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Course Objectives:
Development of general linguistic capabilities |
Oral and written didactic activities |
| 8 WEEKS
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- Writing skills : Write simple notes and correspondence
- Grammatical points:
- Present
- Past
- Near Future
- Present conditional
- Tutoiement and vouvoiement
- Partitive articles
- Pronouns, possessive adjectives, prepositions
- Interrogative forms and negation
- Recent past, imperfect, future simple, imperative, introduction to the subjunctive
- Personal pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, relative pronouns
- Time and numbers
- Comparison
- Indirect discourse
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire :
- Greetings and making contact
- Pronunciation practice
- Common scenarios
- Common formal situations
- Reporting what someone else has said
- Listening skills:
- Rhythm, tonality of the language
- Succeed in identifying the key messages
- Written comprehension skills:
- Reproduce the information
- Pick out the information in different texts
- Understand and follow the written instructions
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- Writing various messages: (post cards and emails, invitations, etc…)
- Written compositions: starting with various instructions
- Writing of short, informal letters
- Short, simple dictations
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire:
- Simulations / Role-playing games
- Pronunciation exercises
- Simple surveys
- Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Telephone conversations
- Written comprehension skills:Selected readings
- Culture and civilisation: This part of the course will focus on French life through the lens of the current events, national and local, that find their way into the press.
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- "A la carte" program at night in small groups of 4, max.:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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12 WEEKS
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- Acquired skills in written expression + : Be able to write correspondence, simple and formal, adapting to a given situation
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Different types of hypothetical
- Indirect discourse and its agreements
- The past tenses and their agreement
- The passive form
- Listening skills acquises
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- Identify and reproduce the entirety of the French phonetic system
- Succeed in identifying and understanding the essentials of a conversation
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- Writing various messages (post cards and emails, invitations, etc.)
- Written compositions starting with various instructions
- Short, simple dictations to solidify certain linguistic structures
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire :
- Role-playing games
- Pronunciation exercises are emphasized
- Simple surveys/inquiries that have been prepared
- Listening skills:
- Reformulating information that was heard
- Telephone conversations and messages
- Written comprehension skills: Selected readings (true/false questions…)
- Culture and civilization
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- "A la carte" program at night in small groups of 4, max.:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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| 24 WEEKS |
- Acquired skills in written comprehension +
- Writing formal letters
- Writing short messages
- Writing a circumstantial account
- Understand and use new interrelated sets of vocabulary
- Grammatical points acquired
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- Common causal structures, expressing objectives
- Indirect discourse in the present and the past
- Expressing time
- Opposition/concession
- If clauses (5 types)
- Agreement of the past participle
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire
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- Make conversational exchanges
- Improved pronunciation
- Presenting on a chosen subject
- Add nuance to the discourse
- Acquired listening skills
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- Familiarity with the different registers of the language
- Identifying the authentic messages
- Acquired skills in written comprehension
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- Identifying the nature of a document and its main theme, understanding the style of the text, the author's intention, the tone, and the different information
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- Varied and interactive exercises
- Opinion poll at the CIA. Excursions to Antibes and environs with:
- targeted questionnaires to complete
- a synthesis to write
- various articles for the school paper to write
- Daily homework
- Speaking abilities and savoir–faire :
- Simulations, role-playing games
- Linguistic games and interactive activities
- Listening skills
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- Reformulating information that was heard
- Dialogues
- Selected listening exercises with questions to complete
- Taking notes for written reports
- Written comprehension skills:
- Selected readings (multiple choice questions)
- Reformulation, commentaries and debates
- Engaging with different types of documents
- French current events – cultural, social, political:
- Press review
- Comparative cultural exchanges
- Social documentaries
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- "A la carte" program at night in small groups of 4, max.:
- Review of material studied
- Extra practice on material that is most challenging
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36 lessons x 45 minutes per week
