Notes regarding credits...

Offered at 9, 12, 15 or 18 weekly hours.

Fall 3 = 11 weeks of instruction
Win 2A = 12 weeks of instruction
Fall 4/Win 2B/Yr 2 = 15 weeks of instruction

To determine total contact hours, multiply the weekly hours by the number of weeks of instruction.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Beginning

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what each student's language level may be. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL French or the equivalent of:

0-3 Semesters/0-5 Quarters = Beginning level
4-5 Semesters/6-8 Quarters = Intermediate
6-7 Semesters/9-11 Quarters = High Intermediate
8-9 Semesters/12-14 Quarters = Advanced
Fluent/Native Speaker = Superior

Each section is composed of 3 to 4 macro-objectives that need to be acquired in a minimum of 90 teaching hours (which correspond to 6 hours X 15 weeks). These 90 hours are the minimum teaching amount.

OBJECTIVES PART 1:

-Communication:
Place yourself in time: Describe a situation in the present, past and future tense
Place yourself in space: ask and give directions

-Linquistic:
Present tense
Imperfect of description, recent past, present perfect
Relatives pronouns : who, what and where
Prepositions and Adverbs of place
Simple personal pronouns
Express quantity: in, a lot of, a bottle of…

-Vocabulary:
Stages of life
School, accommodation, health
Time: first, then
Space: next to, on the edge of…
Situation verbs: to find, to locate, to go by, to cross, to go along

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
Talk about future, about an obligation + infinitive

-Linguistics:
Simple future
To have to + infinitive

-Vocabulary:
Travel
Holidays
Landscapes

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Invite, accept or refuse

-Linguistics:
Polite conditional
Adverbs of place : y
Imperative

-Vocabulary:
Cultural activities: cinema, theater…
Vocabulary field "change and transformation":
To change, to get better, to increase, to decrease
Vocabulary field "accommodation and housing":
To rent, to buy, to move, to settle down, the owner, the tenant, the rent