What you'll learn

Recognize and reproduce familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases. Learners will be able to identify, understand, and use simple expressions related to concrete needs (e.g., greetings, introductions, asking for directions, ordering food). (CEFR Reference: Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.) Participate in simple and predictable interactions. Learners will be able to respond to and initiate brief social exchanges using memorized phrases and simple questions, especially when interlocutors speak slowly and clearly. (CEFR Reference: Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.) Comprehend and produce short written texts. Learners will be able to read, interpret, and write short and simple texts such as emails, forms, or postcards containing personal information and basic everyday content. (CEFR Reference: Can write a short, simple postcard, for example sending holiday greetings. Can fill in forms with personal details.)

  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to understand the global relevance of the French language and develop curiosity about its use in international and cultural contexts. They will confidently introduce themselves using simple greeting structures, follow basic classroom instructions in French, and spell words using the French alphabet. This week will lay a strong foundation in pronunciation, classroom etiquette, and basic interaction.
  • Learners will be able to count fluently from zero to one hundred and apply numbers in real-life scenarios such as phone numbers, dates, and prices. They will also learn to name and use the days of the week and months of the year, enabling them to describe schedules and talk about birthdays. By the end of this week, they will be equipped to express dates and plan activities in basic French.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to identify and classify French nouns based on gender and number. They will confidently use definite articles (le, la, l’) and indefinite articles (un, une) with appropriate agreement. Learners will also develop the ability to express quantity using partitive structures and quantifiers. Through guided practice and a pop quiz, they will reinforce their understanding of article usage and sentence formation involving nouns and determiners in basic French contexts.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to effectively use personal, reflexive, and object pronouns in French across a variety of sentence structures. They will understand how to substitute repeated nouns and phrases with appropriate pronouns, enabling more natural and fluent communication. Learners will also grasp the unique function of empty subjects such as il y a and il faut, improving their syntactic flexibility. This week enhances learners’ ability to speak and write more economically and intuitively in French.
  • This week equips learners with the ability to identify and use regular and irregular French verbs in their infinitive forms. They will become proficient in recognizing modal verbs (pouvoir, devoir, vouloir) and accurately applying them in context. By exploring moods like the conditional and subjunctive, learners will begin forming more nuanced expressions involving hypothetical or uncertain scenarios. Mastery of present participles and gerundive forms (en faisant, en parlant) will add richness to their sentence construction and fluency.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to confidently conjugate regular verbs ending in -er, -ir, and -re in the present tense, recognizing patterns and applying them accurately in communication. They will also solidify their understanding of the two essential verbs être and avoir, which serve as the grammatical backbone of the French language. The pop quiz at midweek reinforces key concepts and helps identify areas for improvement in verb handling.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to understand the global relevance of the French language and develop curiosity about its use in international and cultural contexts. They will confidently introduce themselves using simple greeting structures, follow basic classroom instructions in French, and spell words using the French alphabet. This week will lay a strong foundation in pronunciation, classroom etiquette, and basic interaction.
  • Learners will be able to count fluently from zero to one hundred and apply numbers in real-life scenarios such as phone numbers, dates, and prices. They will also learn to name and use the days of the week and months of the year, enabling them to describe schedules and talk about birthdays. By the end of this week, they will be equipped to express dates and plan activities in basic French.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to identify and classify French nouns based on gender and number. They will confidently use definite articles (le, la, l’) and indefinite articles (un, une) with appropriate agreement. Learners will also develop the ability to express quantity using partitive structures and quantifiers. Through guided practice and a pop quiz, they will reinforce their understanding of article usage and sentence formation involving nouns and determiners in basic French contexts.
  • By the end of this week, learners will be able to effectively use personal, reflexive, and object pronouns in French across a variety of sentence structures. They will understand how to substitute repeated nouns and phrases with appropriate pronouns, enabling more natural and fluent communication. Learners will also grasp the unique function of empty subjects such as il y a and il faut, improving their syntactic flexibility. This week enhances learners’ ability to speak and write more economically and intuitively in French.
  • This week equips learners with the ability to identify and use regular and irregular French verbs in their infinitive forms. They will become proficient in recognizing modal verbs (pouvoir, devoir, vouloir) and accurately applying them in context. By exploring moods like the conditional and subjunctive, learners will begin forming more nuanced expressions involving hypothetical or uncertain scenarios. Mastery of present participles and gerundive forms (en faisant, en parlant) will add richness to their sentence construction and fluency.

Sreya Chetia
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Communixation Skills