Master French with The Complete French Course
Modules
Core Lessons
Supplementary content
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This course includes 40 video lessons, with support guides, quizzes and extensive supplementary content. The Complete French Course teaches you everything you need to know to master the French language, wherever you are, whenever you want.
The course is CPD-certified, meaning you will be provided a certificate as proof of proficiency after successful completion of each end-of-level assessment.
Course Outline
Module 1: Level A1 - Beginner
Learning Objectives
- to discover basic elements of the language, such as the different phonemes, the alphabet and its pronunciation
- to discover the foundation of the language such as conjugations, auxiliaries, numbers, etc.
- to learn how to form simple sentences about personal topics such as one's family
- how to start interacting with others by asking and answering simple questions
Lesson 1: Introductions | greetings | basic vocabulary | numbers 1-10
Lesson 2: Greetings | weather | seasons | days | numbers 1-20 | ordinal numbers
Lesson 3: Feelings | emotions | months | dates | numbers 0-100
Lesson 4: Alphabet | spell your name | pronunciation
Lesson 5: Definite articles | indefinite articles | partitive articles
Lesson 6: Subject pronouns | avoir (to have) | être (to be) | adjective agreement & position
Lesson 7: Conjunctions of coordination | dates | ages | colours | adjectives
Lesson 8: Faire (to do/make) | Expressions with faire | Faire vs. jouer (to play)
Lesson 9: Aller (to go) | prepositions
Lesson 10: Infinitive verbs | moods & tenses | 3 verb groups | conjugating groups 1 & 2 verbs (présent)
Lesson 11: Group 3 verbs (présent) | impersonal verbs | être en train de (expression) | imperative mood
Lesson 12: Simple negations (présent)
Module 2: Level A2 - Elementary
Learning objectives
- to continue working on sentence building as well as new grammar points
- to learn the passé composé
- to start reading and understanding short texts
- to communicate with more ease as long as it is short, simple and on topics already studied
Lesson 13: Adjectives | comparatives | superlatives
Lesson 14: Possessive adjectives | demonstrative adjectives
Lesson 15: Passé composé with avoir & être
Lesson 16: Questions | interrogative adverbs: quand, où, comment, combien, pourquoi
Lesson 17: Interrogative adjectives | interrogative pronouns
Lesson 18: Irregular plural nouns | irregular adjectives
Lesson 19: Adverbs (role, construction and position)
Module 3: Level B1 - Intermediate
Learning objectives
- to work on more challenging grammar points such as connectives and pronouns
- to learn more tenses including the future, conditional and imperfect
- to understand the main points of a longer conversation with familiar topics
Lesson 20: Futur proche (near future) | participe présent (present participle)
Lesson 21: Group 1, 2 & 3 verbs (futur simple)
Lesson 22: Reflexive verbs (présent, futur proche, futur simple & passé composé)
Lesson 23: Imparfait | imparfait vs. passé composé
Lesson 24: Simple relative pronouns: qui, que, quoi, dont, où
Lesson 25: Possessive pronouns | demonstrative pronouns | emphatic pronouns
Lesson 26: Direct & indirect object pronouns | adverbial pronouns EN vs. Y
Lesson 27: Conditionnel | conditionnel présent | translating modals COULD, SHOULD & WOULD
Lesson 28: Complex negative constructions (double negations, compound tenses, etc.)
Lesson 29: Comparison with nouns | complex comparative structures
Module 4: Level B2 - Upper intermediate
Learning objectives
- to work on challenging grammar points such as complex relative pronouns
- to learn more complex tenses including the passé simple and subjunctive
Lesson 30: Subjunctive
Lesson 31: Subjunctive (continued) | past subjunctive | ne explétif
Lesson 32: Compound prepositions | complex prepositional structures
Lesson 33: Complex relatives pronouns
Lesson 34: Plus-que-parfait (pluperfect/past perfect)
Lesson 35: Futur antérieur (future perfect)
Lesson 36: Conditionnel passé (past conditional)
Module 5: Level C1 - Advanced
Learning objectives
- to understand a speech or a discussion even if its structure is not very clear or is mostly based on “implicit meaning”
- to be able to express yourself spontaneously with a degree of fluency close to that of a native speaker
Lesson 37: Passé simple (past historic)
Lesson 38: Active vs. passive voice
Module 6: Level C2 - Proficiency
Learning objectives
- to be able to read, understand and write any type of document, even specialised texts like academic articles
Lesson 39: Sequence of tenses | subordinate clause vs. main clause
Lesson 40: Direct v. indirect speech | direct vs. indirect interrogations
Supplementary content
Exercise videos: featuring a range of exercises to put your newfound skills to the test, from dialogues and dictations to gap fills and comprehension exercises. You can also download an audio version of each exercise to listen to when offline.
Supplementary videos: for when you want to dive a little deeper into the topics explored in the core lessons. Each of these videos comes with a quiz, support guide and downloadable audio version.
Quizzes: these lesson quizzes are designed to help consolidate your learning, and are a fantastic resource for testing your knowledge on a given subject without the pressure of a time limit.