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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