Course Title: Written Expression & Comprehension in French -I L T P/S SW/FW TOTAL CREDIT UNITS

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Course Code: To be decided

Credit Units: 2

Level: Semester 3, UG/PG

# Course Title : French written expression & comprehension Weightage %

1 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.

2 Prerequisites:
Functional knowledge of level-2 of French Language.
3 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.

4 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

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5 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
6 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)
7 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
8 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.

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9 Assessment / Examination Scheme:

Components Class Test Home Viva 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:
• Mon livre de français-3
• Apprenons la grammaire ensemble
• 450 Exercices de grammaire - Niveau Débutant
• Collins 3-in-1 French Grammar, Vocabulary & Verbs

Additional Readings:
• Webster’s French for verbs
• Dondo –Modern French course