116-005 French I: Contemporary France

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Credit Points

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Prerequisites

VCE French or equivalent. Students must be concurrently enrolled in 116-006 French I: Language in Context I.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Various exercises and activities designed to consolidate year 12 linguistic skills, enhancing both fluency and accuracy. Speaking: class discussions on topics of social, cultural and political significance, role plays and short presentations. Aural comprehension: understanding authentic audio-visual materials including films, development of listening accuracy. Writing: grammar revision and development, composition, translation. Reading skills are enhanced primarily in a textual studies seminar introducing students to the work of some major 20th century French writers: de Beauvoir, Camus, Chraïbi, Prévert, Sarraute. By studying a range of genres (poetry, drama, short stories, extracts of novels), students develop their reading comprehension, and begin to develop skills in critical analysis.

Assessment

Written and oral work equivalent to 1500 words, and a 7-minute oral test, and a 60-minute written language test, and a 60-minute textual studies test.

Prescribed Texts

• Panorama 3: Livre de l'élève. Clé International 1997.
• Panorama 3: Cahier d'exercices. Clé International 1997.
• Livret de l'étudiant I. prepared by the Department.
• J Ollivier, Grammaire française. (2nd ed) Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1992. (NB: students will use other sections of this grammar book in later years in French).
• Camus, L'Exil et le royaume. Livre de poche.