LFU:online

Prerequisites: none
Goal: A1

At this level the learner can understand everyday expressions and simple sentences aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type; he/she can introduce himslef/herself and others and ask questions about personal details - e.g. where they live, whom they know and what things they own - and can answer questions of this kind; he/she can communicate in a simple way if the other person speaks slowly and carefully and is sympathetic.

Topics:

France and Francophonie; getting to know each other; family and exchange of preferences; to organise a trip; everyday life

Linguistic Goals:

to greet someone; to ask how somebody feels; to introduce yourself and others; to approve/ disapprove; to accept/ decline an invitation; to orient yourself in a town; to indicate the way; to plan something; to buy something

Structural Goals:

the present tense indicative conjugation - to express actions of the immediate present; stressed personal pronouns - to talk about what somebody is; definite/ indefinite articles; adjectives and the declination of adjectives - to describe a person or object in some detail; negative sentences and questions; ; prepositions of place - to orient yourself in a place; imperative - to express commands/advice/instructions

Inspire 1, Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch, units 1–5 (Hueber Verlag)