Description:

Continues FRCH& 121. Prerequisite: FRCH& 121 or permission of instructor.

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Produce appropriate vocabulary in target language. Create and understand short descriptive sentences using the present tense, “passé composé” and “imparfait”.
• Demonstrate knowledge of parts of speech (to show vocabulary recognition, to classify verbs, decline nouns, describe nouns, and identify cognates, show noun adjective and noun verb agreement).
• Recognize meaning (use vocabulary in context, accurately translate on exams and quizzes and in class)
• Demonstrate reading comprehension by answering comprehension questions orally and in writing after reading a passage in the target language, make educated guesses, by using cognates and context, about the meaning of a passage.
• Demonstrate listening ability by answering comprehension questions in writing both in English and in the target language after listening to an oral presentation, or hearing oral questions
• Demonstrate speaking ability in the target language by responding correctly during a prompted dialogue and creating original oral dialogues through role plays and monologues
• Demonstrate writing ability in the target language by creating grammatically correct sentences, short descriptive paragraphs, short stories or short plays, and writing summary sentences from readings.
• Use a dictionary and other tools for correct oral and written production of target language.
• Specifically:
• Use food vocabulary, be able to understand the difference between “ salade de tomates” versus “salade aux tomates”
• Use more irregular verns in the present tense:
• Specifically: “ boire, prendre, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, falloir, conduire, voir, croire,”
• Use the partitive versus the definite article
• Use commands
• Tell time in French
• Use “quel” and “ce”
• Use numbers to 100, express dates
• Use the accents correctly on verbs like “acheter” and “préférer”
• Use vocabulary to talk about vacations, leisure activities,travel, means of transportation, media, means of communication.
• Use the “passé composé” with “avoir” and “être”, and be able to negate in the past tense.
• Use “depuis” “pendant” “il y a” “depuis quand” and “depuis combine de temps” correctly.
• Use the correct affirmative and negative adverbs. Ex. “souvent”----jamais”
• Use direct object pronouns
• Use the “imparfait”
• Use the correct agreement of the past participle in the simple past tense.
• WRITE
• short grammatically correct sentences
• short descriptive paragraphes
• READ
• authentic articles, stories, cultural notes,
• SPEAK
• present tense conjugating
• LISTEN
• Use the 4 major language acquisition skills:
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• apply learned structures to everyday situations
• show knowledge of the variety of “go around it” process of fluency
• languages aren’t direct translations of English
• develop a tolerance for frustration, and will be able to take chances
• practice skills which will allow successful students to move from the acquisitive/passive to the productive/active use of language
• master the efficient use of materials