Site Officiel, DELF A2: France Éducation Internationale
By the End of LEVEL A2 students will be able to do the following:
Present oneself (educational background, job, family, neighbourhood)
Discuss hobbies and daily activities
Enquire about goods in a shop and buy what one needs
Place an order for a meal in a restaurant ( with or without the menu)
Reserve a room in a hotel (face to face)
Ask for basic services in a post office or a bank
Present one’s medical problem to a doctor
Inquire about a trip to a travel agency
Choose and use public transport (buses, trains, and taxis)
Ask the route and give directions
Buy tickets (film, train, play, etc)
Read notices, posters, catalogs, timetables, brochures, menus, advertisements, signs
Write notices and simple messages
Understand time, dates, and places from notice boards and announcements
Understand instructions and requests such as client orders and delivery dates.
Describe events and activities in past, present, and future
Places in city: Cafe, Restaurant, Shops, Bank, Post office, Hotel
Leisure: Sports, Going out, Shows, Holiday trips
Routine: Work, Shopping, Daily activities
Accommodation: the house, interior,exterior
People: Family, workplace
Countries & Cities
Itinerary, Weather forecast
Events: Meetings, Evening out, Family events
Visits, Excursions, Accidents, TV news
Money and payments
Welcome anybody
Congratulate someone
Ask, Follow and Give instructions to someone (using Present Simple, Imperative and Infinitive
Book a ticket, Cancel an order
Place an Order (food, ingredients, etc)
Do simple money transactions (buy, sell, do a banking transaction
Ask, Give and Understand information
Thank someone
Describe activities and personal experiences in the past
Describe daily activities and habits
Talk about the future: explain future plans
Give and justify one's opinion
Tell and Explain preferences
Introduce someone
Ask and Talk about feelings
Describe a person, a thing or an animal
Make reservations
Offer to help someone
Accept or refuse help/service/suggestion
Invite and reply to an invitation
Apologise, accept apologies
Pronominal verbs/ reflexive verbs
Some Verbs + infinitive: want to, able to/can
Have to + infinitive
Past Simple (passé composé) - events in the past
Past participles
Imperfect tense - descriptions in the past (it was, there was)
Imperative - Affirmative and Negative – for instructions and commands
Near Future Tense
Simple Future Tense
Recent Past Tense
Present Progressive
Transitive and Intransitive verbs - Direct and Indirect object
Relative pronouns - who, that/which, where, of whom/which
Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
Adjectives - Position and Agreement
Possessive adjectives and pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Prepositions of place: city, country etc
Connectors: moreover, then, later on, however, so, still etc
Simple and common expressions to express politeness
Present Conditional to be polite or to make a suggestion
Initiating a conversation, start talking, call out somebody, and take leave
How to get somebody's attention (Excuse me, Sir, Hey you there, etc)
Informal conversation (face to face as well as telephonic conversation)
Communication skills:
How to write an informal letter, message, invitation, postcard, email
Reading and replying to short invitations and messages