Learn French

Elementary Level 2

Communication Skills 1:

• Being able to make contact with somebody, to greet them, to apologize, to spell
• Knowing when and how to use tu or vous
• Understanding and being able to use some non-verbal communicative gestures French people use
• 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 the subject personal pronouns: je, tu, il, elle, vous
• Knowing how to ask and answer questions related to name, age, address, telephone number
• Knowing how to use the verbs (conjugate) être, avoir, s'appeler, habiter, travailler, apprendre in the present tense
• Knowing adjectives of nationality
• Knowing how to count from 1 to 69

Communication Skills 3:

• Being able to deliver personal information
• Being able to express an opinion
• Being able to express what we like and dislike
• Being able to talk about our hobbies/pastimes
• Being able to ask somebody else to talk about themselves
• 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
• Knowing when to use du/de la in faire de la natation or faire du tennis
• Knowing when to use on/nous
• Knowing how to use negation: ne....pas
• Knowing how to use: oui/non/si
• Knowing how to conjugate -er verbs in the present tense
• Knowing names of sports, jobs
• Knowing numbers after 69

Communication Skills 4:

• Being able to talk about routines: being able to say how often you do something
• Being able to ask somebody how often they do such and such a thing
• Knowing the expression combien de fois and when to use it
• Knowing when and how to use jamais, parfois, souvent, toujours
• Being able to speak about what you did in the past
• Getting familiar with the passé composé, e.g ., nous avons visité Paris, nous avons adoré!, using verbs ending in -er, aller included

Communication Skills 5:

• Being able to ask somebody to do something in a formal or more informal manner
• Knowing when to use: j'aimerais, pourriez-vous?, puis-je?

Communication Skills 6:

• Being able to talk and to ask somebody else about one's plans in a near future
• Knowing when/how to use the immediate future: aller + infinitive
• Knowing how to use the imperative to give orders: va/allez, etc
• Knowing how to form the plural of nouns
• Knowing when/how to use il y a
• Knowing all the subject pronouns: je/tu/il/elle/on/nous/vous/ils/elles
• Knowing how to conjugate pouvoir, vouloir, aller and reflexive verbs in the present tense, e.g., s'appeler
• Knowing the days of the week, the months of the year
• Knowing expressions with avoir, e.g: avoir faim, avoir de la chance, etc.

Communication Skills 7:

• Being able to suggest, refuse, accept an invitation
• Being able to ask/say what time it is
• Being able to indicate the date
• Being able to make an appointment
• Being able to express one's opinion, one's likes and dislikes in a formal/informal way
• Being able to 'negotiate' in order to come to an agreement
• Knowing how to ask questions:

         - in a formal way: Êtes-vous libre samedi?
         - using est-ce que: Est-ce que vous êtes libre samedi?
         - in a more informal way, using the right intonation: Tu es libre samedi?

• Knowing how to use je pense que, j'espère que
• Knowing the pronouns after a preposition: avec lui, chez moi
• Knowing how to conjugate: être, avoir, venir, savoir, connaître, pouvoir in the present tense
• Knowing time and date
• Knowing the days of the week and the months

Communication Skills 8:

• Being able to express one's opinion: both positive and negative and to ask for somebody else's one
• Being able to express quantities
• Know when to use the definite articles:le/la/les or the partitive ones: du/de la/des
• Know how to express quantities in the negative: pas.....de
• Know how to use expressions like: un peu de, beaucoup de, etc
• Know how to ask questions related to quantities: combine de/qu'est-ce que
• Know how to use the pronoun en
• Know how to conjugate prendre in the present tense
• Know vocabulary related to food, drinks, meals