FREN 1460 - Elementary French 1

Credit Hours: 4.00

Objectives:

1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
3. Engage in small conversations with a Native Speaker in the present or near future tense about the following topics (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker):
   1. Small talk (greetings, getting acquainted, information about origin and nationality)
   2. Courses, university and student life, leisure activities
   3. Describing people/personalities
   4. Describing feelings, likes, and dislikes
   5. Clothes and sizes, basic numbers
   6. Describing housing (rooms, apartments, houses)
   7. Time, seasons, dates, holidays
   8. Family relations
   9. Expressing possession
   10. Food, meals, eating habits

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use basic French vocabulary.

Objectives: Regarding topics such as social interactions, school and school life, people/personalities, feelings, clothing, numbers, housing, time, date, seasons, family relations, and food and dining:

1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
3. Use vocabulary in writing.
4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use basic grammar structures in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

1. Use articles (definite, indefinite, partitive) and nouns.
2. Conjugate verbs in the present tense.
3. Make affirmation and negation statements; ask questions.
4. Use descriptive adjectives.
5. Use the imperative tense.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of cultural areas of French culture.

Objectives:

1. Recognize and discuss some basic geographical, economical and cultural aspects such as different forms of address, student life and housing, national holidays and celebrations, and francophone family life.
2. Identify how and when to use the different forms of address (informal - formal).
3. Compare cultural differences.

1. Greetings
2. Numbers from 0-20
3. French Alphabet
4. Accents
5. Pronunciation
6. General Introductory Vocabulary

Chapter 1:

1. Articles and Nouns: Identifying People and Things
2. Plural Articles and Nouns: Expressing Quantity
3. Verbs ending in -er
4. Negation using ne…pas

Chapter 2:

1. The Verb être
2. Descriptive Adjectives
3. Yes/No Questions
4. The Prepositions à and de

Chapter 3:

1. Verbs ending in -ir
2. The Verb avoir
3. Indefinite Articles in Negative Sentences
4. Interrogative Expressions

Chapter 4:

1. Possessive Adjectives
2. The Verb aller: Talking about Plans and Destinations
3. The Verb faire: Expressing Doing and Making
4. Verbs Ending in -re: Expressing Actions

Chapter 5:

1. The Verbs prendre and boire
2. Partitive Articles
3. The Imperative