Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Intermediate French I

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• Communication

1. To express: Tastes, feelings, opinion, doubts
2. To put forward: Hypothesis

• Linguistics

1. Verbs and expressions expressing tastes: to adore, to hate, to loathe something, to please…
2. I find that, I think that, in my opinion, according to me, to me
3. The subjunctive (past tense)
4. Si + imperfect, conditional

• Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary of characters, moral values
2. Construction of verbs : to love, to desire, to feel like, to appreciate followed by infinitive or not
3. To give back + infinitive
4. Levels of language: standard, familiar, formal

• Communication

1. To compare and characterize people, situations, objects

• Linguistics

1. The adjectives: shape, place, meaning
2. Adverbs which enable to moderate adjectives
3. Adverbs of manners: shaping and using
4. Possessive composed-relatives pronouns
5. Demonstrative pronouns
6. Superlatives

• Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary of the city (places, activities)
2. Vocabulary of family and friends bounds

• Communication

1. Placing events in time diversifying moments of reference

• Linguistics

1. Before + infinitive
2. After + past infinitive
3. The gerundive
4. The past perfect
5. The future
6. Past participle agreement rules (reflexive verbs)
7. Expressions: there is, there is that, since, during, without
8. The subjunctive after a verb (wish or obligation)

• Vocabulary

1. Daily activities, studies, the employment, travels, plans
2. The beginning, the sequence of events, the end of an action/ to start, to carry on, to stop, to undertake, to follow
3. Celebrations: related to family, bank holidays

• Communication

1. Tell somebody to do something
2. Give advice, instructions
3. Report what was said using the past tense

• Linguistics

1. Pronouns: the, them, in
2. Some conditional values: advice, blaming, proposition, forecasting
3. Indirect speech (past tense)
4. Future

• Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary of rules and interdiction
2. Vocabulary of environment
3. Social relations: invitations, answers…
4. Letter expressions
5. Intransitive verbs of indirect speech

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