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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Elementary French III

Course Information

Subject: French (FRE)
Number: 100 Level
Language of Instruction: French

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 145 contact hours, 9 semester credits, 14 quarter credits
4 Weeks Session: 50 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 5 quarter credits
6 Weeks Session: 75 contact hours, 5 semester credits, 7 quarter credits
8 Weeks Session: 100 contact hours, 7 semester credits, 10 quarter credits
12 Weeks Session: 150 contact hours, 10 semester credits, 15 quarter credits

Availability

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Full Description

Objectives Part 1
  • Communication
    1. Give and provide information
    2. Describe people, things, situations, daily life, family, friends, professional life)
    3. Relate events
    4. Describe habits
    5. Give explanations
  • Linguistics
    1. Agreement rules for past participle
    2. Place of pronouns, adverbs, and negative form in a sentence
    3. Reflexive verbs with negative form with some adverbs
    4. Opposition Imperfect / present perfect / present
    5. Past perfect
    6. Future perfect
    7. Relative pronouns: whose, with whom
    8. Possessive pronouns and demonstratives
    9. Comparatives and superlatives
    10. It is + invariable adjective
    11. Direct speech
  • Vocabulary
    1. Expressions placing in the past and the present: before, formerly, long time ago
    2. Today, currently, nowadays
    3. Catastrophe vocabulary: a fire, a flood, a storm
    4. The suffix –tion: construction, destruction
    5. Years old: childhood, adult age, oldness
    6. Adverbs expressing frequency et continuity: always, often, no longer/more
    7. Working world
    8. Shaping of adjectives
    9. C'est un, c'est une + noun
    10. Il est/ Elle est + adjective or profession and nationality
    11. C'est + invariable adjective
    12. Qualities and flaws
Objectives Part 2
  • Communication
    1. Locate oneself in time and space
  • Linguistics
    1. Temporal links: first of all, then, finally, to begin with, in the first place, in the second place…
    2. Expressions: there is, since, during and in
  • Vocabulary
    1. Expressions enable to situate in the past, present and future: before, now, yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, this week, next week
    2. Vocabulary differences between a day, daytime, an evening, a night
Objectives Part 3
  • Communication
    1. Plan something near or far
    2. Express hypothesis and feasible projects
    3. Express obligation, desire
  • Linguistics
    1. Future (near) and future (simple): the differences
    2. Feasible hypothesis: if + present/ future
    3. If + imperfect/ conditional
    4. Present
    5. The subjunctive after a verb (wish or obligation)
  • Vocabulary
    1. Verbs of movement: to go, to go out of…
    2. The prefix –re: the repeat of an action
    3. Daily activities
    4. The Weather Forecast
    5. Expressions of annoyance and protest

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Elementary French III

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