To choose a course for your level, please follow advice below:
For conversation and mid-term classes:
- Choose Beginner Conversation or French for Travelers course if you can:
- introduce yourself and introduce someone
- understand ads and basic spoken instructions
- understand basic short texts
- fill in a form with personal details
- answer basic questions
- ask basic questions
- interact in French to buy something and pay
.
- choose Conversation Pre-Elementary if you can:
- realize easy daily tasks in French (interact with a shopkeeper for a purchase, make inquiries, take public transportation, etc.)
- using most common polite forms of address and dialogues
- talk about your likes and dislikes and explain
- understand a personal letter / email and answer (to thank, invite, apologize, accept or refuse an invitation)
- understand information to direct yourself
- choose Conversation Elementary if you can:
- tell a past or future event
- understand a basic conversation
-
link sentences with connecting words such as "et", "mais", "parce que", "d'abord",
"ensuite", etc .
- describe your daily life and close environment (hobbies, work, family, friends)
- choose Conversation Intermediate if you can:
- tell an event, an experience, a dream
- describe a hope, a project, a goal
- give your opinion and justify with arguments
- express feelings
- express agreement and disagreement and explain why
- understand important elements of the news (a newspapers article, an TV news extract or a radio programme extract)
- make hypothesis, give advice, make suggestions
- convince someone
- get by in an unforeseen situation that can occur in daily life, at work or on holiday
- organize a presentation or a speech in a logical and structured manner
- choisissez Conversation Advanced si vous pouvez:
- défendre votre opinion en donnant des arguments et des exemples
- développer votre point de vue et parler des avantages et des inconvénients
- exprimer la cause et la conséquence
- convaincre quelqu’un
- vous autocorriger quand vous faites une erreur
- prendre des notes
- reformuler une idée et expliquer l’implicite
- comprendre l’essentiel d’un document d’actualité
- choisissez Histoire des Villes, Mouvements Artistiques ou Perfectionnement si vous pouvez:
- comprendre une grande gamme de textes longs et exigeants, ainsi que saisir des significations implicites.
- vous exprimer spontanément et couramment sans trop apparemment devoir chercher vos mots ;
- utiliser la langue de façon efficace et souple dans sa vie sociale, professionnelle ou académique ;
-
vous exprimer sur des sujets complexes de façon claire et bien structurée et manifester son contrôle des outils d’organisation,
d’articulation et de cohésion du discours.
For textbook classes:
- if you have 20 hours or less French, please choose a Beginner 1 course (term 4) or a French for Travelers course (mid-term 3).
- if you are a new student with Alliance Française de Canberra please proceed to our online placement test below.
