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Course Objectives:
Development of general linguistic capabilities |
Oral and written didactic activities |
| 8 WEEKS
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- Writing skills :
- Writing formal letters
- Writing short messages
- Writing a circumstantial account
- Grammatical points:
- Synthesis/review of the most common past tenses
- The conditional in all of its uses
- Review of possessive and demonstrative pronouns, personal pronouns functioning as [in]direct objects, and prepositions
- Descriptive adjectives and common adverbs
- Common uses of the subjunctive
- Synthesis/review of relative pronouns
- Common causal structures (verbal and nominal)
- Expressing an objective (verbal and nominal)
- Indirect discourse used in the present and the past
- Expressing time (simultaneous, anterior, posterior)
- Common structures of opposition/concession (verbal and nominal)
- If clauses (the 5 types)
- Agreement of the past participle with the auxiliaries avoir and être
- The passive
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Engage in authentic conversational exchange, ranging from agreement to disagreement
- Practice common administrative situations
- Learn to present a chosen subject in a well-structured manner
- Improve pronunciation
- Nuance the discours
- Listening skills:
- Perceive the different registers of the language
- Succeed in identifying messages
- Compétences en compréhension écrite:
- Identify the nature of a document
- Identify the main theme
- Understand the logical flow of the text
- Understand the author's intentions
- Characterize the tone of the document
- Precisely understand the different information included in the text
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- Varied and interactive exercises based on articles, reports, excerpts from films, ads, and other documents:
- diverse letters and written documents adapted for the circumstances
- film critiques, resumes, writing CVs
- imagined sequels
- CIA opinion poll. Excursion in Antibes and environs with:
- targeted questionnaires
- a synthesis to write
- writing of various articles for the school's paper
- Daily homework
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Simulations, role-playing games
- Linguistic games and interactive activities
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Pronunciation exercises
- Oral presentations on a chosen theme
- Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Dialogues
- Selected listening exercises with questions to complete
- Written comprehension skills: Selected readings (multiple choice questions)
- Culture and civilization:
- Press reviews
- Cultural exchanges
- Social documentaries
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- "A la carte" program at night in small groups of 4, max.:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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12 WEEKS
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- Acquired skills in written expression
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- Discover, understand and use new interrelated sets of vocabulary
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Deepen all the grammatical points covered in the 8-week program
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire
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- Engage in authentic conversational exchange, ranging from agreement to disagreement
- Practice common situations
- Improve pronunciation
- Learn to present a chosen subject in a well-structured manner
- Nuance the discours
- Compétences auditives acquises
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- Perceive the different registers of the language
- Succeed in identifying messages
- Acquired skills in written comprehension
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- Identifying the nature of a document and its main theme, understanding the style of the text, the author's intention, the tone, and the different information
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- Varied and interactive exercises based on articles, reports, excerpts from films, ads, and other documents
- CIA opinion poll. Excursion in Antibes and environs with:
- targeted questionnaires
- a synthesis to write
- writing of various articles for the school's paper
- Daily homework
- Writing of various articles
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire::
- Simulations, role-playing games
- Linguistic games and interactive activities
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Pronunciation exercises
- Oral presentations on a chosen theme
- Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Dialogues
- Various messages from a range of sources
- Selected listening exercises with questions to complete
- Taking notes for written reports
- Skills in written comprehension
- Selected readings (multiple choice questions)
- French current events: cultural, social, political:
- Press review
- Comparative cultural exchanges
- Social documentaries
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- "A la carte" program at night in small groups of 4, max.:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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| 24 WEEKS |
- Acquired skills in written comprehension
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- Translate an excerpt of a book, an article, an ad, or a song, from your native language into French
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Double pronouns, compound relative pronouns
- Indirect discourse
- Morphology of French slang, colloquial French, formal French and standard French
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire::
- Engage in various situations requiring a mastery of complex phrases
- Know how to use the right the language register depending on the situation
- Know how to use idiomatic expressions
- Manage an interview process
- Know how to structure presentations and practice public speaking
- Listening skills::
- Be able to understand a TV program
- Recognize humour
- Distinguish between a wide variety of linguistic nuancess
- Written comprehension:
- Know how to synthesize an article
- Identify the objective or message of an author
- Know the different genres of written press
- Understand and summarize statistics
- Become familiar using the Internet in French
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- Create folk tales and various articles in groups
- Write a text
- Formal correspondence but not in a specialized domain
- CV and cover letters
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Role-playing, scenarios
- Presentations on diverse themes
- Debates
- Inquiries and surveys on the inhabitants of Antibes and in-class reports
- Compétences auditives:
- Questionnaires to complete after listening exercises
- Summaries of the sequences of programs
- Role-playing
- Listening to contemporary songs and studying their lyrics
- Written comprehension:
- National press review
- Various written documents
- Internet research
- French civilization:
- France with regards to: the social and education systems, the world of work, the administration, the Internet, and political life
- Contemporary writers
- Song lyrics, recent films, popular TV programs or series
- Becoming familiar with the most important national debates
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- Programme " à la carte" en soirée par petits groupes de 4 élèves maximum:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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