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French Intermediate Level A: LANG 2003

Improve your French language skills

Want to pass government language tests or take your language skills to the next level? Then this series of French intermediate classes is for you.

While French Intermediate Level A is a great way to improve your conversational skills, the main focus of the class is on achieving conversational skills that closely match the Federal government’s requirements for their Level A Oral Proficiency Test.

French Intermediate Level A reinforces and builds upon the content and skills developed in our French Beginners Level 3 class. While reading and writing skills will be touched upon, you will focus on oral language skills.

For this course, you should be able to:

  • give and ask directions
  • use proper verbs to describe chores at work/home, etc.
  • recount past/present/future events
  • use work lingo in day-to-day applications
  • describe people, objects and places

Learned grammatical concepts are put to use in a variety of conversation-based exercises that strengthen your comprehension and self-expression.

According to the Federal government’s website, “Level A is the minimum level of second language ability in oral proficiency for positions that require simple and repetitive use of the second language in routine work situations.

A person speaking at this level can:

  • ask and answer simple questions
  • give simple instructions
  • give uncomplicated directions relating to routine work situations

Federal proficiency levels and standards
About the federal test of oral proficiency
Federal self-assessment tests

No materials are required.

Fall term

Thursdays, Sept. 26 to Nov. 28 (10 weeks)
5:30 - 7 p.m. | Instructor: Murtador Garba
$195 (No HST)

Register now

Winter term

Saturdays, Feb. 1 to April 12 (10 weeks, no class Feb. 15)
3 - 4:30 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.