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Les Grands Basic 1
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with no French.
Prerequisite: None
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 1
Objectives:
- Name, greet people, say goodbye
- Count from 0-12
- Ask for and tell your name and age
- Describe an object by its colour and shape (first part)
- Say what someone does
- Learn a traditional song : 1,2,3 nous irons au bois
- A French painting
- A French monument
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 2
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with no French.
Prerequisite: 10 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 2
Objectives:
- Name school materials
- Describe an object by its colour and position (2nd part)
- Ask someone to lend you something.
- Count from 13-20
- Recite the days of the week
- Say what you like out of the activities in the class
- Say I like/ I don’t like
- Say what activities you like to do in your lunchtime
- The French alphabet
- Rules of politeness
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 3
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 20 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 3
Objectives:
- Say where you live
- Name the objects in the room
- Say whether you have brothers or sisters
- Talk about your immediate family
- Name pets
- Name ages
- Tell the different types of homes
- Describe a kid’s room
- Sing traditional songs: Quand Fanny était un bébé, La Famille tortue
- Name positions
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 5 WEST END STATE SCHOOL
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 40 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 5
Objectives:
- Name different foods and kitchen utensils
- Name some fruit
- Name some drinks, say if you are thirsty
- Name some foods, say if you are hungry
- Express a preference or an opinion
- Picnic
- Learn a traditional song : Pomme, pêche, poire, abricot
- Learn a French recipe : le gâteau au fromage blanc et aux fruits
- Learn how to set the table
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Basic 5
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with some French.
Prerequisite: 40 hours French or equivalent
Text required: Les Loustics 1 - Unit 5
Objectives:
- Name different foods and kitchen utensils
- Name some fruit
- Name some drinks, say if you are thirsty
- Name some foods, say if you are hungry
- Express a preference or an opinion
- Picnic
- Learn a traditional song : Pomme, pêche, poire, abricot
- Learn a French recipe : le gâteau au fromage blanc et aux fruits
- Learn how to set the table
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Joyeux Noël ! - Les Grands
Are your kids familiar with French Christmas traditions? Join this workshop and immerse them in a magical day of fun with a French
Noël! They will learn French Christmas songs and symbols, and learn related vocabulary through fun games and quizzes, as well
as decorate their own Christmas card and letter to le père Noël (Santa).
Suitable for Les Grands from 7 to 11 years old, all French levels welcome.
Please pack snacks for morning tea.
Les Grands Elementary 3 WEST END STATE SCHOOL
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 80 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Advanced Beginners 2.
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 3
Objectives:
- Name city landmarks
- Find your bearings and give directions
- Name shops
- Know about French money
- Buy something in a shop
- Learn about road rules
- European currency
- Learn a traditional poem: L’ecole de Jacques Charpentreau
- Read more comics
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 3
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 80 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Advanced Beginners 2.
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 3
Objectives:
- Name city landmarks
- Find your bearings and give directions
- Name shops
- Know about French money
- Buy something in a shop
- Learn about road rules
- European currency
- Learn a traditional poem: L’ecole de Jacques Charpentreau
- Read more comics
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 4
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 90 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 3
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 4
Objectives:
- Name zoo and farm animals
- Learn expressions involving animals
- Say the animal body parts
- Learn farm produce
- Get to know a French composer
- Discover a funny comic: Le coq et l'agneau
- Sing a traditional song: Le fermier dans son pré
- Learn to respect differences
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Elementary 5
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 100 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 4
Text required: Les Loustics 2 - Unit 5
Objectives:
- Tell about your daily activities
- Name sport and musical activities
- Say what to do on the weekend
- Name the things we need
- Talk about collections
- Discover magazines for young people
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Upper Elementary 1
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 120 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Elementary 6
Text required: Les Loustics 3 - Unit 1
Objectives:
- Talk about your destination and your origin
- Describe people, make comparisons, state similarities and differences
- Count up to 1000
- Vocabulary: the airport, description, mind maps, opposites
- Conjugation: Present tense of the verbs to have, to be, to go and to come
- Grammar: Comparative phrases
- Phonetic: Phrases with homophones
- Learn the way French kiss
- Discover the world of the film maker Michel Ocelot: Azur et Asmar, Kirikou et la sorcière
- SingTwo songs from Les Zuts : Aujourd’hui, c’est la rentrée / A chacun sa tête
- Recite a poem : Inspection générale de Carl Norac
- Make a mind map of the class
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks
Les Grands Upper Elementary 5
General French course for 7 to 11 year old beginners with 160 hours of French or more
Prerequisite: Upper Elementary 4
Text required: Les Loustics 3 - Unit 5
Objectives:
- Vocabulary: The multimedia library, reading, Kamishibai storytelling, words used to invent a story
- Conjugation: The perfect tense (continued)
- Grammar: Direct object pronouns le, l’, la, les
- Phonetics: The [wa] sound
- Learn about he multimedia library and its resources
- Discover universal characters
- Discover the Kamishibai
- Read two stories
- Discover a traditional nursery rhyme
- Sing a song by Les Zuts : Iiiii la souris
- Make a mini-kamishibai
Pace: 1.25 hours per week over 8 weeks