Level BRONZE is ideal for 4 to 11 year olds willing to learn French for the first time. No previous knowledge required. It is also suitable for any children wanting to revise the basics of French to catch up at school. I will give you a strong foundation of the language on which you can grow. By the end of the approximative 50 sessions you will have everything you need in everyday life to make small talk about yourself, your family, the weather etc. You will gain a more in-depth socio-cultural knowledge of French speaking countries and will be ready to start the SILVER level.
Each session will combine, grammar, new vocabulary and the related topics
Each session will be framed as per below when possible.
- 10 min speaking at the beginning of the lesson, repeating our routine)
- 40 min on topic + practice
- 10 min summing up (to make sure the target of the day is reached)
- 30min Homework recommended
Topics , vocabulary & cultural content
Free 45 min lesson : Salutations
Greetings (2 sessions)
- Politeness
- How are you?
Introduce yourself 1 (2 sessions)
- Name
- Age
- Address
- Nationality or origin
Basic essential 1 (14 sessions)
- Know your ABC
- Count to 10
- Genders
- Body parts
- Colours
- Days of week
- Months
- Seasons
- Count to 20
- Animals
- Count to 50
- Food & drink
- Shape, sizes…
- Your position: in, under, on, next to, above…
- Direction
Describe (11 sessions)
- The weather
- Likes, loves, prefer…
- Dislikes, don’t like (negation)
- Your family members
- Your physical description (hair, eyes colours)
- Time
- Your town
- Your school
- Your home
- Your visit to the doctor
- How you travel
Introduce yourself and family (8 sessions)
- Your family member
- Your pets
- Your best friend
- Your personality : nice, boring
- Your daily routine
- Your Emotions : happy, sad…
- Compare yourself with someone
- Compare yourself with the rest
- Your activities (10 sessions)
- Where do you go?
- What do you do?
- What you would like for you birthday, Christmas?
- Where will you go?
- What did you do last weekend?
Grammar skills:
- Focus on pronouns « je » and « il » and « elle »
- Nouns – feminine, masculine, singular, plural
- Use of « je » and “il”
- The verbs ‘être’, ‘avoir’ and “aller” in the present tense
- Articles – definite and indefinite: le, la, un, une
- Adjectives positions
- Adjective agreement in gender and number
- Verbs in « ER »
- Verbs in « RE » (pleuvoir, faire)
- Reflexives verbs
- « Être » and « Avoir »
- « Il y a + Il n’y a pas »
- Key prepositions – « à, dans, en, au » etc.
- Perfect tense with « avoir »
- Conditionnal tense with pronoun « Je »
- Near futur
- Comparative & superlative (more than and the most…)
- Possessive pronouns “ ma, mon, mes »
- Negative sentences
- The immediate past: ‘venir de’
Skills and resources
- Songs: ABC, routine. Body parts, week days…
- Games
- Flashcards
- Texts
- Drawings clothes, animals, food…
- Listening
- Writing letters to correspondent
- Mix and match
- Quizzes
- Roles plays
- Maps