Coming in June – a self-paced, living French course for beginners. This the perfect course for your upper elementary and high school students to learn relatable French sentences so they can have conversations about their everyday lives, be it playing with their siblings, spending time outside, or doing their favorite hobbies.
A free sample week is now available!
A bit about this course:
I’ve developed this course based on my teaching experiences and my readings of Charlotte Mason’s writings, François Gouin’s language learning work, and the more current language research of Dr. Stephen Krashen and Dr. Liam Printer amongst others.
During my time teaching French immersion, teaching French classes online, and teaching French to my own children, as well as my own experience trying to learn German on my own, led me to notice that students (myself included) found it easier to start with learning sentences that they could recombine or mix and match to articulate the thoughts that they wanted to express.
All my reading and teaching experiences converge in this Beginner Course, where students are invited to interact with French and shape it into their own thoughts. As Mason writes, “in fact, the new French words should be but another form of expression for the ideas that for the time fill the children’s mind.”(Home Education, p. 81)
In this course, students will learn
-poems
-series
-stories
They will look at art and gain confidence and fluency through describing the paintings using the vocabulary from within the poems, series, and stories.
Students will develop their conversational skills through guided questions and responses.
You will probably want a French Notebook for taking notes. I strongly recommend using the series as copywork so you can become familiar with French spelling right away.
This 30 week course is designed to have 2 main lessons of about 20 minutes plus 3 review videos of about 10 minutes. While they are set to be in the pattern of lesson, review, lesson, review, review for the week, don’t feel like you have to finish all five in one week. However, it is important to watch and do every video.
Ready to do the first lesson? Allons-y! Let’s go!