This course is designed to give students basic oral and written communicative ability in French while building a strong grammal foundation. By presenting the language in a variety of authentic contexts, the course seeks to provide an introduction to French culture and society. Students work on all four language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading and writing.

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Upon completing this course, students will possess the ability to: satisfy a limited number of immediate needs, such as greeting people and making introductions; describing people, things, everyday activities, and telling time; describing articles of clothing; conversing about food and eating habits, family and relatives; describing rooms and furniture, and talking about events in the past. --understand and convey some spoken French through the knowledge and usage of familiar and memorized structures, on the most common features of daily life that require the interchange of simple and direct information. --understand the general meaning of oral announcements and brief texts on familiar subjects with simple morphology and lexicon. -- produce one-paragraph texts with limited formulaic information by using elementary functions 

Assessment Guidelines for assigning main letter grades: A, B, C,D, and F.

A:  Work of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensiveknowledge of relevant information or content. This type of work demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory and has an element of novelty and originality. There is clear evidence of a significant amount of reading beyond that required for the course.

B:  This is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised.

There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluatetheory and concepts and relate them to practice. Discussions reflect the student’s own arguments and are not simply a repetition of standard lecture andreference material. The work does not suffer from any major errors or omissions and provides evidence of reading beyond the required assignments.

C:  This is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings.

D:  This level of performances demonstrates that the student lacks a coherent grasp of the material.

Important information is omitted and irrelevant points included.In effect, the student has barely done enough to persuade the instructor that s/he should not fail.

F: This work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.

Students are expected to come prepared to class and participate in all activities. Active participation is crucial, since the learning process requires considerable practice. Regular attendance is an essential component of class participation. Students are allowed three (four if it’s an eight-credit course) unjustified absences. The final grade will be lowered by 2 points for each additional absence. Make sure your travel plans do not interfere with the class schedule.

MAKE-UPS

The Midterm and Final Exam can only be made up with approval from the Dean of Academic Affairs (Please see the John Cabot University Catalogand Student Handbook).

• Week 1

Grammar

Unit 1: Le verbe 'être', Les pronoms sujets . Le 'tu' et le 'vous'. Le pronom sujet 'on'.

Quelques nationalités, 'à', 'de', 'chez'.

Vocabulay

Unit 1: Présentations et usages: se saluer, se présenter, 'je m'appelle'.

Unit 2: Les nationalités, les langues, l'origine géographique.

• Week 2

Grammar

Unit 2: L'adjectif, masculin/féminin, singulier/pluriel, l'accord de l'adjectif avec le pronom.

Unit 12: L'adjectif: la place, les adjectifs particuliers.

Vocabulay

Unit 3: La famille, les âges de la vie.

• Week 3

Grammar

Unit 3 : La négation et l'interrogation. La négation simple, la question simple, la réponse.

Unit 33: L'interrogation ouverte.

Unit 34: la négation complexe.

Vocabulary

Unit 5: Le temps qui passe: Les saisons, les mois, les jours, la journée, l'heure.

• Week 4

Grammar

Unit 16: Les verbes en -er au présent.

Unit 27: Les verbes pronominaux.

Unit 11: le verbe 'avoir'

Vocabulary

Unit 12: Les vêtements, la mode.

TEST 1

• Week 5

Grammar

Unit 4: Le nom et l'article, le masculin et le féminin des personnes, le masculin et le féminin des choses.. Le nom: singulier et pluriel.

L'article: défini et indéfini.

Unit 5 : 'C'est' et 'il est'

Vocabulary

Unit 4 : Les relations et les sentiments, de l'amour au conflit, les joies et les peines.

Unit 11: le physique, l'apparence.

• Week 6

Grammar

Unit 6: Les possessifs. Les adjectifs possessifs, le pronom possessif.

Vocabulary

Unit 6: le temps qu'il fait.

• Week 7

Review.

Midterm Exam

• Week 8

Grammar

Les verbes de modalité.

Correction of the mid term exam.

Vocabulary

Unit 17: le corps humain, structure générale, les 5 sens, quand le corps s'exprime.

• Week 9

Grammar

Unit 9: 'il y a', 'c'est'.

Unit 10: La situation dans l'espace.les expressions de lieu.

Vocabulary

Oral exam: mock exam.

• Week 10

Grammar

Unit 6: Les adjectifs possessifs..

Unit 8: Les adjectif démonstratifs.

Vocabulary

Unit 13: La maison et le logement.

TEST 2

• Week 11

Grammar

Unit 29: L'impératif.

Unit 31: les pronoms toniques.

Vocabulary

Unit 14: les activités quotidiennes.

• Week 12

Grammar

Unit 40: Le passé composé.

Vocabulary

Unit 19: le caractère et la personnalité.

TEST 3

• Week 13

Final Review

• Week 14

Oral Exam

FINAL EXAM