A2A2 → B1Free
Settling in Canada: Housing, Papers, Health
The French of your first weeks: lease, health card, school and daycare.
The practical French newcomers need most. Read a rental ad, visit an apartment and understand your lease; apply for your social insurance number, your health card and your driving licence; find a doctor, use walk-in clinics, enrol a child at school and understand messages from the daycare. With the vocabulary used in Québec and the phrases to say at a counter.
Lessons
- 1
Finding a home and signing a lease
Read a rental ad, call the landlord, visit the apartment and understand your lease.
- 2
Papers and official steps
Social insurance number, health card, driving licence, bank: what to say at the counter.
- 3
Health, school and daycare
Find a doctor, use walk-in clinics, enrol a child at school and talk to the daycare.
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Rent a home and understand a lease
- 02Apply for official documents
- 03Get health care
- 04Deal with school and daycare
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- A2
B2
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