Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
15 Hour(s) 2 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Kieran Ball
Rating
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Course Overview
Build on from the knowledge you learnt in Courses 1-15, and learn how to communicate in even more situations.
Welcome to course 16 :-)
This is the sixteenth course in the 3 Minute French series, and it has lessons 135 to 143, but it also has four extra half lessons, just because I couldn't fit everything into the main lessons! It's the longest course so far, and we really shift up a gear in our learning.
In course 16, I introduce a major new learning technique that appears in every lesson from now on: Comprehension exercises
Every lesson in course 16 begins with a short comprehension exercise where we work through a text together to see what we can learn. The texts are based on a range of topics, but they contain lots of vocabulary and structures you'll already be familiar with. They also contain new vocab and new structures, so they're great for building our language knowledge.
We start this course with a recap of the tenses we've learnt so far: the present tense, the present perfect tense, the imperative and the reflecxive verbs. Then, we move on to a new tense: the imperfect tense.
The imperfect tense is the second past tense in French, and in this course we're going to learn how to form it and how to use it. We'll also look at the difference between the imperfect tense and the present perfect tense because, even though they're both used to talk about the past, they are very different.
We're going to continue looking at the prepositions à and de, and we'll see how certain verbs change depending on which preposition we use. The difference between parler à and parler de, or the difference between penser à and penser de are very interesting to look at.
In this course, we're also going to look at the fifth French structure, which it might not surprise you to learn, involves the imperfect tense.
We're going to be recapping the word depuis and how we used it with the present tense to say how long you've been doing something. And then, we're going to use it with the imperfect tense to say how long you had been doing something.
We're going to be looking at some new topics about our home life, and we'll get a Vocabulary Expansion Sheet full of words and phrases based around household chores.
There's also much more that we're going to be looking at including plenty new words, looking at the word "pour" in front of verbs, a new negative expression "ne ... plus" and how the meaning of the adjective propre can change depending on whether you place it in front of the noun or after it.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy :-)
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 261 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Lesson 135
- Section 2 Lesson 136
- Section 3 Lesson 137
- Section 4 Lesson 138
- Section 5 Lesson 139
- Section 6 Lesson 140
- Section 7 Lesson 141
- Section 8 Lesson 141.25
- Section 9 Lesson 141.5
- Section 10 Lesson 141.75
What You’ll Learn
- Start to work through "Comprehension Exercises" to build your passive vocabulary
- Learn about the imperfect tense, what it is, how to form it and how to use it
- Look at how certain verbs can change depending on which preposition they use
- Get introduced to Structure 5
- Look at some more ways to make verbs negative in French
- Look at the phrase "du tout"
- Find out how to use the suffix -aine with numbers in French
- Find out about the extremely useful word "d'accord"
- Learn lots of vocabulary related to the house and household chores
- Learn what object pronouns are and the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns
- Look at the difference between "que" and "qui" in French
- Learn a new way to give your opinion on something
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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AAnonymized User
After completing all 16 courses, I feel confident that I will be able to communicate in any French-speaking country I visit. The three-minute learning blocks are such a great way to learn a new language, bravo!
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SSarah Ettritch
I've taken all 16 courses and as usual the teacher is clear and conveys the concepts well. If you found the previous 15 courses useful, you'll find this one is too. I deducted a star for the following three reasons: 1. The teacher is still teaching in English. At this stage, 16 courses in, I think it's long past time that he teach in French. I take another French course series here at Udemy and the teacher began teaching in French during the second course. Yes, there may be some words we don't understand (at first), but at this point it's time for immersion. 2. I appreciate that the teacher is trying new things, but I didn't find the new comprehension sections at the beginning of the lessons all that useful. Mainly because we never review the words again. They took a considerable amount of time at the beginning of each lesson, and I found the time trade-off just wasn't worth it. I would rather have learned new vocabulary the way he usually teaches it, with a review at the end of the lesson. 3. Finally, I found that we'd already covered some of what was taught in this course. For example, we'd already covered the past imperfect tense in a previous lesson. The only thing we hadn't been taught is when to use it, but that could have been taught in a couple of lessons rather than teaching it as if it's new. There were a few other times when this was the case. I agree that repetition is important, so I wouldn't remind a review of something we've learned in another course. But teaching it as if we've never learned it before takes quite some time, which takes time away from learning new vocabulary and grammar. But overall, a good course. Just a few suggestions for the teacher for future courses, especially teaching in French.
