Adults
General French
203 Advanced Beginner A2

Course Code: 203.A2
Latitudes 2 (Units 4, 5, 6)
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: 203 Advanced Beginner

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

Communication Skills

• Express love, express a preference
• Compare
• Express joy/sadness
• Express fear, anxiety
• Reassure/Comfort
• Express surprise
• Express anger and discontent
• Express disappointment and regret

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Nominalization and suffixes
• The comparative form
• Superlative adjectives and adverbs
• Aussi, non plus (also, neither)
• Past participle agreement
• Past participle agreement with the verb avoir (to have)
• Imperfect subjunctive (construction and use)
• Ca fait...que, il y a...que (It has been...)
• Depuis, pendant, il y a...(Since, during...)
• The pronouns en and y
• The subjunctive mood and irregular conjugation forms
• A few expressions to quantify

Socio-Cultural Themes

• Vacation: trends
• Living elsewhere
• Sundays in France

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