Course Description
Course Name
Intensive French Language: A1-2 (Beginning)
Session: VPRU1125
Hours & Credits
60 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.
Beginning
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
Describe one day?s activities
-Linquistic:
Reflexive verbs in the present tense
Everyday Verbs in present and past tense/ simple accord of past participle
-Vocabulary:
Timetable
Activities and everyday?s places
Transportation
Housing
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
Talk about future activities
-Linguistics:
Near Future
-Vocabulary:
Weather Forecast
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
Talk about what happened
One?s day using the past tense
-Linguistics:
Past tense (everyday?s verbs and reflexive verbs)
Imperfect tense for a state/ description
Frequency adverbs
-Vocabulary:
Time of the day
Leisure
Sport
OBJECTIVES PART 4:
-Communication:
Ask/ Accept/ Refuse
-Linguistics:
Demonstrative Adjectives
The Imperative
The Conditional of politeness (to want, can)
Personal Pronouns COD, COI
-Vocabulary:
Celebrations
Terms to thank somebody
Money
OBJECTIVES PART 5:
-Communication:
Express one?s taste, one?s opinion
Appreciate/ Compare
-Linguistics:
Tonic pronouns
The Comparative
The reason: why, because
-Vocabulary:
Feelings
Simple verbs of opinions (to think that, to believe that?)
*Course content subject to change