FR 103 First Year French, Term 3

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 102, or two years of high school French. (All recommended courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond to spoken phrases and sentences.
Interpret main ideas and details from announcements, short narratives, and conversations supported by context.
Speak sentences and questions to communicate information and ideas.
Initiate and sustain simple conversation.
Interpret main ideas and details from simple written narratives.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic written materials such as advertisements, letters, and brief articles.
Transcribe dictated material.
Compose short written letters, paragraphs, and guided compositions.
Explain and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage and cultural practices of the French-speaking world.

Content Outline

UNIT 9: Food
- Lesson 9A: What an appetite!
  - the vowel e
  - In the supermarket
  - Verbs should, want, can
- Lesson 9B: At the table
  - Stress and rhythm
  - Dinner
  - Comparatives and superlatives
  - Double object pronouns
UNIT 10: Health
- Lesson 10A: Daily routine
  - Diacriticals for meaning
  - Funny surprise
  - Review
- Lesson 10B: I am in pain
  - p, t, and c
  - The accident
Review UNIT 11: Technology
- Lesson 11A: Sound and images
  - Final consonants
  - Who is Cyberman?
  - Review
- Lesson 11B: By car
  - The letter x
  - Failure
  - Review
UNIT 12: In the city
- Lesson 12A: Shopping
  - The letter h
  - Shopping
  - Review
- Lesson 12B: Where is …?
  - Case
  - Finding one’s way
  - Review
UNIT 13: Green space
- Lesson 13A: Let’s save the plaent!
  - Required and prohibited Liaisons
  - An engineering idea
  - Review
- Lesson 13B: In the wilderness
  - Homophones
  - Hiking
  - Review