Course Description
Course Name
French Language: A2-2 (Low Intermediate)
Session: VPRU3225
Hours & Credits
60 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
Low Intermediate
- Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) at the college level.
Overview
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
Give an information to sb/ To get an information
Characterize people, things
Describe situations (daily life with family, friends and at work)
Relate events
Describe habits
Give explanations
Recall a biography
-Linquistic:
Personal pronouns
Past participle rules
Reflexive verbs: negative form and with some adverbs
Opposition imperfect/ Passé compose/ Present tense
Past perfect
Future
Relative pronouns: who, which, where, whose, with who
Possessive and demonstrative pronouns
Comparatives and superlatives
C'est + invariable adjectives
Indirect speech
Before to/ After + infinitive
-Vocabulary:
Expressions placing in the past and the present: before, formerly, long time ago
Today, currently, nowadays
Catastrophe vocabulary: a fire, a flood, a storm
The suffix ?tion: construction, destruction
Years old: childhood, adult age, oldness
Adverbs expressing frequency et continuity: always, often, no longer/more
Working world
Shaping of adjectives
C'est un, c'est une + noun
Il est/ Elle est + adjective or profession and nationality
C'est + invariable adjective
Qualities and flaws
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
To situate in time and space
-Linguistics:
Time Links: first of all, then, finally, to begin with, to finish, in the first place, in the second place â¦
Expressions like: there is, there is that, since, during and in
-Vocabulary:
Expressions enable to situate in the past, present and future: before, now, yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, this week, next week
Vocabulary differences between a day, daytime, an evening, a night
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
To plan smthg near or far
To Express hypothesis and feasible projects
To express obligation, desire
-Linguistics:
Future (near) and future (simple): the differences
Feasible hypothesis: if + present/ future
If + imperfect/ conditional
present
The subjunctive after a verb (wish or obligation)
The three forms to ask a question
-Vocabulary:
Verbs of movement: to go, to go out ofâ¦
The prefix ?re: the repeat of an action
Daily activities
The Weather Forecast
Expressions of annoyance and protest
*Course content subject to change