This course takes place from 2 October until 27 November 2024. There is no class in the week of 21 October because of the Autumn Break.
Class day and time: Wednesdays from 7.45 - 21.15 pm
Location: Online via the Virtual Classroom and always involves guidance from a teacher
Number of participants: min. 5 - max. 16
Approach and content
French is spoken as much as possible during classes, with Dutch and English as the supporting languages. This means that in most cases, you can take this course if you do not speak Dutch. Please contact our Service Centre for more information.
You should count on about three to four hours of individual study per week.
What do the classes cover?
Skills
- Having simple conversations on abstract topics
- Indirect speech in the past (il a dit qu'il était français)
- Spelling, homonyms, colloquialisms
- Family situation, family and children, love and friendship
- Work, career and professional experience, talking about your skills
- Pleasures of life, happiness, humour and laughter
- Talking about Europe, the European Union, and expats
Grammar
- The use of adverbial pronouns (le professeur le lui a donné)
- The past conditional (conditionnel passé): expressing regret or reproach
- Construction with the subjunctive (subjonctif:pour que tu partes) or the infinitive (indicatif: pour partir)
- Distinguishing between the subjunctive (subjonctif: je trouve normal qu'il soit...) and the indicative (indicatif: j'espère qu'il est...)
- The future perfect (futur antérieur): talking about an action that ends in the future
- Talking about cause, purpose, and opposition
- Past temporal expressions (depuis, il y a, en, pour...)
- Distinguishing quel/lequel
- The simple past (passé simple): the literary past (il fit, il mangea)
- The connectors needed to structure a story (lorsque, tandis que...)
Course materials
- Voyages 3, text-/workbook + online MP3s
ISBN: 9789462930315
The course materials can be purchased at Roelants bookstore. Course materials are not included in the course fee.
Recommended (not mandatory):
- Exercices Audio de Grammaire (audio grammar exercises). ISBN 9782090337280
- Le petit Grevisse (grammar book). ISBN: 9782801100875
