French Next Steps - Ravenshead Library - Adult Learning

About this course

If you have a basic understanding of French and want to develop your skills further, this course will help you become more confident and fluent. You’ll learn to talk about past experiences and future plans while improving your vocabulary and pronunciation. Through engaging topics like travel, shopping, health, and opinions, you'll expand your ability to communicate in French in practical situations.

This course is suitable for learners who already feel confident using simple French in the present tense and are ready to take their speaking skills to the next level. You’ll build your ability to communicate with greater detail and fluency by learning how to talk about the past using the passé composé (past tense) and make future plans using the futur proche (future tense). Topics such as travel, shopping, dining out, health, and daily life will be explored through practical and interactive activities. You'll also develop your ability to give and ask for opinions, express preferences, and handle common real-life situations in French. Grammar coverage includes regular and irregular verbs, key sentence structures, and essential vocabulary to help you speak more naturally and confidently.

This course is ideal for you if:

• You have a basic foundation in French and want to move beyond the present tense.

• You enjoy learning through real-life scenarios like travel, dining, and everyday health.

• You want to speak more confidently and naturally in French.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe past events using the passé composé with common verbs.

• Use the future tense to discuss plans and make arrangements.

• Role-play shopping and eating out using transactional vocabulary.

• Talk about your home, health, and leisure activities with increased fluency.

• Express opinions with supporting reasons using structures like je pense que.

• Present a short cultural topic and take part in a roleplay using key vocabulary and tenses.

Please bring to the course with you:-

A drink, notepad and pen

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.