W CREDIT Course Title: French Fluency through writing & comprehension UNITS 1 1 0 - 02
Credit Units: 2 Course Level: UG
Course Code: FREN209
Weightage (%) Module I : Familiarizing with French Language Descriptors/Topics: • Brief introduction of French and Francophone countries 20% • Presenting oneself • Getting information about someone else • Greetings • Asking/giving personal information Module II : A Rendez-vous Course Code: FREN209
Course Objectives: This course teaches the students to express themselves in basic French and familiarizes them with the Present tense. Students will be able to engage in basic conversation in French and will be able to frame sentences using negation, interrogation, etc.
Pre-requisites: NIL
Course Contents/Syllabus:
Descriptors/Topics: • Pronouncing and writing numbers in French • Ordinal numbers 15% • Spell and count numbers • Telling the time • Temporal expressions • Communicating in class • Fixing an hour, place for a meeting.
Module III : Visiting a place
• Describing a person. • Identifying a person, an object and a place • Describing relation in a family 15% • My family • A specific person, object and place
Module IV : Description of daily activities
Descriptors/Topics : • Description of objects, people and places 25% • My Classroom • Nationalities • Speaking about one’s professions • Expressing Actions using regular –er, ir ending verbs; avoir, etre; reflexive verbs –conjugation and make sentences • Describe your daily life Module V : Daily life French
Descriptors/Topics : • Irregular verbs – conjugation and make sentences 25% • Assertive, Negative and Interrogative form of sentences • Interrogative words • Giving a positive or negative reply • Asking questions • Discussion with a person – a conversation Student Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course, the students will be able to express themselves in writing and orally in basic French. This course content focuses on the speech of the students in a lucid and a concurrent manner using appropriate vocabulary and pronunciation techniques. Extra stress will be given to their understanding of grammatical structures and the foreign accent of the language.
Pedagogy for Course Delivery: Communicative, interactive Lectures, including project work, role play, conversation, text translations and practice exercises
Lab/ Practicals details, if applicable: N.A.
List of Experiments: N.A.
Assessment/ Examination Scheme:
Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%) End Term Examination
100 % N/A 60%
Theory Assessment (L&T):
End Term Examination Components (Drop Class Test HA Viva / CP Attendance EEI down) Weightage (%) 10 % 10 % 15 % 05 % 60 % Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment: Continuous Assessment/Internal End Term Assessment Examination Components (Drop N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. down Weightage (%) N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Text Reading: • Christine Andant, Catherine Metton, Annabelle Nachon, Fabienne Nugue, A Propos - A1, Livre de l'eleve et Cahier d'exercices.
References: • Communicative, interactive Lectures, including project work, role play, conversation, text translations and practice exercises
Additional Readings: • Collins 3-in-1 French Vocabulary, Grammar, Verbs, Jumelage -1, J’aime lire, Teach Yourself French (Hachette)
Any other Study Material:
• Saison A1 • Cours de Langue et de civilisation française A1 • Compilation of French texts and exercises
