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Summer Term 2019-
Course Code & Title:
FREN2050: French I & II 25 May –07 July 2019
Language of Instruction: French / English Units: 6
Course Description
This is a summer intensive French language course, which invites students without prior knowledge of French to explore the basic features of the French language. Supported by audiovisual aids, students will receive intensive practice in spoken and written French through interactive class work, homework and online exercises. This course aims to further develop students’ ability to communicate in French in various everyday situations. It also seeks to give students a taste of French culture and invites them to explore cultural differences. Through intensive practice students will develop more confidence in interacting in French while developing their understanding of the basic grammar and pronunciation patterns.
This course covers the full syllabus of FREN1000 and FREN2000. Not for students who have taken FREN1000 or FREN2000. Please read the Study Scheme Note.
Learning Outcomes
After taking this course, students are expected to be able to: Introduce themselves and their family. Talk about what they like and dislike. Describe a room, people and objects. Ask for direction or order food at a restaurant. Travel in a French speaking country, buy train or airplane tickets. Talk about one’s daily activities and habits.
Course Content
Lesson Speech Acts Grammar Topics/ Culture
Leçon 1:
Bienvenue! (Welcome!)
INTRODUCING ONESELF/SOMEONE (1)
- Greetings (1)
- Inquiring / Giving information: name & nationality - Verbs: - être / - s’appeler - 2nd pers. subject pronouns : tu VS vous (informal vs formal) - 3rd pers. subject pronouns : il VS elle (masculine vs feminine) - The question word qui
Use of formal “you (tu) ” and informal “you(vous)”.
Leçon 2:
Qui est-ce? (Who is it?)
INTRODUCING ONESELF/SOMEONE (2)
- Inquiring / Giving information: first name , family name, profession / occupation, address: city & country
- Noun group (1): definite article + noun
- Noun’s gender: masculine vs. feminine
- Adjective’s agreement: in gender & number
- Preposition + country/city
- Verb: habiter
Knowing different countries in Europe.
Leçon 3:
Ça va bien? (How are you?)
MEETING AN OLD FRIEND
- Greetings (2)
- Inquiring / Giving information: _name, age, profession, family members, address, email address & phone number, languages
- Numbers 21 - 100_
- Verb : parler
- Irregular Verbs: aller, avoir
- Possessive adjectives (1)
- Indefinite articles (1)
- Question word : comment (1)
- Interrogative adjectives Quel(le)
Different ways of greeting.
Leçon 4:
Correspond@nce (Correspondence)
FINDING A PEN FRIEND
- Talking about likes and dislikes
- “La francophonie” (French speaking countries)
- Revisions lessons 1 to 3
- Verbs: aimer, chercher + adorer, détester
- Negation (1) Je n’aime pas…
- Adverbs of frequency & quantity
- Definite article (1)
French speaking countries.
Leçon 5:
Trouvez l’objet (Find the object)
FINDING AN OBJECT IN A ROOM
- Describing a room and its objects
- Locating an object in a room
- Prepositions & adverbs of place
- Definite VS Indefinite articles (2)
- The French idiom: Il y a …VS C’est…
- Question: Qu’est-ce que + sentence
The layout of the bedroom in France.
Leçon 6:
Portrait-robot ( Photofit )
IDENTIFYING SUSPECTS AT THE POLICE STATION
- Describing people: size, hair color, clothes & accessories, colors
- Stressed pronouns (1)
- Verb porter
- The negative particles ne … pas (2)
- (Pro)noun-adjective agreement
- Subject pronouns, possessive adjectives (2): plural forms
- Y/N questions : Est-ce que + sentence
Physical characteristics of French.
Leçon 7:
Shopping
SHOPPING & BUYING CLOTHES
- Describing clothes (2) Asking/giving the size, the color, the price
- Asking someone’s opinion
- Question words: comment(2), combien
- Interrogative adjectives Quel + noun (2)
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Verbs : trouver, coûter
- Numbers : 100 - 1000
Shopping in France and fashion.
Leçon 9:
Appartement à louer (Appartment for rent)
RENTING A FLAT
- Requesting / giving information on a flat for rent
- Locating and describing a flat
- Stressed pronouns : nous, vous, eux, elles
- Prepositions of place : en face de, au bout de
- the contracted forms du
- Prepositions : avec, pour, chez
- Question with où : où est, où sont
Reading the classified ad for flat in France.
Leçon 10 :
C’est par où? (How to get there?)
ASKING AND GIVING DIRECTION
- Means of transportation
- Type of road
- The imperative mood.
- Prepositions: au, à la, à l’ / chez
- à & en + means of transportation.
- Adverb of place: y
Reading a map of Paris and discover Opéra neighborhood.
Leçon 11 :
Bon voyage! (Have a good trip!)
PLANNING A HOLIDAY TRIP
- Inquiring about a hotels and activities
- Locating a place on a map
- Giving advice
- The use of the expression c’est : - C’est + Noun Group - C’est + Adjective - C’est + Adverbial of place -The imperative mood in negative form.
- The Subject pronoun on (nous)
- Prepositions of place: dans le sud de, au sud de etc…
Travelling in Martinique (The francophone Island in Caribbean Sea).
Leçon 13 :
Un aller simple (One-way trip)
BUYING TRAIN TICKET
- Indicating hours & dates
- asking something politely
- Question with quand, quelle heure, à quelle heure
- Verb : partir (present tense)
Reading trains schedules and online booking through the site in France:Voyages- sncf.com
Leçon 14 :
À Londres (In London)
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
- Indicating daily and weekly planning
- Verb: faire (present tense)
- Question with est-ce que
- Gender of Noun.
Peri-urban life and Paris.
Leçon 15 :
Le dimanche matin (Sunday morning)
DAILY ACTIVITIES
- What one is doing
- What one is used to do
- Sports
- Verbs: lire, écrire (present tense)
- Verbes pronominaux (Part I)
- Le dimanche / dimanche prochain.
The life and activities of French people on week-end.
Learning Resources
Course Materials
- Textbook: Méthode de français Le nouveau Taxi 1 , (including audio-CD) Ed. Hachette, Français Langue étrangère.
- Workbook:Cahier d’exercices Le nouveau Taxi 1. Textbooks are available at the University Bookstore, Commercial Press, 1F, Yasumoto International Academic, on CUHK campus. IT resources: https://elearn.cuhk.edu.hk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp -ORG-FREN-0000: French Common Room The content of the French Common Room is also easily accessible on the following webpage : https://start.me/p/X2dGXy/french-common-room
Readings & Library Resources: Free French/English dictionaries with pronunciation:
- On Internet: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english
- On Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascendo.android.dictionary.fr.free
- On iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-french-english-dictionary/id323683333?mt= Workbook:
- Grammaire Progressive du Français. Niveau débutant, Maia Gregoire, CLE International Please see the list of websites available in the platform : https://elearn.cuhk.edu.hk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp ORG-FREN-0000: French Common Room
Schedule (Subject to changes):
WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
1 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May
NO CLASS Introduction And lesson 1 Lesson 1 NO CLASS
2 01 June 02 June 03 June 04 June 05 June
Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4
3 08 June 09 June 10 June 11 June 12 June
Lesson 4 Lesson 5^ Friday : Written ExpressionLesson 6
4 15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 June
Lesson 7 Lesson 9 Document Comprehension 2 Oral Expression 2
5 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June
Lesson 10 Lesson 11 (^) Tuen Ng Festival NO CLASS DAY Lesson 11
6 29 June 30 June 01 July 02 July 03 July
Lesson 13 (^) HK SAR Establishment Day NO CLASS DAY Lesson 14
7 06 July 07 July 08 July
Lesson 15 Lesson 15^ Document Comprehension 2 Oral Expression 2
Class sections and teachers’ contact details:
Class Time Classroom No of Weeks
Teacher Email
FREN
Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. ( Only Tuesday and Thursday on week 1 )
On Zoom Details will be given by the teacher
(Only 2 days on week 1) Ms.KWOK Ching Fan^ [email protected]
For further information and inquiries, you are welcome to contact:
Contact Telephone Email Office
Benjamin GAUDET (Course coordinator)
3943 1550 [email protected]
Rm G25, Leung Kau Kui (KKL) Building Office Hours: Monday : :2:00-3:00 p.m. Wednesday : 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
General Office 3943 9836 [email protected]
Rm G17, KKL Building Office Hours: Monday to Thursday: 8:45a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 5: p.m. Friday: 8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 5: p.m.
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures. For group projects, all students of the same group should be asked to sign the declaration. For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment. Assignments without the receipt will not be graded by teachers. Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.
Feedback for Evaluation
Our language programme highly values students’ feedback and comments and is happy to use them for reflection on our teaching and improvement. Students are very welcome to provide comments and feedback on the course any time to their course teacher or the course level coordinator through email or in personal conversation. In addition, students’ feedbacks will be collected in the middle of the term through an open-end questionnaire and the teacher will discuss the feedbacks in class and make improvements if necessary. The course will also follow the university’s course evaluation exercise at the end of the term, and students’ feedbacks will be used for future course planning and teaching.
