General French B1
At B1 you become an independent user of French.
About this course
At B1 you become an independent user of French. Following the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), this course helps you tell stories, explain your opinions, talk about plans and imagine what you would do in different situations.
You work on longer conversations, short articles and news items, job interviews and formal emails, while building the grammar that holds it all together: the conditional, the subjunctive, relative pronouns and more. Classes are practical and interactive, and you finish with an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Narrate events and experiences fluently using the main past tenses
- Express and justify opinions, agreement and disagreement
- Talk about plans, hopes and hypothetical situations using the future and the conditional
- Deal with most situations likely to arise when travelling or working in a French-speaking setting
- Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar topics
- Write connected texts and formal emails on familiar subjects
- Use the pronouns y and en and relative pronouns accurately
Curriculum
- Passé composé and imparfait in narrative
- The plus-que-parfait
- Narrative connectors
- Telling an anecdote
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Giving reasons and examples
- Logical connectors
- Taking part in a discussion
- The futur simple
- Conditions with si and the present
- Expressing hopes and intentions
- Talking about future projects
- Reading job adverts
- Presenting your experience and skills
- A job interview
- Writing a formal email
- The pronouns y and en
- Relative pronouns qui, que, où and dont
- Combining object pronouns
- Avoiding repetition in speech and writing
- The present conditional
- Making polite requests
- Hypotheses with si and the imparfait
- Giving advice and suggestions
- Introduction to the present subjunctive
- Expressing emotions and wishes
- Expressing necessity
- Reacting to news
- Understanding the main points of the news
- Reading short articles
- Summarising a text
- Talking about social topics
- Listening to longer conversations
- Reading for detail
- Writing a connected text
- Speaking practice: presenting and defending a point of view
Who it's for
Adults with A2 French who want to communicate independently at work, while studying or when travelling.
Before you start
- Completion of General French A2 or an equivalent A2 level
Part of these Alalamia diplomas
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