Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Advanced French I

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• Communication

1. Associating facts and ideas 
2. Comparing them, linking them in the past and future tense

• Linguistics

1. Relation to time
2. Simultaneity/ precedence/ posteriority (indicative/ subjunctive/infinitive modes)
3. Past participle agreement
4. Current reflexive shape
5. The organization of the sentence
6. Identification of the main sentence

• Vocabulary

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

Objectives Part 2

• Communication

1. Describing these facts and ideas, defining them, and presenting them with examples

• Linguistics

1. The decisive (deepening of the articles, the definite and demonstratives)
2. The relative subordinates (constructions' difficulties, demonstrative + relative, role of the punctuation)
3. The expression of quantity (quantitative, percentages, proportions, all)

• Vocabulary

1. Around description
2. Familiarization with systems: Derivation, synonyms, antonyms and lexical fields nominalization

Objectives Part 3

• Communication

1. Appreciating these facts and ideas, criticizing them in a positive or negative way, marking the doubt and hesitation

• Linguistics

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

• Vocabulary

1. Around reference
2. Levels of language (analysis of situations and intentions)
3. Initiator verbs (constructions and shades: affirmation, hesitation, refutation…)
4. Expression of feelings, appreciation (pictorial expressions)