French: Spelling and basic grammar Summer workshop

Spelling and basic grammar (Ref: SBG)

PACE 2½ hours a week over 6 weeks

Objectives:

These courses are aimed at students with an intermediary knowledge of French who wish to revisit elements of « elementary » grammar and improve their French spelling by taking an active part in (re)discovering rules governing the link between sounds and letters and various other conventions regarding written French. For instance, these courses will help you if you spell as you hear.

Through this class you will learn to ask yourself the right questions such as:

Did I spell properly or as I heard?

Did I use the right tense?

Did I think about the masculine, the feminine, the plural , etc?

After a while you even won’t have to worry too much about those questions, you will apply rules because you’ll have caught habits or a French way of thinking to avoid mistakes.

For students who have already studied the present, past, and future tenses.

Course organisation

Articles (definite&indefinbite)

Un une des

le la les

Negatives

Ne…pas / ne…plus …

Adjectives

Masculine/Feminine/plural & place

Tenses

PRESENT Present simple

PAST Passé composé/Imparfait

FUTURE Futur proche / Futur simple

Pronouns

Le la les lui leur y en

Accents

Identifying the rules governing the use of accents, the cedilla …

Spelling

Revising grammatical points affecting spelling

Agreements

Verb ending

Doing unseen or prepared dictation

Creative essay and dialogues through video

Writing

Revising conventions applying to e-mail and letters(punctuation, layout, appropriate endings…

Class: you will improve your spelling through dictations and focus on the relation “oral/speaking”

At home

Students will have to write a short essay and work on points studied during the previous class.

Course book :

La Grammaire Progressive du Français intermédiaire clé international advised but other course materials will be used

Students will be expected to take an active part in their learning and devote time during the week to go over what has been studied in the class and do homework.

A break will be included in all courses.

Easter Break: 7 April 2009 included to 17 April 2009 included

Bank Holiday on 4th and 25th May 2009