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Certificate in French Language
About Certificate in French Language
French, often called the “language of love,” is one of the most widely spoken and influential languages in the world. There are over 300 million speakers across all five continents. It is the official language of 29 countries, including France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and many African nations.
The Certificate in French Language at Dunster Business School is designed to equip students with essential linguistic skills, cultural understanding, and practical communication abilities in French. The program aligns with the Dunster School of Languages’s focus on preparing students for global business environments and fostering multicultural competencies. With this program, the students can prepare for internationally recognized French proficiency exams such as DELF/DALF or TEF Canada.
The levels offered in the French language program are-
– Beginner Levels (A1-A2)
– Intermediate Level (B1-B2)
– Advanced Level (C1-C2)
Level
Certificate
Duration
56 Hours
Delivery Mode
Online
Key Highlights
Develop proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension.
Understand French culture, business etiquette, and professional norms.
Get equipped for international business scenarios requiring French fluency.
Be prepared to pursue higher education in top French universities and schools.
Program Outcomes
- Gain language proficiency in the French language in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
- Develop a deep understanding of French traditions, customs, and etiquette.
- Participate in cross-cultural team projects and collaborations with French-speaking professionals.
- Handle business correspondence, emails, proposals, and reports, in French.
- Add value to your portfolio, showcasing commitment to learning and global readiness.
Career Path
Earning a Certificate in French Language opens doors to career opportunities across diverse fields, particularly in roles requiring bilingual or multilingual skills. Here are some potential career paths:
1. French Language Teacher: Teach French as a second language in schools, colleges, or private institutions
2. Corporate Trainer: Train employees in French communication for businesses dealing with French-speaking clients
3. Translator: Translate documents, books, and official records for businesses, governments, and publishers.
4. Customer Relationship Manager: Handle French-speaking clients for multinational corporations.
5. Customer Relationship Manager: Handle French-speaking clients for multinational corporations..
Curriculum
The curriculum for a Certificate in French Language typically includes comprehensive modules designed to enhance proficiency in the four key skills of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Module 1: Explorer la langue!
- Getting to know about the language
- Alphabet / Pronounciation
- Numbers
Module 2: Les Verbes!
- Verb Group Conjugations
Module 3: La Communication
- Days of the week
- Months of the Year
- Colours
Module 4: Construire des phrase
- Adjective
- Interrogatives + Possessive + Demonstrative
Module 5: Talents d’orateur
- Question-Making Skills
Module 6: Amélioration des capacités d’écoute et d’écriture
- Writing an Invitation
Module 7: Base pour module de lecture
- Introduction to new vocabulary
Module 8: Les Temps
- Present Tense
- Past Tense
- Near Future Tense
Module 9: La Comparaison
- Making comparisons between tenses!
- Mixed Grammar Exercises on all tenses
Module 10: Vocabulaire
- Family Members / Money / Animals / Shops
Module 11: Degré de comparaison
- Comparisions with Adjectives / Verbs / Nouns
Module 12: Présentez – vous
- previous units.
- Introduce
Module 1: S’améliorer avec les verbes
- Verbs (Revision)
Module 2: Construire une phrase avec les temps
- Imparfait (Revision)
- Passé Composé (Revision)
- Impératif
- Futur Proche
Module 3: Pronoms
- Complete Direct Object ( COD
- Complete Indirect Object ( COI )
Module 4: Discours Rapporté
- Direct / Indirect Speech.
Module 5: La Voix Passive – Active
- Active and Passive Voice.
Module 6: Pronoms
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Possessive Pronouns
- Interrogative Pronouns
Module 7: Les Temps
- Futur Simple!
Module 8: Vocabulaire Générale
- General Vocabulary (Revision)
Module 9: Délai et utilisation des connecteurs
- Connectors.
Module 10: Développer des compétences en communication
- Dialogue – Making Skills + Monologue.
Module 1: Temps
- Futur Proche
- Futur Simple
Module 2: Apprentissage avancé
- La Causé et La Conséquence
Module 3: Discours Rapporté
- Direct and Indirect Speech in Présent
Module 4: Temps majeurs
- Impératif + Imparfait
Module 5: Partage d’expérience passées
- Passé Récent + Passé Composé
Module 6: La rédaction de lettres
- Letter of Reclamation.
- Letter to administration
Module 7: Exprimer le souhait
- Subjonctif Présent
Module 8: Amélioration des compétences en vocabulaire
- Internet
Module 9: En savoir plus sur les temps
- Conditionnel Présent + Passé
Module 10: Améliorer les compétences orales
- Participating in a debate.
Module 11: Ajoutet de nouvelles compétences de vocabulaire
- Environment
Module 12: Amélioration du module d’écoute
- Dictation
Module 13: En savoir plus sur l’écriture
- Formal + Informal Writing
Module 14: Compétences en communication
- Dialogue – Making Skills
Module 1: Les Temps
- Plus – Que – Parfait
- Futur Simple
Module 2: Grammaire
- Conjunctions
Module 3: La Communication
- Talk about Health
Module 4: Exprimer un Souhait / des Désirs
- Impératif + Imparfait
Module 5: Partage d’expérience passées
- La Cause et Conséquence
Module 6: Expressions
- Dialogue – Making
Module 7: Voix
- Active – Passive Voice!
- L’ Opposition et La Concession.
Module 8: Entretien
- Preparing for a professional interview
Module 9: Le Futur
- Futur Proche
- Futur Simple
- Futur Antérieur
Module 10: Exprimer
- La Regret et La Reproche.
Module 11: Les Comparatifs
- Les Comparatifs
Module 12: Discours Rapporté
- Discours Rapporté Présent et Passé.
Module 13: Les Paroles
- Expose
Module 1: Tout sur les temps!
- Imperatif !
Module 2: Verbes et Prepositions !
- Verbs!
Module 3: Grammaire !
- Prefixes.
- Suffixes.
- Frequently used Prefixes and Suffixes.
Module 4: Plus de Grammaire
- Synonyms.
- Antonyms.
- Usage of Synonyms and Antonyms.
Module 5: Temps!
- Passe Compose
- Imparfait.
- Plus-Que-Parfait!
- Futur Proche.
- Futur Simple.
- Difference between Futur Proche and Futur Simple!
- Futur Interieur!
Module 6: Les comparaison entre les temps!
- Passe Compose
- Imparfait.
- Plus-Que-Parfait!
- Futur Proche.
- Futur Simple.
- Futur Anterieur
- Futur Anterieur!
Module 7: Les Comparatifs!
- Conditional Present
- Conditionnel Passe!
- Exercises on Conditionnel Tense !
Module 8: Pronoms!
- COD
- COI
- EN
- Y
- Exercises !
Module 9: Les Pronoms Relatif!
- Qui
- Que
- Ce qui
- Ce que
- Ou
- Dont et But
Module 10: Discours!
- Direct – Indirect Speech.
- Active – Passive Voice.
Module 11: Les Dialogues et Debate!
- Dialogue – Making.
- Debate.
Module 1: Tout sur les temps!
- Imperatif!
Module 2: Verbes et Prepositions!
- Verbs!
Module 3: Grammaire!
- Prefixes.
- Suffixes.
- Frequently used Prefixes and Suffixes.
Module 4: Plus de Grammaire
- Synonyms.
- Antonyms.
- Usage of Synonyms and Antonyms.
Module 5: Temps!
- Passe Compose
- Imparfait.
- Plus-Que-Parfait!
- Futur Proche.
- Futur Simple.
- Difference between Futur Proche and Futur Simple!
- Futur Interieur!
Module 6: Les comparaison entre les temps!
- Passe Compose
- Imparfait.
- Plus-Que-Parfait!
- Futur Proche.
- Futur Simple.
- Futur Anterieur
Module 7: Les Comparatifs !
- Conditionnel Present!
- Conditionnel Passe !
- Exercises on Conditionnel Tense !
Module 8: Pronoms!
- COD
- COI
- EN
- V
- Exercises !
Module 9: Les Pronoms Relatif!
- Qui
- Que
- Ce qui
- Ce que
- Ou
- Dont et But
Module 10: Discours!
- Direct – Indirect Speech.
- Active – Passive Voice.
Module 11: Les Dialogues et Debate!
- Dialogue – Making.
- Debate.
- Business Communication
- Preparation for the Interview
- Presentation Skills
- Resume Building Techniques
Curriculum
Beginners Level A1
- Introduce yourself/countries/occupations
- The alphabet & the numbers
- Languages and countries
- People and hobbies
- The work, the workplace
- Free time
- At the hotel
- The city map
- Food and drink in the restaurant
- Personal Pronouns and Verbs in the Present Tense
- The Group of Nouns: der/die/das
- Verbs
- The Negation
- The Negation
- Prepositions of Place
- Personal Pronouns in The Accusative Case
- Daily Schedule
- Stress in the Office
- On the Computer
- Arranging Appointments
- The Seasons and the Weather
- Destinations, Travel Preparations
- Means of Transport
- Living & the Home Furnishings
- Health
- Excuses
- Verbs
- Prepositions of Time
- Sentence Connectives : Conjunctions
- The Group of Nouns
- Indicators of Space
- Adjectives
Beginners Level A2
- Introducing yourself
- Professions and activities
- Telling about the past
- School, training, curriculum vitae
- Daily schedule leisure activities
- Purchasing & spending money
- Words around money
- The dream of wealth: What if…?
- In the office, on the phone, making appointments
- Verbs
- The Perfect Tense
- The Group of Nouns
- The Negation
- Main and Subordinate Clauses
- Verbs with Dative and Accusative
- Subjunctive II
- Nouns: Indicators of Time
- CASUS
- Vacation
- Countries and Nationalities
- Planning a Trip
- Animals & Dangerous Animals
- People
- Living: Garden, City, etc.
- Healthy Nutrition
- National and International News
- Theme: Environment
- Theme: Technology
- Indicators of Space
- The Group of Nouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- The Perfect Tense
- Verbs + Prepositions
- Nouns
- Prepositions: of Space & of Time
Intermediate Level B1
- Weather and Smalltalk
- Languages
- Luck
- Stress
- Time & Activities
- Punctuality
- Leisure time: museums
- Leisure time: fine arts
- Vacation
- Problems at work
- Arranging Appointments
- Manners in Business Life
- Reading
- Means of Transport
- Media
- Advertising : Impact & History
- Advertising : Product & Their Properties
- The Complaint
- The Past Tense
- Verbs + Prepositions
- Interrogative Particles
- Modal Verbs,Brauchen+Zu
- The Past Subjunctive
- Verbs+Dative+Accusative
- N-Declination
- Indicators of Time
- Adverbs of Time
- Reflexive Verbs
- The Passive
- Adjectives(Comparative/Superlative)
- The Genitive
- Relative Clauses
- Language Learning
- Lifeling Learning
- Special Learning Tips
- School,Certificates and Grades
- Traffic Problem
- Means of Transport
- On The Way
- Feelings of Happiness
- Qualities
- Stress,Anger and Joy
- Food, German Recipies,Eating in Restaurant
- Invitations and Good Wishes
- Indicators of Conditional
- Final Clauses
- Noun-Verb-Connectors
- Past-Tenses
- Time Clauses-Simultaneity,Non-Simultaneity
- Prepositions
- Adjectives+Prepositions
- Enumerations
- Causes and Consequences
Intermediate Level B2
- School, Training
- Interpersonal relations
- Living and renting
- Travel, trouble on vacation
- Complaint letters
- Cultural differences in professional life
- Smalltalk
- Europe and the Germans
- Modal verbs
- Past tense of the verbs: perfect / -preteritum / past perfect
- Declination of adjectives
- Prepositions of two cases
- The passive
- Verbs with prepositional case
- n – Declination
- Causal and effect indicators: weil, denn, deshalb, so…dass etc.
- Daily work: e-mails & telephone calls
- Activities & Leisure
- University
- History and politics
- News from all over the world
- Crime Stories
- The subjunctive II: politeness, unreality, the subjunctive II in the past
- Rection of verbs
- Position of words in the sentence
- Indicators of time
- Indicators of conditional
- Subjunctive I: Indirect speech
- Subjunctive I Alternate forms
- Nouns – Verb – Connections
- Prepositions
- Modal Particles
- Participles as Adjectives
- Connectors (during), Prepositions with Genetiv
- Negation
- Word order in the sentence
- The Word ‘it’
- Comparative sentences with than, how and ever
- Two-Piece Connectors
- Connectors to and without
- Relative clauses with who
- Noun-Verb Combinations
- Passive and passive sentence forms
- Indefinite Pronoun
- Comparative sentences with als and wenn
- Model sentences
- Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives with Prepositions
- Indirect speech with Subjunctive I
- Nominalization of Verbs
- Modal Particles
- Presentation of History
- Presentation about a special person
- Writing letter to the editor
- Describe an event
- To carry out a discussion
Advanced Level C1
- Weather and smalltalk
- Languages
- Luck
- Stress
- Laughing
- Success: sport and profession
- Failures
- Past tense of verbs
- Prepositions of space and of time
- Sentence connectives: Subordinate clauses
- Adjectives with prepositional case
- Two-part sentence connectives
- Sentence connectives: main sentences
- Modal verbs
- Subjunctive II
- Prepositions with the genitive
- Progress
- Environment and climate
- The history of the division of Germany
- The Wall
- Living in the GDR
- History and politics
- Music & Photography
- Expressing assumptions
- Relative clauses
- Extended modifiers (Partizipialattribute)
- Declination of adjectives
- Fixed connectives
- Participles and adjectives as nouns
- Subjunctive I
- Imperative
- Nominalization
- The passive and alternative forms
Advanced Level C2
- Communication and media
- History and memories
- Feelings, lies, strengths, and weaknesses
- School time
- Career opportunities and profession
- Tenses of the verbs
- Verbs with prefixes, which may or may not be separable
- Subjunctive II
- Subjunctive I
- Adverbial clauses
- Verbs and their complements
- Noun connectors
- Word formation of the nouns
- Participles as adjectives
- Nominalized adjectives and participles
- Relative clauses
- Technical progress
- Environment and pollution
- Medicine
- Special skills
- Feelings
- Living
- Art & Creativity
- Books and literature
- Politics
- Passive
- Passive replacement forms
- Modal verbs
- Declination and comparison of adjectives
- Adjectives and their complements
- Word formation of the adjectives
- Nominal style
- Prepositions of the written language
Complementary Module-Soft Skill Development
- Business Communication
- Preparation for the Interview
- Presentation Skills
Complementary Module - Resume Writing
- Resume Building Techniques
Certification
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I join the certificate in French language program if I am a complete beginner?
Yes, the program is offered for the beginner level (A1-A2) and is tailored for students with no prior knowledge of French.
Is the program available online?
Yes, the French language program is available online at Dunster Business School.
What teaching methods are used in the French Language program?
The program has interactive classroom sessions. Role-playing and real-world simulations are used by the instructors. The students get access to learning tools and resources like self-paced study material, videos, reading materials and practice tests.
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes, a certificate of completion will be awarded specifying the level achieved.