B1.1 Core Program · Intermediate French
Les uns et les autres
The People Around Us
Explore family memories, modern parenting, love, and friendship while learning to describe people, recount past events, and express your tastes. Use the passé composé, imparfait, and plus-que-parfait to tell richer, more precise stories in French.
Who It's For
Who this course is made for
If any of these sound like you, this course is a great fit.
Learners who have completed A2 and are ready to begin B1 French
Learners who want to describe people, family relationships, and friendships more precisely
Learners who want to narrate memories and past events naturally in French
Learners interested in discussing parenting, screen culture, love, and social relationships
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, I can…
Build the French needed to describe important people, share family memories and friendship stories, and speak clearly about relationships, preferences, and past experiences.
Describe and characterize family members, friends, and significant people
Recount childhood memories, family stories, and past events
Discuss films, television series, interests, and personal tastes
Describe how friendships begin, provide support, and endure over time
Understand different perspectives on modern parenting and family roles
Alternate the passé composé and imparfait accurately
Use time markers to sequence events and express duration
Use the plus-que-parfait to refer to an earlier past event
Collaborate to plan a Friendship Day activity
Course content
Four units to build confident B1 communication
Through authentic articles, interviews, screen culture, and literary extracts, explore family, love, parenting, making friends, isolation, and long-term friendship while developing comprehension, narration, discussion, and collaboration skills.
SOMMAIRE COURSE OUTLINEFamille et souvenirs
Family and Memories
Use a musical childhood, a family gazette, and family photographs to describe people and recount family memories
Amour, médias et parentalité
Love, Media and Parenting
Discuss reality television, screen preferences, family roles, and modern parenting
Se faire des amis
Making Friends
Share ways to meet people after moving and use time markers to describe experiences, moments, and duration
Amitié et solidarité
Friendship and Support
Explore friendship benches, childhood friends, and lifelong friendship, then collaborate on a Friendship Day
Vocabulary
Décrire et caractériser des personnes
Describing and characterizing people
La famille, les générations et les souvenirs
Family, generations, and memories
Les relations familiales et l’amour
Family relationships and love
Les goûts, les films et les séries
Preferences, films, and television series
La parentalité moderne
Modern parenting
Les relations amicales, les sentiments et le soutien
Friendship, feelings, and support
L’isolement, l’entraide et les activités collectives
Isolation, mutual support, and group activities
Grammar
Le passé composé et l’imparfait
The passé composé and imparfait
Les indicateurs de temps : il y a, dans, pendant, pour, en, depuis, ça fait… que
Time markers
Le plus-que-parfait
The pluperfect
