FR 203 Second Year French, Term 3

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Provides extensive practice in all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). Includes cultural and literary readings and an in-depth review and expansion of basic French grammar and vocabulary, as well as a broadening of the student’s understanding of Francophone culture. All classroom interaction (both by instructor and students) takes place in French.

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

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret information from common oral sources such as announcements and broadcasts.
Communicate information and ideas orally using complete sentences and short paragraphs.
Initiate, sustain and close conversations on familiar topics.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic written materials.
Write accurately- structured sentences in the past, present, and future time frames.
Write comprehensible letters, compositions and paraphrases.
Interpret and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues appropriate to a range of circumstances.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices of the French-speaking world.

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Content Outline

Lesson 7: Science and technology
- Progress and research
  - The comparative and superlative
  - The simple future
  - The subjunctive Part 2
  - Past participles used as adjectives
  - Expressions of time
- CERN: To the discovery of a particular universe
II. Lesson 8: Escaping and enjoying
- Pastimes
  - Infinitives
  - Prepositions with geographical names
  - The conditional
  - Prepositions with infinitives
  - The subjunctive Part 3
- Reunion: an intense island
III. Lesson 9: Work Perspectives
- Work and finances
  - Demonstrative pronouns
  - The present participle
  - Irregular -oir verbs
  - Two verbs to know
  - The causative verb faire
- African entrepreneurs
IV. Lesson 10: Natural wealth
- Our world
  - The past conditional
  - The future perfect
  - If clauses
  - Indirect discourse
  - The passive voice
- The riches of the Pacific