Course Description

Course Name

French Language: B1-1 (Intermediate)

Session: VPRS1324

Hours & Credits

126 Contact Hours

Prerequisites & Language Level

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

Intermediate

  • Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three 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.

 

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:
To express: Tastes, feelings, opinion, doubts
To put forward: Hypothesis

-Linquistic:
Verbs and expressions expressing tastes: to adore, to hate, to loathe smthg, to please?
I find that, I think that, in my opinion, according to me, to me
The subjunctive (past tense)
Si + imperfect, conditional

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of characters, moral values
Construction of verbs : to love, to desire, to feel like, to appreciate followed by infinitive or not
To give back + infinitive
Levels of language: standard, familiar, formal

OBJECTIVES PART 2:

-Communication:
To compare and characterize people, situations, objects

-Linguistics:
The adjectives: shape, place, meaning
Adverbs which enable to moderate adjectives
Adverbs of manners: shaping and using
Possessive composed-relatives pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Superlatives

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of the city (places, activities)
Vocabulary of family and friends bounds

OBJECTIVES PART 3:

-Communication:
Placing events in time diversifying moments of reference

-Linguistics:
Before + infinitive
After + past infinitive
The gerundive
The past perfect
The future
Past participle agreement rules (reflexive verbs)
Expressions: there is, there is that, since, during, without
The subjunctive after a verb (wish or obligation)

-Vocabulary:
Daily activities, studies, the employment, travels, plans
The beginning, the sequence of events, the end of an action/ to start, to carry on, to stop, to undertake, to follow
Celebrations: related to family, bank holidays

OBJECTIVES PART 4:

-Communication:
Tell somebody to do something
Give advice, instructions
Report what was said using the past tense

-Linguistics:
Pronouns: the, them, in
Some conditional values: advice, blaming, proposition, forecasting
Indirect speech (past tense)
Future

-Vocabulary:
Vocabulary of rules and interdiction
Vocabulary of environment
Social relations: invitations, answers?
Letter expressions
Intransitive verbs of indirect speech

*Course content subject to change