restaurant
• Evoke memories
• Describe an event in history
• Compare old and current situations
• Understand the description of a typical/atypical home
• Describe housing and renovations
• Indicate the function of a room
• Understand a real estate ad
• Understand/seek clarification for housing and rental conditions
• Talk about a relationship between roommates
• Understand/express rules (restriction, prohibition, and recommendation)

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.4

• Converse about a friendship
• Describe a person (character, qualities, flaws)
• Speak about your relationship with neighbours
• Report back what someone says
• Talk about changes and compare
• Recall a past encounter
• Recall about a professional or educational experience

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.5

• Understand a job posting
• Indicate skills for a job
• Understand and write a résumé and cover letter
• Present yourself in a professional context and describe a work experience
• Provide advice and cautionary warning
• Indicate a necessary change
• Talk about a country, its people, and cultural differences
• Discover stereotypes
• Understand and express percentage and statistics
• Question and discuss a lifestyle change
• Express your feelings about a lifestyle change
• Understand the uses and rules of doing something yourself

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A2.6

• Understand a comparative study, a ranking
• Speak about your place in life and justify your choices
• Give an account of an event
• Make a suggestion, inspire action
• Understand headlines in the press
• Respond and give your opinion about a television program
• Understand events reported in the media

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.1

• Understand the presentation and critique of a film
• Learn expressions of appreciation
• Engage in activities
• Talk about hobbies and social life
• Choose a service in tourism
• Make an itinerary
• Talk about the future: learn expressions of desire and hope
• Make suggestions

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.2

• Talk about your personal interests and activities
• Express a purpose or goal
• Present a project
• Imagine a hypothetical or imaginary situation
• Present and summarize a book
• Express the cause and effect of a situation
• Give an opinion and justify your position
• Express agreement and disagreement
• Persuade a change in lifestyle
• Understand a biography
• Retell a speech in the past tense
• Report an exceptional event

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.3

• Imagine a situation in the past
• Determine a past event in a story
• Learn expressions of regret
• Understand a declaration
• Encourage action
•  Express and defend your opinion
• Understand the history of an event
• Discuss material you've read
• Learn how to ask to borrow something
• Understand and provide preventative arguments (warnings and incentives)
• Use expressions of indignation
• Form a statement of discrepancy

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.4

• Describe past experiences
• Review expressions of cause
• Talk about your experience with languages
• Provide a detailed description
• Discuss your ambitions
• Justify your opinion
• Relay the details of a trip
• Make a proposal
• Create a hypothesis

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.5

• Describe a person’s character
• Explain different emotions
• Talk about your hopes and goals
• Learn expressions of regret
• Give and follow stage directions
• Express and defend your opinions
• Lead a discussion
• Handle different interactions

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.6

• Express your emotions
• Communicate an obligation, possibility, or prohibition
• Describe mannerisms
• Introduce characters from a film
• Describe the synopsis of a film
• Express and justify your opinion

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B1.7

• Summarize and share information
• Present and publish an investigative report
• Relay an event, general information, or interview
• Quote someone
• Present facts and information
• Express emotions and ideas
• Explain the definition of a word
• Understand the formation of words
• Use wordplay

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.1

• Quote someone
• Report information
• Express your point of view
• Analyze an editorial
• Compare information processed by different newspapers
• Express a hypothesis
• Describe experiences

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.2

• React to issues in health and nutrition
• Give your personal opinion
• Formulate a debate
• Express different probabilities
• Investigate and discuss inter-generational relations
• Express an opposing thought
• Comment on numerical data

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.3

• Captivate and convince your audience
• Identify rhetorical devices
• Express and defend an objective, remorse, or criticism
• Compare different teaching models
• Discuss educational issues

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.4

• Express and justify your opinion
• Give a report on an activity
• Learn how to debate
• Create a discourse
• Use public speaking techniques
• Express an opposing idea or concession
• Plan the cultural aspect of a trip to another country
• Discuss your relationship with the French language
• Write a story based on your personal experience
• Describe the beliefs and qualities of another person
• Express different emotions

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.5

• Express an opposing idea or concession
• Defend your opinion
• Plan the cultural aspect of a trip to another country
• Discuss your relationship with the French language
• Write a story based on your personal experience
• Describe the beliefs and qualities of another person
• Express different emotions

 New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: A1.1

• Construct a discourse
• Talk about different associations and their engagement
• Understand the register of different languages
• Write a cover letter

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.7

• Defend your ideas
• Make an esthetic observation
• Describe a work of art
• Express your opinion and tastes
• Talk about the world of art

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: B2.8

• Discuss different reasons to travel abroad
• Summarize information
• Narrate a story in the past tense
• Express a consequence to an action
• Talk about exile and migration

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.1

• Comment on a statistical chart
• Analyze a scientific article
• Reproduce a philosophical line of thought
• Compare different media coverage
• Summarize an oral text

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.2

• Understand a scene of classical theatre
• Make intercultural comparisons
• Compare two sociological texts
• Discuss the main theory of a book
• Analyze a thought-provoking article
• Verbally present a written document

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.3

• Analyze the testimony of an activist philosopher
• Identify the underlying meanings of a written text
• Stay up-to-date with the development of a social issue
• Form an argument based on personal experience
• Debate social and economic issues
• Summarize a written text

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.4

• Review the ethnological thought of a travelling writer
• Make transhistorical and intercultural comparisons
• Track the development of a sociological study
• Summarize the incentive of migrating people
• Compare two opposing arguments or two arguments expressing the same idea in different ways
• Have a verbal debate

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.5

• Summarize the evolution of an idea
• Report on French exceptionalism
• Analyze a contemporary political speech
• Compare models of integration and career development in different countries
• Write an administrative letter

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your campus or your teacher.

Level: C1.6

• Identify public speaking techniques
• Compose a speech
• Interpret legislative discourse
• Study the impact of a activist statement
• Write the dialogue for a play

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C2.1

• Analyze a narrative literary text
• Explain a psychological process
• Give an account of the economic and psychological implications of a social phenomenon
• Understand and reformulate technical explanations
• Techniques for doing a press review

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C2.2

• Present the different functions of art
• Analyze a descriptive literary text
• Rephrase the thoughts of an artist
• Express yourself through the functions of literature
• Debate the value of art education
• Learn techniques for critiquing a performance

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C2.3

• Reflect on the history of science
• Debate about ethical questions
• Share your position on scientific controversy
• Question the purpose of medical and scientific progress
  
  

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.

Level: C2.3

• Understand & participate to an animated conversation with natives.
• Express your opinion with ease on any trending and/or complex topics.
• React with spontaneity to daily life situations
• Understand the meaning of idiomatic expressions.

New students are invited to take a placement test before registering. Students can also take the certificate examination for the International French Diploma DELF. For more information, please contact the registration department of your local campus or your teacher.