Teaching program - Advanced level - Stay of more than 8 weeks
Course Objectives:
Development of general linguistic capabilities
Oral and written didactic activities
8 WEEKS
Written competencies :
Structure a formal letter, an account, a summary or essay
Make an outline, an introduction, a synthesis, a conclusion
Write a CV and a cover letter
Translate a short excerpt from a book, an article or a song from your native language into French
Grammatical points
Review and drills of the present and past conditional
Tense agreement in the past and future
Agreement of the past participle
Hypotheticals, real, unreal and past unreal
The nuances of the subjunctive vs the indicative
The subjunctive after conjunctions
Expressing doubt and incertitude
Expressing cause and consequence
Comparisons
The speakers in a discourse
Create folk tales and various articles in groups
Write a text
Formal correspondence
CV and cover letters
Articles for the school newspaper
Games and research activities online
Making a test/quiz
12 WEEKS
Written competencies acquired +
Translate an excerpt form a book, an article, an ad, or a song from your native language into French
Grammatical points acquired
+
Double pronouns, compound relative pronouns
Indirect discourse
Morphology of French slang, colloquial French, formal French and standard French
Writing folk tales and various articles
Write a text
Formal correspondence but not in a specialized domain
CV and cover letters
24 WEEKS
Written competencies acquired +
Structure an account, a summary, or an essay, stylistically adapted to the situation
Easily prepare an outline, an introduction, a synthesis and conclusion
Easily write formal letters for any occasion and with a precise objective
Translate (from your native language) many types of documents, including those in specialized domains yet that are still accessible to the general public
Summaries and critiques of literary works, foreign or French, as well as specialized articles
