French 2, Semester I; La Description
Sections:

Introduction  |  Section 1  |  Section 2  |  Section 3  |  Dictionaries

 

  

Introduction

Bienvenus à La Description, Unité 5!
UN Building

The United Nations building in New York City is representative of a mixture of nationalities and cultures. In Unit Five, we are going to learn to talk about people with regard to their nationalities and also to describe things and people in more detail.

Unité Cinq
Félicitations! Congratulations again. You now know how to say many things that you didn't know prior to this course. Now you can talk about quite a few things in French and you should feel that you are gaining. While fluency in French does not happen over night, it does not happen at all without quite a bit of work. Are you ready?

In La Description you will:

  1. describe yourself and others using être and adjectives
  2. learn more of the past tense verbs in French
  3. learn to use the passé composé with être
  4. learn to talk about people's nationalities
  5. learn about the French region of Aquitaine

As you work, keep in mind the symbols that will help you to remember what it is you are going to be doing throughout the course. If you have forgotten those, you can look back at them to keep them in mind.

Unit Activities

Below is a list of the various activities in the unit. Though no activities should be skipped, the activities that are listed here are for a grade in the course and the point values are in red.

  1. Section 1, Part A, Discussion Board: 8 points
  2. Section 1, Part B, Devoir Écrit: 20 points
  3. Section 1, Part C, Discussion Board: 12 points
  4. Section 1, Part D, TPR Quiz: 15 points
  5. Section 1, Part E, Devoir Écrit: 20 points
  6. Section 1, Part E, Devoir Oral: 12 points
  7. Section 1, Part F, Devoir Écrit: 20 points
  8. Section 1 Quiz: 33 points
  9. Section 2, Part B, Devoir Écrit: 16 points
  10. Section 2, Part C, Devoir Écrit: 12 points
  11. Section 2, Part D, Discussion: 12 points
  12. Section 2 Quiz: 36 points
  13. Section 3, Part A, Devoir Écrit: 20 points
  14. Section 3 Quiz: 20 points
  15. Unit 5 Exam: 85 points
  16. Listening Test: 15 points

You should keep in mind that during the course of this unit, La Description, you should spend time doing the following daily:

  1. Vocabulary activities, drilling vocabulary (flashcards), at least 15 minutes daily.
  2. Practicing the alphabet or any vocabulary from Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 that you do not feel confident with
  3. At this point you should have developed some tool to help yourself learn the French language when you are not online working. You should either take notes to study later or make lists of vocabulary that you can study or even teach someone else.

Commençons...

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