French Beginners Level 3: LANG 2005

Continue to improve your French

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.

Fall term

Wednesdays, Sept. 25 to Nov. 27 (10 weeks)
5:30 - 7 p.m. | Instructor: Murtador Garba
$195 (No HST)

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Winter term

Wednesdays, Jan. 29 to April 9 (10 weeks, no class March 5)
5:30 - 7 p.m. | Instructor: Murtador Garba
$195 (No HST)

Saturdays, Feb. 1 to April 12 (10 weeks, no class Feb. 15)
1 - 2:30 p.m. | Instructor: Mona Hosseini
$195 (No HST)

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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.