⭐ French A2 Course – Intermediate Beginner Level (10 Weeks) ⭐

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⭐ French A2 Course – Intermediate Beginner Level (10 Weeks) ⭐
in a SMALL group setting with 7 students maximum

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Overview

This A2-level course is designed for learners who already have a basic understanding of French and want to build greater fluency and accuracy in everyday communication.

Over 10 weeks, students will strengthen their ability to speak, understand, read, and write in French through real-life contexts and guided practice.

The course offers structured lessons, engaging conversation practice, and regular feedback to help students become more independent and confident in using French at an elementary level.

Students will learn to describe their daily life in more detail, express preferences and opinions, talk about the past and future, and navigate social and practical situations.

Classes are dynamic, interactive, and supportive — ideal for learners who want to expand their vocabulary, solidify their grammar, and feel more natural when speaking.

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Target audience

This course is ideal for:

* Learners who have completed an A1 course or have basic knowledge of French

* People preparing for immigration, studies, or work in a French-speaking environment

* Students seeking a structured, intermediate-level program to improve fluency, accuracy, and communication skills

* Adults who want to speak with more confidence and better handle common everyday situations

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Details of the A2 French course

* Duration: 10 weeks
* Weekly Class Time: 2.5 hours (live on Zoom)
* Schedule: Sundays, 12:30 – 3:00 PM NY time (150 minutes)
* Group Size: Maximum 7 students
* Self-Study Strongly Suggested: Minimum 10 hours/week
* Total Learning Time: ~125 hours

No new admissions once the course starts in early January 2025.

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Next Session Start Date

Schedule:

Starts on Sunday, January. 4, 2026 (week #1)
Ends on Sunday , March 8, 2026 (week #10)

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Learning Outcomes for A2 Level Course

By completing this A2-level French course, you will be able to:

* Communicate about personal experiences and future plans with more details and fluency

* Express opinions, preferences, and feelings in conversations (e.g., likes, dislikes, comparisons)

* Understand and use past tenses (passé composé & imparfait) to describe past events and experiences

* Make suggestions, give advice, and express necessity (e.g., Tu devrais..., Il faut..., Si j’étais toi…)

* Handle everyday situations with greater confidence, including shopping, travel, and work interactions

* Engage in longer dialogues and role-plays, including formal and informal conversations

* Read and understand short articles, emails, and everyday texts (e.g., travel guides, reviews, personal stories)

* Write structured paragraphs, including emails, personal narratives, and informal messages

This course will boost your fluency and confidence in real-life social, travel, and professional situations while reinforcing key grammar and vocabulary.

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Curriculum & Study Materials

* Each week, you receive a comprehensive PDF (~80–120 pages) divided into 5 modules.

* Each module includes structured lessons, vocabulary, grammar, examples, and exercises.

* Highly recommended: 2 hours of daily self-study (10 hours/week).

* Weekly study guides and homework sections included in each weekly document.

* Each week concludes with an optional self-assessment exam and answer key.

* If you have questions during the week, you can ask in the dedicated WhatsApp group.

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Class Structure

Each weekly 2.5-hour session is divided into two parts:
1. Review and clarification of core concepts (70 min. or less)
2. Practice through exercises and live conversations (70 min. or more)

Each group meeting will include a 10-min break about halfway.

This B2 French course (over 10 weeks) is given in a semi-private setting (7 students maximum) where interactions will be encouraged via exercises done each week during the classes, along with assisting students with their pronunciation.

The personalized attention and small group setting explain the fee for the course.

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Communication & Support

* All materials and announcements are shared in a dedicated WhatsApp group. You will need the WhatsApp app in order to receive the documents and updates.

* Students can ask questions and exchange messages throughout the course.

* Course documents and reminders are sent via WhatsApp before each class.

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Cost & Payment Options

The preferred option is full payment at least one week before the course begins to secure your spot (providing that the course is not sold out).

If your budget is tight, you may choose a weekly plan: $28 CAD per week, due at least 24 hours before each class (including the first session). If payment isn’t received on time, you won't be allowed in the goup class.

Please select the weekly plan only if you intend to complete the full course. If you choose the weekly option and skip two group classes (consecutively or not), your enrollment will be ended (to prevent people from jumping in and out whenever it suits them).

* Full Course Fee: $280 CAD for the complete 10-week program

* Weekly Option: $28 CAD per class (paid 24h in advance, one class at a time)

Comparable courses over 10 weeks cost approximately $700 CAD in Toronto and NYC, with the Alliance Française or other schools.

Therefore, this course is less than half price, compared to competitors.

Additionally, not all schools could guarantee that you would be in a small group setting (with a total of 7 students).

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Refund Policy

If you choose the full payment option and decide to withdraw from the course, refunds are calculated as follows:

If you attended 2 group classes or less than 2:

• Refund of the full $280 CAD.

If you attended 3 group classes or more:

• No refund available

In any case, if you end the group classes, you will no longer have access to the WhatsApp group or receive the course materials for the remaining sessions.

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Registration Starts and Ends?

Registration for the 10-week semi-private (paid) group classes (A1 to B2) are open as of October 5, 2025, and operate on a first-come, first-served basis.

Once a group reaches its maximum number of participants (7), registration for that group closes, and this can happen at any time.

Securing your spot early by completing payment is the only way to guarantee your place. Simply expressing interest or waiting until the last moment does not guarantee availability.

The final deadline to register for the upcoming January 2026 10-week session (for any semi-private group class) is December 31, 2025 at midnight (NY time). After this date, no new registrations will be accepted, regardless of your circumstances.

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Accepted Payment Methods

1. Stripe (International Debit or Credit Card Payments) :
* Pay per week ($28 CAD): https://buy.stripe.com/eVqfZi3gNdo3ePA8Zcgbm00
* Full 10-week course ($280 CAD): https://buy.stripe.com/5kQ14o9Fb1Fl8rcb7kgbm01

2. PayPal (International payments) : @M2TradingUniversity

3. Interac E-Transfer (Canada only) : f_normandeau@protonmail.com

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Access & Attendance

* Only participants who have completed payment in advance will be admitted.

* Zoom access closes 10 minutes after class starts to maintain class flow

* Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5456313643

* Password: galaxy

* Camera use is expected for a better group learning experience

* Zoom call etiquette: Ensure that you will have a stable and fast internet connection, and that you will be in a distraction-free environment, in order to not disturb the other attendees while attending the group class.

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Extra Practice & Community Support

To further enhance learning, students are encouraged to organize their own informal study groups during the week.

While I will not be present for these peer-led sessions, they are highly recommended as a way to collaborate, share insights, and stay motivated throughout the 10-week journey.

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Course Outline – 10 Weeks of Learning

Week 1

• Module 1: Revision: Present tense of regular verbs
• Module 2: Revision: Common irregular verbs (avoir, être, aller, faire, voir, prendre)
• Module 3: Introduction to passé composé (avoir)
• Module 4: Passé composé with être
• Module 5: Talking about recent experiences using time expressions (hier, la semaine dernière, déjà, encore

Week 2

• Module 6: Adjectives for personality & emotions, agreement
• Module 7: Describing emotions and feelings, moods and states.
• Module 8: Expressing opinions (Je pense que, à mon avis, selon moi)
• Module 9: City and nature descriptions
• Module 10: Comparative adjectives and some adverbs (plus, le plus, moins, aussi, tellement)

Week 3

• Module 11: Vocabulary: Daily activities & routines, Time expressions for the future (demain, dans une semaine, l’année prochaine), Making suggestions and invitations
• Module 12: Futur proche (aller + infinitive)
• Module 13: Futur simple: Introduction and conjugation
• Module 14: Talking about holiday and weekend plans
• Module 15: Writing emails about future plans

Week 4

• Module 16: Verbs expressing preferences (aimer, préférer, détester), discussing hobbies & interests
• Module 17: Expressing agreement/disagreement, Using parce que and donc to express opinions and reasons
• Module 18: Verbs followed by infinitive (aimer + infinitif, préférer, vouloir)
• Module 19: Introduction to conditional (je voudrais, tu aimerais)
• Module 20: Writing a review (film, book)

Week 5

• Module 21: Vocabulary: Shopping, clothing, customer interactions, asking for assistance or help
• Module 22: Imperative (giving instructions and commands), Role-playing customer interactions
• Module 23: Direct object pronouns (me, te, le, la, l’, les, nous, vous, les)
• Module 24: Indirect object pronouns (me, te, lui, nous, vous, leur)
• Moule 25: Expressing necessity & obligation (il faut, devoir + infinitive), Writing formal emails (requests and complaints)

Week 6

• Module 26: Booking accommodations and tickets, Travel-related vocabulary (transport, hotel, etc.)
• Module 27: Expressing preferences when traveling (J’aimerais, Je préfère), Asking for and giving directions
• Module 28: Using pronouns “y” and “en” (Il y a, J’en veux, J’y vais)
• Module 29: Using prepositions with locations (à, en, chez, dans)
• Module 30: Writing a travel itinerary

Week 7

• Module 31: Vocabulary: Events, vacations and memories, Common storytelling expressions (Autrefois, quand j’étais petit(e), il y a longtemps), Expressing duration in the past (pendant, depuis, il y a)
• Module 32: Passé composé vs. imparfait: Differences and usage
• Module 33: Imparfait conjugation and usage
• Module 34: Passé composé conjugation and usage
• Module 35: Narrating past events and stories, Writing diary entries and short narratives

Week 8

• Module 36: Vocabulary: Health and well-being, problem-solving
• Module 37: Conditional tense, for giving advice (je voudrais, tu devrais, si j’étais toi, j’irais)
• Module 38: Using devoir, pouvoir to give recommendations
• Module 39: Hypothetical situations (si j’étais toi, je ferais…), Making hypothetical suggestions (Si j’étais toi, je ferais…)
• Module 40: Writing advice to a friend

Week 9

• Module 41: Educational vocabulary and talking about studies
• Module 42: Workplace, job applications, educational goals
• Module 43: Relative pronouns: qui, que and dont
• Module 44: Using relative clauses to add details (La ville où je vis, Le travail que j’aime)
• Module 45: Writing a formal email (Cher Monsieur/Madame…)

Week 10

• Module 46: Review: Key verbs, present and future tense (futur proche & futur simple)
• Module 47: Review: Key verbs and past tenses (passé composé, imparfait)
• Module 48: Review: Key topics from the course
• Module 49: Role-play: Everyday real-world dialogues
• Module 50: Final assessment (Speaking practice & writing task)

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About Me

I was born in Montreal (QC), Canada and studied psychology and international finance. I have worked as a professional commodities trader from 2000 until January 2025.

In the past 30 years, I have lived and worked in Hungary, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Antigua and Barbuda.

In 2017, while learning Spanish and Catalan, I was hired as a French teacher by a university in Spain.

Since March 2020, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching French
to 750 students from many countries, delivering more than
5,400+ French lessons, online and in person (as of July 15, 2025).

For some info about me as a teacher, and testimonials, see:
https://www.italki.com/F_Normandeau
or https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/7237721

I look forward to assisting you soon.

François Normandeau
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