Course outline – 30 weeks 
          
                Language: French 
                Level: 2 
                Course book: Version Originale 2 by Monique Denyer, Agustin Garmendia, Corinne Royer and Marie-Laure Lions-Olivieri 
                Editions Maison des Langues, Reprint: December 2011 
                ISBN: 978-84-8443-563-1 
          
          
                   Topics and vocabulary                                          Grammar                                                Communicative objectives 
                                                                                                                         
            Languages in Europe                                  Indirect object pronouns : me, te, lui, nous,         Speaking about one’ s relationships to foreign 
                                                                  vous, leur                                            languages 
            Our relationship to foreign                          Perfect tense                                         Expressing one’ s opinions 
            languages                                            Verb ‘trouver’ (to find) in the present               Expressing one’ s’ emotions and difficulties in learning 
                                                                  tense to expresse one’s opinion                       Speaking about one’s past learning experience. 
            Vocabulary: adjectives                               Adjectives : personality / feelings                   Expressing one’s motivations 
            /appreciation / countries                            Use of adjectives : agreement, location 
            /nationalities / languages                           Conjunctions pour and parce que 
             
            Phrases and vocabulary to express 
            one’s opinion 
            Life style                                                                                                   
            Vocabulary :                                         Prepositions of place: à droite, à gauche, au-        Describe accommodations, rooms and disposition of the 
            - Environment and accommodation                       dessus de, en face de, au fond de, à côté de,         furniture in a room 
            - Accommodation and location                          au milieu de, autour de, sous, sur, devant,           Using comparison 
            - Furniture and objects                               derrière                                              Dealing with a property agency 
            - Material and colours                               Comparison of adjectives                              Moving in 
                                                                 Pronoun y                                             Buying furniture 
            Expressing our preferences 
          
                                                                                                                
           Vocabulary for shopping in a shop or 
           on line 
                                                                                                                
           The French and their health                      Imperative                                        Talking about one’s health 
           Vocabulary : body, health, ailments              Conditional present for must / can / want         Exchanging advice 
           Internet language                                to do + articles + activities                     Talking about one’s health and sport 
           Sport / leisure / holiday                        to go + infinitive form                           Selecting your next sportive holiday destination 
                                                            Possessive adjectives                             Explain your choice 
           Illness / diet                                                                                      Consulting a GP 
                                                                                                                
           Being young                                      Imperfect tense                                   Describing one’ s childhood / youth 
                                                            The subject pronoun « on «                        Use  appropriate  tense  to  situate  events  in  the  past 
           Vocabulary : politics / society / life           Time markers                                      (describing  circumstances,  people,  places,  habits, 
           style / conflicts and demonstrations                                                                describing continuity) 
                                                                                                               Interviewing someone about his/her childhood 
           Vocabulary : school / life style/                                                                   Telling your life story 
           habits… 
            
           Situations and changes 
          
                                                                                                                          
            Culture                                               Perfect and imperfect tense                           Talking about famous people and describing their lives 
                                                                  Time markers for the past                             Preparing and asking questions about his/her life 
            Vocabulary : music / art / cinema /                   Relative pronouns qui, que, où                        Contacting a celebrity 
            history                                               Expression of progressivity of an action – ‘en        Recounting one’s own anecdotes using the past tenses 
            Famous French people Anecdotes                         train de’ + infinitive                                (imperfect and perfect tenses) 
            about famous people Interview with 
            a celebrity 
            Our planet                                                                                                    
                                                                  Place of adjectives                                   Forecasting and speaking about our environment’s 
            Understanding our environment                         Near future tense                                     future 
            and projecting its evolution                          Simple future tense                                   Talking about environmental problems Expressing 
                                                                  Expressions of degree of certainty                    cause and effect relationship using conditional 
            Vocabulary : weather / environment                     :certainement  (pas),  sûrement  (pas),               clauses 
            issues                                                 peut-être (pas), probablement (pas), sans             Expressing our certainty or uncertainty about future 
                                                                   doute (pas)…                                          events 
            Environmental issues: global                          Conditional clauses to express cause and 
            warming / greenhouse effect                            effect relationship: 
                                                                  -   si + présent de l’indicatif, présent de 
                                                                      l’indicatif 
                                                                  -   si + présent de l’indicatif, futur 
                                                                      simple de l’indicatif 
          
                                                                                                                   
            French culture, customs, manners                  Modal verbs : vouloir, pouvoir and                 Interact socially using appropriate expressions related to 
            and etiquette                                      devoir                                             French customs, manners and etiquette 
                                                              The present conditional : formation and            Asking for a favour, a permission, expressing 
            French social niceties and                         use in the formulas of politeness                  acceptance or refusal, justifying oneself using 
            interaction: asking for a favour,                 Formulas of politeness to ask for a favour, to     appropriate social niceties and polite expressions 
            asking for a permission,                           ask for a permission, to accept or refuse a 
            acceptance or refusal, justifying                  request, to justify oneself 
            oneself 
             
            French theatre 
                                                                                                                   
            Learning through games                            Different interrogative forms : affirmative        Asking questions appropriate to the situation and the 
                                                               sentence with an interrogation mark in             context 
            France and French-speaking                         writing and rising intonation in speaking,         Getting familiar with the French speaking countries and their 
            countries                                          subject-verb inversion, est-ce que/qu’ +           culture 
                                                               affirmative sentence;                              Locating French speaking countries geographically on the 
            Review and revision of knowledge                  Interrogative words : où, quand, comment,          map 
            and skills (of cultural, linguistic,               pourquoi, combien, que, qui, quel, quelle,         Speaking about a past event using past verb tenses 
            sociocultural nature) that students                quels, quelle                                      appropriately and accurately 
            have developed whilst learning                    Verb tenses covered in this textbook:              Speaking about a future event using present and future 
            French                                             present, perfect tense, imperfect tense,           tenses appropriately and accurately 
                                                               near future tense and simple future                Expressing different levels of certainty 
                                                               tense 
                                                              Imperative 
                                                              Prepositions used with towns and 
                                                               countries : à, en, au, aux 
                                                              Definite articles and their usage with 
                                                               nouns of countries