French for complete beginners – Group Online

This French for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to a French-speaking country.
The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills) and the students will cover the following practical “survival skills”:

  • Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
  • Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
  • Travelling
  • Booking a hotel and checking in
  • Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
  • Asking for and understanding directions
  • Going shopping
  • Complaining and apologising
  • Arranging to meet
  • Telephoning – Leaving a message – Taking a message

€200.00

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Course Details

Course Length : 10-week French course for complete beginners
Course Venue : Online course (Zoom or Skype)
Further Detail : Course for complete beginners covering practical "Survival skills" to travel in a French-speaking country.

French for complete beginners – Group Online

This French for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to a French-speaking country.
The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills) and the students will cover the following practical “survival skills”:

  • Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
  • Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
  • Travelling
  • Booking a hotel and checking in
  • Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
  • Asking for and understanding directions
  • Going shopping
  • Complaining and apologising
  • Arranging to meet
  • Telephoning – Leaving a message – Taking a message

€200.00

SKU: N/A Category:

Description

French for Complete Beginners – Course Goals

By the end of this course, you will be able to use French in simple, everyday situations.

Everyday Social Skills

  • Use polite expressions for greetings, farewells, introductions, and basic courtesy such as please, thank you, and sorry.

Listening

  • Understand very slow, clearly spoken French with pauses to help you follow and absorb meaning.

Reading

  • Recognize familiar names, words, and short phrases.

  • Read very simple texts, focusing on one phrase at a time, and reread as needed to understand.

Speaking & Interaction

  • Participate in short, simple conversations.

  • Communicate with the help of repetition, slower speech, and rephrasing.

Speaking & Presenting

  • Use simple phrases to briefly talk about people and places.

Writing & Interaction

  • Ask for and give basic personal information in writing.

Writing & Production

  • Write simple phrases and sentences about yourself or imaginary people, including where they live and what they do.

Gérald holds a Master in English and in French as a Foreign Language (FLE). He started as a teacher in 1998. He has been teaching refugees and asylum seekers in France. He started teaching in Ireland in 2004. He taught for the Dublin City and the Fingal city Councils in libraries, in the Centre of European Studies (CES) in Dunshaughlin and he has been teaching for Languages Unlimited since 2007.

Gérald has a broad experience with students coming from different parts of the world and various backgrounds, with groups and one-to-one for SMEs, multinational companies and European agencies in Ireland. He also has extensive experience in teaching children, going from primary school (schoil Cronan in Rathcoole) to secondary schools (Mount Sackville in Chapelizod), as well as preparation courses for Junior and Leaving Certificates, with a great success rate!

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