French A1 · Beginner
Greetings, numbers, family, food, shopping: the words and sentences you need in your first weeks in France.
52 topics · Vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and practice.
What you will study
- Day 0Starter : l'alphabet, la prononciation, les nombres et les mois
- Day 1Introducing yourself and saying hello — French alphabet and pronunciation
- Day 2Spelling your name — Accents, silent letters and liaison
- Day 3Greeting people and saying goodbye — Greetings: tu vs. vous
- Day 4Who is it? — Subject pronouns
- Day 5Nationality and origin — The verb être (to be)
- Day 6Classroom objects — Nouns: masculine and feminine
- Day 7Things I like — Definite articles le, la, l', les
- Day 8In my bag — Indefinite articles un, une, des
- Day 9My bedroom — Plural of nouns
- Day 10Age and phone number — Numbers 0 to 69
- Day 11Family — The verb avoir (to have)
- Day 12Introducing your family — Possessive adjectives
- Day 13Hobbies — Regular -er verbs in the present
- Day 14What I don't like — Negation ne ... pas
- Day 15Getting to know someone — Yes/no questions (intonation, est-ce que)
- Day 16At the café with a friend — Question words (où, quand, comment, pourquoi)
- Day 17Describing a person — Adjective agreement
- Day 18My town — Position of adjectives
- Day 19Prices and money — Numbers 70 to 1000
- Day 20The working day — Telling the time
- Day 21Birthdays — Days, months and dates
- Day 22Going into town — The verb aller and contractions au, aux
- Day 23Holidays — Prepositions with cities and countries
- Day 24Sport and activities — The verb faire
- Day 25The weather — Weather expressions with il fait
- Day 26Where do you come from? — The verb venir and de + article
- Day 27At breakfast — Partitive articles du, de la, des
- Day 28Shopping at the market — Quantities (beaucoup de, un kilo de)
- Day 29School and lessons — Regular -ir verbs (finir)
- Day 30At the station — Regular -re verbs (attendre, vendre)
- Day 31The morning routine — Pronominal verbs in the present
- Day 32Where is the bakery? — Prepositions of place
- Day 33My neighbourhood — Il y a (there is / there are)
- Day 34Asking for and giving directions — The imperative
- Day 35At the restaurant — Vouloir and pouvoir
- Day 36Ordering at the bakery — Je voudrais: polite requests
- Day 37Clothes — Demonstrative adjectives ce, cette, ces
- Day 38Going shopping — Colours
- Day 39Meals in France — Prendre, boire, manger
- Day 40Next weekend — Near future: aller + infinitive
- Day 41What just happened? — Recent past: venir de + infinitive
- Day 42Household chores — Devoir and il faut
- Day 43Talents and skills — Savoir vs. connaître
- Day 44At my place, at yours — Stress pronouns (moi, toi, lui)
- Day 45Habits — Frequency adverbs (toujours, souvent, jamais)
- Day 46On the phone — Quel and qu'est-ce que
- Day 47At the doctor's — Body and health: avoir mal à
- Day 48The building and its floors — Ordinal numbers
- Day 49Yesterday — Passé composé with avoir (introduction)
- Day 50A trip — Passé composé with être (introduction)
- Day 51A portrait of me — A1 review: talking about yourself