FRENCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE - LEVEL 2

Course Number: Contribution to Program: Educator(s):

FLS5002 NA Language Training Faculty
Applicable Program(s): AAL: Approval Date: September 2016
NA Approved By:

Silvia Garcia
Chair, Language Institute
Course Hours: Prerequisites:
Delivered: 48 FLS5001 or placement test
Normative: 48 Corequisites: None
Prepared by:
Approved for Academic Year: Bahar Masoumi-Hamedani
2016-2017

Course Description

French Language skills are key to professional and social success in a bilingual country like
Canada. Students describe daily activities using the present tense, and react to different
situations in daily life using all four skills: writing, reading, comprehension and speaking.
Through a large variety of communicative assessments and activities, students express
obligations, desires, and directives in social and work-related contexts, and relate past
events using simple past tenses.
 Course Learning Requirements/Embedded Knowledge and Skills
Course Learning Requirements
1. Summarize key information in short
written paragraphs.
2. Use present and the past verb tenses to
communicate effectively and clearly in
verbal and written forms.
3. Apply fundamental grammatical
components correctly in a variety of
written and oral messages.
4. Pronounce vowel sounds and key vocabulary
correctly in order to communicate clear oral
messages.
Embedded Knowledge and Skills
1. Identify main ideas presented in
sentences and paragraphs.
2. Recognize descriptive passages to
demonstrate comprehension.
3. Recall details presented in sentences and
paragraphs.
4. Identify the present and past tense in
written passages and short spoken
messages.
5. Select appropriate verb tenses when
posing and responding to questions.
6. Distinguish between the present and past
tense in verbal and written forms.
7. Identify interrogative and relative
pronouns in simple paragraphs and
spoken messages.
8. Distinguish between direct and indirect
objects.
9. Use helping verbs to express obligations
and desires.
10. Present routine activities using
pronominal verbs.
11. Conjugate regular and irregular verbs
correctly
12. Compose sentences that employ subject
and object verb agreement.
13. Formulate questions using appropriate
grammatical rules applied to the past
tense.
14. Pronounce a variety of vowel and
consonant complex sounds.
15. Pronounce vocabulary accurately in order
to produce clear and coherent sentences.
16. Apply essential pronunciation rules to
pronounce non-nasalized diphthongs,
nasalized vowels, stress, linking and
elision.
5. Apply new vocabulary and idiomatic
expressions to written and oral
communications.
17. Invite someone to a party or a meeting.
18. Make, cancel or reschedule an
appointment.
19. Apologize in various formal and informal
situations.
20. Ask and give information about career
path and study background.
21. Ask and give information about cost and
quantity.
22. Identify, deliver, and ask questions about
oral information relevant to different
physical activities and sports.
23. Pay compliments.
24. End a conversation.

Learning Resources

 En bons termes, Partie 1, Michel Parmentier & Diane Potvin

 Le nouveau Bescherelle - L'art de conjuguer 12 000 verbes
 French / English Dictionary
 Online Materials available on Blackboard.

Learning Activities

During this course students can expect to experience the following learning activities:

 Participate in short discussions

 Complete short written assignments and activities to improve sentence structure and grammar in
class and online
 Complete comprehension exercises using audio and audio-visual material
 Learn the vocabulary delivered in class and online

Evaluation/Earning Credit

The following will provide evidence of your This activity validates the following outcomes:
learning achievements:
30% - Online modules that include written and CLR 1 to 5
oral and written activities to improve grammar and EKS 1 to 24
vocabulary
20% - Midterm exam (10% oral and 10% written) CLR 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
EKS 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 to 24
40% - Final exam (20% oral And 20% written) CLR 1 to 5
EKS 1 to 24
10% - Participation for in-class activities CLR 1 to 5
EKS 1 to 24
 GRADING SYSTEM

LETTER % GRADE GRADE POINT

GRADE VALUE

Course learning outcomes are met in a consistently A+ 90 -100% 4.0

outstanding manner
A 85 - 89% 3.8

A- 80 - 84% 3.6

Course learning outcomes are met in a consistently B+ 77 - 79% 3.3

thorough manner
B 73 - 76% 3.0

B- 70 - 72% 2.6

Course learning outcomes are met satisfactorily C+ 67 - 69% 2.3

C 63 - 66% 2.0

Course learning outcome objectives are met at a minimal C- 60 - 62% 1.7

level of achievement

Course learning requirements are met, but achieved at a D+ 57 - 59% 1.4

marginal level.
D 53 - 56% 1.2

D- 50 - 52% 1.0

Course requirements are not met F 49% or lower 0

FSP 0 0
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