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French 1213C1 |
| First Year French |
This course is intended for students who have completed Grade 11 or Grade 12 High School French. The object is to help you improve your communication skills, both oral and written, by strengthening your knowledge of grammar, developing your ability to comprehend what you read and hear and broadening your vocabulary. There will be regular grammar and vocabulary exercises, reading assignments, and compositions, all of which are a compulsory part of the course. In addition, students may choose to put in some extra time every two weeks in the language laboratory (total of 5 labs). Students who do this may ask to have their work checked by the professor. They will then be graded and the points awarded which will be added as a bonus (maximum of 5 extra points) to the final mark calculated on the basis of the compulsory work.
All students should take the French Placement Test to confirm that they have registered in a French course of the appropriate level.
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The language laboratory is located in the Educational Technology Centre on the ground floor of the BAC. It is open mornings and afternoons as well as four evenings per week. Check the
Educational Technology Centre Homepage for details. Remember to take your Cahier de laboratoire (see below) with you.
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Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30am to 1:20pm in BAC 203
Consult the emploi du temps to see the order in which material will be covered.
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R.F.Comeau & N.J. Lamoureux, Ensemble:Grammaire (fifth edition)
R.F. Comeau & N.J. Lamoureux, Ensemble: cahier de laboratoire (fifth edition) Students are advised to invest early in a reliable and comprehensive dictionary. If you intend to specialize in French, this would be a good time to acquire a dictionary which will serve you well throughout your course of study here. In this category, the following are recommended: Collins Robert English-French French-English Dictionary (third edition) If you expect this to be your only French course, the recommended dictionary is: Compact Oxford-Hachette Dictionary. (ed. Marie-Hélène Corréard & Mary O'Neill) You may like to make use of the following on-line resource:
Dictionary and Grammar Aid. Francophone assistants and senior students are available on a regular basis in the Seminar Room of the French Department to provide extra help to French students. Check the Tutorials schedule to see when help is available. When you are writing in French on your computer you will need to know how to access the relevant accents. The easiest approach is to switch to the French (Canadian) keyboard. Or, if you prefer, you can learn the keystrokes which will allow you to access accented characters from the English keyboard.
These texts can be purchased at the University Bookstore. Additional reading materials will be distributed in class by the instructor or made available on Plato.
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Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary. French-English. English-French. (Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Here are some links you may find useful or interesting:
French Department Homepage
French Club Homepage
A tour of Paris!
Map of France
Visit Quebec city!
Le cafe du campus
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