Foreign Language-Fundamentals of French-II

Paper Code: 
MIB 426 A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The objective of this subject is to acquaint the students with the working knowledge of the language to make use in international business

10.00
Unit I: 
:

 Grammar personal pronouns (indirect, direct, adverbial) : choice, order & place in the sentence; indefinite adjectives & pronouns)

Comprehension and paragraph writing reading of the stories in chapters 3+4 of the book

 Listening and Speaking Skills activities: reprimanding; giving opinion

 

13.00
Unit II: 
:

Grammar:  near future; past perfect and imperfect tenses

Comprehension and paragraph writing reading of the stories in chapters 3+4 of the book

Listening and Speaking Skills relating events  using the past tenses

 

13.00
Unit III: 
:

  Grammar: formation and usages; simple relative pronouns

Comprehension and paragraph writing reading of the stories in chapter 4 of the book

Listening and Speaking Skills activities : relating events  using the past tenses

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
:

 Grammar reported speech; possessive pronouns

Comprehension and paragraph writing reading of the stories in chapter 4 of the book

Listening and Speaking Skills: reporting conversation using reported speech; allowing and prohibiting;

 

12.00
Unit V: 
:

Grammar comparatives and superlatives; simple future; recent past; present continuous

Comprehension and paragraph writing reading of the stories in chapter 4 of the book

Listening and Speaking Skills making plans; discussing & debating an issue

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Le nouveau sans frontieres level- l (methode de francais – published by CLE international Paris, 1998, Indian edition.
  • Le nouveau sans frontiers – workbook vol-1
  • Four audiocassettes accompanying the written material

 

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

 

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