French classes meet once per week for a 2-hour lesson*. At each level, the program length is 8 weeks. We offer levels 1 to 6 and beyond.
HIGHLIGHTS: Experienced and qualified teachers, structured teaching, communicative approach, and measurable results.
TEXTBOOK: Contacts, eighth edition (Houghton-Mifflin). The textbook is not included in the price.
While we use the prescribed textbook throughout the course, the lesson plans exhibit teacher’s experience and the adaptability skills in view of the classroom's changing needs. We believe that using a textbook yields the best results for beginner and intermediate students. Therefore, it’s advisable to buy the prescribed textbook(s). They also provide explanatory information that may be useful for a questioning adult student and for homework.
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED AT EACH LEVEL
For further details/course descriptions, contact: french@merrimacklanguage.com
French Level 1:
- Introduce yourself and others
- Count from 1-100
- Talk about hobbies, school and activities
- Likes and Dislikes
- Use and conjugate the verbs “to have” and “to be”
- Prepositions (such as à and de)
- Adverbs
- Negation
- Asking and identifying yes or no questions
- Time, Date, Season
-Learn about the francophone cultures of Québec and Sénégal
French Level 2:
- Holidays
- Music: talk about genres, playing instruments, culture lesson
- The verbs “to think,” “to do” and “to go”
- Describe locations and read a map
- Singular and plural objects and their prepositions
- Object placement
- Pronouns
- Interrogative expressions (who, what, where, when and why?)
- Future tense
- Regular and Irregular Adjectives
- Describe yourself and others
Talk about the family
- Express opinions
- Learn about the francophone Island cultures and Switzerland
French level 3:
- Shopping and Finances (the verbs “to buy” and “to pay,” talk about clothing and household items)
- Interrogative and Demonstrative Adjectives
- Inverted Questions (verb comes before subject)
- Impersonal Questions
- Expressions with the verb “to have”
- Use and conjugate verbs ending in -ir and -re
- Using past tenses and asking about the past
- Talk about travelling and vacations
- The verbs “to leave,” “to go out” and “to sleep”
- Learn about Paris
Lwamba, J. (Instructor)
Mr. Lwamba is a native French speaker who has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from National University of Congo. He has worked in the field of Communications for more than twenty-five years, specifically in Radio and Television but also in teaching as a professor, and within the Administration of the National Oil Company of Democratic Republic of Congo. At Radio and Television, he served as a journalist drafting political, economic and cultural news in French.
Merrimack Language School offers English and foreign language programs in a classroom setting where you can benefit from focused, real-time interaction with a teacher and students. A hybrid remote option for select classes is also available.
Study as private (one-to-one ) or semi-private (1 to 2 students) or in a group (usually 3 to 5 students) in our school or offsite (businesses and corporations only). Start as a beginner, intermediate or an advanced student.
Programs are offered throughout the year in six 8-week sessions. Private lessons can start at any time. (Learn more about foreign language programs.)
Classes are held in downtown Lowell in the evenings -- one evening a week.
With a communicative, integrated approach, teaching at all levels is progressive, structured with measurable results.
UPCOMING SESSION
SCHEDULE
[In-person classes with a hybrid option to join remotely when attendance in person is not possible.]
Level 1 - Tuesdays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Level 2 - Wednesdays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
[Other levels TBD]
PRICE: $300
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