FR 102 First Year French, Term 2

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Introduces the French language (including listening, speaking, reading and writing) and Francophone culture (including geography, customs, daily life, heritage and literature), facilitated by the study of vocabulary, grammar, short readings and guided conversation. Instructor and students use French as the primary language of the class.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 or higher; or WR 090 (or concurrent enrollment), or WR 115 or higher; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Recommended: FR 101, or one year of high school French (All recommended courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond to spoken words and phrases.
Interpret main ideas and details to form spoken questions and statements supported by context and redundancy.
Pronounce phrases and sentences understandably.
Speak phrases, sentences, and questions to express ideas and some details.
Interpret main ideas and some details from simple written narratives.
Interpret main ideas from short authentic materials such as notes, schedules, and menus.
Transcribe dictated phrases and sentences.
Compose short written messages, notes, and simple guided paragraphs.
Explain and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues in limited situations.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage and cultural practices of the French-speaking world.

Content Outline

UNIT 5: Hobbies
- Lesson 5A: Free time
  - Intonation
  - In the park
  - The verb to do
  - Irregular -ir verbs
- Lesson 5B: What is the weather like?
  - Open vs. closed vowels: Part 1
  - Weather
  - Numbers 101 and higher
UNIT 6: Parties
- Lesson 6A: Surprise!
  - Open vs. closed vowels: Part 2
  - Presents
  - Demonstrative Adjectives
  - The past tense with avoir
- Lesson 6B: Very chic!
  - Open vs. closed vowels: Part 3
  - Birthdays
  - Indirect object pronouns
  - Regular and irregular -re verbs
UNIT 7: On vacation
- Lesson 7A: Have a good trip!
  - ch, qu, ph, th, and gn
  - Returning to the P’tit Bistro
  - The past tense with être
  - Direct object pronouns
- Lesson 7B : At the hotel
  - ti, sti, and ssi
  - Hotel reservations
  - Regular -ir verbs
  - The imperative
UNIT 8: At home
- Lesson 8A: The home
  - s and ss
  - Surprise visit
  - Adverbs
  - The imperfect
  - The compound past vs. the imperfect
- Lesson 8B: Housework
  - Semi-vowels
  - Life without Pascal
  - Two verbs to know
  - Verb to come and the recent past