INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE LANGUE ET CULTURES FRANCAISES FRENCH COURSES

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1 INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE LANGUE ET CULTURES FRANCAISES FRENCH COURSES LEVEL 1 A1 LEVEL / To introduce oneself, to use appropriate polite phrases, to count and spell - Present tense, personal pronoun subjects, masculine and feminine forms, definite and indefinite articles, - To inquire about people and objects, question forms to find out about family relationships, people s origins and professional occupations, to tell the date - Possessive adjectives, plural form, negative form, c est / il est forms, tonic pronouns, prepositions and - To express ones tastes and one s country names favorite activities, to accept or refuse an invitation, to write a letter to a friend - Faire, aller, lire verbs and prepositions, adverbs of frequency, near future - To talk about daily life, to provide information about one s schedule, to tell the time, to talk about past events - Present perfect, reflexive verbs, time indicators, «il y a / il n y a pas» forms, devoir and pouvoir + infinitive - Orientation in space, to give form directions, to locate exterior places, to apologize, to thank - Preposition of place, near future, recent past, il faut + infinitive form, - To describe people, to identify and imperative form compare - Demonstrative pronouns, place of - To ask for and give information about adjectives, simple comparison forms the weather, to advise, to describe a project - Future tense, «Si» + present tense + present tense/future tense, simple - To buy, to ask for a price, to quantify, relative pronoun forms to ask for somebody s opinion, to express one s appreciation, to make someone wait - Partitive articles, «en» pronoun, quantity expressions, conditional polite form - To talk about past events, to describe changes, to express past facts and - Present perfect and preterit, use of «y» pronoun habits - Demonstrative pronouns celui, - To function in a restaurant, to order a meal, to express surprise, discontent, interrogative pronouns lequel, restriction, direct and indirect objects restriction and appreciation - Introduction to subjunctive form, - How to behave at a doctor s place, to present participles, gerunds express concern about somebody s condition, to give advice, directions, to express doubts, to encourage someone, to ask for explanations - Present tense indirect speech, word links, expression of cause, consequence, aim

2 LEVEL 2 A2 LEVEL / To tell, to understand and to write a narrative, to describe someone s character, to address someone, to write a cover letter - To express feelings: desire, fear, doubt, to express necessity and obligation, to convince, to express reservations about something, to complain - To express suppositions and hypothesis, to make suggestions, to give advice, to request politely - To express certainty, to inquire about people s lives, to change topics of conversation, to write an official letter - To present an organization, to understand and express opinions, to encourage and congratulate someone, to understand news items - To describe and comment facts, to give instructions, to express anger and frustration, to fight, to write congratulation letters - To express facts previous to others in the past, to make suppositions in the past, to argue - To make projects, to put suggestions forward, to warn, to anticipate future events, to explain the causes and consequences of a fact - To negotiate, to take a group decision, to connect series of facts, to describe behavior - To make assumptions in the past, to regret, to express reproach, to suggest - To accuse, to defend one s point of view, one s project, to make restrictions or criticisms, to debate - To be able to express oneself in common conversations between professionals and non-professionals, to make a statement - Indicative tenses (review): simple and near future, present tense, present perfect and preterit - Present subjunctive, -ment ending adverbs - Present conditional, conditional sentences with si + imperfect, + present conditional, all negative forms - Present tense indirect speech, present participles and gerunds - Passive form, past infinitive, expression of length of time - Double complement pronouns, comparative forms - Pluperfect, indirect speech in the past - Future perfect, expression of aim, cause, consequence - Simple and complex relative structures, indefinite adjectives and pronouns - Past conditional, conditional sentences with si + pluperfect, + past conditional - Expression of opposition and concession, impersonal sentence structures - Use of articles, nominalization

3 LEVEL 3 B1 LEVEL / To relate one s memory, to present a past situation and the stages involved, to express one s life style and justify it - To express diverse and mixed feelings, to react and take position, to write about job offers and job search, to prepare for a job interview - To deal with misunderstandings, to define, to interpret, to explain - To debate and argue about progress, to present an invention, to express one s trust or distrust; one s satisfaction or dissatisfaction - Banking operations, to reformulate, to summarize - To write explanatory texts, to ask for information, to draw causes and effects from events - To understand the news, to identify different viewpoints, to ask for permission, to refuse - To make a report, to resort to different ways of expressing/qualifying one s position - To express contradictory argumentation, to write personal letters - To analyze and design didactic texts, to make assumptions, to express condition - To inquire about and provide information about spatial organization - To deal with choice situations: propositions, hesitations, decisions, acceptations, to thank, to understand and design appreciative texts - Narrative tenses: present perfect, past simple ( passé simple ), preterit, pluperfect, past anterior; anteriority, posteriority, simultaneity - Subjective appreciation: present and past subjunctives - Direct and indirect object personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns - Future and conditional forms - Comparing and contrasting, action characterization through adverbs - Explaining the conditions of facts: aim, cause and consequence - Information restitution: nominalization and passive form - Present and past tense reporting of conversations, introductory verbs, tense agreement - Opposition and concession - Expression condition and hypothesis - Complex relative sentence structures - Name characterization: placing adjectives, determinative complements, propositions, participles

4 LEVEL 4 B2 LEVEL / To extract and formulate the main ideas and information from a document, to synthesize and summarize information; to deal with unexpected event - To expose faults and qualities of actions and behaviors in order to accuse, to object, to justify an idea, a project or a reform - To narrate: from personal anecdotes to historical sequences, to describe positive or negative evolutions, to reformulate - To define an object or a notion, to make connections between facts and ideas - To describe spaces, organizations and behaviors, to design a neutral and objective speech, to write inquiry letters - To build up argumentations, to qualify one s opinions and criticisms, to make a report - To explain a fact, a behavior, or a phenomenon, to make a demonstration - To put forward the consequence of a fact or behavior, to establish consistency throughout a narrative - Nominal forms, complex sentence structures (juxtapositions, adjective, relative or participle constructions) - Expressing obligation, necessity, and will - Expressing anteriority, posteriority, length of time - Expressing comparisons - Passive, pronominal and impersonal structures, link words - Opposition, concession, restriction, use of euphemisms and different forms of mitigations (negative, interrogative, conditional forms ) - Expression of aim, cause, origin and consequence, expression of doubt or certainty, making assumptions - Expression of consequence, condition and restriction, pronominal and lexical substitution, adverbs of time

5 LEVEL 5 C1/C2 LEVELS / To express sensations and feelings, to express impressions and aesthetic opinions (literary or art works) - To emphasize an idea, to use metaphors and figurative expressions, to report somebody s speech - To express judgment, to specify the level of importance of a fact or a judgment, to take stock of a situation, to formulate needs and wishes - To mitigate or reinforce one s words, to change language register, to stress facts and ideas - To document oneself: to identify elements and decipher who says what - To write: a reading card and notetaking table - To decipher: between facts, opinions, hypothesis, conditions and probabilities - To analyze: text construction (link words and lexical transitions), to write an analysis table - To compare charts, graphs, to compare documents, to design a comparative table - To document: terms and concepts, to designate a place, to describe a person, to relate facts, to write a report based on 1 or several documents - To explain: the relative importance of facts, cause and effect links, the context of an event, a project; to write an instruction leaflet - To convince: argumentation process, agreeing and disagreeing, to write a letter of complaint - - Expression of feelings (subjunctive forms) - Reported speech, introductory verbs - Expression of quantity, comparative forms, conditional structures - Article values, emphasis (of a noun, a verb, an adjective, demonstrative constructions), superlative forms, adverbs of intensity