Elementary French Online Courses
Online French Level 2 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 2 is an Elementary French course for students who have already completed a Beginners course. Online French Level 2 requires that you have previously studied French Level 1 or a course of at least 12 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative Outcomes
- Talking about your French learning
- Announcing an event (give details about the event)
- Getting to know people (asking personal information)
Linguistic Outcomes
- Verb ‘apprendre’ et ‘venir’ in present tense
- Pourquoi? Parce que / pour infinitif /nom
- Feminine and masculine forms for professions
- Gender of countries
- Prepositions in front of countries and cities
- En + année
- Interrogative adjective ‘quel(le) (s)’
- Questions in French
Sociocultural Outcomes
- La Francophonie
- L’Alliance Française
- Some French celebrities
Coursebook – Mon alter ego – méthode de français et livre d’activités (Unit 2), ISBN 978-2-01-715313-9
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 2 | Saturdays
- Course Details
Online French Level 2 Saturdays is an Elementary French course for students who have already completed a Beginners course. Online French Level 2 Saturdays requires that you have previously studied French Level 1 or a course of at least 12 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative Outcomes
- Talking about your French learning
- Announcing an event (give details about the event)
- Getting to know people (asking personal information)
Linguistic Outcomes
- Verb ‘apprendre’ et ‘venir’ in present tense
- Pourquoi? Parce que / pour infinitif /nom
- Feminine and masculine forms for professions
- Gender of countries
- Prepositions in front of countries and cities
- En + année
- Interrogative adjective ‘quel(le) (s)’
- Questions in French
Sociocultural Outcomes
- La Francophonie
- L’Alliance Française
- Some French celebrities
Coursebook – Mon alter ego – méthode de français et livre d’activités (Unit 2), ISBN 978-2-01-715313-9
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 3 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 3 is an Elementary French course for students who have already studied some French. Online French Level 3 requires that you have previously studied French Level 2 or a course of at least 24 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative Outcomes:
Search for and propose an accommodation
Describe a place
Ask for and give directions
Linguistic Outcomes:
Adjectives
Definite and indefinite articles
Demonstrative adjectives
Prepositions of places
Verbs ‘aller’, ‘prendre’ and ‘descendre’
Prepositions ‘à’ and ‘en’ with modes of transports
Sociocultural Outcomes:
Discovering Marseille and Lyon
Fête des lumières
Coursebook
Based on Mon Alter Ego A1
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 3 | Saturdays
- Course Details
Online French Level 3 Saturdays is an Elementary French course for students who have already studied some French. French Level 3 requires that you have previously studied French Level 2 or a course of at least 24 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative Outcomes:
Search for and propose an accommodation
Describe a place
Ask for and give directions
Linguistic Outcomes:
Adjectives
Definite and indefinite articles
Demonstrative adjectives
Prepositions of places
Verbs ‘aller’, ‘prendre’ and ‘descendre’
Prepositions ‘à’ and ‘en’ with modes of transports
Sociocultural Outcomes:
Discovering Marseille and Lyon
Fête des lumières
Coursebook
Based on Mon Alter Ego A1
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 4 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 4 is an Elementary French course for students who have already studied some French. Online French Level 4 requires that you have previously studied French Level 3 or a course of at least 36 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative aims
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Talking about your hobbies
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Talking about your family
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Announcing and reacting to news
Linguistic outcomes
- The pronoun ‘on’
- Les questions avec ‘Qu’est-ce que..’
- Le verbe ‘faire’ et ‘jouer’
- Les adjectifs possessifs
- L’accord des adjectifs
- C’est / ce sont .. – Il est/ Elle est …/ Ils /Elle sont ..
- Le passé récent et le futur proche
- Les pronoms toniques
Sociocultural outcomes
- Les familles en France
- Littératures: ‘Les Cahiers d’Esther’
Coursebook
Mon Alter Ego A1
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 4 | Saturdays
- Course Details
Online French Level 4 Saturdays is an Elementary French course for students who have already studied some French. Online French Level 4 requires that you have previously studied French Level 3 or a course of at least 36 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video. Lessons take place once a week.
Course ContentCommunicative aims
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Online French Level 5 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 5 is an Elementary French course for students who are already in the process of learning French. French Level 5 requires that you have previously studied French Level 4 or a course of at least 48 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative Aims
- Talk about work organisation
- Describe your habits
- Formulate rules
Vocabulary
- Time indicators, prepositions for indicating time, verbs en -cer, moi aussi / moi non plus, verbs pouvoir and vouloir
- Verbs sortir, partir, dormir, verbs en -eler, -ever, -ener, -eter, meals
- Infinitive affirmative and negative, verb devoir, tâches ménagères (household chores)
Grammar
- Structures for situating in time, asking/indicating the time and schedules, prepositions for indicating schedules
- Pronomial verbs at the present tense, structures for expressing regularity, telling the time
- Infinitive affirmative and negative (to express rules), verb devoir at the present tense, structures for expressing regularity, frequency
Sociocultural Aspects
- Work schedules in France
- Mealtimes in France and in some Francophone countries
- Work schedules in France, household chores, intergenerational cohabitation, Roland Barthes and his vacation routine
Coursebook
Based on Mon Alter Ego A1
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 6 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 6 is an Elementary French course for students who are already in the process of learning French. Online French Level 6 requires that you have previously studied French Level 5 or a course of at least 60 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative aims
- Giving advice
- Describing someone’s condition and health
- Explaining a project
- Students should already have some knowledge of asking basic questions and using the present tense.
Linguistic aims
- The near future (le futur proche) of pronominal verbs
- Time indicators: dans, en
- Negation – ne… rien
- Time indicator: il y a
- The imperative (c’était and negative form)
- The imperative of pronominal verbs (verbes pronominaux)
- Avoir mal à + body part
- The expression of duration: depuis
- Devoir, pouvoir et Il faut, il ne faut pas + infinitive
- Verbs: devoir and connaître in the present tense
- The expression pour + infinitif
- The expression of cause – pourquoi / parce que
- Body parts vocabulary
- Professions related to health vocabulary
- Symptoms and diseases vocabulary
- Medical Treatment vocabulary
- Indicators of the future
- The garden vocabulary
- The environment vocabulary
Sociocultural aspects
- The French and gardening
Coursebook
Mon Alter Ego (Unit 6)*
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 7 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 7 is an Elementary French course for students who are already in the process of learning French. Online French Level 7 requires that you have previously studied French Level 6 or a course of at least 72 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative aims
- Describe daily routines and habits, particularly related to food and health.
- Discuss home organisation and decoration.
- Express opinions and give advice on health and well-being.
- Engage in conversations about food, housing, and health.
Linguistic aims
- Partitive articles (du, de la, de l’, des)
- Quantity expressions (beaucoup de, un peu de, etc.)
- Frequency expressions (souvent, parfois, jamais, etc.)
- Question structures (Qu’est-ce que…, Où est…, etc.)
- Adjective agreement
- Place of adjectives
- Imperative verbs
- Vocabulary:
- Food and nutrition
- Home furnishings and decor
- Health and well-being
- Expressions of quantity and frequency
Sociocultural aspects
- Education in France
- French eating habits and food culture
- French housing and home decor
- French healthcare system and practices
Coursebook
Mon Alter Ego (Unit 7)
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course. Books will be available to purchase from reception on the day of your second lesson.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 8 | Evenings
- Course Details
Online French Level 8 is an Elementary French course for students who are already in the process of learning French. Online French Level 8 requires that you have previously studied French Level 7 or a course of at least 84 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative aims
- Understand and explain recipes
- Name dishes and ingredients
- Give cooking instructions
- Tell stories from the past
- Invite and respond to invitations
Linguistic aims
- Prepositions à and de
- Precise quantities with de
- The verb mettre in the present tense
- Direct object pronouns le, la, les
- Passé composé: pronominal verbs
- Imperfect (c’était, il y avait…)
- Structures to situate in the year
- Complement pronouns me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur
- Present continuous
- Le indicateurs de temps: à partir de + moment, dans + durée, quand + futur simple
- Vocabulary:
- Food and cooking
- Quantities
- Cooking actions and utensils
- Past events
- Important moments in the year
Sociocultural aspects
- Composition of meals in France
- Key moments of the year in France
- French people and cuisine
Coursebooks
Mon Alter Ego – Unit 8
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform for lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips
Online French Level 8 | Saturdays
- Course Details
Online French Level 8 Saturdays is an Elementary French course for students who are already in the process of learning French. Online French Level 8 Saturdays requires that you have previously studied French Level 7 or a course of at least 84 class hours.
Our Online French language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.
Lessons take place once a week.
Course Content
Communicative aims
- Understand and explain recipes
- Name dishes and ingredients
- Give cooking instructions
- Tell stories from the past
- Invite and respond to invitations
Linguistic aims
- Prepositions à and de
- Precise quantities with de
- The verb mettre in the present tense
- Direct object pronouns le, la, les
- Passé composé: pronominal verbs
- Imperfect (c’était, il y avait…)
- Structures to situate in the year
- Complement pronouns me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur
- Present continuous
- Le indicateurs de temps: à partir de + moment, dans + durée, quand + futur simple
- Vocabulary:
- Food and cooking
- Quantities
- Cooking actions and utensils
- Past events
- Important moments in the year
Sociocultural aspects
- Composition of meals in France
- Key moments of the year in France
- French people and cuisine
Coursebooks
Mon Alter Ego – Unit 8
* Coursebooks are to be purchased after the first lesson and are required for the course.
What do you need for an online class?
To get the most from this course you will need:
- A reliable internet connection
- A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
- A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
- An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
- The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom
This language course includes
- Access to our online platform for lesson summaries, notes and resources
- Support and advice from French language teachers
- French language study tips