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Advanced

Advanced (ONLINE)

Standard Courses
Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Advanced

Standard Courses
Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
Advanced +

Grammar (Advanced)

Standard Courses
Using the book  "Grammaire Progressive, niveau Perfectionnement", continue to explore the complexity and subtlety of French grammar.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
Grammar (Beginner)

Grammar (Beginner)

Standard Courses
Grammar (Elementary)
Grammar (Intermediate)
ALL LEVELS WELCOME

Pronunciation - all levels

Standard Courses
Does French pronunciation freak you out? If so, this is the class for you! This course will not be taught like any other class. It will be fun! There will be teaching resources made to guide you through the concepts, with the class mainly focusing on doing fun activities which actually get you to put your pronunciation skills to practice. Sign up now to master your French grammar skills!
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
BEGINNER (A1)

Beginner 1

Standard Courses
Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Discovering the French language
● Spelling and counting
● Greetings and politeness
● Asking questions
● Introducing yourself and others (name, nationality, age, etc.)
● Explaining why you are learning French

Course prerequisite: No prior knowledge of French whatsoever
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1




Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Beginner 2

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Naming and locating places
● Indicating your destination and your origin
● Describing the way you travel
● Talking about where you live
● Giving and understanding directions
● Enquiring about and booking accommodation
● Talking about your family
● Describing someone’s physical appearance and personality

Course prerequisite: Beginner 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1




Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Beginner 3 (Group 1)

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Beginner 3 (Group 2)

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Beginner 3

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Beginner)

Standard Courses

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Beginner)

Conversation Courses

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Pre-elementary)

Conversation Courses
Want to improve your French conversational skills? This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

Course objectives:

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation - Beginner / Pre Elementary

Conversation Courses
Want to improve your French conversational skills? This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

Course objectives:

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

French break for parents

Conversation Courses
Make your French work in different situations with our selection of conversation classes on various themes.

In class, you will work on listening comprehension and oral production using a variety of short documents (video, written and audio) and in context (in a wide range of everyday situations). You will be put in interaction situations adapted to your level with the other learners and the teacher. The teacher will provide occasional explanations of the language and give feedback to help students improve their oral skills.

The teacher will provide class documents.

Pace: 1 hour per week over 10 weeks

Grammar (Beginner)

Standard Courses

Pre-elementary 1

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Pre-elementary 2

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Understanding travel plans
● Describing a holiday location
● Choosing a travel destination and accommodation
● Talking about the weather
● Talking about sensations and emotions
● Understanding a menu and discussing flavours
● Going grocery shopping
● Talking about reading habits

Course prerequisite: Pre-Elementary 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Pre-elementary 3

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Comparing a past situation to the present
● Choosing an outfit, describing and buying clothes
● Making a positive or negative comment
● Comparing and evoking changes
● Describing a restaurant and ordering
● Describing an experience
● Giving movie/show recommendations
● Organising a gathering

Course prerequisite:
Pre-Elementary 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
ELEMENTARY (A2)

Conversation (Elementary)

Standard Courses

Want to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.


●Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Intermediate)

Conversation Courses

Want to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.


●Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation - Intermediate

Conversation Courses
Would you like to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking and interacting with others.


● Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision or to choose
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course Prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required
 
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Elementary

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Comparing linguistic stays in France
● Doing administrative procedures
● Organising a trip
● Asking about accommodation
● Describing a place
● Giving details
● Relating an experience
● Understanding advice and safety instructions

Classes that fall on a public holiday will be held on the friday of the same week.

Course prerequisite: Pre-Elementary 3 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Elementary 2

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Expressing emotions and feelings
● Organising a themed weekend
● Describing an unusual trip
● Talking about personal experiences
● Seeking employment and understanding a job offer
● Offering services
● Giving advice

Course prerequisite: Elementary 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Elementary 3

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Speaking about a professional career
● Answering formal questions
● Explaining, nuancing and clarifying facts
● Giving feedback
● Answering a survey
● Asking for information
● Expressing wishes and giving advice

Course prerequisite:
Elementary 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Elementary 5

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Understanding operating instructions
● Discussing a successful experience
● Speaking about hygiene and beauty products
● Relating a series of actions
● Understanding a story
● Sharing a memory
● Explaining a series of facts
● Advocating for a cause

Course prerequisite: Elementary 4 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
INTERMEDIATE (B1)

Conversation (Intermediate)

Standard Courses
Would you like to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking and interacting with others.


● Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision or to choose
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course Prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required
 
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Intermediate)

Conversation Courses
Would you like to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking and interacting with others.


● Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision or to choose
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course Prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required
 
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation - Intermediate

Conversation Courses
Would you like to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking and interacting with others.


● Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision or to choose
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course Prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required
 
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

French for International Relations

Conversation Courses

À partir de documents déclencheurs tels que des émissions de télévision et de radio, des articles de journaux ou des dessins de presse, vous aurez l'occasion de renforcer votre niveau de français en échangeant autour de questions économiques, d’enjeux géopolitiques, de mesures de santé publique ou encore de la défense des droits humains.

Ce cours est accessible aux étudiants à partir du niveau B1.

« Using television, radio, newspaper articles and press releases, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your level of French level by discussing economic and geopolitical issues such as public health measures or the defence of human rights.

If you are not sure about your level, take a free level assessment


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Intermediate +

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Taking risks
● Enhancing one’s experience
● Understanding a profession
● Describing the start of your workday
● Analysing the front page of a magazine
● Comparing traditional and social media
● Describing a past event
● Structuring a newspaper article
● Identifying and analysing fake news
● Drawing attention from an audience
● Debating

Course prerequisite:
Intermediate 3 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 3


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Intermediate

Standard Courses

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

Identifying criteria and warnings
● Classifying objects
● Setting wishes and making requests
● Speaking on the phone
● Describing a place
● Giving advice/describing a hypothetical situation
● Talking about one’s connection to a place
● Describing memories
● Describing one’s experience of arriving in a foreign city
● Expressing feelings
● Understanding complaints
● Solving problems
● Managing and anticipating health problems
● Staying informed about your medical insurance

Course prerequisite:
Elementary 6 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 3



Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
ADVANCED (B2)

Advanced (ONLINE)

Standard Courses
Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Advanced

Standard Courses
Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Advanced)

Conversation Courses
Enhance your conversational and debating skills in a convivial atmosphere after some advanced grammar refreshers.
Discuss various issues on themes such as: work and leisure, technologies, media and (dis)information, consumption, the environment, social relations, health and more.
All material will be provided by your teacher.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation: Histoire des produits Made in France (Advanced)

Conversation Courses

Would you like to improve your French grammar and practise your conversation skills? 

In this course, you will study grammar points an advanced level. You will be encouraged to practise your speaking skills using themes corresponding to your language objectives. The aim of this course is to help you develop your French language skills.


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation: Odonymes de Paris (Advanced)

Conversation Courses

Would you like to improve your French grammar and practise your conversation skills? 

In this course, you will study grammar points an advanced level. You will be encouraged to practise your speaking skills using themes corresponding to your language objectives. The aim of this course is to help you develop your French language skills.


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Grammar (Advanced)

Standard Courses
Using the book  "Grammaire Progressive, niveau Perfectionnement", continue to explore the complexity and subtlety of French grammar.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
EXPERT (C1)

Conversation: Breakfast Club (Expert)

Conversation Courses

A lot of fun and interesting topics to be discussed, from politics to philosophy, to science or to any subject you would like to explore in French... This class brings different discussion topics together whilst enjoying breakfast as a group. Coffee and croissant included!

If you are not sure about your level, take a free level assessment


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Perfectionnement

Standard Courses

Looking to practice your conversation skills in French? This class will give you an opportunity to practice speaking, listening and to interact with others. The Perfectionnement class focuses on social change and contemporary global issues.

If you are not sure about your level, take a free level assessment


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks
Conversation (Beginner)

Conversation (Beginner)

Standard Courses

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation (Beginner)

Conversation Courses

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Conversation - Beginner / Pre Elementary

Conversation Courses
Want to improve your French conversational skills? This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

Course objectives:

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

French break for parents

Conversation Courses
Make your French work in different situations with our selection of conversation classes on various themes.

In class, you will work on listening comprehension and oral production using a variety of short documents (video, written and audio) and in context (in a wide range of everyday situations). You will be put in interaction situations adapted to your level with the other learners and the teacher. The teacher will provide occasional explanations of the language and give feedback to help students improve their oral skills.

The teacher will provide class documents.

Pace: 1 hour per week over 10 weeks

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How to use the course selector: 


ADULTS


1. Click on ADULTS in the course selector 
2. Filter by session, for example Term 1 or Summer Intensive Course
3. If known, filter by level. 

If you have already studied with us, please check with your teacher which level you should enrol in. 

YOUNG LEARNERS


1. Click on YOUNG LEARNERS in the course selector 
2. Filter by session, for example Term 1 or Summer Intensives
3. If known, filter by level. 

If your child has not previously taken classes with AFM, please contact us on enquiries@afcanberra.com.au so that we can discuss your needs.


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