Course Description
Course Name
French Language: A1-2 (Beginning)
Session: VPRF1323
Hours & Credits
168 Contact Hours
Prerequisites & Language Level
Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.
Beginning
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
You may typically choose to take this course for 12, 15, or 18 hours per week, and your total hours will adjust based on your weekly hours.
12 hours per week = 168 total contact hours
15 hours per week = 210 total contact hours
18 hours per week = 252 total contact hours
This weekly hour offering is subject to change at the discretion of the Catho each semester.
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)
*Course content subject to change