Notes regarding credits...

Offered at 12 or 15 weekly hours.

Fall 3 = 11 weeks of instruction
Win 2A = 12 weeks of instruction
Fall 4/Win 2B/Yr 2 = 15 weeks of instruction

To determine total contact hours, multiply the weekly hours by the number of weeks of instruction.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Beginning

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what each student's language level may be. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL French or the equivalent of:

0-3 Semesters/0-5 Quarters = Beginning level
4-5 Semesters/6-8 Quarters = Intermediate
6-7 Semesters/9-11 Quarters = High Intermediate
8-9 Semesters/12-14 Quarters = Advanced
Fluent/Native Speaker = Superior

Each section is composed of 3 to 4 macro-objectives that need to be acquired in a minimum of 90 teaching hours (which correspond to 6 hours X 15 weeks). These 90 hours are the minimum teaching amount.

OBJECTIVES PART 1:

-Communication:
Describe activities of the day : yesterday, today, tomorrow

-Linquistic:
Reflexive verbs at present tense
Common verbs at present and past tense
Simple verbal agreement of past participle

-Vocabulary:
Time of the day
Leisure
Transportation
Forecast
City

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
Ask / accept / refuse
Buy / order / pay

-Linguistics:
Polite Conditional (would / could)
Imperative
Express quantity : partitive article, negative quantity
Personal pronouns (direct and indirect objects)
Demonstrative adjectives

-Vocabulary:
Shops
Food
Money
Thank you formulas

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Express one's taste, opinion
Estimate / compare

-Linguistics:
Comparatives
Cause : why, because
Aim : to

-Vocabulary:
Feelings
Simple verbs to express one's opinion (think that, believe that, find that)