French Beginners Level 2: LANG 2002

Continue to improve your French

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 2, you will have an expanded vocabulary and be able to understand, ask and answer questions using simple sentences.

This course is for you if you:

• meet the criteria listed in French Beginners Level 1
• have a basic French vocabulary
• can form simple sentences and understand some spoken language

Topics include

• Numerals 1-60, telling the time, seasons, months, days, present tense of irregular reflexive verb s’asseoir, the cedilla.
• Countries, inhabitants, languages, towns, phrases with avoir, omission of the article, irregularities of some -er verbs, word order.
• Numerals from 60 onwards, collective numerals and measurements, comparative and superlative of adjectives, present tense of connaître and savoir.
• Relative pronouns, the conjunction que.
• Quel and lequel, demonstrative pronouns, comparative and superlative of adverbs, present tense of vouloir and pouvoir.
• The future tense, use of the future tense, emphatic pronouns, present tense of ecrire and recevoir.
• The perfect tense with avoir, agreement of the past participle after avoir, the position of adverbs.
• The perfect tense with être, insertion of the definite article.

No materials are required.

Fall term

Tuesdays, Sept. 24 to Nov. 26 (10 weeks)
5:30 - 7 p.m. | Instructor: Murtador Garba
$195 (No HST)

Tuesdays, Sept. 24 to Nov. 26 (10 weeks)
8 - 9:30 p.m. | Instructor: Mona Hosseini
$195 (No HST)

Register now

Winter term

Tuesdays, Jan. 28 to April 8 (10 weeks, no class March 4)
5:30 - 7 p.m. | Instructor: Murtador Garba
$195 (No HST)

Tuesdays, Jan. 28 to April 8 (10 weeks, no class March 4)
8 - 9:30 p.m. | Instructor: Mona Hosseini
$195 (No HST)

Registration opens Oct. 18.

About Murtador Garba

Murtador Garba was born and raised in Benin, a French-speaking country in West Africa, where he studied Agriculture Science & Project Management. Murtador moved to Edmundston, N.B. in 2014, and studied small business management at Collège Communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick (CCNB) and taught Cultural Diversity classes. Murtador is now based in Fredericton where he’s been teaching French for the past three years.

In addition to teaching, Murtador is a bilingual songwriter, multidisciplinary artist, producer, and videographer. He is also a member of “MusicNB” and the “East Coast Music Association.”

About Mona Hosseini

Mona Hosseini has a Ph.D. in Literary studies from Moncton, NB and several pedagogical trainings in Grenoble, France. She has been teaching French to government employees and immigrants since 2008.

Mona also has a teaching certificate in new methods of teaching French to non-French speakers from Stendhal University. Mona is proud to live in New Brunswick and to be able to share her linguistic knowledge with everyone.