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102 Course Content:

Required text: Points de départ

The following topics are presented in 102, chapters 6 - 10:

• Food: restaurants, types of food, describing foods, meals, shopping
• Health: health care, the body, illnesses
• City and country life: daily chores, money and banking, the post office
• Travel and tourism
• Cinema and media

 102 Course Objectives:

• Understand classroom instructions from professor
• Carry on a short conversation (2-6 minutes) about any of the topics presented in French 101-102
• Understand brief conversations (2-6 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from French 101-102
• Read brief texts (1 page) about familiar topics from French 101-102
• Write brief compositions (1 page) about familiar topics from French 101-102, with the help of a dictionary

102 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 6-10 of Points de départ (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical structures from chapters 6-10
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:
  
  Imperfect tense, use of imperfect v. passé composé
  Direct, indirect, double pronouns, y and en, placements and agreement
  Future Tense
  Conditional mood
  Relative pronouns
  Several basic uses of the subjunctive mood