Alliance Française of New Haven - Alliance Française de New Haven

Alliance Française of New Haven
Fall Session 2013
SYLLABUS FOR THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 2 CLASS
The Adult Intermediate level 2 French Class will meet every Thursdays starting September
5, 2013 to November 7, 2013. The classes will be of two hours, from 5:45-7:45pm.
The first 15 minutes of classes will be to review the poignant 15 minute video that opens up the
chapter. The other hour and forty five minutes will be to practice the grammar and vocabulary
related to the lesson with a lot of discussions and interpretations.
Classes will be held at the co-working space named Bourse-New Haven, 2nd floor, in back of
room, located at 839 Chapel Street, New Haven CT. Parking is available on the streets (Chapel
and Orange St.) and at the covered parking garage above Elm City Market. The entrance of the
parking garage is at 360 State Street, New Haven. The parking ticket costs $2.00/hour but if you
buy something at the market, you will have an hour parking for free.
All our language classes offer an immersion experience in the French language which means
that instruction will be given in French. Students are encouraged to express themselves in
French and they will learn French grammatical principles intuitively through repetition.
Grammatical instruction will be a tool, not a goal.
Language classes will meet once a week for two hours.
The instructor, Dr. Marie-Dominique Boyce holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown
University and has been teaching language classes at Brown University, Harvard University,
Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University since 1992.
Tuition: $300.00
September 18, 2013 – November 10, 2013 (10 lessons)
Tuition is $280.00 if paid in full by August 25, 2013.
Students must be members of the Alliance Française of New Haven to qualify.
Membership fees are $30 for student, $35 for senior, $45 for an individual, $55 for a couple, and
$60 for a family. Please send your check made out to Alliance Française of New Haven, and
registration form to the address: Alliance Française New Haven, PO Box 207333, New Haven
CT 06520.
FRENCH 201
The Intermediate level 2 class is a continuation of the Intermediate level 1 class offered by the Alliance
Française of New Haven. Students will have completed the first 5 chapters of the method Imaginez by
Mitschke, Vista publisher, and will have reviewed the present imperfect and passé composé at the
intermediate level as well as studied the themes of personal relations (civil status, personality,
relations, feelings), of living in town (activities done in town, people in town, how to ask for directions,
describe places), of the medias (the cinema and the television, people in the medias, the press), of the
world of justice and politics (the law, people’s rights, politics, our security), and of our society in
evolution (changes in society, problems and solutions).
The method Imaginez, features a magazine-like design that engages students while integrating
thematic, cultural and grammatical concepts within every sections of the text. The lessons are arranged
thematically and introduced by a poignant 15 min-movie. We will study the themes of “Les générations
qui bougent”, “Les sciences et la technologie”, “S’évader et s’amuser”, « Perspectives de travail »,
« Les richesses naturelles ».
Magazine articles will teach us about parts of the Francophone world and its creators (writers, painters,
sculptors, architects, engineers…) associated with North Africa and Lebanon, Belgium, Switzerland and
Luxembourg, the Indian Ocean, Central Africa, and the French Polynesia, New Guinea and Asian French
colonies.
In grammar, we will learn the subjunctive tense, the relative pronouns, the future tense, the
comparative and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs, the present and past conditional, the
prepositions of geographical names, the present participles, the -OIR verbs, the Si-clauses.
MATERIAL :
Method: Imaginez by Mitschke, 2nd edition, Boston: Vista publisher, 2012. The textbook goes along with
short videos (15 minute- videos). You can find some of them on Youtube.com. A CD with these videos
will be provided to the students. No need to purchase the supersite code. Students are required to
watch the videos before class.
Textbook (available at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511See Cécile or Carl Cohen for help).
Recommended material:
There exists an online-course supplement with online self-corrected homework, additional
information and video program with translations but this is not required for the course as it is very
expensive (about $70.00)
English Grammar for Students of French by Jacqueline Morton, 4th edition, The Olivia and Hill Press,
1997.
French Grammar by Julio Celestin, Harper Perennial, 1991.
VIDEO: A CD with the videos and the video clips named “Zapping” of your lessons (chapter 6 to chapter
10) will be provided to you upon registration. Some videos of the method Imaginez can be found on
Youtube.com.
IT IS ESSENTIAL that you watch as many times as possible the video and repeat the script (lesson in
your book) as many times a week as possible.
HOMEWORK: Your instructor will assign homework to do each week. Have workbook and textbook
with you.
INFORMATION: For any info, email your instructor at [email protected] or call her 860 788
3346
TENTATIVE COURSE PLANNING
Le 5 Septembre: Leçon 6: Vocabulaire : « En famille », Video : « de l’autre coté », Grammaire : the
subjunctive, Culture : L’Afrique du Nord et le Liban.
Le 12 Septembre: Leçon 6: Zapping : Générations en construction, Grammaire : Les pronoms relatifs
and the -RE verbs, Culture : Galerie de créateurs, Jour de mariage, « Père Mère » de Lamine Sine Diop.
Le 19 Septembre: Leçon 7: Vocabulaire : Le progrès et la recherche, Vidéo : Dépendance, Grammaire :
The Comparative and superlative, Culture : Belgique, Suisse, Luxembourg.
Le 26 Septembre: Leçon 7: Zapping : Le robot à la française, Grammaire : Le futur simple, le passé du
subjonctif, Culture : galerie de créateurs, CERN : à la découverte d’un univers particulier, Texte :
« Solitude numérique » de Didier Daeninckx.
Le 3 Octobre: Leçon 8: Vocabulaire: « Les passe-temps », Vidéo: « Le ballon prisonnier », Grammaire:
Les infinitifs, Prépositions avec noms géographiques, Culture : L’océan indien, Galerie de créateurs.
Le 10 Octobre: Leçon 8 : Zapping : L’art du déplacement, Grammaire : Le conditionnel présent,
Culture : L’île de la Réunion : île intense, Texte : « Le football » de Sempé-Goscinny.
Le 17 Octobre: Leçon 9 : Vocabulaire : « le travail et les finances », Vidéo : Bonbon au poivre,
Grammaire : Le participe présent, Culture : l’Afrique centrale.
Le 24 Octobre: Leçon 9 Zapping : «Des conseils dans un marché concurrentiel », Grammaire : Pronoms
démonstratifs, -OIR verbs, Culture : galerie de créateurs, Textes : Des Africaines entrepreneuses,
« Profession Libérale » de Marie Le Drian.
Le 31 Octobre: Leçon 10 : Vocabulaire : Notre monde, Vidéo : « L’homme qui plantait des arbres »,
Grammaire : Le conditionnel passé, les phrases conditionnelles avec Si, Culture : La Polynésie française,
La Nouvelle Calédonie, l’Asie.
Le 7 Novembre: Leçon 10 : Zapping : « l’environnement vu du ciel », Grammaire : le futur antérieur,
Culture : Galerie des créateurs, les richesses du pacifique, Texte : « Baobab » de Jean-Baptiste TatiLoutard.