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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Intermediate French III

Course Information

Subject: French (FRE)
Number: 200 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. Characterize and foreground
    2. Criticize
  • Linguistics
    1. Compound relative pronouns with simple prepositions (ex: which at, who, which on…)
    2. Demonstratives and relatives
    3. The one who, that of, it's … who, it's… that
    4. It's + preposition…. That
    5. Completives after verbs of opinion: indicative and subjunctive
    6. Reminder of temporal system: the length, precedence, simultaneity, posterity
  • Vocabulary
    1. Vocabulary of positive and negative characterization (ex: adjectives: extraordinary, marvelous…)
    2. The figurative sense of colors, symbols, metonymy (ex: to have a drink)
    3. The vocabulary of critics (adjective – verb- adverb)
Objectives Part 2
  • Communication
    1. Compare social behaviors, ideas and tastes
  • Linguistics
    1. Indefinite: each, all, some, nobody…
    2. Comparatives and superlatives:
    3. More …than, as much as, like
    4. The position of the adjective
  • Vocabulary
    1. Vocabulary of ads and touristic leaflets (ex: laudatory vocabulary…)
Objectives Part 3
  • Communication
    1. Introduce and defend a point of view
  • Linguistics
    1. The reason: gerundive
    2. Consequence: if, so much, so much that
    3. Purpose: in order to, so as to
    4. Opposition, conceding and restriction
    5. Whereas/ although/ in spite of/ yet
  • Vocabulary
    1. Vocabulary of social life

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Intermediate French III

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