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Les Grands Basic 1
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with no French.
Prerequisite: None
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 1
Objectives:
- Name, greet people, say goodbye
- Count from 0-12
- Ask for and tell your name and age
- Describe an object by its colour and shape (first part)
- Say what someone does
- Learn a traditional song : 1,2,3 nous irons au bois
- A French painting
- A French monument
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 2
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with no French.
Prerequisite: 10 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 2
Objectives:
- Name school materials
- Describe an object by its colour and position (2nd part)
- Ask someone to lend you something.
- Count from 13-20
- Recite the days of the week
- Say what you like out of the activities in the class
- Say I like/ I don’t like
- Say what activities you like to do in your lunchtime
- The French alphabet
- Rules of politeness
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 4 WEST END STATE SCHOOL
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 30 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 4
Objectives:
- Name the parts of the face
- Identify accessories and particular signs
- Express emotions
- Name the parts of the body
- Say where something hurts
- Execute movements
- Sing a traditional song :Tête, épaule et genou, pieds
- Discover comic books
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 4
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 30 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 4
Objectives:
- Name the parts of the face
- Identify accessories and particular signs
- Express emotions
- Name the parts of the body
- Say where something hurts
- Execute movements
- Sing a traditional song :Tête, épaule et genou, pieds
- Discover comic books
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 2 WEST END STATE SCHOOL
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 70 hours of French.
Prerequisite: Elementary 1
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 2
Objectives:
- Count from 21-99
- Name the months, seasons, dates
- Make a family tree
- Say your address
- Tell your Birthday
- Learn more numbers
- learn about the family
- Learn the seasons
- Learn a traditional song: Joyeux anniversaire
- Read a funny comic
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 2
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 70 hours of French.
Prerequisite: Elementary 1
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 2
Objectives:
- Count from 21-99
- Name the months, seasons, dates
- Make a family tree
- Say your address
- Tell your Birthday
- Learn more numbers
- learn about the family
- Learn the seasons
- Learn a traditional song: Joyeux anniversaire
- Read a funny comic
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 3
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 80 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Advanced Beginners 2.
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 3
Objectives:
- Name city landmarks
- Find your bearings and give directions
- Name shops
- Know about French money
- Buy something in a shop
- Learn about road rules
- European currency
- Learn a traditional poem: L’ecole de Jacques Charpentreau
- Read more comics
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 4
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 90 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 3
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 4
Objectives:
- Name zoo and farm animals
- Learn expressions involving animals
- Say the animal body parts
- Learn farm produce
- Get to know a French composer
- Discover a funny comic: Le coq et l'agneau
- Sing a traditional song: Le fermier dans son pré
- Learn to respect differences
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 6
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 120 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 5
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 6
Objectives:
- Speak about fears
- Talk about what to bring on holidays
- Talk about what you will do at the beach
- Name Parisian monuments
- Talk about what you will do at the school fete
- Learn about French-speaking countries
- Recite a traditional poem: Dans Paris, il y a
- Read a funny comic: Le bonhomme de neige
- Write a postcard to a friend during a holiday
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Upper Elementary 4
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 150 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Upper Elementary 3
Text required: Les Loustics 3 - Unit 4
Objectives:
- Vocabulary: Museum, biography, shop items, prices, dreams, placards
- Conjugation: The imperative, the perfect tense (continued)
- Grammar: Adverbs never, already
- Phonetics: Phrases with homophones (continued)
- Discover the Magritte Museum in Brussels
- Conduct an investigation
- Learn a song from Zut: J’aimais bien mon rêve
- Recite a poem : La fourmi by Robert Desnos
- Make a collage depicting Magritte and organise a guided exhibition.
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks