Listening & Speaking Skills in French

Paper Code: 
FRN-133
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
12.00
Unit I: 

 Activities : making acquaintances; inviting and replying to an invitation; declarative/interrogative intonation, sounds(a)(wa)(u); formal/informal greetings, communication with tu and vous; understanding and reusing a few gestures, reciting alphabets, spelling a few words.

 

 

12.00
Unit II: 

 Rhythm,sounds(i)(y);understanding an interview. Elision,sounds(y)(u);understanding a publicity on an answering machine; asking someone of his/her tastes,understanding an opinion. Liaision,sounds(s)(z);

 

 

 

12.00
Unit III: 

 asking someone to do something, asking someone about  future plans, expressing oneself on  traditional festivals of one’s country, Cédille(ç), sounds(p)(b); understanding positive and negative opinions; making a purchase from a bookshop; fixing a meeting on telephone; eating in a restaurant;

 

 

 

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

telling an itinerary; understanding and giving contradictory arguments; the recycling of garbage. sounds(b,v,o). Understanding a tourist pamphlet, French songs; asking questions on a text; identifying different registers of language, understanding a chronological story.

 

 

 

12.00
Unit V: 

accent aigu,grave,circonflexe. Dialogues on telephone; identifying situations and accordingly saying yes/no; to characterize someone; understanding a meterological bulletin; sounds(a).

 

 

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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