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Level 2 | NYC In-person
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What's Included?
Niveau 2 – Course book
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The Grand Débutant Course Book includes grammar lessons, exercises, activities and essential vocabulary, complete with colorful illustrations to help further your understanding of basic French.
Niveau 2 – Exercise Book
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Designed for self-study, the Grand Débutant Exercise Book is perfect for extra practice and reviews in-between lessons. It contains 111 pages of exercises and bonus tips to give your French that extra oomph.
You're Grand Débutant, if...
You can introduce yourself in French, talk about your job and hobbies – even if you sometimes have to rely on the kindness (and patience) of strangers to make yourself understood.
You can conjugate regular verbs in the present tense. You can also conjugate common irregular verbs, such as être, avoir, faire and aller.
You know how to get articles and adjectives to agree with their nouns (for the most part).
You know how to construct a basic sentence in French (subject, verb, object, etc).
THE CURRICULUM
Tuesday Sep 30: Lesson 1
How to ask a question
Tuesday Oct 07: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense
Tuesday Oct 14: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense
Tuesday Oct 21: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”
Tuesday Oct 28: Lesson 5
How to say “some”
Tuesday Nov 04: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity
Tuesday Nov 11: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense
Tuesday Nov 18: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense
Tuesday Nov 25: Lesson 9
Negative expressions
Tuesday Dec 02: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense