French 2 - Period 2

This course aims at improving and developing skills and strategies to enable students to handle successfully more complicated oral and written tasks in French (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages levels B1.1 and B1.2 (Intermediate). Students will learn to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Students will learn to with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Students will learn to produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest, and can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. Students will increase their general vocabulary of verbs, nouns, articles and prepositions while gaining a greater knowledge of complex problems in French grammar and syntax. Students will continue to learn about French culture through short stories, novellas, films and TV programmes. Students will also be required to submit book reports and short essays.

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.