Learn French

Beginners Level 2

Communication Skills 1:

• Being able to make contact with somebody, to greet them formally or informally, to apologize, to spell, to count up to 100
• Knowing when and how to use 'tu' or 'vous'
• Getting familiar with genders (masculine and feminine) of inanimate words

Communication Skills 2:

• Being able to introduce yourself or others and ask somebody else to introduce themselves.
• Knowing how to fill in a form
• Knowing the 'definite articles': le, la, les
• Knowing all the subject personal pronouns: je, tu, etc
• Knowing how to ask and answer questions related to name, age, address, telephone number, email address, nationality
• Knowing how to use the verbs (conjugate),être, avoir, s'appeler, 'habiter, travailler, apprendre in the present tense
• Knowing adjectives of nationality (masculine and feminine), names of countries and their gender

Communication Skills 3:

• Being able to deliver personal information
• Being able to express an opinion (penser, aimer, adorer, détester) 
• Being able to express what we like and dislike, what our passions and dreams are 
• Knowing how to use the negative form: ne…….pas
• Being able to talk about our hobbies/pastimes,
• Being able to ask somebody else to talk about themselves
• Knowing interrogative words: qui, quand, où, quel/le, combien
• Being able to deliver personal information about somebody else
• Being able to express possession
• Knowing when to use 'possessive adjectives': mon, ton, son, ma, ta, sa

Communication Skills 4:

• Knowing days of the week and months
• Knowing the times of day
• Knowing the prepositions + names of countries: en France, au Portugal
• Communication Skills 5:
• Being able to spell
• Knowing the alphabet
• Knowing when and how to use tu or vous
• Knowing adjective of nationalities (masculine/feminine)
• Knowing names of languages
• Knowing names of countries and their genders
• Knowing the definite articles: le, la, les
• Knowing the subject personal pronouns: je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils, elles
• Knowing how to use and conjugate in the present tense the verbs être and s'appeler

Communication Skills 5:

• Have some notions of what the Francophonie is

 

To sum it up in terms of grammatical knowledge:

- definite (le,la, les) and indefinite articles (un, une, des) and when to use them
- how genders work: masculine/feminine
- singular/plural: changes
- verbs: how to conjugate (être, avoir, s’appeler); verbs in er (aimer, habiter, etc) in the present tense, which implies knowing the subject personal   pronouns: je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles
- how to use the negative form: ne……….pas
- interrogative words: quel/le, qui, où, quand