FR 202 Second Year French, Term 2

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 201, 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 main ideas and some details from common oral sources such as announcements and broadcasts.
Communicate information and ideas orally using complete sentences and short paragraphs.
Initiate, sustain, and close conversation on familiar topics grounded in personal experience.
Interpret main ideas and some details from simple written materials.
Write accurately-structured sentences in the past, present, and future time frames.
Write comprehensible letters, compositions, and paraphrases grounded in personal experience.
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 4: The Value of Ideas
- Justice and politics
  - The past perfect
  - Negation and indefinite adjectives and pronouns
  - Irregular -ir verbs
  - Demonstrative adjectives
  - The simple past
- Haiti, thirst for freedom
Lesson 5: Evolving Society
- Crises and horizons
  - Partitives
  - The pronouns y and en
  - Order of pronouns
  - Object pronouns
  - Past participle agreement
Lesson 6: Genrations on the Move
- In the family
  - The subjunctive Part 1
  - Relative pronouns
  - Irregular -re verbs
  - Disjunctive pronouns
  - Possessive pronouns
- Wedding Day