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A1.1

Les Grands Basic 1

Kids - Standard Courses

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

Kids - Standard Courses

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 9 weeks

Les Grands Basic 3

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 20 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 3

Objectives:

  • Say where you live
  • Name the objects in the room
  • Say whether you have brothers or sisters
  • Talk about your immediate family
  • Name pets
  • Name ages
  • Tell the different types of homes
  • Describe a kid’s room
  • Sing traditional songs: Quand Fanny était un bébé, La Famille tortue
  • Name positions

Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks

Les Grands Basic 5

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 40 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 5

Objectives:

  • Name different foods and kitchen utensils
  • Name some fruit
  • Name some drinks, say if you are thirsty
  • Name some foods, say if you are hungry
  • Express a preference or an opinion
  • Picnic
  • Learn a traditional song : Pomme, pêche, poire, abricot
  • Learn a French recipe : le gâteau au fromage blanc et aux fruits
  • Learn how to set the table

Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks

Les Grands Basic 5 WEST END STATE SCHOOL

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 40 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 5

Objectives:

  • Name different foods and kitchen utensils
  • Name some fruit
  • Name some drinks, say if you are thirsty
  • Name some foods, say if you are hungry
  • Express a preference or an opinion
  • Picnic
  • Learn a traditional song : Pomme, pêche, poire, abricot
  • Learn a French recipe : le gâteau au fromage blanc et aux fruits
  • Learn how to set the table

Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks

Les Grands Basic 6

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 50 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 6

Objectives:

  • Name actions associated with getting dressed
  • Describe the weather
  • Name items of clothing
  • Name modes of transport
  • That’s awesome! / That sucks
  • Learn a traditional song: Promenons-nous dans les bois
  • Learn more about comic books

Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks
A1

Les Grands Elementary 2

Kids - Standard Courses

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 9 weeks

Les Grands Elementary 3

Kids - Standard Courses

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 9 weeks

Les Grands Elementary 3 WEST END STATE SCHOOL

Kids - Standard Courses

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 9 weeks

Les Grands Upper Elementary 1

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 130 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 6
Text required: Cap sur... 3


Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks

Les Grands Upper Elementary 1 WEST END STATE SCHOOL

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 130 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 6
Text required: Cap sur... 3


Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks
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A2

Les Grands Upper Elementary 3

Kids - Standard Courses

General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 140 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Upper Elementary 2
Text required: Les Loustics 3 - Unit 3

Objectives: 

  • Vocabulary: Illnesses, accidents, places and their associated activities, discoveries, indicators of the past tense
  • Conjugation: The pefect tense of verbs using to be and to have, the perfect tense of reflexive verbs
  • Grammar: Phrases in the perfect tense  
  • Phonetics: The different written forms of the [e] sound
  • Learn about morning activities
  • Learn about accidents
  • Discover some historical events
  • Sing a song from Les Zuts: Ouch! Ouille! Bobo!
  • Read comics
  • Make a chronological mobile

Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 9 weeks

Les Grands Upper Elementary 4

Kids - Standard Courses

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 9 weeks