116-011 Intermediate French Language B

Completion of 116-009 Intermediate French Language A or equivalent.

Building on 116-009 Intermediate French Language A, this subject is designed to consolidate and extend students' grammatical and lexical knowledge, as well as refining oral and listening skills. On completion of the subject, students should have consolidated and built on grammatical knowledge of all the main structures of French, increased their vocabulary to a level of complexity, be able to communicate in French on a variety of topics, and express and defend their opinions in both spoken and written form.

• be capable of communicating knowledge intelligibly and economically: through essay and assignment writing, tutorial discussion and class presentations;

• Written communication: through essay and assignment preparation and writing;

• Public speaking and confidence in self-expression: through tutorial participation and class presentations.

Two written assignments of 400 words each, 25% (due throughout semester), a ten minute oral test 20% (due in week 10), a listening comprehension test 15% (due week 12), a 1.5-hour written language test 40% (due in exam period).

• L Baker et al, Collage, Révision de Grammaire, 5th Edition. McGraw Hill.
• L Baker et al, Collage, Variétés Culturelles, 5th Edition. McGraw Hill.