Adults
General French
202 Advanced Beginner A2

Course Code: 202.A2
Latitudes 2 (Units 1, 2, 3)
Textbook, workbook, three CDs, website, and in-class digital book

Winter 2012
January 9–March 24
11 weeks / full course / 3 hours per week / $585
5½ weeks / accelerated course / 6 hours per week / $585

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Objectives: 202 Advanced Beginner

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

Communication Skills

• Express your certainty and uncertainty
• Express your approval and indifference
• Express and ask one's point of view
• Express your intentions
• Justify a choice
• Express constraints

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Possessive pronouns
• Double object pronouns
• The recent past
• The present perfect, the imperfect tense
• The subjunctive mood
• Interrogative structure with inversion and the name as subject (Paul a-t-il...? Does Paul have...?)
• Interrogative structure with qui est-ce qui/ que and qu'est ce qui/que (who is, what is...)
• Pour, pour que, afin de, afin que (for, in order to)
• Aller, venir, revenir, retourner (To go, to come, to come back, to return)
• Use of negative structure ne...pas...ni, ne...ni...ni
• Constraints: ne...que

Socio-Cultural Themes

• The caricature, a controversial topic
• Street art
• The French, and the French outside of France

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