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Course Objectives:
Development of general linguistic capabilities |
Oral and written didactic activities |
| 8 WEEKS
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- Writing skills : Compose simple passages regarding everyday life
- Grammatical points
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- Present – Past – Near Future
- Present conditional (polite) vouloir, pouvoir, falloir
- "Tu" and "vous"
- Review, drilling partitive articles
- Pronouns and possessive adjectives, direct and indirect pronouns (le, la, les, lui, leur), common prepositions, descriptive adjectives and the most common adverbs.
- Interrogative forms and negation
- The recent past, using the imperfect, simple future, imperatives, introduction to the subjunctive (il faut que)
- Personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns and adjectives, simple relative pronouns (qui que dont où), the pronouns "en" and "y"
- Time and numbers, expressing duration (il y a, depuis, en ce moment)
- Comparative expressions
- Indirect discourse
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- Writing various messages (postcards and emails, invitations and short letters to friends)
- Written composition using various starting points (observations and descriptions, creating stories from unusual pictures or comics, texts to complete, writing games, etc.)
- Writing short, informal letters
- Short, simple dictations
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12 WEEKS
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- Written competencies acquired
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Be able to write a letter, simple and formal, adapting it to the given situation
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Using different hypotheticals
- Indirect discourse and its tense agreement
- The past tenses and their agreement
- The passive
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- Writing diverse messages: post cards, invitations, short letters to friends then formal letters (various responses, requests, complaints, etc.)
- Producing written documents from various instructions (observations and descriptions, story-telling, completing texts, etc.)
- Short dictations to solidify language structures
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| 24 WEEKS |
- Written competencies acquired +
- Compose the types of formal letters required by daily life
- Write short but precise messages, appropriate for the situation and the recipient
- Write a circumstantial account that is chronologically correct by adapting vocabulary to the given topic
- Discover, understand and use new, interrelated sets of vocabulary
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Common causal structures (verbal and nominal)
- Expressing objectives (verbal and nominal)
- Indirect discourse in the present and past with appropriate agreement
- Expressions of 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
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- Varied and interactive exercises
- CIA opinion poll. Explore Antibes and the environs with:
- 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, CVs
- CIA opinion poll: Explore Antibes and the environs with :
- Targeted questionnaires
- A synthesis to write
- Writing articles for the school's newspaper
- Daily homework
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