The course 'Written Expression & Comprehension in French - I' aims to enhance students' oral and written communication skills in French, focusing on vocabulary, tenses, and French cuisine. It includes five modules covering topics such as visiting France, classroom participation, past events, French cuisine, and writing skills. The course consists of interactive lectures, project work, and various assessment components, with a total of 2 credit units.
The course 'Written Expression & Comprehension in French - I' aims to enhance students' oral and written communication skills in French, focusing on vocabulary, tenses, and French cuisine. It includes five modules covering topics such as visiting France, classroom participation, past events, French cuisine, and writing skills. The course consists of interactive lectures, project work, and various assessment components, with a total of 2 credit units.
The course 'Written Expression & Comprehension in French - I' aims to enhance students' oral and written communication skills in French, focusing on vocabulary, tenses, and French cuisine. It includes five modules covering topics such as visiting France, classroom participation, past events, French cuisine, and writing skills. The course consists of interactive lectures, project work, and various assessment components, with a total of 2 credit units.
The course 'Written Expression & Comprehension in French - I' aims to enhance students' oral and written communication skills in French, focusing on vocabulary, tenses, and French cuisine. It includes five modules covering topics such as visiting France, classroom participation, past events, French cuisine, and writing skills. The course consists of interactive lectures, project work, and various assessment components, with a total of 2 credit units.
Course Title: Written Expression & Comprehension in French -I L T P/S SW/FW TOTAL
CREDIT Course Code: FREN147 UNITS
0 1 0 2 02 Credit Units: 2
Level: Semester 3, UG/PG
Course Objectives: To strengthen the students’ current communication skills in oral and written, to enrich their vocabulary and formulations using tenses and situation-related glossary and to provide them with a basic knowledge of French cuisine.
Prerequisites: Functional knowledge of level-2 of French Language. Student Learning Outcomes: Students will able to describing one’s location in countries and cities, comparing the seasons of France and India, giving suggestions, advice or instructions, narrating events in the past, writing e-mails & messages, buying food products in a market, ordering meals in a restaurant and describing French cuisine. Weightage % Module I - A visit to France 20% • Visiting different countries • Visiting different cities • It’s spring time! • Seasons of France • Comparison between seasons of France and India
1 Module II - Let’s participate in the class 15% • Teacher giving orders / instructions in a class • Classmates giving suggestions to each other • Affirmative and negative form of imperative with regular and irregular verbs • Affirmative and negative form of imperative with reflexive verbs Module III - Reunion of old friends 30% • It’s been a long time… (using passé composé) • Past tense (passé composé) with verb 'Avoir' • Past tense (passé composé) with verb 'Être' • Past tense (passé composé) with reflexive verbs • Recent activities (passé récent) • Differentiation between the events of recent past (passé récent) and passé composé (past tense) Module IV - Cuisine of France 20% • French eating habits • Vocabulary of French meals • Partitive articles with food items • Expressions of quantity with food items • Shopping for food • Ordering a meal in a restaurant • Asking questions or queries using interrogative adverbs or interrogations Module V - Let’s keep in touch! 15% • Writing e-mails to your family / friends • Accepting invitations through short messages • Refusing invitations through short messages Pedagogy for Course Delivery: Communicative, interactive lectures, including project work, role plays, dialogue writing, narrating past events or recent past events, messages and emails writing, conversation involving food, picture description and practice exercises.
2 Assessment / Examination Scheme:
Components Class Test Home Viva/CP Attendance EEI
Assignment Weightage (%) 10 10 15 05 60
Text Reading: • Christine Andant, Catherine Metton, Annabelle Nachon, Fabienne Nugue, A Propos - A1, Livre de l'élève et Cahier d'exercices.
References: • 450 Exercices de grammaire - Niveau Débutant • Collins 3-in-1 French Grammar, Vocabulary & Verbs
