Projects on the Chinese language and culture will be the focus of the course. Offered when enrollment is sufficient. This course introduces the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through the use of video based and CD-ROM programs. Grammar is taught with a workbook and enhanced with the use of technology. By the end of the year, the students are expected to speak and write about themselves and their immediate environment in the basic present, future and past tenses.
Students become familiar with the French culture through a variety of projects.
They do some research on the main regions of France and their people. French is the habitual language of the classroom. We refine all four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing and build on the existing background from French I. Orally and in writing, the students move from simple descriptions to more complex ones which encompass a wider range of experiences than at the first level. Included in the grammar are various compound tenses and the use of the conditional. The emphasis on culture continues with the discovery of Paris and its everyday life, other major French cities and at least one Francophone country.