Adults
General French
201 Advanced Beginner A2

Course Code: 201.A2
Latitudes 1 (Units 10, 11, 12)
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: 201 Advanced Beginner

Learn sentences and frequently used expressions related to everyday life. Practice speaking and reading comprehension.

Communication Skills

• Tell a story
• Describe the stages of a story
• Make comparisons
• Express the intensity of a moment
• Describe quantities
• Describe someone
• Express your agreement/disagreement
• Situate yourself in time
• Talk about the future
• Express your wishes

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Pronominal verbs
• A la piece, au kilo (by the pound...); un sachet de, un litre de...(a bag of, a liter of...); D'abord, puis (first, then)
• The use of the impersonal pronoun en
• Interrogative structures
• The imperfect tense
• The imperfect or the present perfect
• The description of a person
• S'en aller, partir, quitter to leave/to quit
• The indicators of time, en, dans (in)
• The simple future tense
• The subjunctive mood
• The placement of pronouns in an imperative phrase

Socio-Cultural Themes

• Francophone countries
• Fashion and society
• French Music trends

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