Course Description

Course Name

French Language: A1-2 (Beginning)

Session: VPRS1324

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