Course Description
Course Name
Intensive French Language: A2-1 (High Beginning)
Session: VPRU1225
Hours & Credits
60 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
High Beginning
- Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two quarters) at the college level.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
Locate oneself in time: relate a story using the past, present or future tense
-Linquistic:
Continuing Present
The Imperfect for description, habits, a state
Latest past
Past tense
-Vocabulary:
Steps of Life
School, Housing, Health
Time: first of all, then?
Place: at the edge of, next to
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
Locate oneself: ask one?s direction, show the way to
-Linguistics:
The Relatives: Who, Which, Who
Prepositions and adverbs of
Place
Simple personal pronouns
Expressions of quantity: in, many/much of, a bottle of?
-Vocabulary:
Verbs of situations in space: to be situated, to be located, to go through, to cross, to go along?
The city
Shops, food, money
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
Talk about the future
Talk about an obligation + the infinitive
-Linguistics:
Future (simple)
Future (Near)
-Vocabulary:
Travels
Holidays
Landscapes
Countries, Regions, Counties
Going out: Movies, Theatre?
OBJECTIVES PART 4:
-Communication:
Invite
-Linguistics:
Conditional of politeness
-Vocabulary:
The glossary of change or transformation: to change, to improve, to raise, to reduce
OBJECTIVES PART 5:
-Communication:
Accept or refuse
-Linguistics:
Adverb of place: y
The Imperative
The reason: why, because of
-Vocabulary:
The glossary of housing: to rent, to buy, to move out,
to settle down
Owner, tenant, a rent
OBJECTIVES PART 6:
-Communication:
Express one?s tastes, opinion
Appreciate, Compare
-Vocabulary:
Verbs: to love, to feel like, to find, to think, to like, to hate?
OBJECTIVES PART 7:
-Communication:
Describe a person, an object
-Linguistics:
The negation
Adjectives (gender, number agreement, place)
It is/ He is
Possessive adjectives
-Vocabulary:
Clothes
Qualities and flaws (physical appearance/ Temper)
Daily life?s habits
Family
Hardware/ Households goods
*Course content subject to change