Notes regarding credits...

Offered at 6, 9, or 12 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.

Low Intermediate

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:
To express: Tastes, feelings, opinion, doubts
To put forward: Hypothesis

-Linquistic:
Verbs and expressions expressing tastes: to adore, to hate, to loathe smthg, to please…
I find that, I think that, in my opinion, according to me, to me
The subjunctive (past tense)
Si + imperfect, conditional

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

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
To compare and characterize people, situations, objects

-Linguistics:
The adjectives: shape, place, meaning
Adverbs which enable to moderate adjectives
Adverbs of manners: shaping and using
Possessive composed-relatives pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Superlatives

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of the city (places, activities)
Vocabulary of family and friends bounds

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Placing events in time diversifying moments of reference

-Linguistics:
Before + infinitive
After + past infinitive
The gerundive
The past perfect
The future
Past participle agreement rules (reflexive verbs)
Expressions: there is, there is that, since, during, without
The subjunctive after a verb (wish or obligation)

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

OBJECTIVES PART 4:

-Communication:
Tell somebody to do something
Give advice, instructions
Report what was said using the past tense

-Linguistics:
Pronouns: the, them, in
Some conditional values: advice, blaming, proposition, forecasting
Indirect speech (past tense)
Future

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of rules and interdiction
Vocabulary of environment
Social relations: invitations, answers…
Letter expressions
Intransitive verbs of indirect speech