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Continue developing your beginner French fluency and confidence with our Beginner French: A2.3 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner French: A2.2 Course or have approximately 120 hours of prior study. This course helps you strengthen your communication skills for everyday situations while deepening your understanding of beginner French grammar and vocabulary, making it ideal for learners looking to use French for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.

You will learn to understand a menu and give your opinion, go shopping and buy clothes, compare different customs, describe how things have evolved over time, and make both positive and negative appreciations. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context, covering indefinite and partitive articles, expressions of precise quantity, the pronoun en, comparative structures, the imperfect tense with time markers for the past, reciprocal pronominal verbs, customer-service expressions, and the present tense of payer. Phonetics is integrated throughout, with focused practice on question intonation, expressive rhythm, and key sounds such as [b] and [p], [ɛ̃] and [ɑ̃], and [ʒ] and [ʃ]. Vocabulary development centres on nutrition, gastronomy, ingredients, shopping, clothes and accessories, reading-related terms, and language structures for expressing positive or negative appreciation, helping you communicate more naturally and confidently in real-life contexts.

DELIVERY MODE

Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: Microsoft Teams

TEXTBOOK

• Cosmopolite 1 A1 Livre d'Eleve Book (Hachette: 2017), ISBN: 9782014015973

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Understanding a menu and giving an opinion
• Going shopping, buying clothes
• Compare different customs
• Speaking about an evolution (yesterday / today)
• Make a negative or positive appreciation

Grammar

• The indefinite articles and the partitive articles
• Expressing accurate amounts
• The pronoun en
• Structures for comparison
• The imperfect tense
• Time markers for talking about the past
• Structures for understanding and welcoming a customer
• The verb payer in the present tense
• Reciprocal pronominal verbs

Phonetics

• Asking questions
• The sounds [b] and [p]
• The sounds [ɛ̃] et [ɑ̃]
• The sounds [ʒ] et [ʃ
• The expressive intonation

Vocabulary

• Nutrition
• Making purchases
• Ingredients for a menu
• Words related to reading
• Gastronomy
• Clothes and accessories
• Structures for making a positive or negative appreciation

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Communicate confidently in everyday social and shopping situations, including understanding a menu, giving opinions about food, going shopping and buying clothes, comparing customs, speaking about changes between the past and present, and expressing positive or negative appreciation.
2. Use key grammatical structures to describe, compare, and quantify accurately, including indefinite and partitive articles, expressions of quantity, the pronoun en, comparative structures, the imperfect tense with time markers, reciprocal pronominal verbs, and common transactional language such as the present tense of payer.
3. Improve pronunciation and expand practical vocabulary, focusing on asking questions with natural intonation, distinguishing sounds such as [b]/[p], [ɛ̃]/[ɑ̃], and [ʒ]/[ʃ], and developing vocabulary related to nutrition, gastronomy, shopping, clothing and accessories, reading, and expressing appreciation.