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French Beginners Level 3: LANG 2005

Take your French to the next level

This course is for you if you meet the criteria listed in our Level 1 and Level 2 beginner courses, have a basic French vocabulary and can form sentences and understand some spoken language.

The material covers a variety of everyday topics in a simple, concise manner. There are plenty of examples and explanations to illustrate how the language works and to build confidence. Each lesson contains: clear grammar explanations, vocabulary lists, reading material consisting of a story, dialogue or letter, questions for speaking practice, and exercises. By the end of level 3, you will have an extensive vocabulary and be able to understand, ask and answer questions using more complex sentences. Topics include:

  • Interrogative pronouns, possessive pronouns, present tense of croire and devoir.
  • The imperfect tense, the present participle, prepositions plus gerund, present tense of conduire and rire.
  • Negatives, inversion of subject and verb.
  • The conditional tense, use of si.
  • The infinitive after verbs, the infinitive after adjectives, the infinitive after nouns.
  • Compound tenses, the passive, the verb devoir.
  • Verbs + preposition + noun.
  • Some problem prepositions; miscellaneous pronouns, adjectives and adverbs.
  • Purpose, formation and rules of the subjunctive.

No materials are required.

Winter term

Wednesdays, Jan. 29 to April 9 (10 weeks, no class March 5)
6 - 7:30 p.m. | Instructor: Émilie Maltais
UNB Fredericton
9 MacAulay Lane, Tilley Hall, Room 125
$195 (No HST)

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About the instructor

Emilie Maltais is a native French speaker from Saguenay QC. She studied and graduated from UQAC university in 2020 with a degree in French education. She worked in Québec as a French teacher for two years before moving to New-Brunswick.

She is currently teaching French at École Sainte-Anne. Émilie loves teaching French to francophone students as well as French as a second language students.