Level C2 (Mastery)

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:

Global Scale — Overall Communicative Ability
Reference: CEFR Table 1 — Common Reference Levels: Global Scale
• Understand and use familiar, everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction
of concrete needs in French.
• Introduce oneself and others, and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where
one lives, people one knows, and things one has.
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person speaks slowly and clearly and is prepared to
help.

Reception — Listening and Reading
Reference: CEFR Table 2 — Self-Assessment Grid (A1 Reception)
• Recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning oneself, one’s family, and immediate
concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
• Follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses, to assimilate meaning.
• Understand familiar names, words, and very simple sentences on notices, posters, signs, and in
catalogues.
• Understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words, and
basic phrases.
• Understand short, simple messages such as those found on postcards.
• Follow short, simple written directions (e.g., how to get from one place to another).

Interaction — Spoken and Written
Reference: CEFR Table 2 — Self-Assessment Grid (A1 Interaction)
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a
slower rate of speech and help formulate what the learner is trying to say.
• Ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics (e.g.,
personal identity, family, daily routine, local surroundings).
• Make introductions and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions.
• Establish basic social contact using the simplest everyday polite forms: greetings, farewells, saying
please, thank you, and sorry.
• Handle numbers, quantities, cost, and time in simple transactional exchanges.
• Write a short, simple postcard (e.g., holiday greetings) and fill in forms with personal details such as
name, nationality, and address.

Production — Spoken and Written
Reference: CEFR Table 2 — Self-Assessment Grid (A1 Production)
• Produce simple, mainly isolated phrases about people and places.
• Use simple phrases and sentences to describe where one lives and people one knows.
• Describe oneself, what one does, and where one lives.
• Write simple isolated phrases and sentences about oneself and familiar topics.

• Read a very short, rehearsed statement (e.g., to introduce a speaker or propose a toast).

Qualitative Aspects of Spoken Language Use
Reference: CEFR Table 3 — Qualitative Aspects of Spoken Language Use (A1)
• Range: Deploy a very basic repertoire of words and simple phrases related to personal details and
particular concrete situations.
• Accuracy: Show limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a
memorised repertoire.
• Fluency: Manage very short, isolated, mainly pre-packaged utterances, with pausing to search for
expressions and to repair communication.
• Interaction: Ask and answer questions about personal details; interact in a simple way, with
communication dependent on repetition, rephrasing, and repair.
• Coherence: Link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors like “et” (and) or “puis”
(then).