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

This is a summary of the objectives for this French course for complete beginners.

Sociolinguistic Appropriateness
To be able to establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of greetings, farewells, introductions, saying please, thank you, sorry etc.

Listening Comprehension (LC)
To be able to follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Reading Comprehension (RC)
To be able to understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.

Spoken Interaction (SI)
To be able to interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair.

Spoken Production (SP)
To be able to produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.

Written Interaction (WI)
To be able to ask for or pass on personal details in written form.

Written Production (WP)
To be able to write simple phrases and sentences about themselves and imaginary people, 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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