French Grammar

Paper Code: 
FRN-201
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To lay strong base of elementary grammar

9.00
Unit I: 

pronouns after a preposition; prepositions of place ;complete conjugation with verbs ending in-er; date; days of the week; quantity
pronoun(en),questions : what is/how much?; the direct complement pronouns;

 

9.00
Unit II: 

vocabulary related to food;, contracted articles: au, du…;verbs of irregular group/ 3rd group verbs; ordinal numbers; indirect pronouns; negation with quelquechose/rien, quelqu’un/personne; colours, prepositions before names of cities, counties and continents; pronoun “y”; adjective demonstrative.

9.00
Unit III: 

negation with quelquechose/rien, quelqu’un/personne; colours, more names of  countries and continents; pronoun “y”;

9.00
Unit IV: 

Interrogation with inversion; adjective interrogative, pronominal verbs; seasons, parts of body; past tense and its simple accord (avoir/être); description of a person.

9.00
Unit V: 

Indicators of time (il y a/depuis/pendant,en,dans); negation with ne...plus, ne…jamais; simple future; basics of present of subjunctive; the five senses; physical & psychological description of a person (continued…)

Essential Readings: 

1)CONNEXIONS-1.
2) Audio CD (CONNEXIONS-1).

 

References: 

1)Larousse compact dictionary : Fre->Eng./Eng.->Fre
2) Conjugaison – Le Robert & Nathan
3) Larousse grammaire francaise
4) Grammaire collection “Le Nouvel Entrainez-Vous”, level debutant.

 

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