French Circles Level 5
Welcome to French Circles Level 5. You’ve reached an important milestone: This is where your French truly begins to take shape. As an intermediate learner, it’s time to fine-tune your skills. In this level, you’ll gain more independence in conversations, write with greater depth, and understand more complex texts and audio materials.
You’ll expand your vocabulary, master more advanced sentence structures, and learn to express ideas such as cause and consequence. Your French will start to sound more natural, and you’ll feel more confident navigating real-life situations. This is a conversational course, so we encourage you to participate actively and enjoy the language together with us!
Materials:
A binder with a notebook, handouts, a CD and a booklet named “Study Notes” will be provided by your teacher at the beginner of the class. Please keep the “Study Guide” in your binder at all times.
Class:
The teacher will focus on your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. During class you will work with the teacher, alone as well as with classmates. You will be expected to:
- Participate in a positive way and accept the challenges of learning and using a new language: French.
- Contribute to class practices in a personal and meaningful manner.
- Demonstrate tolerance, patience and courtesy towards your classmates and teacher.
Our Website:
Take advantage of the website’s resources at all times: www.frenchcircles.ca/online-free-french-resources
Your progress will be based on homework, assessment and participation.
Throughout your French course, we will be sharing with you links related to the class of such week. These links will be useful and fun resources that can be used by you in your free time. Additionally, using these free resources, will be as of great help for preparing you for the following weeks’ quiz, dictation and lesson.
What to expect from French Circles Level 5
By the end of this level you will be able to communicate in the following areas:
Listening:
- You will be able to understand detailed conversations and short speeches on familiar topics.
- You will be able to follow step-by-step instructions, personal stories, and interviews with native speakers.
- You will recognize various past tenses (passé composé, imparfait, plus-que-parfait, future simple, conditionnel) and their functions in context.
- You will begin to follow simple segments from French news, podcasts, or shows with common expressions.
Speaking:
- You will be able to talk about past experiences, future plans, and current routines with confidence.
- You will be able to express ideas with more detail and nuance in structured conversations.
- You will be able to participate in debates, explain opinions, and agree or disagree politely.
- You will be able to use expressions of time, condition, and possibility (si, quand, lorsque, en cas de…).
- Your speech will be more fluent, using connecting words and more advanced sentence patterns.
Writing:
- You will be able to write organized texts: narrations, explanations, and letters with appropriate formality.
- You will be able to write arguments and justify opinions with examples using a range of linking phrases.
- You will apply more complex grammar structures (e.g., relative clauses, object pronouns, negation nuances).
- You will be able to combine present, past, and future tenses within the same text smoothly.
- You will be able to take notes on presentations on a different topics.
Reading:
- You will be able to understand articles, short opinion pieces, and adapted literary texts at an A2 level.
- You will be able to infer meaning from context and understand tone and intention in a text.
- You will recognize stylistic differences between formal and informal writing.
- Your vocabulary will expand to 1000–1500 words, including expressions for emotions, comparisons, and transitions.
Homework:
Because all students learn in different ways, in our class you will learn how to use various strategies to learn the French language. Therefore, Homework will be assigned each week.
Don’t forget to complete and check the homework assigned by submitting your dictations, readings and vocabularies using the buttons below. It will be based on the lesson of the day, including speaking practices, memorizing vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as creative writing assignments according to your level. Put quality and time into your studies.
Quizzes and test:
Also, there is a Quiz or a dictation at the beginning of each class and a test every 3 weeks. Tests are important to learn a new language because they help you to practice and to test yourself. Take our Online Free French Tests as many times as you need to and keep practicing.
The tests in French Circles Level 3 are based on the French Circles Reference topics.
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