1 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II – FRENCH 2020 UTAH STATE

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II – FRENCH 2020 UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
French Second Year II – crn#11884 - FREN 2020 . 4 credits. 10:30 am - 11:20 am MTWR Old Main 203 (lab 004 Main)
SARAH GORDON, PH.D.
Associate Professor of French, Associate Department Head
[email protected]
Office: Main 341-B MTW 8:30-9:30 and by appt.
Catalog description: Continued development of communicative competencies in the four language skills, with more
emphasis on communication through reading and writing and continued exposure to cultures and customs. Prerequisite:
Fren 2010 or equivalent.
Learning Objectives: Language learning is an enriching, never-ending process. Our goal is to increase proficiency levels
in our French. Our objective is to improve communication skills expressing ourselves orally and in writing in French, in
addition to learning factual knowledge, terminology, vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge.
Textbook: Interaction: Langue et culture+ iLrn: Heinle Learning Center ISBN: 9781133612940 / 1133612946.
FREN 2020 covers second half of book and iLrn. Course code: RABJXN674 (or try FXMJ868)
Lab: This course has a significant lab component, allowing students to work at their own pace either in the language lab
004 Old Main or on their own computer. Most but, not all, Thursdays, and some other dates, will be devoted to online lab
and this personalized computer assisted language learning. This requires the purchased textbook iLrn/Quia code. If you
took 1020 last semester at USU your same code should work but you may have to set it up again. iLrn/Quia lab is due
prior to 11:59pm the Monday following its listing. See site for dates, grades, announcements, and assignments. We do not
use Canvas. Late work with valid excuse and -10%/week. You get 4 tries and best score is recorded. If you do not have a
microphone use the lab for voice assignments. Go to: http://hlc.quia.com/books. QUIA starts on 1/21.
Tutors: Free tutors are assigned to our course. You must meet with the tutor once for 20 minutes this semester minimum.
You must sign the “French Tutors” sheet on the bulletin board in the lab and say what you did. You may review grammar
topics, get help with online homework, or just practice French conversation. This is part of your homework grade. You
may visit them as many times as you wish, drop-in or email for appointment.
Quizlet.com is a free study tools site and you are required to create sets of flashcards with it, details TBA
Grading:
25%: Homework on iLrn/QUIA etc. (due each Monday, lab work completed on Thursdays during scheduled class time)
with 4 tries. Plus other brief homework announced /distributed in class by prof. Plus 3 Quizlet.com assignments (sets of
20 words+ each, created and practiced in two ways. Copy URL and email to prof.)
20%: 2 compositions (10% each)
30%: 3 exams (10% each)
10%: Final exam (includes chapter 16 and short composition)
15%: Participation (attendance and voluntary participation. Effort and improvement count!) Note: each 4+ unexcused
absences drops your overall course grade.
A 93-100
C+ 77-79
A- 90-92.9
C 74-76
B+ 98-89
C- 70-73
B 84-86
D+ 67-69
B- 80-83
D 64-66
F 63 or less
Disabilities: Reasonable accommodation will be provided for all persons with disabilities; contact the instructor and
Disability Resource Center (797-2444) during the first week of class.
Plagiarism: includes knowingly "representing…the work of another person as one's own …without full and clear
acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged used of materials prepared by another person…” Penalties for
plagiarism are severe. Tutors may help you with homework but nobody may write for you or do take-home final. You
may use spell/grammar checkers/dictionaries ( wordreference.com) but may not use translation apps/sites/programs.
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Monday/lundi
Tuesday/mardi
Wednesday/mercredi
JANVIER 6
Thursday/jeudi
7
Court-métrage/short 1634 riendegrave.com
8
CH 5 Bande-desinée 1667, Tin Tin, Astérix
9
Vocab 168-9, imparfait
170-174, review 153-4
En classe oui!
13
14
15
16
175 si+imparfait=if
only…!
179-180 Plus-que-parfait
Plus-que-parfait
actualités, horoscopes,
météo, a la une
179-80, 183-5
181 L’Encyclopédie
DUE Bring to class:
171 #3 paragraph 6
phrases, 3+
imparfait (sur un
animal)
Le journal 176-7,
lemonade.fr
En classe oui!
21
20
Temps des verbse, CH 5
iLRN/Quia
MLK DAY USU
NO CLASSES
27
p-q-p, 188,
dates/l’histoire 1913
FÉVRIER 3
Camus La Peste
198-200, passé
simple
10
Ch.6 Vocab 206-8
Temps des verbse, CH 5
iLRN/Quia
28
CH 5
PRESIDENTS’
DAY USU NO
CLASSES
23
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
29
Review
Quizlet set 1- 20 cards
DUE
30
EXAMEN CH 5
En classe oui!ß
4
5
6
Camus L’hôte :
photocopie et
exercises/extrait
l’Étranger
Court-métrage/short
Gratte-papier 201-202,
exrtrait film Amélie
AU LABO
iLRN/Quia/composition
11
12
13
COMPOSITION 1 DUE
Méliès 215-16 court
métrage/histoire de
cinema: photocopie/ppt
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
18
19
20
FILM CYRANO/PACKET
TA
FILM
CYRANO/PACKET/TA
FILM
CYRANO/PACKET/TA
Review interrogative
adverbs, time 209, 21213, 217 verbs+à
17
22
En classe oui!
2
24
25
26
27
EXAMEN CH 6
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
4
5
6
259-60 disjunctive
pronouns
262 ~A PARIS! Plan,
metro, visite
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
10 SPRING BR
11 SPRING BREAK
12 SPRING BREAK
13 SPRING BREAK
17
18
19
20
pronouns/pronoms
pronouns/pronoms packet
en classe
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
24
25
26
27
review, court
métrage grand jeu
281-2
EXAMEN CH 7
ch 8 subjunctive
AU LABO
iLRN/Quia/composition
AVRIL 1
2
3
Ch 8 subjunctive et temps
des verbes, situations
COMPOSITION 2 DUE
8
9
10
Quizlet set 3-20 cards
DUE review
la littérature
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
15
16
17
ch. 9
ch.9
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
22
23
24
FILM CYRANO PACKET
CYRANO/PACKET, DUE
216-17
Truffaut 235-8
225-27 quel/lequel CH 6
MARS 3
Tech 242-3 vocab
244-5, d.o.
pronouns 247-8,
251, 253 BRING
answers to 253 113!
AU LABO
iLRN/Quia
Quizlet set 2-20
cards DUE
31
ch 8 subjunctive
(photos/les
conseils)
7
ch 8 subjunctive
14
EXAMEN CH 8
21
Ch.10 Baudelaire
Invitation au
voyage, poèmes en
prose photocopie
Ch. 10 lecture et
vocabulaire
AU LABO iLRN/Quia
Poèsie, Ch. 10
LAST CLASS. THEN
EMAIL FINAL ON CH
9-10 DUE
[email protected]
prior to 4/29 11:59pm !
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