Course Description
Course Name
French Language: B1-2 (High Intermediate)
Session: VPRU3225
Hours & Credits
60 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
High Intermediate
- Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) at the college level.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
To express: The past
Organizing different types of tales
-Linquistic:
Sequence of tenses
Chronology compared with the past or the future (the day before, that day, the day after etc..)
Indirect speech in the past
Distinction between the imperfect and the past
Shaping and value of the simple past
-Vocabulary:
Big steps of life
History and current affairs of a country
News in brief
Economics
Politics
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
To put forward an hypothesis and condition: Wish/ Regret, Blame/ Forecasting, Advice/ Suggestion
-Linguistics:
Values of present and past conditional
If + past perfect/ conditional present and past
Subordinate propositions indicative, subjunctive and conditional shape
The use of the imperative with various pronouns
-Vocabulary:
The nominalization
The derivation
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
To express logical links: reason, consequence, goals, conceding
-Linguistics:
In the expression of the reason, consequence, purpose and conceding:
Use of subjunctive after some conjunctions (for, for fear that, although, without that, where)
Construction after prepositions (+ nouns or infinitives)
Other possible constructions
-Vocabulary:
Quantity, statistics: a lot of, a few, most of etcâ¦
Studies of social phenomena:
Homes, the youngsters, the retire persons, the executives, Liberal professions
*Course content subject to change