Adults
General French
102 Beginner Level A1

Course Code: 102.A1
Latitudes 1 (Units 4, 5, 6)
Textbook, workbook, three CDs, website, and in-class digital book

Winter 2012
January 9–March 24
11 weeks / half course / 1 hour 30 mins per week / $315
11 weeks / full course / 3 hours per week / $585
5½ weeks / accelerated course / 6 hours per week / $585

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Objectives: 102 Beginner

Speak French from day one! Learn everyday expressions and phrases, ask and answer basic questions, and have simple conversations. Authentic situational exercises introduce you to the structure and use of language in everyday life.

Communication Skills

• Instruct someone
• Ask politely
• Speak of past actions/events
• Offer, accept, and refuse an invitation
• Speak about the date and time
• Make an appointment
• Express your point of view/opinion
• Ask for a price and quantity
• Express quantity, and quantify

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Use of il y a (there is)
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Plural nouns
• Pronouns after a preposition: avec lui, chez moi (with him/her, at my place)
• The present perfect
• Pouvoir, vouloir, venir, connaitre, finir, savoir, offrir, croire, plaire à (to be able to, to want, to come, to know, to finish, to offer, to believe, to please)
• Penser à, penser de (to think of)
• Direct object pronouns le, la, les (the)
• Pourquoi ? Parce que (why? Because)
• Quel(s), quelle(s) (which)
• The interrogative structure with qu'est ce que (what...)
• Time and date, months of the year
• A few indicators of time
• Partitive articles: the negative structure: ne...pas de
• Combien ? Un peu de, beaucoup de... (How much? A little, a lot of...)
• Qu'est ce que, combien (What, how much?)
• The colors
• masculine and feminine adjectives

Socio-Cultural Themes

• The French and their pets
• The French and their leisure/free time
• Offering gifts in the French way

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