B2 Core Program · Upper-Intermediate French
Le français sur le bitume bitume
French on the Streets
Marc Nammour doesn't write salon poetry. With his group La Canaille, he shouts out the French of the streets, the factories, and social struggle. A major figure in independent rap, he wields slang and metaphor like weapons. Diving into his lyrics means discovering today's France — one that fights, cries out, and lives fully.
Who It's For
Who this course is made for
If any of these sound like you, this course is a great fit.
Learners at B2 level who want to sharpen their speaking and critical thinking skills
Anyone interested in French society, culture, music, and public affairs
Learners who want to expand advanced vocabulary and expression through authentic texts
Anyone who enjoys rap, poetry, lyric analysis, and creative language activities
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, I can…
From social protest and identity debates to hypothetical expression and textual interpretation, build the advanced French to understand contemporary France, state a position clearly, and debate with nuance.
Master advanced French vocabulary for social protest and public issues
Use complex sentence structures to clearly defend a viewpoint or belief
Practice irony, concession, and nuanced argumentative expression
Use the conditional to express complex hypotheses and alternative worlds
Reinterpret everyday vocabulary through lyric analysis
Course Content
Four themes, from social observation to advanced French expression
Four units, from street protest to mastering the power of words. Each unit combines contemporary French society, rap lyrics, advanced vocabulary, and argumentative techniques to build protest, debate, hypothesis, and interpretation skills step by step.
SOMMAIRE COURSE OUTLINELa Rue gronde
The Street Roars
Understand French social conflict, master protest vocabulary and complex sentence structures, and defend your viewpoints and beliefs
Les Mythes Français
French Myths
Explore identity and paradox, and practice irony, concession, and nuanced debate
L'Éloge du Ralenti
In Praise of Slowness
Discuss efficiency and pace of life, and use the conditional to express complex hypotheses and alternative worlds
Le Pouvoir du Verbe
The Power of the Word
Analyze Redéfinition, Parler aux inconnus, and Le silence, and practice interpreting and redefining everyday words
Vocabulary
Le silence et la prise de parole
Silence, being silenced, and speaking out
La colère et ses manifestations
Describing anger building up, exploding, being controlled, or spiraling out of control
La parole collective et la contestation
Protest, social movements, oppression, and resistance
Les phénomènes météorologiques et les catastrophes naturelles
Weather phenomena and natural disasters
Grammar
La mise en relief
Emphatic structures
L'expression de la cause et de l'accumulation
Expressing cause and accumulation
L'expression de la progression
Expressing gradual change
La concession et l'opposition
Concession and contrast
La comparaison et la métaphore
Comparison and metaphor
