FREN 0500
French for Beginners
2020–2021 academic year
Topics
- Basic French vocabulary and grammar
- Pronunciation and listening comprehension
- Oral and written communication
- Everyday familiar situations, short messages and forms
- CEFR A1 proficiency
Readings
- Listed course resource: Collins-Robert bilingual dictionary, pocket or medium size, print or electronic.
- Listed course resource: WordReference online dictionary: https://www.wordreference.com/
- Recommended: French Vocabulary. Barron’s, 2012.
Fall 2017–Winter 2018
Topics
- Elementary spoken and written French
- Pronunciation and listening comprehension
- Basic composition and translation
- French vocabulary and grammatical structures
- CEFR A1 proficiency
Readings
- Required: Denyer, Monique, et al. Version originale 1: Méthode de français. 2015. Livre de l’élève and Cahier d’exercices.
- Recommended: Collins-Robert bilingual dictionary, pocket or medium size, print or electronic; French Vocabulary, Barron’s, 2012.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗2020–2021 academic year
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Fall 2017–Winter 2018
- Manually checked cached syllabus text. Heading: Resources. Only French Vocabulary is explicitly marked recommended.
- Manually checked cached syllabus text. Heading: Required and Recommended Materials. Historical version; the 2020–2021 syllabus lists different resources.