Learn French: French Pre-intermediate – Speak Today (A2.1)

Explore the vocabulary of relations, including love and friendship, master relative pronouns to whom and where, and practice reported speech, irregular verbs, dictations, and phonetics in unit 2.

Understand how French relative pronouns work, including who/that/which and the indirect object form à qui, as indirect complements with the preposition à, illustrated by talk to and write to examples.

Explore the relative pronoun où for place and time, its accent orthography and uses as interrogative or conjunction, with examples linking places, dates, and actions.

Explore multiple French definition strategies, using c'est, que, qui, and quand, to define love as a relation, a feeling, or something inexplicable.

Explore French vocabulary for friendships, from contact and acquaintance to buddy, pal, and friend, then master terms for getting along, feeling good with someone, trusting, confiding, and being accomplices.

Master the conjugation of the French verb entendre, including forms like I hear, you hear, he hears, and the past participle heard, with liaison and the hear vs listen distinction.

Explore French vocabulary for love and relationships, including to love, be in love, fall in love, love each other, go out, dating since high school, and love at first sight.

Learn the conjugation of the verb to feel, its past participle felt, reflexive uses like feel good with someone, and how to express it smells and pain.

Practice dictation sentences 4 with phrases about colleagues, friends, trust and complicity, secrets, and love at first sight.

Master indirect speech in French by using introductory verbs (says, declares, states), adding 'that' before clauses, handling contractions before vowels, and reporting imperatives with to-infinitive forms.

Learn to report interrogative sentences in indirect speech, transforming closed questions with 'if' and 'to ask' or 'to want to know,' and handling questions like what, where, why, and how.

Practice transforming direct speech into indirect speech through declarative, imperative, and interrogative forms using 'he says', 'he's telling you to', and 'he's asking', with 10 seconds to answer.

Study the conjugation pattern for the verb 'to drive,' with past participle 'driven' and forms I drive, you drive, he drives, we drive, they drive, plus similar verbs like build.

Compare the pronunciation of the vowels [o] and [ɔ], detailing back tongue position, jaw opening, and lip rounding; practice with word pairs and sentences to reinforce distinction.

Practice dictation with everyday French phrases. Explore responses to questions about lateness, keys on the desk, nationality, residence in Bordeaux, weekend plans, start times, and availability.

Learn the mise en relief to stress a sentence element and emphasize the main idea using qui for the subject and that for the object.

Transform sentences with the highlighting structure to make them more alive, emphasizing the subject. Practice using what is, and learn when to use qui or que.

Master the mise en relief by contracting ce to c’qui and c’que, then complete a reading exercise reinforcing vocabulary on what I like, what I miss, cultural life, and orthography.

Practice six French dictation sentences about city traffic, countryside nature, town noise, capitals' pollution, grammar dislike, and translating songs to boost listening and writing accuracy.

Lyon's heritage unfolds along the Rhône and Saône, with famed bouchons and gastronomy, iconic traboules, and world-renowned museums and festivals as France's second tourism capital.

Finish unit two by studying the relative pronouns to whom and where, indirect speech, highlighting, and vocabulary of friendly and love relations; prepare for unit three and active life vocabulary.

Explore the vocabulary of active and professional life, describe a professional experience, look for jobs, and study time markers, adverbs, imperative reflexive verbs, and past tense–imperfect.

Learn to recount a professional experience in French with phrases like to work as, to do an internship, to be a trainee, and to learn on the field.

Explore French job search vocabulary, including to recruit, to hire, CDD and CDI contracts, full-time and part-time hours, gross and net salaries, cv, cover letter, job interview, pass, and apply.

Master the conjugation of the French verb suivre and its polysemic meanings, from following someone or a route to attending a class and understanding an explanation.

Explore French time markers like depuis (since/for), il y a (ago), and pendant (during); learn how their meanings shift with duration, starting points, and past or present tenses.

Explore French time markers such as dans, pour, and en, showing how to express duration and future moments across tenses.

Practice dictation with common French phrases about internships, training courses, part-time contracts, job interviews, and applying with a cover letter and CV.

Learn to distinguish adjectives from adverbs in French and form adverbs from feminine adjectives using -ment, with examples like seriously, easily, efficiently, silently, and politely.

Learn to form adverbs from adjectives ending ent or ant by removing those endings and adding emment or ammant, with examples like carefully, frequently, patiently, fluently, powerfully, slowly, and nicely.

Master the imperative mood with irregular verbs, including the tu form for er verbs, be, have, know, and want, with subject omission and ne pas.

Master the imperative for reflexive French verbs, using te/toi, nous, and vous, with negation using ne pas and examples like wake up, train yourself, and get dressed.

Master the conjugation of offrir, its past participle offered, and regular endings e, es, e, used with two complements like we offer a present to a friend, mum, or wife.

Explore the pronunciation difference between French vowels [e] (close-mid) and [ε] (open-mid), focusing on jaw openness, front tongue placement, and lip shaping, with paired word practice.

Engage in practical French dictation of everyday phrases, including job applications, language skills, teaching teamwork, internships, and cover-letter expressions.

Learn how the passé composé marks finished past actions with precise time frames, while the imparfait signals ongoing or habitual states in the past.

Practice past tense and imperfect in French by completing sentences with past or imperfect forms, noting precise time frames, habitual actions, and unique events.

Master the conjugation of découvrir in French, with regular endings and past participle 'découvert,' mirroring the verb 'to open,' and practice I discover, you discover, they discover, plus example phrases.

Explore the passé composé and imparfait in narration, distinguishing events from states and descriptions. Learn to pair tenses in sentences to show main actions and ongoing states in the past.

Practice dictation with nine phrases to strengthen writing accuracy and listening recall in French. The exercises reuse and vary sentences about daily life, work, and time to reinforce language patterns.

Explore Lille as the largest city in the north of France and its industrial heritage, from mills and breweries to the old town. Experience its markets and beer culture.

Finish the course and celebrate reaching A2.1 in French, review with subtitles, and practice oral comprehension using songs, movies, and YouTube videos, then prepare for the next level A2.2.