FREN 2311 - Alamo Colleges

FREN 2311 –Intermediate French I
Textbook:
Txtbk/Wkbk: Controverses 2nd ©2012 (Bundle : Student Activities Manual + Access Card),
Oukada,Bertrand, Solberg ISBN: 9781111706135, Cengage Learning
Course Description:
This course is a continuation of FREN 1412. It provides additional development of
language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Short literary selections are
introduced in a context of French culture and civilization.
This course fulfills the Language, Philosophy, and Culture foundational component area, or the
Additional Language, Philosophy, and Culture component area option of the core, and addresses
the following required objectives: Critical Thinking, Communication, Social Responsibility, and
Personal Responsibility.
Prerequisites
FREN 1412, placement exam, or departmental approval
Learning Outcomes:
1 Demonstrate comprehension of authentic spoken discourse produced by
Francophone speakers of diverse origins. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills
and Social Responsibility)
2 Produce oral French comprehensible to native speakers using complex grammatical
structures to narrate, describe, and elicit information. (Critical Thinking Skills,
Communication Skills, Social Responsibility and Personal Responsibility)
3 Demonstrate increasing comprehension of authentic written texts in a variety of
genres. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills and Social Responsibility)
4 Write descriptions and narratives at a low intermediate level using complex
grammatical structures. Demonstrate ability to formulate cohesive paragraphs and
short/simple essays. (Critical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills)
5 Describe cultural practices and products of the Francophone speaking world drawing
on authentic materials including literature and the visual arts. (Critical Thinking Skills,
Communication Skills, Social Responsibility and Personal Responsibility)
Objectives:
Critical Thinking Skills: FREN 2311 includes the skills of creative thinking, innovation,
inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information by teaching students to analyze,
interpret, comprehend, and produce spoken and written linguistic communication including both
verbal and non-verbal cues at a low intermediate level. Students read and comprehend assigned
texts, write essays to question author's purpose, summarize main ideas, and logically consider
alternative conclusions.
Communication: The Intermediate French I courses include effective development,
interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication. Students
must demonstrate the ability to communicate orally and in writing with native language speakers
and logically analyze significant points of view. Since current trends in language pedagogy
include video presentation as well as web and audio blogs, this additionally includes
interpretation and production of culturally specific non-verbal communication.
This course will assist and evaluate the abilities students need to effectively communicate their
ideas by providing modeling of good communication and providing opportunity for the students
to present oral and written compositions.
Personal Responsibility: Due to the inherent differences between the culture of the target
language and that of the native language, students are shown to evaluate their own ability to
connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making as well as identify why
someone from a different culture may make different decisions based on their distinct beliefs and
values.
Students articulate their own ethical values and identify the origin of their values. Students have
an awareness and understanding of the choices they make and why they make them. Students
are able to reference factors that influence their decisions.
Students recognize ethical issues in the social context of problems. Students are able to make
connections between their standards of behavior and the world that surrounds them. Their
decision-making reflects awareness of issues beyond their immediate environment and show
evidence that they are able to make such connections.
Students analyze alternative ethical perspectives and predict the ramifications of those
perspectives to a situation. Students demonstrate that they are able to see more than one approach
or perspective to a situation and can think systematically about possible consequences stemming
from actions based on these perspectives.
Social Responsibility: The Intermediate French I courses increase a student’s intercultural
competence, knowledge of civic responsibility and ability to engage effectively in regional,
national, and global communities by methodically evaluating implications and consequences of
actions taken related to the specific countries of the target language. Students gather evidence
from reliable sources in order to write short essays demonstrating their knowledge of the target
languages’ regional and national issues as well as overall global issues thereby gaining a greater
awareness of their own civic responsibility.
Students identify social and/or aesthetic issues and analyze them in light of a variety of cultural
perspectives.
Students identify and critique the broader impact (regional, national, and global) of their social,
political, aesthetic, or economic issue.
Students identify and appraise the impact of prejudices on attitudes and behaviors.
Teamwork:
This course utilizes cooperative learning in order to develop teamwork. This includes, but it is
not limited to discussions, reciprocal teaching, writing, problem solving, etc.
GRADING: Grades always mirror the students’ responsibility, respect, and resourcefulness;
There are no make-ups for any absence; No late assignment (hmwk, wkbk, or other) is accepted;
a. Quizzes & daily grades [33%]: Expect frequent quizzes, writing assignments and hmwk.
b. Exams [49%]
c. Attendance & Participation [18%]
In accordance with the San Antonio College grading standard, final course grades will be
assigned on the basis of the following scale:
100 - 90 = A
89 - 80 = B
79 - 70 = C
69 - 60 = D
Below 60 = F
Plan du cours
NB : Je serai absente le 2 et le 4 octobre pour des conférences; il y aura un remplaçant qui assurera le
cours.
MARDI 10h35-11h50
JEUDI 10h35-11h50
Semaine 1/2
Introductions
Chapitre 1
Chapitre 0 = Chapitre préliminaire
QUIZ-VOCAB
Devoir à
Track 4A ; RM p. 25; Questions p. 27;
Etudiez le vocab pp. 20, 22-23, 31 (quiz
Commencez ‘Liens Interdisciplinaires’ pp.
jeudi)
36-38.
Lisez ‘Lecture’ pp. 25-26 pour jeudi
Cahier exercises pp. 17-19 et 21-22
Devoir à
Lisez ‘Contexte Social’ pp. 29-29
Faites un sondage, pp.29-30 pour présenter
en classe mardi.
Cahier exercises pp. 24-25 (écrit) et
pp. 29-30 (PAS écrit)
Semaine 3/4/5
Chapitre 1
Track 4B ; RM p. 34
Sondages-Exposés
Devoir à
Lisez ‘Lectures’ pp. 34-35 pour jeudi
Cahier exercises pp. 32, 35 (#13 & 14)
Semaine 6/7
Chapitre 2
Rédaction Ch. 1 à rendre
Track 6A ; RM p. 51;
Devoir à
Etudiez le vocab pp. 46, 49, 57 (quiz
jeudi)
Lisez ‘Lecture’ pp. 52-53 pour jeudi
Cahier exercises pp. 43-51
Semaine 8/9
Semaine 10/11
Semaine 12/13
Chapitre 2
Track 6B ; RM p. 59
Lecture questions pp. 61-62
Liens Interdisciplinaires pp. 62-63 +
Débat p. 64 Ex. B
Devoir à
Continuez à travailler sur votre rédaction
Cahier exercises pp. 59-62, 64-70
Chapitre 1
Continuez ‘Liens’ + questions
Devoir à
Rédaction =Introduction SEULEMENT
Voir p. 42. P. 43 donne un exemple d’une
rédaction complète sur ce sujet, mais vous
n’écrirez QUE l’introduction (environ 100
mots). A rendre mardi.
Cahier exercises pp. 37-38 Track A
Chapitre 2
QUIZ VOCAB
Questions pp. 53, 54
Contexte Social + sondage en classe en
vous basant sur les questions p. 56.
Devoir à
Lisez Lecture pp. 60-61 pour mardi
Rédaction p. 67 Ecrire la thèse d’une
dissertation dialectique (100 mots) – à
rendre jeudi prochain
Cahier exercises pp. 52-58
Chapitre 3
Rédaction Ch. 2 à rendre
Track 8A ; RM p. 74
Devoir à
Etudiez vocab pp. 70-72, 80 (quiz mardi)
Lisez Lecture p. 75-76
Cahier exercises pp. 75-85
Chapitre 3
QUIZ VOCAB
Questions Lecture p. 76
Contexte Social p. 77, 78-79 + Discussion
pp. 78, 79
Chapitre 3
Track 8B, RM p. 82
Lecture questions p. 84
Liens Interdisciplinaires pp. 84-85 +
Discussion p. 86 & 89
Devoir à
Lisez Lecture pp. 82-83 ET Réplique et
synthèse pp. 87-90
Cahier exercises pp. 85-95
Devoir à
Rédaction pp. 92-93 – Ecrire l’antithèse
d’une dissertation dialectique (100 mots)
basée sur le sujet p. 92 (pour mardi)
Cahier exercises pp. 95-101
Chapitre 4
QUIZ VOCAB
Questions Lecture p. 102
Contexte Social p. 103-104 + Discussion p.
104
Devoir à
Lisez Lecture pp. 108-109 ET Réplique et
synthèse pp. 112-113
Cahier exercises pp. 117-127
Chapitre 4
Rédaction Ch. 3 à rendre
Track 10A ; RM p. 100
Devoir à
Etudiez vocab pp. 96-98, 105 (quiz jeudi)
Lisez Lecture p. 100-101
Cahier exercises pp. 107-117
Semaine 14/15
Chapitre 4
Track 10B, RM p. 107
Liens Interdisciplinaires pp. 110-111 +
Discussion p. 111
Devoir à
Rédaction pp. 92-93 – Ecrire la synthèse
d’une dissertation dialectique (100 mots)
basée sur le sujet p. 116 (pour jeudi après
l’examen)
Semaine 16
EXAMEN FINAL
(Ch. 0-4)
Révision