Core French 4

Unit 1: La communication — Understanding and Using First French

Your very first French put to work: catching key words in simple spoken and written French, and producing tiny messages yourself — a spoken bonjour (hello), a copied, labelled word. Oral-first, one small chunk at a time.

• Understanding spoken key words

• Matching written key words

• Saying simple spoken messages

• Copying and labelling in French

Unit 2: La langue — How French Works and First Words

Noticing how French works (letters have their own sounds; words are boy-words or girl-words; you can ask a question just by lifting your voice) — and stocking your very first word bank: greetings, numbers 0–69, colours, the body, family, days and weather.

• Letters and their French sounds
• Boy-words, girl-words and the little words un / une / le / la

• Pointing things out: voici and voilà
• Turning a statement into a question

• Greetings, introductions and leave-taking
• Politeness and "how are you?"

• The numbers 0–69
• The basic colours

• Parts of the body
• Family members and pets

• Days, months and the date
• Weather expressions

Unit 3: La culture — Why French and Where It Lives

Why learning French is worth it, the French already hiding around you (on cereal boxes and classroom labels), the songs and counting rhymes of Francophone kids, and small cultural surprises — French first-name twins and the polite tu / vous choice.

• Reasons to learn French and French around us
• French songs and counting rhymes

• French versions of English first names
• Talking to friends vs. grown-ups: tu and vous