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Beginners Level 4

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 both orally and in written French
  • 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 how to conjugate -er verbs in the present tense
  • Knowing vocabulary related to the family, to status (célibataire, marié/e, etc)
  • Knowing names of sports, jobs

Communication Skills 4:

  • Being able to speak about what you did in the past using verbs ending in -er, aller included
  • Knowing how  to conjugate 'e passé composé

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🤔 Saturday 25th January (10.00am): French Scrabble in Ballina at the Cherry Street Sports Club.  For further information, email Patricia

🎞️  Wednesday 29th January (3.30pm): Café du Coin at Lismore's Starcourt Theatre.  Watch Rosalie followed by a chat and nibbles in the cinema's Gatsby Bar at about 5.30pm.  Buy your own drinks (nibbles provided by AFCDN - gold coin donation, please). Also showing on Sunday 26th Jan.

🥖 Saturday 8th February (11.00am): Picnic at Victoria Park, Dalwood.  Ché Bon picnic boxes available (pre-order for $25). Tea & coffee available. BYO cold drinks, chairs, etc.  Wear your bleu, blanc, rouge.

👩‍🎓 Monday 10th February: Term One French classes commence this week.

🤔 Saturday 22nd February (10.00am): French Scrabble in Ballina at the Cherry Street Sports Club.  For further information, email Patricia

📈 Saturday 22nd March (10.00am): Annual General Meeting at the Ballina Indoor Sports Centre

👩‍🎓 Monday 7th April: Term One French classes conclude this week.