Course Description

Course Name

French Language: A1-1 (True Beginning)

Session: VPRF1323

Hours & Credits

168 Contact Hours

Prerequisites & Language Level

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

True 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:
Introduce yourself / others

-Linquistic:
You (Singular/Plural)
To be / To have
Elision
It is / He is
Personal pronouns:
Subject, tonic
Present tense

-Vocabulary:
Alphabet
Identity / Nationality
Numbers
Common forms of address

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
Describe somebody / a place / an object

-Linguistics:
Simple, affirmative, negative sentence
Gender, numbers
Definite and indefinite articles
Initiation to basic grammatical terms (subject, verb, complement)

-Vocabulary:
Colors
Forms

OBJECTIVES PART 3

-Communication:
Ask simple questions / Answer (space and time)

-Linguistics:
Who / When / Where /How much /How /Which
Prepositions: at / in / from

-Vocabulary:
Hours
Days
Months
Right / Left
Classroom, house and street objects

*Course content subject to change