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Course Objectives:
Development of general linguistic capabilities |
Oral and written didactic activities |
| 8 WEEKS
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- Writing skills: Write simple notes and correspondence
- Grammatical points
- Present – Past – Near Future
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Present conditional
- Tutoiement and vouvoiement
- Partitive articles
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Pronouns, possessive adjectives, prepositions
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Interrogative forms and negation
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Recent past, imperfect, future simple, imperative, introduction to the subjunctive
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Personal pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, relative pronouns
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Time and numbers
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Comparison
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Indirect discourse
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
-Greetings and making contact
-Pronunciation practice
-Common scenarios
-Common formal situations
-Reporting what someone else has said
- Listening skills:
-Rhythm, tonality of the language
-Succeed in identifying the key messages
- Written comprehension:
-Reproduce the information
-Pick out the information in different texts
-Understand and follow the written instructions
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- Writing various messages: post cards and emails, invitations, etc.
- Written compositions: starting with various instructions
- Writing of short, informal letters Short, simple dictations
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Role-playing games
- Pronunciation exercises
- Simple surveys
- Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Telephone conversations
- Written comprehension skills:
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Selected readings Culture and civilization
This part of the course will focus on French life through the lens of the current events, national and local, that find their way into the press.
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12 WEEKS
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- Written competencies acquired
+ : Be able to write correspondence, simple and formal, adapting to a given situation
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Different types of hypothetical
- Indirect discourse and its agreement
- The past tenses and their agreement
- The passive form
- Acquired listening skills +
-Identify and reproduce the entirety of the French phonetic system
-Succeed in identifying and understanding the essentials of a conversation
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- Writing various messages (post cards and emails, invitations, etc.)
- Written compositions starting with various instructions Writing of short, informal letters
- Short, simple dictations to solidify certain linguistic structures
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Role-playing games
- Pronunciation exercises are emphasized
- Simple surveys/inquiries that have been prepared
Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Telephone conversations and messages Written comprehension skills: Selected readings + true/false questions
- Culture and civilization
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| 24 WEEKS |
- Acquired skills in written expression +
- Writing formal letters
- Writing short messages
- Writing a circumstantial account
- Understand and use new interrelated sets of vocabulary
- Grammatical points acquired
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Common causal structures, expressing objectives
- Indirect discourse in the present and the past
- Expressing time
- Opposition/concession
- If clauses (5 types)
- Agreement of the past participle
- Acquired speaking abilities and savoir–faire +
- Make conversational exchanges
- Improved pronunciation
- Presenting on a chosen subject
- Add nuance to the discourse
- Acquired listening skills +
- Familiarity with the different registers of the language
- Identifying the authentic 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:
- Opinion poll at the CIA
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Excursions to Antibes and environs with: targeted questionnaires to complete, a synthesis to write, various articles for the school paper to write
- Daily homework
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire
- Simulations, role
- Playing games
- Linguistic games and interactive activities
- Listening skills
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Dialogues
- Selected listening exercises with questions to complete
- Taking notes for written reports
Skills in written comprehension
- Selected readings (multiple choice questions)
- Reformulation, commentaries and debates
- Engaging with different types of documents
- French current events
- Cultural, social, political
- Press review
- Comparative cultural exchanges
- Social documentaries
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