French for students at level A1

€200.00

Category:

Course for level A1

Day and Time : Wednesday from 11:00 to 12:30
Course duration : 10 weeks
Starting date : 24th September 2025
Format : Online

French for students at level A1

€200.00

Category:

Description

French A1.2/A2 Consolidation Course

This course is ideal for students who have completed a Preliminary French course this year, or who are at level A1.1 and wish to consolidate their skills or progress towards A1.2/A2. It is particularly suitable for learners who studied French up to the Leaving Certificate more than 10 years ago. Students should already be able to introduce themselves, ask simple questions, give or understand directions, handle numbers, and go shopping.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Everyday Social Skills

  • Handle short social exchanges using polite greetings, introductions, and responses to invitations or apologies.

Listening

  • Understand simple, clearly spoken phrases and expressions related to personal and family information, shopping, local geography, and employment.

Reading

  • Comprehend short, simple texts with high-frequency vocabulary, including some internationally recognizable words.

Speaking & Interaction

  • Communicate in simple, routine tasks and exchanges on familiar topics related to work, free time, and everyday situations.

Speaking & Presenting

  • Describe people, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes, family, education, and jobs using short, simple phrases.

  • Give rehearsed presentations on familiar subjects and answer straightforward follow-up questions.

Writing & Interaction

  • Write short notes and messages relating to immediate needs.

Writing & Production

  • Produce connected phrases and sentences using simple connectors such as and, but, and because.

Practical Situations Covered

  • Booking flights, train tickets, and hotel check-ins

  • Eating out, ordering food and drinks, and booking tables

  • Renting a car

  • Asking for and understanding directions

  • Shopping and making payments

  • Going to the bank

  • Making complaints or apologies

  • Arranging meetings

  • Telephoning, leaving, or taking messages

 

    About the trainer:

    Maëlle Boudet

    Maëlle has been teaching French full time for the last 6 years. She’s had a large variety of teaching experiences, in public and private schools, with adolescents and adults, individual and collective classes, online and face-to-face. She obtained a Master in “languages didactics” from the famous University Grenoble Alpes in France, specially designed to train teachers of French as a second language. Having previously worked and studied in a large variety of countries (Lebanon, India, Greece, Ireland, France and Tunisia) and sectors of activities (Tourism, Law, International NGOs…), she has specialised in teaching French on professional purposes to adults willing to advance in their carriers by improving their skills in French. She now lives in Tunisia where she has been working for the French Institute and the French Alliance of Tunis before working independently, designing language training programmes mostly for executives in the private sector and to the diplomatic community based in Tunis.

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