French
College
Course Outline
French I:
Course Description:
Study of fundamentals of French: conversation, basic writing, listening, and reading comprehension, vocabulary building, grammar, and culture. This is a beginning level course. There is no prerequisite for this course. In this course you will learn to read, write, speak, and understand French at a novice level, and will increase your knowledge of the culture of French-speaking regions around the world.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
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Demonstrate sentence level skills in writing skills
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Demonstrate understanding of elementary French grammar
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Recognize and comprehend basic spoken French within a given context
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Initiate and respond to conversation French
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Demonstrate ability to read elementary texts and instructions in French
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Demonstrate knowledge of francophone cultures
Course Outline:
Course Topics will include the following:
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Social greetings
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Numbers
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Calendar and time
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Expressing likes and dislikes
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Talking about weekend and school activities
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Family and the home
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Shopping and fashion
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Food
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Culture
Essential grammar structures will include:
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Subject pronouns and the verb être
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Present tense regular -er verbs
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Agreement and placement of adjectives
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The verb aller and its use in expressing the future
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The verb venir and the immediate past
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Possessive adjectives
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Present tense irregular verbs (including avoir, faire, pouvoir, vouloir, prendre, boire)
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Interrogative pronouns qui and que
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Partitive article
French II:
Course Description:
This course reviews the essentials of vocabulary and grammatical constructions and presents further constructions not covered in French I. The course provides additional material for a solid foundation in conversation and composition and continues to place emphasis on knowledge and appreciation of the cultural backgrounds of French-speaking countries.
Course Objectives:
Students will:
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acquire and demonstrate increasing competence in the four language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing
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recognize and respond appropriately and with increasing detail to the most common spoken situations
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demonstrate ability to write increasingly complex sentences in French
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explain an increasing number of aspects of life in the French-speaking countries
Course Outline:
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Grammatical topics:
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Irregular verbs
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Direct and indirect object pronouns, both personal and impersonal
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The imperfect tense
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Expressions of quantity
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Expressions of time
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Reflexive verbs
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Vocabulary and social contexts:
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Parts of the body
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The French school system
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School subjects and majors
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Technology and communication vocabulary
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Health and sports
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Cultural contexts:
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The French university experience
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Francophone culture and art