In this course, students will learn the French for beginners curriculum through interactive lectures where they will have the opportunity to participate in class discussions and conversations with a partner, all in a relaxed atmosphere. We use presentations with visuals and graphs to introduce the content followed by student's centered activities such as role playing and games. In addition, the French culture will be presented as a context to the conversations and activities.

This course does not build on previous topics and learners can join at any time. After the lesson, students may complete a series of optional activities to reinforce the lesson's content. These activities will include a combination of skills: reading, speaking and writing and will not reflect on the following meeting. All instructional materials will be available through the Outschool classroom.

Distribution of themes by week:

Week of June 2 To Prefer- What do you like to eat?
Week of June 9 Clothes- Paris Fashion
Week of June 16 Shopping- Going to the Mall
Week of June 23 Around the City
Week of June 30 To go: Aller - Places
Week of July 7 Prepositions- Locating Places in a Map
Week of July 14 Let's go to Peru and Discover its Culture
Week of July 21 Animal Farms and Products
Week of July 28 The Verb to Have- Avoir
Week of August 4 The Verb to Have- Idioms
Week of August 11 Physical Feelings
Week of August 18 To Like- Fun Activities
Week of August 25 The House parts and furniture
Week of September 1 The house - Making Chores
Week of September 8 The Weather- Describing Weather Patterns and Seasons
Week of September 15 Telling Time - The Basics
Week of September 22 Telling Time- Week of February
Week of September 29 Body Parts- At the Doctor
Week of October 6 Body Parts- Describing 
Week of October 13 Ongoing Actions- Activities
Week of October 20 Ongoing Actions- Penguins at Antartica
Week of October 27 Family 
Week of November 3 Fun Activities
Week of November 10 At the Vet
Week of November 17 Reflexive Verbs- Everyday activities
Week of November 24 Routines
Week of December 1 At school
Week of December 8 Adverbs- How we do things
Week of December 15 Ne pas- Saying no
Week of December 22 Etre- Describing 
Week of December 29 Er verbs- Activities
Week of January 5 Asking Questions
Week of January 12 To take - Prendre
Week of January 19 Possesives
Week of January 26 Quel Demonstrative pronouns
Week of February 2 Voir- To See
Week of February 9 Venir- To Come
Week of February 16 Il/Elle/Est
Week of February 23 Professions
Week of February 30 Food- Cooking and Recipes


At this point our curriculum will circle back. This program might be adjusted to meet learner's need and some modification to the schedule could apply.

Learners will receive exposure to the topics with the opportunity to practice in a communicative format. We use colorful visuals, music, games and context clues to facilitate understanding and keep the goals of every lesson simple enough for learners to be able to memorize new words and phrases every session while using them in simple conversations. Fun and age appropriate topics as well as language immersion suited for beginners will translate into fluency.