Course Objectives and Resources

French 204 @ FLCC encourages a deeper understanding of Francophone literature, history, and culture. Students will prepare to engage socio-cultural issues relating to French-speaking people all over the world.

Module 1

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing current events relevant to their own lives.
• Discussing current events relevant to the Francophone world.
• Utilizing regular verbs, irregular verbs, and adverbs.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Investigating research and writing resources/services in preparation of a final creative project.

• Nouns – Basics
• Adjectives – Basics
• Adjective Agreement
• Adjective Placement – Basics
• More About Adjective Placement

• Adverbs – Basics

• Present Tense [-ER] Verbs
• Present Tense [-IR] Verbs
• Present Tense [-RE] Verbs

• Irregular Verbs – Basics
• Common Irregular Verbs (Present Tense)
• The Verb [ÊTRE] – Basics
• The Verb [AVOIR] – Basics

• Basic Negation
• More About Negation

• Asking Questions – Interrogative Pronouns
• Asking Questions – Variable Interrogative Pronouns
• Asking Questions – Interrogative Adverbs

Module 2

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing daily routines and past events relevant to their own lives.
• Discussing past events and history relevant to the Francophone world.
• Utilizing reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the passé composé and imperfect past tenses.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Researching and selecting a topic in preparation of a final creative project.

• Reflexive Verbs
• Infinitive of Reflexive Verbs
• Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs

• Passé Composé – Basics
• Passé Composé with Negative and Interrogative Phrases
• Passé Composé with [ÊTRE]
• Passé Composé with Reflexive Verbs

• The Imperfect Tense – Basics
• The Imperfect Tense – Regular and Irregular Verbs

• Passé Composé vs. Imperfect Tense

Module 3

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing future outlooks of their own homeland.
• Discussing future outlooks relevant to the Francophone world.
• Utilizing variations of the future tense and future expressions.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Conducting research and creating an MLA-formatted Bibliography in preparation of a final creative project.

• The Present Indicative Tense and Future Events

• The Verb [ALLER]
• The Near Future – [ALLER] + Infinitive

• The Future Tense
• The Future Tense with [QUAND] and Other Conjunctions
• The Conditional Mood

Module 4

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing definitive action plans relevant to their own lives.
• Creating definitive action plans relevant to the Francophone world.
• Utilizing imperatives, direct, and indirect object pronouns.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Creating an MLA-formatted Annotated Bibliography in preparation of a final creative project.

• Direct Object Pronouns
• Indirect Object Pronouns
• Double Object Pronouns

• Imperatives – Basics
• Imperatives – Construction
• Commands with Object Pronouns

Module 5

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing past, present, and possible life experiences.
• Discussing past, present, and possible life experiences of people in the Francophone world.
• Utilizing the past, present, and future perfect tenses.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Extracting useful data from sources in preparation of a final creative project.

• Expressing Duration of Time
• The Recent Past with [VENIR DE] + Infinitive
• Present Continuous with [ÊTRE] + [EN TRAIN DE] + Infinitive

• Compound Tenses – Basics
• Verbs that take [ÊTRE] in Compound Tenses

• The Past Perfect (Pluperfect)
• The Future Perfect
• The Past Conditional
• Conditional Sentences (“SI” Clauses)

Module 6

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by …

• Discussing personal opinions, plans, and desires.
• Indicating the opinions, plans and desires of people in the Francophone world.
• Utilizing the present and past subjunctive mood.

Students will demonstrate context-appropriate critical thinking and information management skills by …

• Reading a cultural text, and expressing reactions and reflections in writing.
• Synthesizing data into a product for a final creative project.

• Present Subjunctive – Basics
• Present Subjunctive – Regular Verbs
• Present Subjunctive of Verbs with Two Stems
• Present Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs

• Subjunctive after Impersonal Expressions
• Subjunctive with Doubt, Disbelief, and Possibility
• Subjunctive with Volition and Necessity
• Subjunctive with Emotion and Opinions
• Subjunctive After Conjunctions
• Subjunctive in Indefinite Clauses
• Subjunctive with Other Uses

• The Past Subjunctive