Course Description
Course Name
Intensive French Language: B2-1 (Advanced)
Session: VPRU1225
Hours & Credits
60 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.
Advanced
- Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) at the college level.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
Characterize and accentuate: Facts, People
Criticize and moderate one?s judgment
-Linquistic:
Composed relative pronouns
Simple prepositions/ with demonstratives (neutral relative pronouns)
Focalization and emphasizing
It?s him who/ It?s? that/ It?s of?
Reversal of the adjective
Reversal of prepositions
Particular using verbs in past tense (insisting imperfect)
Completive verbs after verbs of opinions
Indicative/ subjunctive (particular cases eg: you think that he is/ do you think he is
-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of positive and negative characterization
Figured sense of colors
Symbols
Metonymy (to have a drink)
The use of euphemism (it?s not bad)
Understatement
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
Locate oneself in the past (deepening)
-Linguistics:
Reminder of temporal system: Precedence, simultaneity; Posteriority: subjunctive/ indicative, Role of compound tenses
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
Compare: Social behavior, Ideas and tastes, Habits
-Vocabulary:
Advertisement vocabulary (laudatory)
OBJECTIVES PART 4:
-Communication:
Introduce and to defend: One?s point of view; A fact, a person
-Linguistics:
Logical links:
-Shading between the simple opposition and restriction
-Consequence: if, so much, such that
-Purpose
-Turning into infinitive (optional and mandatory: in order to, so that
-Vocabulary:
Social Life vocabulary
-Political and civic French life
-Educational system (school and university)
-Work organization (35 hours)
*Course content subject to change