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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Advanced French

Course Information

Subject: French (FRE)
Number: 300 Level
Language of Instruction: French

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 72 contact hours, 5 semester credits, 7 quarter credits
4 Weeks Session: 60 contact hours, 4 semester credits, 6 quarter credits

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Full Description

OBJECTIVES PART 1:

-Communication:
Associating facts and ideas ,
Comparing them, linking them in the past and future tense

-Linquistic:
Relation to time:
Simultaneity/ precedence/ posteriority (indicative/ subjunctive/infinitive modes)
Past participle agreement
(current reflexive shape)
The organization of the sentence:
Identification of the main sentence

-Vocabulary:
Around time
Pictorial expressions (in a twinkle of an eye, all the time…)
Vocabulary of change, evolution (progression, regression, stability)
The frequency (every mornings …)
Starting from reflexive verbs (idiomatic expressions: to stick to…)

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
Describing these facts and ideas, defining them, précising them and presenting them with examples

-Linguistics:
The decisive (deepening of the articles, the definite and demonstratives)
The relative subordinates (constructions' difficulties, demonstrative + relative, role of the punctuation)
The expression of quantity (quantitative, percentages, proportions, all)

-Vocabulary:
Around description
Familiarization with systems: Derivation, synonyms, antonyms and lexical fields nominalization

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Appreciating these facts and ideas, criticizing them in a positive or negative way, marking the doubt and hesitation

-Linguistics:
Indirect speeches: indirect, reported and free: transformations (decisive…)
Initiator verbs (repartition+ construction + meaning)
The subjunctive, indicative and infinitive in completives and relatives
Particular use of qualifying adverbs and adjectives

-Vocabulary:
Around reference
Levels of language (analysis of situations and intentions)
Initiator verbs (constructions and shades: affirmation, hesitation, refutation…)
Expression of feelings, appreciation (pictorial expressions)

 

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Advanced French