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Beginners Level 5

 See prerequisites for Beginners Level 2, plus:

Communication Skills 6:

Being able to talk about your town/village
- nowing the vocabulary related to shops, public places, etc
- knowing how to ask for and give directions
- knowing ordinal numbers: premier, première, deuxième, septième, etc
- knowing prepositions such as : à côté de, en face, derrière, devant, etc
- giving and understanding an itinerary
- knowing pourquoi, parce que and its contraction parce qu’

Communication Skills 7:

Being able to make a hotel/Backpackers, etc, booking
- asking for or reading information related to accomodation
- knowing how to thank and respond to somebody thanking you
- knowing how to talk of means of transport: aller à bicyclette, prendre le bus, descendre du train

Communication Skills 8:

Being able to write a postcard:
- giving one’s impressions on a place
- talking about one’s activities
- ask/give information about the country one is coming from or going to
- say what the weather is like

Communication Skills 9:

Being able to give personal information about one’s tastes, one’s hobbies, interests, jobs, etc
Being able to give information about somebody’s temperament and to describe them physically


Grammatical knowledge:

As for Beginners Level 2, plus:
- when to choose definite or indefinite articles:
   il y a un petit musée d’art contemporain dans ma ville // le musée d’art contemporain dans ma ville est ouvert tous les jours
- how to ask a question with ’est-ce que’
- how to use articles contractés: au cinéma, près du cinéma,
- how to conjugate: prendre, descendre, aller, faire and venir in the present tense
- demonstrative articles, when to use them, which one according to the gender of the noun which follows: ce, cette, ces
- Faire/aller + articles contractés: aller au restaurant, faire du sport 
- masculine, feminine, plural of adjectives, e.g.: grand, grande, grands, grandes
- pronoms personnels toniques, e.g.: selon moi, je vais avec toi

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🎞️ Friday 7th March to Wednesday 2nd April: French Film Festival at the Palace Byron Bay. Note: Opening Night screening on Friday 7th March has been cancelled.

🤔 Cancelled: Saturday 8th March (10.00am): French Scrabble in Ballina at the Cherry Street Sports Club.  For further information, email Patricia  

🎞️  Wednesday 12th March (3.30pm): Café du Coin at Lismore's Starcourt Theatre.  Watch Out of Season 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).

🤔 Saturday 15th March (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. Morning tea provided after the meeting.  Come along and help us plan for this year's events and celebrate five new life members of the AF Cote du Nord.

🤔 Saturday 29th March (10.00am): French Scrabble in Ballina at the Cherry Street Sports Club.  For further information, email Patricia

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

👩‍🎓 Monday 5th May: Term Two French classes commence this week.