Adults
General French
103 Beginner Level A1

Course Code: 103.A1
Latitudes 1 (Units 7, 8, 9)
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

For 103 11-week half course program, only the first half is offered. No second half of the course required. Students continue on directly to a 201 level 11-week full course program.

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Objectives: 103 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

• Ask and give directions
• Express that something is obligatory or prohibited
• Give advice
• Describe a place
• Situate in space: près de, en face de... (next to, in front of)
• Situate in time

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• The imperative form
• Prepositions
• Partitive articles au, à la (at)
• Past tense and use of the past participle être (to be)
• Ordinal numbers
• The negative sentence structure: ne... plus, ne...jamais
• Ordinal adjectives
• Faire (to do)
• Use of en in verbal constructions with de (in and of)
• Quelque chose, rien (something, nothing)
• Il faut, devoir (there must..., to have to/must)
• Qui, que, où (who, where)
• Indirect object pronouns me, te, lui, leur
• Placing adjectives
• Des – de before adjectives
• Gender of countries
• Prepositions and names of towns, countries, and continents
• Tout(e)(s), tous (all)
• Y, impersonal pronouns
• Demonstrative adjectives

Socio-Cultural Themes

• Architecture and nature
• French overseas departments and territories
• The European Union

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