Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Listening:
The student will understand content referring to basic
personal background and needs, social
conventions and somewhat more complex situations, such as
lodging, transportation,
shopping, personal interests and activities, and a greater
diversity of instructions and
directions. In addition to face-to-face conversations, the
student will be able to understand
short routine telephone conversations and simple announcements
and reports over the
media
- Speaking:
Given a basic communicative context, the student will be able
to talk simply about self and
family members, ask and answer questions, participate in
simple conversations on topics
beyond immediate needs, such as personal history, leisure time
activities. Students' sentence
length will be longer than in French 101 and 102, but may
contain long pauses.
Pronunciation may continue to be strongly influenced by first
language and fluency may be
lacking. The student can generally be understood by
sympathetic listeners
- Reading:
The student will be able to read making minimal suppositions
in areas of personal interest
and/or knowledge. The student will be able to read
straightforward descriptions of persons,
places, and things written for a wide audience
- Writing: The student writes about personal
preferences, daily routine, everyday events, cultural
experiences and differences, and other topics grounded in
personal experience. The student
can express present time and at least one other time frame or
aspect consistently
- Culture:
The ACTFL standards include Culture, Connections, Comparisons
and Communities as part of
foreign language instruction and assessment. Within these
areas, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the practices and
perspectives of the culture studied
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the products and
perspectives of the culture studied
- Acquire information and recognize the distinctive
viewpoints that are only available
through the foreign language and its cultures
- Demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture
through comparisons of the
cultures studied and their own
- Use the language both within and beyond the school setting
- Read, discuss and write about topics concerning the francophone cultures featured in textbooks and in target language media at the intermediate level