French 4
Course Summary
Gain French conversational fluency through discussions on a range of themes, including global challenges, planning for the future, expressing preferences, and appropriate work behavior. Enhance language skills by delving into cultural topics, including cinema, artistic works, historical sites, and international travel. Students develop and expand grammar competency in advanced concepts, such as irregular verbs, the subjunctive, the passive voice, relative clauses, the narrative past, the past perfect, and much more. In this course, students participate in technology-assisted interactive sessions throughout the term, engaging in spontaneous discussions in French alongside prompt instructor support and feedback.
This class is conducted in French.
Curriculum
This is a 2-semester course. We do not recommend taking both semesters simultaneously.
Unit 1
- Introduction to Semester 1
- Air Travel
- Sentences with Where, To, and From
- Expressing Time
- Likes and Dislikes
Unit 2
- World Climates
- Review: The Simple Past
- Opposites
- Historic Sites
- The Past Subjunctive
Unit 3
- Driving
- If/Then Statements
- Verbs as Nouns
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- The Passive Voice
Unit 4
- Workplace Etiquette
- Impersonal Actions
- Relative Clauses
- Transitions
- Exclamations
Unit 5
- Famous Films
- At the Movies
- Contractions
- The Pluperfect and the Passive Voice
- Narration: The Passive Voice
Unit 6
- Film Producers, Poets, and Authors
- The Superlative
- Conjunctions: Agreement and Subordination
- False Cognates
- Expressing Enthusiasm, Disappointment, and Empathy
Unit 7
- Introduction to Semester 2
- Cultural Identities
- Passive Voice
- Expressing Approval and Disapproval
- Giving and Responding to Compliments
Unit 8
- Political interests
- Expressing Possession
- Adverbs
- Verbs: Knowledge vs. Familiarity
- Using Plurals
Unit 9
- Personal Priorities
- Double Infinitives
- Infinitive Clauses
- Conversational Past
- Asking for Help in the Imperative
Unit 10
- Schooling and Planning for the Future
- Past Subjunctive
- Agreeing with Reservations; Justifying Your Answers
- Past Participles as Adjectives
- Expressing Obligation
Unit 11
- Poems/Short Stories
- Creating Nouns from Verbs
- Review of past tense verbs: imperfect and preterite
- Past Perfect with Modals
- Verb-Preposition Combinations
Unit 12
- Global Citizenship and Refugees
- Forming Questions
- Infinitives Used as Nouns
- Extending and Responding to an Invitation
- Relative Pronouns After Prepositions