Course Description

Course Name

French Language: B1-2 (High Intermediate)

Session: VPRF1323

Hours & Credits

126 Contact Hours

Prerequisites & Language Level

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

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

You may typically choose to take this course for 9, 12, or 15 hours per week, and your total hours will adjust based on your weekly hours.

9 hours per week = 126 total contact hours
12 hours per week = 168 total contact hours
15 hours per week = 210 total contact hours

This weekly hour offering is subject to change at the discretion of the Catho each semester.

 

OBJECTIVES PART 1:

-Communication:
Express the past
Structure different type of tales

-Linquistic:
Sequence of tenses and the use of clues for place and time
Distinction between the imperfect and passé composé
The shaping and function value of the simple past

-Vocabulary:
Linked to a life story: to be born, to grow up (big steps of life), town, city, hamlet (description of a place)
Linked to history and to current events of a country: to reign, to declare war, to succeed, the monarchy?
Linked to economical, political and current events information

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
To put forward: Hypothesis and condition, Express a wish, regret, blame, forecast, advice, suggestion

-Linguistics:
Values of conditional present and past tense
If + past perfect
The imperative used with several pronouns

-Vocabulary:
To sensitize to nominalization, to derivation (to declare/ declaration, prison/imprisonment

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Express logical links

-Linguistics:
The expression of the reason: because, since, like, for, indeed, given that, because of, thanks to, with
The expression of the consequence: thus, so much that, so that, that?s why
The expression of the purpose: for, for that, so as to, for fear that
The expression of the conceding: although, yet, nevertheless

-Vocabulary:
Linked to quantity, statistics: a lot of, few of, most of the, the main part of the, a good/big part, a minority, the range of, a percentage, 10% of the?
Linked to the study of social phenomenon: homes, households, the youth, the retires, the executives, liberal professions?

*Course content subject to change