Course Description
Course Name
Intensive French Language: B1-1 (Intermediate)
Session: VPRU1223
Hours & Credits
60 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
OBJECTIVES PART 1:
-Communication:
To express: Tastes, feelings, opinion, doubts
To compare: People, situations, objects, ideas
To put forward: Hypothesis
-Linquistic:
Verbs and expressions expressing tastes and opinion
Adjectives and adverbs: forms, place, meaning.
Relative pronouns/ possessives
Demonstrative pronouns
Comparatives and superlatives
Completive after opinion verbs
-Vocabulary:
Moral Values
Characters
The construction of verbs: to love, to desire, to feel like following by an infinitive or not
The different levels of language
Vocabulary of positive and negative characterization
Vocabulary of critics
Occupations
OBJECTIVES PART 2:
-Communication:
To tell: To tell sb to do smthg
To report: Sb?s words using past tense
To put forward: Hypothesis
-Linguistics:
Values of conditional
Personal pronoun complements
Imperative and infinitive
The subjunctive: shaping and using in completive
Past Indirect speech
-Vocabulary:
Daily activities
Studies
Family links
Social Connections
OBJECTIVES PART 3:
-Communication:
To situate: Events in time
-Linguistics:
Before to + infinitive
After + infinitive past
Past perfect
Gerundive
The future
Expressions like: there is, since, during and in
-Vocabulary:
Biography
Employment
Celebrations
*Course content subject to change