800 mots français for English speakers
Learn French vocabulary on 20 topics through an active course that focuses on speaking and writing. This comprehensive course covers 800 words divided into chapters, with interactive exercises and tests to track progress. Perfect for students aiming to become autonomous in French and prepare for B1 exams.
What you’ll learn
- Students will learn French vocabulary on 20 topics (tourism, travel, food, health, clothing, daily life, etc.)
- Students will not study single words, they will study sentences containing the thematic terms, many other commonly used terms, and idiomatic expressions
- This is an active course where students will be asked to speak by repeating sentences and reconstructing them.
- Sudents will be asked to reconstruct the sentences in writing through an interactive pdf.
- A follow-up test every two classes to check your progress
In this French vocabulary course, you will learn and use 800 words of the French language in both oral and written form. These are divided into 20 topics: in a hotel, in a restaurant, meat or fish, legumes and vegetables, fruit, food, our body part 1, our body part 2, visiting Paris and France, at the hairdresser’s/barber’s, at the chemist’s, transport, around the city, traveling, shopping, at the doctor’s, at the bar, at home, clothes, accessories.
These topics make up the chapters of the course.
Each chapter presents 10 keywords on the topic associated with 10 pictures. Each keyword is then inserted into a sentence, which can be a definition of the word, a curiosity, or a quote from a famous personality. These phrases contain other new words for a total of 800 terms which you will find in an alphabetical index indicating the chapter to which each word belongs.
What will you have to do?
1st phase: listening: listen to the pronunciation of each keyword in the chapter associated with a picture.
2nd phase: memorizing and repeating an entire sentence: you will see a sentence in French containing the keyword and the other new words on the same image the sentence which is translated into English.
You will be given x seconds to assimilate the meaning of the sentence in French, the sentence will then be read out and you will be asked to repeat it by imitating the mother tongue voice you will hear.
3rd phase oral expression: you will see the same sentences as before, this time only in French, with some missing words, and you will be asked to recompose the original sentence; after 12 seconds, the sentence will be recomposed on the screen, and you will be able to listen to it.
4th phase written expression: on a pdf file, you will find the sentences to be reassembled from phase 3, with the relative correction on another pdf file.
This is not just a lexicon with words and their translation, but a real course that will significantly improve your level of French.
The lexical level B1 course consists of 20 videos of about 8 minutes each and 40 pdf files.
Who this course is for:
- Students who want to acquire a knowledge of French vocabulary that will make them autonomous in many situations and be able to take B1 exams and beyond.
