This entry-level course is designed for complete beginners to gain competency in French. Students will develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures in French. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 101

Communicative Objectives

Salutations, taking leave; introduce oneself; ask and give personal information; talk about one's hobbies; talk about one's city; ask and give explanations; understand an itinerary's simple directions; give simple directions for an itinerary; ask closed questions

Vocabulary Objectives

Salutation formulas; identity; moments in a day; tastes; verbs and directions; how to be polite: simple formulas

Grammar Objectives

To have & to be (avoir & être); possessive adjectives; negation (ne…pas); numbers up to 100; definite and indefinite articles; present tense of verbs ending in -ER; preposition (places); "Pourquoi? Parce que" (Why? Because); interrogative adjective: "Quel"?; closed questions: "Est-ce que..."?

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ (dossier 0 ; dossier 1 ; dossier 2, leçons 1 & 2)

Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 0, Dossier 1, Dossier 2, lessons 1 and 2

Total Hours: 32

This entry-level course is designed for complete beginners to gain competency in French. Students will develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures in French. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

In the event that the class group is under 5 students when the session is about to start, before deciding to close the class, we will do our best to accommodate you and suggest a reduction in number of hours for the same group price. If a group is smaller than 5, the class will function as a semi-private class. You will still have the possibility to join another, larger, group class at another day and time, provided there is room available.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 101

Communicative Objectives

Salutations, taking leave; introduce oneself; ask and give personal information; talk about one's hobbies; talk about one's city; ask and give explanations; understand an itinerary's simple directions; give simple directions for an itinerary; ask closed questions

Vocabulary Objectives

Salutation formulas; identity; moments in a day; tastes; verbs and directions; how to be polite: simple formulas

Grammar Objectives

To have & to be (avoir & être); possessive adjectives; negation (ne…pas); numbers up to 100; definite and indefinite articles; present tense of verbs ending in -ER; preposition (places); "Pourquoi? Parce que" (Why? Because); interrogative adjective: "Quel"?; closed questions: "Est-ce que..."?

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1, (dossier 0 ; dossier 1 ; dossier 2, leçons 1, 2 & 3)

Total Hours: 32

This entry-level course is designed for complete beginners to gain competency in French. Students will develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures in French. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

In the event that the class group is under 5 students when the session is about to start, before deciding to close the class, we will do our best to accommodate you and suggest a reduction in number of hours for the same group price. If a group is smaller than 5, the class will function as a semi-private class. You will still have the possibility to join another, larger, group class at another day and time, provided there is room available.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 101

Communicative Objectives

Salutations, taking leave; introduce oneself; ask and give personal information; talk about one's hobbies; talk about one's city; ask and give explanations; understand an itinerary's simple directions; give simple directions for an itinerary; ask closed questions

Vocabulary Objectives

Salutation formulas; identity; moments in a day; tastes; verbs and directions; how to be polite: simple formulas

Grammar Objectives

To have & to be (avoir & être); possessive adjectives; negation (ne…pas); numbers up to 100; definite and indefinite articles; present tense of verbs ending in -ER; preposition (places); "Pourquoi? Parce que" (Why? Because); interrogative adjective: "Quel"?; closed questions: "Est-ce que..."?

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1, (dossier 0 ; dossier 1 ; dossier 2, leçons 1, 2 & 3)

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 102

Communicative Objectives

Talk about one's job; describe a person; talk about one's family; talk about one's daily activities; talk about one's projects

Vocabulary Objectives

Most common professions; masculine and feminine for profession-based adjectives; physical and psychological descriptions; family relationships; daily activities

Grammar Objectives

Prepositions (places); demonstrative adjectives; stressed pronouns; qualifying adjectives; possessive adjectives; reflective verbs; near future; imperative mode and tense

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ (dossier 2, leçon 3 ; dossier 3 ; dossier 4, leçons 1 & 2)

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

In the event that the class group is under 5 students when the session is about to start, before deciding to close the class, we will do our best to accommodate you and suggest a reduction in number of hours for the same group price. If a group is smaller than 5, the class will function as a semi-private class. You will still have the possibility to join another, larger, group class at another day and time, provided there is room available.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 102

Communicative Objectives

Talk about one's job; describe a person; talk about one's family; talk about one's daily activities; talk about one's projects

Vocabulary Objectives

Most common professions; masculine and feminine for profession-based adjectives; physical and psychological descriptions; family relationships; daily activities

Grammar Objectives

Prepositions (places); demonstrative adjectives; stressed pronouns; qualifying adjectives; possessive adjectives; reflective verbs; near future; imperative mode and tense

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1 (dossier 2, leçon 3 ; dossier 3 ; dossier 4, leçons 1 & 2)

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 103

Communicative Objectives

Ask questions; talk about past events; talk about seasons and the weather; talk about one's hobbies and cultural activities; call someone on the phone and answer the phone; express feelings

Vocabulary Objectives

Describe someone physically; weather forecast and climate; travel

Grammar Objectives

Syntaxic structure of questions; introduction to passé composé (past tense); near future, recent past and progressive present

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1, Dossier 4, lesson 3; dossier 5, dossier 6, lessons 1 and 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 103

Communicative Objectives

Ask questions; talk about past events; talk about seasons and the weather; talk about one's hobbies and cultural activities; call someone on the phone and answer the phone; express feelings

Vocabulary Objectives

Describe someone physically; weather forecast and climate; travel

Grammar Objectives

Syntaxic structure of questions; introduction to passé composé (past tense); near future, recent past and progressive present

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 4, lesson 3; dossier 5, dossier 6, lessons 1 and 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 104

Communicative Objectives

Talk about one's food; describe clothes; give a function to an object; precise quantities

Vocabulary Objectives

Food; clothes and fashion; lodging; daily consumerism

Grammar Objectives

Basic use of simple future; partitive articles; Direct Object and Indirect Object; basic use of "imparfait" tense

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1, Dossier 6, lesson 3; dossier 7, dossier 8, lesson 1

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 104

Communicative Objectives

Talk about one's food; describe clothes; give a function to an object; precise quantities

Vocabulary Objectives

Food; clothes and fashion; lodging; daily consumerism

Grammar Objectives

Basic use of simple future; partitive articles; Direct Object and Indirect Object; basic use of "imparfait" tense

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 6, lesson 3; dossier 7, dossier 8, lesson 1

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the core competencies needed for beginners in French and enables students to move on to intermediate courses at the 200-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPICS

Regular 105

Communicative Objectives

Make a comparison; talk about memories; suggest an outing; react; understand and set up rules

Vocabulary Objectives

Lodging; cuisine (gastronomy); daily life

Grammar Objectives

Expressions used for comparison; "Il faut" + infinitive and imperative; negation and restriction; expressions used for quantity; "Depuis / Il y a"; "Devoir / Il faut que"

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 1, Dossier 8, lessons 2 and 3; dossier 9

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the core competencies needed for beginners in French and enables students to move on to intermediate courses at the 200-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 105

Communicative Objectives

Make a comparison; talk about memories; suggest an outing; react; understand and set up rules

Vocabulary Objectives

Lodging; cuisine (gastronomy); daily life

Grammar Objectives

Expressions used for comparison; "Il faut" + infinitive and imperative; negation and restriction; expressions used for quantity; "Depuis / Il y a"; "Devoir / Il faut que"

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 8, lessons 2 and 3; dossier 9

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for students at the intermediate-level working toward proficiency in French. Students will further develop their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, expand upon their vocabulary, and utilize more complex grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 201

Communicative Objectives

Talk about a friendship; describe a person; talk about what someone said; mention changes; narrate an encounter; talk about one's work, one's university studies, one's choice of profession; give advice

Vocabulary Objectives

Friendship; love relationship; studies; professional experience; work and professional life; love life

Grammar Objectives

Simple relative pronouns; passé composé tense / imparfait tense / plus - perfect tense; indirect speech in the present tense; comparison; time markers ("il y a, dans, pendant, depuis"), advice using imperative tense and mode; subjunctive to express necessity

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for students at the intermediate-level working toward proficiency in French. Students will further develop their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, expand upon their vocabulary, and utilize more complex grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

In the event that the class group is under 5 students when the session is about to start, before deciding to close the class, we will do our best to accommodate you and suggest a reduction in number of hours for the same group price. If a group is smaller than 5, the class will function as a semi-private class. You will still have the possibility to join another, larger, group class at another day and time, provided there is room available.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 201

Grammar Objectives

Simple relative pronouns; passé composé tense / imparfait tense / plus - perfect tense; indirect speech in the present tense; comparison; time markers ("il y a, dans, pendant, depuis"), advice using imperative tense and mode; subjunctive to express necessity

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 2, Dossier 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for students at the intermediate-level working toward proficiency in French. Students will further develop their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, expand upon their vocabulary, and utilize more complex grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 201

Grammar Objectives

Simple relative pronouns; passé composé tense / imparfait tense / plus - perfect tense; indirect speech in the present tense; comparison; time markers ("il y a, dans, pendant, depuis"), advice using imperative tense and mode; subjunctive to express necessity

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 2, Dossier 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 202

Communicative Objectives

Talk about cultural differences; situate yourself in time; talk about one's place of living and justify one's choices; talk about an event; react

Vocabulary Objectives

Expressions to talk about a country and its inhabitants; media and press

Grammar Objectives

Où/ dont; demonstrative pronouns; superlatives; interrogative and possessive pronouns; "si" + imparfait tense; passive form

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 202

Grammar Objectives

Où/ dont; demonstrative pronouns; superlatives; interrogative and possessive pronouns; "si" + imparfait tense; passive form

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 2, Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 203

Communicative Objectives

Express appreciations; encourage the practice of an activity; select a touristic destination; look to the future: express wishes/ hopes; express a goal, an objective, an aim; imagine an hypothetical or unreal situation; give one's opinion; justify one's choices; express agreement and disagreement

Vocabulary Objectives

Hobbies; encouragement; tourism, boooking a hotel, a table; wishes; verbs to express goals; verbs to express fields of interest; idioms to express one's opinion

Grammar Objectives

The adverb in compound tenses; adjectives in a sentence; personal pronouns after "de" and "à"; indirect pronouns "y" and "en"; expressing wishes: souhaiter que + subjunctive; espérer que + indicative; conditional present to make a suggestion; conditional present (project, unreal situation)

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 5, dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 203

Grammar Objectives

The adverb in compound tenses; adjectives in a sentence; personal pronouns after "de" and "à"; indirect pronouns "y" and "en"; expressing wishes: souhaiter que + subjunctive; espérer que + indicative; conditional present to make a suggestion; conditional present (project, unreal situation)

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 2, Dossier 5, dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the intermediate level and enables students to move on to advanced courses at the 300-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 204

Grammar Objectives

Expressing time: "avant de" + infinitive; "après" + past infinitive; reported speech in the past; "irréel du passé"" "si"+ plus perfect, conditional, recent past and near future in a narrative in the past; expressing need with subjunctive or infinitive; double pronouns; imparfait or conditional to express reproach

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 2, Dossier 7, Dossier 8

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the intermediate level and enables students to move on to advanced courses at the 300-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 204

Communicative Objectives

Talk about a life change; report a conversation; talk about an event in a narrative in the past; express regrets; take a position, voice an
opinion; understand the history of an event; talk about one's readings; understand and argue about prevention: encouragement and caution

Vocabulary Objectives

Performing arts and show; expressions used for feelings/emotions, attitudes/behaviors; impersonal ways of expressing need; verbs to talk about loaning/borrowing an object; verbs used to express consequence

Grammar Objectives

Expressing time: "avant de" + infinitive; "après" + past infinitive; reported speech in the past; "irréel du passé"" "si"+ plus perfect, conditional, recent past and near future in a narrative in the past; expressing need with subjunctive or infinitive; double pronouns; imparfait or conditional to express reproach

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 7, Dossier 8

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 301

Communicative Objectives

Characterize people; ask detailed information by mail; give orders and make suggestions; express feelings; write a mail to complain
about something; report someone's words

Vocabulary Objectives

Behaviors; professional strengths and weaknesses; friendship and love; lexicon of negation

Grammar Objectives

Simple relative pronouns and compound relative pronouns with demonstrative pronouns; subjunctive present; subjunctive past and past infinitive; subjuctive or infinitive after feeling verbs; compound relative pronouns; reported speech in the present

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 3+, Dossier 1, dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 301

Communicative Objectives

Characterize people; ask detailed information by mail; give orders and make suggestions; express feelings; write a mail to complain
about something; report someone's words

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 3, Dossier 1, dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 302

Communicative Objectives

Talk about one's experiences; matriculate in university; express a compromise and oppose something; talk about ways to get
information; give one's point of view on the first page of daily papers; analyze information; understand news titles

Vocabulary Objectives

Apprenticeship and experience; school and university; contradicting; how to write a small news story

Grammar Objectives

Imparfait and passé composé; plus que parfait (plus-perfect), rules of "participe passé"; nominal sentences; passive voice; express cause and consequence; how to express uncertain events

Course Materials

Text book: Alter Ego 3+ , Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 302

Course Materials

Text book: Cosmopolite 3 , Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 303

Communicative Objectives

Oppose something; encourage solidarity; express objectives and intentions; give impressions; participate in a debate: take the floor; keep the floor; interrupt

Vocabulary Objectives

Solidarity, help, involvement; how to encourage; how to suggest a program to one’s friends; how to like and participate in a debate

Grammar Objectives

Participe passé and gerund; different ways of expressing goals; interrogation; inverted question; adverbs in – MENT; relatives ruled by the subjunctive

Course Materials

Text book: Alter Ego 3+ Dossier 5, Dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 303

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 3 Dossier 5, Dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 300-level and enables students to move on to the 400-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 304

Communicative Objectives

Talk about the environment; make hypotheses; express prohibitions; talk about justice; express doubts and certainty; make a demonstration; talk about one’s travels; narrate in the past

Vocabulary Objectives

Ecology and environment; terms to prohibit and preserve; terms to understand justice; travel and tourism

Grammar Objectives

Simple future; “futur antérieur” tense; conditional present and past; substituting tools: double pronouns and neutral pronouns; indefinite pronouns; narration tenses; introduction to passé simple (simple past)

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 3+ Dossier 7, Dossier 8, Dossier 9 (optional)

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 300-level and enables students to move on to the 400-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 304

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmoplite 3 Dossier 7, Dossier 8

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 401

Communicative Objectives

Prepare for a job interview; talk about the past; talk about one’s life; describe illness symptoms to the doctor; express feelings; express one’s point of view on family; discuss roles in a couple

Vocabulary Objectives

Latin and Greek etymology of French words; Street French and daily French (words, idioms, levels); vocabulary for body, pain, relief; feelings; terms to express one’s opinion

Grammar Objectives

Past tenses (imparfait, passé composé, plus-que-parfait, passé simple, passé antérieur); the ending of participes passés; time: simultaneity, anteriority, posteriority; subjunctive; present infinitive and past infinitive; when to use indicative or subjunctive

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 401

Communicative Objectives

- Découvrir un phénomène de mode

- Analyser son rapport aux vêtements et à l'apparence

- Présenter une tendance

- Décrire un mode de vacances

- Commenter une pratique sociale

- Analyser une tendance

- Introduire un texte explicatif

- Parler du passé avec précision

- Décrire un métier

- Présenter une évolution de la société

- Évoquer des lieux du passé et des souvenirs d'enfance

- Analyser différentes manières de présenter ou de raconter l'histoire

Vocabulary Objectives

- Parler de l'apparence et de la tenue vestimentaire

- Parler des modes, et régimes alimentaires

- Parler des vacances

- Parler des métiers

- Les prépositions de lieu pour situer dans l'espace

- Exprimer des sensations

- Parler de la guerre

Grammar Objectives

- Le participe présent et l'adjectif verbal pour caractériser

- Le participe composé pour exprimer l'antériorité

- Exprimer l'opposition et la concession

- Les conjonctions pour exprimer un rappor temporel

- Les temps du passé pour raconter avec précision

- Faire des hypothèses sur le passé

- Le passé simple pour comprendre un récit au passé

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 4

Dossier 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 402

Communicative Objectives

Expose an issue with lodging; describe place of living, a space; objects; express one’s interest; express wishes, goals and intentions; argue about traveling as a mean of self-structuring and learning

Vocabulary Objectives

Vocabulary: building and renovations; prefixes and suffixes for transformation; compound nouns; “savoir” and “connaître”; terms for intentions and objectives; common ways of expressing how to get to one’s goals

Grammar Objectives

Qualifying: with simple and compound relative pronouns; with a noun; passive form and reflective passive form; subjunctive “imparfait” and “plus-que-parfait” tenses; relative clauses ruled by subjunctive

Course Materials

Text book: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

illet d'oThis course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 402

Communicative Objectives

- Comparer et exprimer des préférences

- Résumer un livre et dire ce qu'on en pense

- Débattre

- Faire le portrait d'un auteur ou d'un actrice

- Poser un problème et proposer des solutions 

- Décrire une spécificité culturelle

- Donner son avis sur une tendance

- Comprendre un processus de création

- Décrire ou commenter une actualité technologique

- Questionner les avantages et les inconvénients d'une technologie

- Commenter une évolution sociétale liée aux technologies

- Développer un point de vue

- Développer un raisonnement

Vocabulary Objectives

- Qualifier le style ou le contenu d'un livre

- Parler du patrimoine

- Les registres de langue standard et familier

- Parler des séries et des tournages

- Les préfixes négatifs pour former certains adjectifs

- Parler des nouvelles technologies et des réseaux sociaux

- Le préfixe -re pour indiquer un retour à un état antérieur ou une répétition

- La ponctuation dans un texte d'opinion

- Quelques connecteurs pour développer un raisonnement

Grammar Objectives

- Les comparatifs et les superlatifs pour comparer et établir une hiérarchie

- Les pronoms relatifs pour éviter les répétitions

- La mise en relief pour souligner une information

- Les pronoms y et en pour éviter les répétitions

- Poser des questions: la question par inversion

- Exprimer la durée

- Exprimer la cause et la conséquence

Course Materials

Text book: Cosmopolite 4

Dossier 3, Dossier 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 403

Communicative Objectives

Give information on recruitment criteria and work contract; report someone else’s words; give one’s opinion about a restaurant; identify one’s culinary tastes; express hypotheses; debate humanitarian aid

Vocabulary Objectives

Colloquial expressions with pronouns; adjective-based syntax structures; synonyms and precision: “dire”; vocabulary for taste, saveurs; elements of style: metaphor, image and comparison

Grammar Objectives

Conditional present and past; personal pronouns and double pronouns; expressing hypothesis and condition; expletive “ne” with “à moins que”

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 5, Dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 403

Communicative Objectives

- Analyser un enjeu de société

- Prendre position sur un fait de société

- Décrire et comparer des faits culturels et politiques

- Commenter un phénomène de société

- Dresser un bilan

- Provoquer une prise de conscience et faire des recommandations

- Comprendre et proposer une action

- Dénoncer un problème de société

- Proposer des solutions

Vocabulary Objectives

- Parler de la santé

- Parler des institutions et de la politique

- Parler des émotions et des sentiments

- Parler de l'économie et de la finance

- Les locutions et verbes prépositionnels pour parler d'une action

- Parler de la publicité

- Parler de la solidarité

Grammar Objectives

- La voix passive pour mettre en valeur un élément

- Différents emplois du subjonctif pour prendre position

- Nuancer une comparaison

- Le subjonctif pour exprimer une alternative

- Exprimer la condition

- Le conditionnel pour atténuer ou exprimer des faits hypothétiques

- Le conditionnel passé pour exprimer un reproche ou un regret

- Les adjectifs et les pronoms indéfinis pour préciser une identité ou une quantité

- L'accord du participe passé avec le COD placé avant le verbe

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 4

Dossier 5, Dossier 6

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 400-level and enables students to move on to the 500-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 404

Communicative Objectives

Express one’s opinion on politics; debate humanitarian aid; claim rights; present specificities of a region or a country; debate linguistic choices in pluri-lingual states

Vocabulary Objectives

Euphemisms and politically correct ways of talking; where to place adjectives; homonyms and words with double gender (“genre”); rights and duties; antonyms; levels of language (“registres de langue”)

Grammar Objectives

Emphasis; gerund; present participle and verbal adjective; indefinite pronouns; synthesis on pronouns (indefinite, possessive, demonstrative and relative)

Course Materials

Textbook:  Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 7, Dossier 8

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 400-level and enables students to move on to the 500-level.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 404

Communicative Objectives

- Comparer des pratiques professionnelles

- Présenter des parcours et expliquer des choix de vie

- Identifier et décrire des compétences professionnelles

- Communiquer en contexte professionnel

- Comprendre un métier et un environnement professionnel

- Exprimer un point de vue argumenté sur une question liée au travail

- Exposer des objectifs à atteindre

- Présenter des expériences novatrices 

- Donner des explications

- Parler de l'apprentissage des langues

- Questionner l'utilité des diplômes 

- Comprendre un fait de société

- Présenter une initiative éducative

- Analyser des différences

Vocabulary Objectives

- Le registre soutenu

- Décrire des compétences professionnelles

- Quelques figures de style

- Le registre familier

- Quelques expressions pour nuancer un point de vue

- La nominalisation pour synthétiser et mettre en valeur des informations

- Parler de scolarité et de pédagogie

- Parler de l'apprentissage des langues

- Parler des études et du système éducatif

Grammar Objectives

- Le discours indirect pour rapporter des paroles au présent ou au passé

- La double pronominalisation pour ne pas répéter

- Les propositions relatives pour exprimer un souhait ou un but

- La valeur du subjonctif dans l'expression de l'opinion

- Le subjonctif pour exprimer la probabilité

- La négation ne ... ni ... ni ...

Course Materials

Textbook:  Cosmopolite 4

Dossier 7, Dossier 8

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 400-level and enables students to move on to the 500-level.

Communicative Objectives

Express opinions on a contemporary society’s phenomenon; write a letter to an agony aunt; express degrees in appreciation and judgements; compare facts and numbers; talk about futuristic inventions

Vocabulary Objectives

Words borrowed from other languages; simile and differences; evolution and change

Grammar Objectives

Synthesis on tenses and verbal modes (indicative, subjunctive); comparison and its degrees

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 8, Review

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 501

Communicative Objectives

Analyser un texte de vulgarisation scientifique ; restituer un raisonnement philosophique ; comparer différents traitements médiatiques ; comparer deux documents sociologiques ; faire des comparaisons interculturelles ; analyser un article polémique et provocateur

Grammar Objectives

Documents oraux : Le Télégramme, Simone Signoret et Yves Morand ; Tahar Ben Jelloun sur la famille

Documents écrits : Les mirages de la communication universelle ; La pensée éparpillée par la Toile ; La presse et la révolution digitale ; Une vie, Guy Maupassant ; Comparer : Le Grand Meaulnes, Les Mots et Le Petit Nicolas et les copains (p.33)

Course Materials

Textbook: Alter Ego 5 Dossiers 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 501

Communicative Objectives

- Analyser un texte de vulgarisation scientifique

- Restituer un raisonnement philosophique

- Comparer différents traitements médiatiques

- Comparer deux documents sociologiques

- Faire des comparaisons interculturelles

- Analyser un article polémique et provocateur

Course Materials

Textbook: Cosmopolite 5 Dossiers 1, Dossier 2

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 501

Communicative Objectives

- S'exprimer sur l'impact du phénomène sériel

- Argumenter sur la prégnance de la théorie du complot auprès des jeunes

- Contribuer à un débat sur la consommation de la viante

- Synthétiser deux textes scientifiques sur la mémorisation

Vocabulary Objectives

- Le monde des séries et du cinéma

- L'éducation aux médias et à línformation

- L'alimentation

- La mémoire

Grammar Objectives

- Les articulateurs

- S'approprier l'adjectif, les préfixes et les suffixes

- Caractériser la nature de la préposition "de" + article

- Exprimer un paradoxe

- Sonder le système pronominal

Course Materials

Textbook: Édito 5 - Séries 1, 2, 3 et 4

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 501

Communicative Objectives

- Parler des causes et des conséquences

- Proposer des solutions

- Donner des conseils

- Rédiger un courriel

- Noter des informations

- Évaluer les avantages et les inconvénients

- Produire un rapport

- Rapporter des propos

- Introduire et développer un sujet

- Définir un concept

- Fournir des renseignements factuels

- Préparer un exposé

Course Materials

Textbook: Tendances C1-C2, Unité 1

Total Hours: 32

This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.

CALENDAR/COURSE TOPIC

 Regular 502