ADULTS COURSES CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

A1 LEVEL (Beginner) – Textbook: Edito A1

LEVEL Learning goals Vocabulary Main Grammar topics

A1.1  Get familiar with the French basics  Numbers and letters (spelling)  Auxiliary verbs (to be/to have) and at
 Greetings  Days of the week and months present tense
 Introduce yourself (give your age, your job,  Countries and nationalities  Definite and indefinite articles
Units 0, 1, 2 talk about your family, say where you are  Leisure  The negation
from, where you live, say the languages you  Professions  -er verbs
speak) and ask for someone to introduce  Cities and transports
himself.  Special verbs: être, avoir, aller, prendre,
 Ask and give contact descendre
 Ask for and give directions
 Understand an itinerary
 Move with buses or subways

A1.2  Understand / give the opening time  Shops and food  Indefinite quantities (articles and
 Do shopping  Restaurant and café pronouns)
 Order at the restaurant or café  Clothes and accessorises  Adjectives positions
Units 3, 4
 Express your likes and dislikes  Weather  Close future and recent past
 Locate a time in the year  Technological and daily objects  demonstrative adjectives
 Give an appreciation about clothes
 Talk about the weather  Special verbs: payer, faire, venir
 Ask and tell a size (clothes and shoes)
 Describe an object and tell what it is for
 Ask and tell a price

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LEVEL Learning goals Vocabulary Main Grammar topics

A1.3  Talk about your daily activities  Daily activities and night life  Reflexive verbs
 Ask and give time  Time  Frequencies
Units 5, 6  Offer a hangout and organise an  Family and events  Imperative
appointment  Physical description  Possessive adjectives
 Accept or decline an appointment  Personalities  Past (le passé composé)
 Make a reservation over the phone  Time indicators (past and future)
 Understand a family tree
 Introduce your family  Special verbs: pouvoir, vouloir
 Congratulate
 Describe the physic and the personality of
someone

A1.4  Get information about an accommodation  Accommodations and furniture  COD / COI Pronouns
 Understand the internal rules of a building  Reparations and services  Obligation and prohibitions
Units 7, 8  Set rules for living together  Travels  Comparison
 Apologise in a message  Feelings and emotion  -ir verbs
 Describe a domestic problem  Body parts  Describe a past context with imparfait
 Understand a booking website
 Express preferences  Special verbs: devoir, falloir
 Hesitate
 Write a formal email
 Write a postcard
 Express a feelings, emotions and surprise

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 A2 LEVEL (Intermediate) - Textbook: Edito A2 / Texto A2
Level Learning goals Vocabulary Grammar topics

A2.1  Understand celebrities’ profile  Personal and professional life  Le passé composé (recap)
 Talk about your origins  Activities and leisure  Negative sentences (nothing, never, nobody…)
Textbook:
Edito A2  talk about your likes and dislikes  Memories  Time indicators
 Offer a hangout  Landscapes and weather  L’imparfait
Units 1, 2  Accept/refuse and fix an appointment  Pronouns y and en
 Understand an itinerary  Adjectives position
 Describe a picture
 Talk about a memory
 Understand a travel guide (extracts)
 Write a postcard or a comment
A2.2  Understand a newspaper article about  Housing  Relative pronouns
housing  Living conditions  Comparison
Textbook:
 Understand classified ads  Sciences and technologies  Possessive pronouns
Edito A2
 Locate an accommodation  Telecommunications  Le futur simple
 Ask and take the floor  Condition
Units 3, 4  Express happiness  The pronoun on (one)
 Describe a place
 Understand a newspaper article about jobs
and future
 Talk about the future
 Describe the utility of something
 Express your intentions
 Remind something to someone

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LEVEL Learning goals Vocabulary Main Grammar topics
A2.3  Give advices  Body and health  Subjonctif Présent (necessity)
 Talk about health problems  Medicine  Obligation and prohibition
Textbook:
Edito A2  Understand Medical instructions  Food  En pronoms
 Express you point of view  restaurant  Ne… que
 Agree and give your approval  Superlatives
Units 5, 6  Get information on a menu  -ment adverbes
 Express dissatisfaction
A2.4  Describe someone (physic and personality)  Physical features and  Interrogative pronouns (lequel, lesquels…)
 Talk about your emotions personalities  Indefinite adjectives (chaque, tout, toute…)
Textbook:
 Organise your speech  Medias and information  Subjonctif Présent (feelings)
Edito A2
 Reproach something  Cause and consequence
Units 7, 8  Give a positive or negative feedback  COD and COI pronouns
 Pronouns with imperative

A2.5  Describe a place  Housing and furnishing  Y pronoun

 Talk about citizenship  House decoration  Où Relative pronoun
Textbook:
Texto A2  Organise a speech  Urbanism  Indefinite adjectives
 Ask questions about an object  The good life (tout/toute/chaque/quelques)
Dossiers 6,  Describe material  Children  Opposition/Concession
7 (leçon  Kitchen accessories  Interrogative pronoun « lequel »
25)  Demonstrative pronouns (celui-ci/celui-là…)

A2.6  Understand a written/oral advertisement  Objects description  Gerundive form

 Give your opinion (2)  Multimedia and advertising  En pronoun
Textbook:
Texto A2  Understand a leaflet  Art and appreciation  Indicative/Subjonctive
 Make a demand  Casual words  Negation
Dossiers 7  Work and revendications  Prepositions of localisation
(26/27), 8  Tourism

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 B1 LEVEL (Threshold) - Textbook: Edito B1

Level Learning goals Vocabulary Grammar topics

B1.1a  Express your interest  Food  Subjonctive

 Express an obligation/permission  Housing and firendliness  Negation
Unité 1  Give an advice  Family  Past tenses : Passé
 Describe an accommodation Composé / Imparfait
Unité 2 up  Write a project
to page 33  Congratulate
 Speak about your family

B1.1b  Speak about relationships  Relationship  Time markers (1)

 Describe past events, situations, habits,  Working world  Reflexive verbs at past
a memory tense
Unité 2
from page  Talk about an anecdote  Relative pronouns
36  Talk about a work (qui/que/dont/où)
 Express your opinion/your motivation  Express a purpose
Unité 3

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 Level Learning goals Vocabulary Grammar topics

B1.2a  Express certitude  Fashion and consumer  Indicative/Subjonctive

 Talk about consumption society  Comparative/Superlative
 Describe a place  New ways of consumation  Place of adjectives
Unité 4
 Talk about the French language  Intercultural relationship Plus-que-parfait (past tense)
Unité 5 up
to page 79

B1.2b  Talk about cultural diversity  Diversity  Y and En pronouns

 Talk about living abroad  Media and press  Time markers (2)
Unité 5  Encourage someone  The passive form
from page  Talk about two different events in the Adverbs
80 past
 Express difficulties
Unité 6  Talk about the news
 Write an article
 Debate

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 Level Learning goals Vocabulary Grammar topics

B1.3a  Talk about travels  Travelling  Future tenses

 Organise a trip  Recycling  Present and Past
Unité 7  Make hypothesis Conditional
 Express a regret  Prepositions after a verb or
Unité 8 up  Imagine a different past an adjective
to page 127  Make an interview
 Talk about recycling

B1.3b  Talk about the planet and the  Ecology and solutions for  Gerundive
environment nature  Words to organise a speech
 Organise your speech  City life  Reported speech at present
Unité 8
from page  Report a speech and past tense
128  Make propositions to improve a city  Formal questions
 Talk about art in the city  Indefinite
Unité 9  Make a complaint adjectives/pronouns
 Talk about quantity (aucun/chaque/tout…)

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Level Learning goals Vocabulary Grammar topics

B1.4a  Talk about studies  Studies and knowledge  Cause/Consequence

 Express wishes/intentions  Free time  Present participle
Unité 10  Talk about causes and consequences  Compound relative
Talk about your hobbies pronouns (auquel/lequel…)
Unité 11 up Double pronouns
to page 175
B1.4b  Talk about new technologies in health  Sports and health  Futur antérieur (Future in
 Talk about future  Littérature and creation the past tense)
 Talk about sports and wellbeing  Arts  La mise en relief (ce
Unité 11
from page  Talk about reading qui…c’est)
176  Express your taste in art  Opposition/Concession
 Describe a piece of art  Time markers (3)
Unité 12  Write a biography  Introduction to Passé
Simple