CEF Language Fluency Levels
All of the Alliance Française network’s language courses are structured according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF). The CEF is the language and fluency level scale used in the European Union. It serves as the guideline for describing the level of fluency achieved by a foreign language learner. Find out what is your French language fluency level.
The Alliance Française of Washington, D.C. offers multiple courses within each CEF level, as detailed in the chart below. See below table for learning objectives of each level. You can also use this table to perform a quick self-evaluation.
*New students with any prior experience studying or speaking French must take our free placement test before enrolling in a class. It is the best way to guarantee you are in the best class for your language needs.
*Check the curriculum table with the details of classes that the Alliance Française offers in DC. Please note that not all advanced classes are offered each session.
A1: Breakthrough / Beginner Level
101 A1.1
This entry-level course is designed for complete beginners to gain competency in French. Students will develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures in French. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Salutations, taking leave; introduce oneself; ask and give personal information; talk about one's hobbies; talk about one's city; ask and give explanations; understand an itinerary's simple directions; give simple directions for an itinerary; ask closed questions
Vocabulary Objectives
Salutation formulas; identity; moments in a day; tastes; verbs and directions; how to be polite: simple formulas
Grammar Objectives
To have & to be (avoir & être); possessive adjectives; negation (ne…pas); numbers up to 100; definite and indefinite articles; present tense of verbs ending in -ER; preposition (places); "Pourquoi? Parce que" (Why? Because); interrogative adjective: "Quel"?; closed questions: "Est-ce que..."?
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ (dossier 0 ; dossier 1 ; dossier 2, leçons 1 & 2)
Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 0, Dossier 1, Dossier 2, lessons 1 and 2
Total Hours: 32
102 A1.2
This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about one's job; describe a person; talk about one's family; talk about one's daily activities; talk about one's projects
Vocabulary Objectives
Most common professions; masculine and feminine for profession-based adjectives; physical and psychological descriptions; family relationships; daily activities
Grammar Objectives
Prepositions (places); demonstrative adjectives; stressed pronouns; qualifying adjectives; possessive adjectives; reflective verbs; near future; imperative mode and tense
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ (dossier 2, leçon 3 ; dossier 3 ; dossier 4, leçons 1 & 2)
Total Hours: 32
A2: Way Stage / Elementary Level
103 A2.1
This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Ask questions; talk about past events; talk about seasons and the weather; talk about one's hobbies and cultural activities; call someone on the phone and answer the phone; express feelings
Vocabulary Objectives
Describe someone physically; weather forecast and climate; travel
Grammar Objectives
Syntaxic structure of questions; introduction to passé composé (past tense); near future, recent past and progressive present
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 4, lesson 3; dossier 5, dossier 6, lessons 1 and 2
Total Hours: 32
104 A2.2
This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about one's food; describe clothes; give a function to an object; precise quantities
Vocabulary Objectives
Food; clothes and fashion; lodging; daily consumerism
Grammar Objectives
Basic use of simple future; partitive articles; Direct Object and Indirect Object; basic use of "imparfait" tense
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 6, lesson 3; dossier 7, dossier 8, lesson 1
Total Hours: 32
105 A2.3
This course is designed for beginners to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the core competencies needed for beginners in French and enables students to move on to intermediate courses at the 200-level.
Communicative Objectives
Make a comparison; talk about memories; suggest an outing; react; understand and set up rules
Vocabulary Objectives
Lodging; cuisine (gastronomy); daily life
Grammar Objectives
Expressions used for comparison; "Il faut" + infinitive and imperative; negation and restriction; expressions used for quantity; "Depuis / Il y a"; "Devoir / Il faut que"
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 1+ Dossier 8, lessons 2 and 3; dossier 9
Total Hours: 32
201 A2.4
This course is designed for students at the intermediate-level working toward proficiency in French. Students will further develop their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, expand upon their vocabulary, and utilize more complex grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about a friendship; describe a person; talk about what someone said; mention changes; narrate an encounter; talk about one's work, one's university studies, one's choice of profession; give advice
Vocabulary Objectives
Friendship; love relationship; studies; professional experience; work and professional life; love life
Grammar Objectives
Simple relative pronouns; passé composé tense / imparfait tense / plus - perfect tense; indirect speech in the present tense; comparison; time markers ("il y a, dans, pendant, depuis"), advice using imperative tense and mode; subjunctive to express necessity
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 1, Dossier 2
Total Hours: 32
B1: Threshold / Intermediate Level
202 B1.1
This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about cultural differences; situate yourself in time; talk about one's place of living and justify one's choices; talk about an event; react
Vocabulary Objectives
Expressions to talk about a country and its inhabitants; media and press
Grammar Objectives
Où/ dont; demonstrative pronouns; superlatives; interrogative and possessive pronouns; "si" + imparfait tense; passive form
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 3, Dossier 4
Total Hours: 32
203 B1.2
This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Express appreciations; encourage the practice of an activity; select a touristic destination; look to the future: express wishes/ hopes; express a goal, an objective, an aim; imagine an hypothetical or unreal situation; give one's opinion; justify one's choices; express agreement and disagreement
Vocabulary Objectives
Hobbies; encouragement; tourism, boooking a hotel, a table; wishes; verbs to express goals; verbs to express fields of interest; idioms to express one's opinion
Grammar Objectives
The adverb in compound tenses; adjectives in a sentence; personal pronouns after "de" and "à"; indirect pronouns "y" and "en"; expressing wishes: souhaiter que + subjunctive; espérer que + indicative; conditional present to make a suggestion; conditional present (project, unreal situation)
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 5, dossier 6
Total Hours: 32
204 B1.3
This course is designed for intermediate-level students working to strengthen their competency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the intermediate level and enables students to move on to advanced courses at the 300-level.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about a life change; report a conversation; talk about an event in a narrative in the past; express regrets; take a position, voice an
opinion; understand the history of an event; talk about one's readings; understand and argue about prevention: encouragement and caution
Vocabulary Objectives
Performing arts and show; expressions used for feelings/emotions, attitudes/behaviors; impersonal ways of expressing need; verbs to talk about loaning/borrowing an object; verbs used to express consequence
Grammar Objectives
Expressing time: "avant de" + infinitive; "après" + past infinitive; reported speech in the past; "irréel du passé"" "si"+ plus perfect, conditional, recent past and near future in a narrative in the past; expressing need with subjunctive or infinitive; double pronouns; imparfait or conditional to express reproach
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 2+, Dossier 7, Dossier 8
Total Hours: 32
301 B1.4
This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Characterize people; ask detailed information by mail; give orders and make suggestions; express feelings; write a mail to complain
about something; report someone's words
Vocabulary Objectives
Behaviors; professional strengths and weaknesses; friendship and love; lexicon of negation
Grammar Objectives
Simple relative pronouns and compound relative pronouns with demonstrative pronouns; subjunctive present; subjunctive past and past infinitive; subjuctive or infinitive after feeling verbs; compound relative pronouns; reported speech in the present
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 3+, Dossier 1, dossier 2
Total Hours: 32
302 B1.5
This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about one's experiences; matriculate in university; express a compromise and oppose something; talk about ways to get
information; give one's point of view on the first page of daily papers; analyze information; understand news titles
Vocabulary Objectives
Apprenticeship and experience; school and university; contradicting; how to write a small news story
Grammar Objectives
Imparfait and passé composé; plus que parfait (plus-perfect), rules of "participe passé"; nominal sentences; passive voice; express cause and consequence; how to express uncertain events
Course Materials
Text book: Alter Ego 3+ , Dossier 3, Dossier 4
Total Hours: 32
303 B1.6
This course is designed for intermediate-advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Oppose something; encourage solidarity; express objectives and intentions; give impressions; participate in a debate: take the floor; keep the floor; interrupt
Vocabulary Objectives
Solidarity, help, involvement; how to encourage; how to suggest a program to one’s friends; how to like and participate in a debate
Grammar Objectives
Participe passé and gerund; different ways of expressing goals; interrogation; inverted question; adverbs in – MENT; relatives ruled by the subjunctive
Course Materials
Text book: Alter Ego 3+ Dossier 5, Dossier 6
Total Hours: 32
B2: Vantage / Upper Intermediate Level
304 B2.1
This course is designed for advanced students working to gain proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 300-level and enables students to move on to the 400-level.
Communicative Objectives
Talk about the environment; make hypotheses; express prohibitions; talk about justice; express doubts and certainty; make a demonstration; talk about one’s travels; narrate in the past
Vocabulary Objectives
Ecology and environment; terms to prohibit and preserve; terms to understand justice; travel and tourism
Grammar Objectives
Simple future; “futur antérieur” tense; conditional present and past; substituting tools: double pronouns and neutral pronouns; indefinite pronouns; narration tenses; introduction to passé simple (simple past)
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 3+ Dossier 7, Dossier 8, Dossier 9 (optional)
Total Hours: 32
401 B2.2
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Prepare for a job interview; talk about the past; talk about one’s life; describe illness symptoms to the doctor; express feelings; express one’s point of view on family; discuss roles in a couple
Vocabulary Objectives
Latin and Greek etymology of French words; Street French and daily French (words, idioms, levels); vocabulary for body, pain, relief; feelings; terms to express one’s opinion
Grammar Objectives
Past tenses (imparfait, passé composé, plus-que-parfait, passé simple, passé antérieur); the ending of participes passés; time: simultaneity, anteriority, posteriority; subjunctive; present infinitive and past infinitive; when to use indicative or subjunctive
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 1, Dossier 2
Total Hours: 32
402 B2.3
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Expose an issue with lodging; describe place of living, a space; objects; express one’s interest; express wishes, goals and intentions; argue about traveling as a mean of self-structuring and learning
Vocabulary Objectives
Vocabulary: building and renovations; prefixes and suffixes for transformation; compound nouns; “savoir” and “connaître”; terms for intentions and objectives; common ways of expressing how to get to one’s goals
Grammar Objectives
Qualifying: with simple and compound relative pronouns; with a noun; passive form and reflective passive form; subjunctive “imparfait” and “plus-que-parfait” tenses; relative clauses ruled by subjunctive
Course Materials
Text book: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 3, Dossier 4
Total Hours: 32
403 B2.4
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Give information on recruitment criteria and work contract; report someone else’s words; give one’s opinion about a restaurant; identify one’s culinary tastes; express hypotheses; debate humanitarian aid
Vocabulary Objectives
Colloquial expressions with pronouns; adjective-based syntax structures; synonyms and precision: “dire”; vocabulary for taste, saveurs; elements of style: metaphor, image and comparison
Grammar Objectives
Conditional present and past; personal pronouns and double pronouns; expressing hypothesis and condition; expletive “ne” with “à moins que”
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 5, Dossier 6
Total Hours: 32
404 B2.5
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 400-level and enables students to move on to the 500-level.
Communicative Objectives
Express one’s opinion on politics; debate humanitarian aid; claim rights; present specificities of a region or a country; debate linguistic choices in pluri-lingual states
Vocabulary Objectives
Euphemisms and politically correct ways of talking; where to place adjectives; homonyms and words with double gender (“genre”); rights and duties; antonyms; levels of language (“registres de langue”)
Grammar Objectives
Emphasis; gerund; present participle and verbal adjective; indefinite pronouns; synthesis on pronouns (indefinite, possessive, demonstrative and relative)
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 7, Dossier 8
Total Hours: 32
405 B2.6
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French. This course concludes the 400-level and enables students to move on to the 500-level.
Communicative Objectives
Express opinions on a contemporary society’s phenomenon; write a letter to an agony aunt; express degrees in appreciation and judgements; compare facts and numbers; talk about futuristic inventions
Vocabulary Objectives
Words borrowed from other languages; simile and differences; evolution and change
Grammar Objectives
Synthesis on tenses and verbal modes (indicative, subjunctive); comparison and its degrees
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 4+ Dossier 9, Review
Total Hours: 32
C1: Effective Operational Efficiency / Advanced Level
501 C1.1
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Analyser un texte de vulgarisation scientifique ; restituer un raisonnement philosophique ; comparer différents traitements médiatiques ; comparer deux documents sociologiques ; faire des comparaisons interculturelles ; analyser un article polémique et provocateur
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : Le Télégramme, Simone Signoret et Yves Morand ; Tahar Ben Jelloun sur la famille
Documents écrits : Les mirages de la communication universelle ; La pensée éparpillée par la Toile ; La presse et la révolution digitale ; Une vie, Guy Maupassant ; Comparer : Le Grand Meaulnes, Les Mots et Le Petit Nicolas et les copains (p.33)
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 5 Dossiers 1, Dossier 2
Total Hours: 32
502 C1.2
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Analyser le témoignage vécu d’une militante philosophe ; décoder les allusions et les implicites d’un texte ; débattre de questions économiques et sociales ; établir des comparaisons transhistoriques et interculturelles ; retrouver le déroulement d’une enquête sociologique ; faire une note de synthèse sur les motivations des migrants ; exprimer un regard : deux points de vue contradictoires ; deux points de vue dissemblables mais concordants
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : Extrait du Journal de Simone Weil ; La route des épices ; Les nouvelles migrations ; Mode et influences africaines
Documents écrits : Écrivain public ; Trader, un métier d’avenir ? Zinedine Zidane ; le Descenseur sociale ; Article 1 de la constitution française ; La mondialisation en marche dans un quartier populaire ; Identité et métissage culturel
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 5 Dossier 3, Dossier 4
Total Hours: 32
503 C1.3
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Résumer l’évolution d’une notion ; rendre compte d’une « exception française » ; comparer les modèles d’intégration et de promotion professionnelle de différents pays ; interpréter des formulations législatives ; étudier les ressorts d’un propos militant ; mettre en perspective des regards venus d’ailleurs
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : La noblesse sous Louis XIV ; Les classes moyennes métisses aux États-Unis ; Le multilinguisme ; Élection du président du l’UE ; Élection du président de l’UE ; l’Europe vue du Japon
Documents écrits : le label Egalite Professionnelle ; Le royaume ou les femmes sont reines ;
« L’affirmative action » américain en déclin ; Nicolas Sarkozy à l’école polytechnique ; Privilèges et inégalités ; Le Singe et le Léopard, La Fontaine ; La quête commune de l’Europe ; Charte européenne du plurilinguisme ; Victor Hugo, Congres de la Paix, 1849 ; Naissance d’une identité politique européenne
Course Materials
Textbook:Alter Ego 5 Dossier 5, Dossier 6
Total Hours: 32
504 C1.4
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Résumer une thèse d’historien ; analyser un discours diplomatique ; construire un raisonnement hypothétique ; réorganiser des données informatives ; définir des courants d’idées ; étudier les aspects provocateurs d’un texte
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : Le Louvre Abu Dhabi ; La ville sensuelle ; La croissance en question
Documents écrits : l’Afrique, notre avenir ; Le Louvre Abu Dhabi ; Le français, langue diplomatique ; Les Lumières ; Innovations à la Belle Époque à Paris ; Toulouse baisse la lumière ; Le droit au doute scientifique
Course Materials
Textbook:Alter Ego 5 Dossier 7, Dossier 8
Total Hours: 32
505 C1.5
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Expliquer un processus psychique ; rendre compte des implications économiques et psychologiques d’un phénomène social ; analyser un texte littéraire descriptif ; reformuler la pensée d’un créateur ; s’exprimer sur les fonctions de la littérature
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : Internet, vecteur de lien social ; Supprimer son profil Facebook
Documents écrits : Le Net (dé)forme la jeunesse ; L’avenir des univers virtuels ; Second Life, témoignage d’un résident ; Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ; A la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust ; Préface de « Alechinsky : le pinceau voyageur »
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 5 Dossier 9, Dossier 10
Total Hours: 32
506 C1.6
This course is designed for advanced students to strengthen their proficiency in French. Students will sharpen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills necessary to identify vocabulary terms and utilize proper grammatical structures. Extensive preparation outside of class and active participation in class are required to succeed. Assignments will be assisted by texts, visual aids, and cultural reflection. Students will become familiar with engaging effectively in a variety of conversations in French.
Communicative Objectives
Rendre compte d’une réflexion sur l’histoire des sciences ; argumenter sur des questions d’éthique ; prendre position dans une controverse scientifique ; s’interroger sur les finalités des progrès scientifiques et médicaux ; analyser des théories économiques et débattre de leur validité ; rendre compte d’actions à but social et humanitaire ; élaborer une réflexion personnelle sur la notion de bonheur
Grammar Objectives
Documents oraux : Anatomie et imagerie médical ; La perception du progrès scientifique ; Le corps bionique ; Le libéralisme ; le projet « Travailler Apprendre Ensemble »
Documents écrits : Comment légiférer sur la bioétique ; Le patient virtuel ; Sur l’expérimentation scientifique ; L’altermondialiste ; Les infortunes du bonheur ; Entre Diderot et Disneyland ou les avatars d’une utopie
Course Materials
Textbook: Alter Ego 5 Dossier 11, Dossier 12