Listening & Speaking Skills in French

Paper Code: 
FRN-133
12.00
Unit I: 

activities: making acquaintances; inviting and replying to an invitation;declarative/interrogative intonation, sounds(a)(wa)(u);formal/informalgreetings, 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 the 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 book shop;fixing a meetingon telephone;eating in a restaurant;

12.00
Unit IV: 

telling an itinary;understanding and giving contradictory arguments;expressing on the recycling of garbage.sounds(b,v,o). Understanding a touristique pamphlet, French songs;asking questions on a text;indentifying different register of language,understanding a chronological story.

12.00
Unit V: 

accent aigu, grave, circonflexe. Dialogues on telephone; identifying situations and accordingly saying yes/no; 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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