Baudelaire, Zola, Proust, Stendhal and more French is a language of enormous cultural and literary tradition as France is the country where the Enlightenment was born, home to painters like Monet and museums like the Louvre. It is therefore a very attractive nation on many levels, including economically, since it is one of the industrial powers of Europe. Being able to master French at an intermediate level is essential to be able to work, study or travel to the country and fully enjoy it. These group conversation classes are carried out in a 100% online format and will lead to a B1 Level in French, which can later be certified by passing the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) test.

Improve your expression and comprehension in French thanks to this program and pass the CEFR B1 Level oral test”

The best way to learn a language is by using it. That is why this online group conversation program is the best way to progress in the oral performance of French. Thanks to its gradual development, its native teachers and its comprehensive syllabus, students will be able to reach B1 Level in French, which means coping in the language at an intermediate level, managing in a basic but effective way in various communicative contexts.

This program will prepare you to pass the CEFR French B1 Level oral test through more than 100 activities.

TECH's group classes will allow you to interact with other students and native teachers, ensuring the most effective learning process possible.

It is proven that learning languages increases your Intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks” 

José Antonio Marina.
Philosopher, writer, and teacher.

A unique and stimulating experience 

Flexible and Tailored

Take the best French conversation program at your own pace and based on your personal availability and schedule.

Acquire Skills and Abilities

With our method you will practice and consolidate the oral communication skills required at this level.

Networking

Join a large community and exchange knowledge and experiences with students from all over the world.

The main goal of this program is for students to train their oral skills in French as established for the B1 Level in French by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Student will have at their disposal the best native teaching staff, varied and complete didactic materials, and a reduced conversation group with which they will be able to practice comfortably. At the end of the program you will also be able to accredit your French Level as established by the CEFR, since these classes prepare you specifically to obtain this certificate.

Practice the speaking skills and abilities required by the CEFR B1 Level: more than 100 different practice exercises”

General Objectives

• Use the language being learned as a means of communication and personal expression, both in the classroom and in a wide range of face-to-face and virtual situations and on both concrete and abstract topics, including cultural ones
• Understand, interact and express themselves in these situations, orally in an adequate, reasonably flexible, accurate and correct way
• Describe the sociocultural aspects related to usual situations, as well as those related to one's own environment and use the appropriate social formulas, gestures, register and treatment in these situations
• Internalize the appropriate and necessary linguistic resources for the planned communicative activities, through functional and formal practice
• Encourage and diversify the use of strategies that streamline communication and facilitate learning
• Manage tools to evaluate and improve one's own learning and use of the language

Oral Comprehension 

Comprensión oral

• Understand concrete everyday or work-related information and identify both the general message and specific details as long as the speech is clearly articulated and with a normal accent
• Understand the main ideas of clear, standard speech on everyday topics related to work, school or leisure time, including short narratives.
• Generally follow the main ideas of a long discussion going on around them, provided that the discourse is clearly articulated at a standard language level
• Understand, in general terms, simple and short speeches on everyday topics provided they are delivered with standard and clear pronunciation.
• Understand a lecture or talk that deals with their area of expertise, provided that the subject matter is familiar and the presentation is simple and clearly structured
• Understand simple technical information, such as operating instructions for frequently used appliances, as well as follow detailed instructions
• Understand the main ideas of radio news and other simpler recorded material dealing with everyday topics delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
• Understand the information content of most recorded or broadcast material related to topics of personal interest with clear standard pronunciation 

In TECH's preparation course for the official CEFR B1 Level test, you will find more than 100 activities focused on developing your oral skills.

Oral Expression

• Carry out, with a reasonable degree of fluency, a simple description of a variety of topics that are of interest to them, presenting them as a linear sequence of elements
• Give simple descriptions on a variety of common topics within your specialty
• Give simple narratives or descriptions with a reasonable degree of fluency following a linear sequence of elements
• Make detailed accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions.
• Report the details of unpredictable events, such as, for example, an accident
• Relate book or movie plots and describe your reactions to them
• Describe dreams, hopes and ambitions
• Describe real or imagined events. Tell stories
• Provide brief rationales and explanations for opinions, plans and actions.
• Develop arguments well enough so that they can be understood without difficulty most of the time.
• Make short rehearsed statements on a relevant topic within their specialty, which are clearly intelligible despite being accompanied by an unmistakably foreign accent and intonation
• Deliver a brief, prepared presentation on a topic within their specialty, with sufficient clarity to be followed without difficulty most of the time and whose main ideas are explained with reasonable accuracy. Can also answer supplemental questions, but may have to ask for repetition if spoken quickly 

Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Competence 

• Know how to carry out a wide range of linguistic functions, using the most common features of these functions in a neutral register. Be aware of the most important rules of courtesy and act appropriately. Be aware of the most significant differences that exist between the customs, usages, attitudes, values and beliefs prevailing in the community in question and their own, and know how to identify such differences. Know how to carry out basic language functions such as exchanging and requesting information and expressing opinions and attitudes in a simple way.
• Adapt expression to deal with less common and even difficult situations. Use a wide range of simple linguistic elements with the flexibility to express much of what is wanted to convey
• Participate in debates on everyday topics using an appropriate phrase to take the floor. Initiate, maintain and end simple face-to-face conversations on everyday topics or of personal interest
• Perform, with reasonable fluency, simple narratives or descriptions, through a linear sequence of elements
• Linking a series of short, specific and simple elements to create a cohesive, linear sequence

Linguistic Competence 

• Possess sufficient linguistic ability to describe unpredictable situations, to explain the main points of an idea or problem with reasonable accuracy, and to express thoughts on abstract or cultural topics, such as music and movies.
• Possess sufficient linguistic ability to get by, and sufficient vocabulary to express themselves with some hesitation and circumlocution on topics such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel and current events, but lexical limitations lead to repetition and sometimes even difficulties in formulation.
• Have sufficient vocabulary to express themselves with some circumlocution on most topics relevant to their daily lives, such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
• Demonstrate a good command of elementary vocabulary, even if significant errors are made when expressing more complex thoughts, or when dealing with unusual topics and situations.
• Communicate with reasonable accuracy in everyday situations; generally have good grammatical control, although with obvious mother tongue influence
• Use, with reasonable accuracy, a repertoire of common "formulas" and structures related to the most predictable situations.
• Speak clearly and intelligibly, even if the foreign accent is sometimes evident and occasional mispronunciations are made.
• Produce continuous writing that is usually intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and structuring are correct enough to be understood most of the time.

In order to consolidate all these skills you will study more than 40 sessions designed by expert teachers and based 100% on the CEFR"

Did you know?

Communicative competence is not merely limited to the knowledge and ability to use the linguistic code, but has other broader dimensions, which place it in direct relation with other competences such as information processing and digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competence, or cultural and artistic competence.

This implies a cultural immersion that is only possible to recreate in the online format through simulated scenarios, storytelling, videos and real situations. 

Enroll and observe how TECH helps you to quickly and fluidly improve your level of French.