French Grammar

Paper Code: 
FRN-131
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Unit I: 

Tu ou vous?; masculin/feminin; the numbers from 0 to 16;alphabets, some diacritical signs. the definite articles : le,la les ; subject pronouns : je,tu,il/elle,vous ; interrogation by intonation ; Quel,quelle etc. (asking age,address, telephone number) ; verbs : être, avoir, habiter, s’appeler, travailler, apprendre ; adjectivs of nationality; numbers from 17 to 69 ; language of internet, sports, professions ;

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Unit II: 

c’est/il est ; possessive adjectives (1) ; partitive articles ; on =nous; negation :ne….pas; yes/no/of course. conjugation of verbs ending in-er; numbers after 69; near future aller+verb2; imperative mood: écoute!allez!; indicators of time(1);

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Unit III: 

plural of nouns; there is/are; nous,ils/elles; verbs: pouvoir vouloir, aller; months of the year; expressions with the verb avoir; interrogation with “est-ce que”. 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;

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Unit IV: 

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.

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Unit V: 

Interrogation with inversion; adjective interrogative, pronominal verbs; seasons, parts of body; past tense and its simple accord(avoir/être) description of a person, Indicator of time (il y a/depuis/pendant,en,dans); negation with ne...plus, ne…jamais; simple future; present subjonctif; the five senses, 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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