B1.3 Core Program · Intermediate French
Cultivons les arts
Let Art Enrich Everyday Life
From sustainable festivals, women in rap, and pop culture to French cinema, Van Gogh, and public art, learn to explain your choices, give advice, express opinions, tell a film plot, and describe your response to a work of art 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 at A2-B1 level who want to explore art and culture through French
Learners who want to express opinions, explain choices, and give advice with confidence
Learners who want to master the conditional, restriction, and cause-and-effect structures
Learners interested in music, cinema, pop culture, painting, and public art
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, I can…
Build the French needed to explain reasons, offer advice, review cultural works, recount film plots, and express personal reactions across festivals, music, cinema, and visual art.
Explain why you participate in cultural events and justify personal choices
Give and respond to advice about festivals, exhibitions, and cultural outings
Express opinions on music, cinema, art, and cultural issues
Introduce musicians, musical styles, and pop-culture phenomena
Recount a film plot and write a concise review
Describe a work of art and communicate the emotions and associations it evokes
Use the present conditional for polite requests, possibility, wishes, advice, and hypotheses
Use ne…que to express restriction
Explain causes and consequences clearly
Collaborate to select an artwork that symbolizes the class
Course content
Four units to build confident B1 communication
Through news articles, cultural interviews, musical profiles, film criticism, and literary extracts, explore sustainable cultural events, popular music, cinema and diversity, painting, and public art while developing comprehension, argumentation, narration, and collaboration skills.
SOMMAIRE COURSE OUTLINEFestivals et spectacles
Festivals and Performing Arts
Discuss the environmental responsibility of festivals, Francophone celebrations, and circus heritage; explain reasons, give advice, and use the conditional
Musique et pop culture
Music and Pop Culture
Meet women in rap and Soprano, explore musical styles, geek culture, and pop culture, and introduce artists while expressing preferences
Cinéma et diversité
Cinema and Diversity
Understand film genres and terminology, recount a film plot, discuss representation in French cinema, and use restrictive structures
Arts visuels et émotions
Visual Art and Emotions
Use Van Gogh and public art to describe creation, explain causes and consequences, and select an artwork that represents the class
Vocabulary
Les festivals, les spectacles et le cirque
Festivals, performances, and circus arts
Les styles musicaux, la chanson et le succès
Musical styles, songs, and success
La pop culture, les geeks et les communautés
Pop culture, geeks, and communities
Le cinéma, les types de films et le scénario
Cinema, film genres, and plot
Le théâtre, les métiers et les distinctions
Theatre, artistic professions, and awards
Les arts visuels, les émotions et le chef-d’œuvre
Visual art, emotions, and masterpieces
Grammar
Le conditionnel présent : demande polie, possibilité, souhait, conseil et hypothèse
The present conditional for polite requests, possibility, wishes, advice, and hypotheses
La restriction avec ne…que
Expressing restriction with ne…que
La cause et la conséquence : parce que, puisque, comme, à cause de, grâce à, donc, par conséquent…
Expressing cause and consequence
