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Course Description: French 201

201 Course Content:

Required text: Collage

The following topics are presented in 201:

• Everyday life
• Family
• France before the modern period
• The individual and society
• Cooking and eating
• City and country

In addition, students will read several cultural/mass media texts, to be selected by the professor.

201 Course Objectives:

• Carry on a conversation (3-8 minutes) about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Understand brief conversations (3-8 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Read brief texts (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-201
• Read selected short literary texts, with the help of a dictionary
• Write brief compositions (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from French 101-201 and selected literary texts, with the help of a dictionary

201 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 1-6 of Collage (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical concepts from chapters 1-6
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:

Formation and uses of the present tense, interrogatives, negations (indicative)
Pronouns: various
Adjectives, adverbs, partitive formation, use, placement
Differences between passé compose and imperfect tenses
Formation and uses of the plus-que-parfait
Formation and uses of imperative, future and the conditional tenses/mood