30 hour Beginner Language Course

Twenty 1.5-hour sessions

2 sessions a week for 10 weeks (recommended but flexible)

  • Twenty 1.5-hour sessions
  • 2 sessions a week for 10 weeks (recommended but flexible)

Aim:

A beginner language course aims to provide you with the tools necessary for dealing with everyday situations - on holiday for example - and inter-acting with other people.

Content:

Your course content will be adapted to your objectives but here are some examples of what you could learn in a 30 hour beginner course.

  • Presentations/Greetings: various forms of greetings and personal information (name, age, address, marital status, etc.)
  • Alphabet, colours and numbers
  • Countries and Nationalities (regions, countries and capitals)
  • Jobs and places of work
  • Hobbies: sport and leisure activities
  • Descriptions: parts of the body and description adjectives
  • Family: presentations and descriptions
  • Basic questions: finding out about other people’s personal information, family, etc.
  • Time: asking for and giving the time
  • Calendar: days, months, years and seasons
  • Weather: describing and asking about the weather, colloquial expressions
  • Habits: asking about and explaining daily activities and schedules
  • Home: description and location
  • Directions: maps and towns – asking and giving directions
  • Towns: buildings, shops and transport systems
  • Hotels: rooms and services
  • Food
  • Likes and dislikes: asking about and communicating likes and dislikes, congratulations and complaints
  • Agreeing and disagreeing: personal preferences
  • Comparisons: more or less and superlatives
  • Eating out: restaurants, menus, recipes
  • Telephone conversations: answering, greeting, enquiring, booking and leaving a message

Grammar content is tailored to the need of the course