Level B1 — Threshold

Understand the main points of standard language related to work, school, and leisure. Understand the main points of radio or TV programs on topics of interest if spoken clearly.

Understanding texts written in everyday language. Description of events, expression of feelings in personal letters.

Expressing oneself simply to recount events, wishes, hopes, and goals. Explaining one's opinion or plans.

To cope with most situations. To take part in unprepared conversations on familiar topics (family, work, leisure, current events).

Write simple and coherent text on familiar topics, personal letters to describe experiences and impressions.

✅ Objectifs

• ▸ Being able to talk about one's everyday environment
• ▸ Being able to accurately describe someone or something
• ▸ Being able to recount and contextualize an event
• ▸ Being able to explain a problem, describe causes and consequences
• ▸ Being able to make hypotheses and express conditions
• ▸ Being able to express positive and negative feelings
• ▸ Being able to talk about the past: current events, personal experiences
• ▸ Being able to talk about the future, express a wish
• ▸ Being able to describe a social issue
• ▸ Being able to recount a real or fictional past event
• ▸ Being able to argue: present, analyze, demonstrate
• ▸ Being able to introduce a topic and develop arguments

📐 Grammaire

• ▸ Consolidation of A2 Concepts
• ▸ Past Tenses: passé composé, imparfait, plus-que-parfait
• ▸ Agreement of the past participle with the subject and direct object
• ▸ Past conditional: regret
• ▸ Verbs of feelings and opinions + subjunctive mood
• ▸ Certain, uncertain, and unrealized hypotheses
• ▸ Adverbs of manner ending in -ment
• ▸ Relative pronoun "dont," double pronouns
• ▸ Passive and gerund: manner, condition, simultaneity
• ▸ Chronological and logical connectors
• ▸ Conjunction "pour que" + subjunctive mood

📚 Lexique

• ▸ Daily life: work, shopping, leisure, transportation, travel
• ▸ Places: city, countryside, geography
• ▸ People: physical description, personality, feelings
• ▸ The world of work
• ▸ Major life events
• ▸ Media: TV, newspapers, internet
• ▸ Current events
• ▸ Arts: cinema, literature
• ▸ Figurative language
• ▸ Word formation: prefixation, suffixation
• ▸ Vocabulary of formal letters