COURSE HANDOUT
Faculty of English & Languages
SEMESTER III
2022 – 2025 BATCH
Course code | 2225FREN3BXY |
Course type | LANGUAGE |
Course Title | French - Semester IV |
Teaching hours per week – Theory | 3 hours ( 3 credits) |
Lab hours per week – Practical | 0 |
Credits | 3 + 0 = 3 credits |
1. Instructor-In-charge : Dr. Rebecca Vedavathy B. , M.A, Ph.D (French)
Email ID : rebecca@stmaryscollege.in
2. Course Details
Course Summary
On completion of SEMESTER IV - FRENCH, you will be able to have the following competencies :
● Narrate your professional trajectory from the past to the present.
● Write and explain about your educational qualifications and competencies.
● Have an informal conversation with a friend in colloquial French.
● Have a formal conversation at a job interview.
● Indicate obligation, possibility, interdiction and recommendation using imperative and subjunctive.
● Speak about events in the past (your college experience, how you met a friend etc.)
● Describe and explain terms related to French TV shows.
You will learn basic vocabulary related to :
· Uncommon travels
· Professional competency
· Common colloquial French words
You will learn basic grammar related to all seven parts of speech :
● Verbs in passé composé, imparfait, subjonctif and imperatif.
● Nouns and determinants and gendering rules of nouns
● Object pronouns (COD, COI, le pronom « en », le pronom « y »), relative pronouns (qui, que) and emphasis using relative pronouns (c’est…qui/c’est…que).
● Conjunctions (parce que, car, pour, avec, et, ou)
● Indefinite Adjectives & gender (tout, toutes, tous, toute)
● Adverb formation from adjectives (immédiatement etc.)
In addition you will also use interrogation (comment, qui, quoi, quand, quel/quelle, pourquoi) and punctuation in French (. , ? !) and the magic words (s’il vous plaît, merci, désolé(e)).
Course Outcomes
CO 1 : You will be able to read texts related to daily life and basic professional life aloud in French and answer questions about them.
CO 2 : You will be able to make and explain complex sentences with relative pronouns, conditional clauses and subjunctives.
CO 3 : You will be able to use present tense, simple past, continous past and future tense in the correct context with the help of temporal markers.
CO 4 : You will be able to understand and write short answers in a clear manner based on a comprehension passage.
CO 5 : You will be able to ask and answer basic questions related toprofessional trajectory, travels and vacation and TV shows.
CO 6 : You will be able to carry out a formal and informal basic conversation in French (written & oral)
CO 7 : You will be able to listen to conversations related to daily life and basic professional life in French and comprehend them when asked to answer specific questions related to them.
3. Syllabus Cosmopolite A2 Dossier 2 (L1-6), Dossier 3 (L1-6), Dossier 4 (L1-2)
4. Text book(s)
- Cosmopolite A2, University Edition, Goyal Publishers in collaboration with Hachette
- Teacher: Dr REBECCA VEDAVATHY B.
The course has been designed and prepared by an expert panel of Osmania University. It addresses the needs of the students regarding the studies of Arabic language. It will help them to learn the language accurately through the lens of grammar.
The course has five units. 1) Classical Prose : In this unit there are two chapters from the Holy Qur’an. 2) Modern Prose : It has 2 lessons. 3) Modern Poetry : It has 2 poems. 4) Grammar : It has 4 chapters in grammar. 5) Arabic History : It has 3 chapters from the history of Arabic literature.
- Teacher: ISMAIL C
- Teacher: SAIKIRAN D
- Teacher: Dr. AKSHARA SINGH
स्नातक पूर्व स्तरे प्रथम वर्षस्य द्वितीय भाषा संस्कृतम् अस्ति I अस्मिन् संस्कृत भाषा , संस्कृत साहित्यम् वैदिकसाहित्यम्, लौकिकसाहित्यम्, पद्य, गद्य, रूपक, व्याकरणादयः ज्ञातुं शक्नुवन्ते I अपि च संस्कृत पठनम्, लेखनम्, संभाषणम् कवि -काल विशेषादयः ज्ञायन्ते I संस्कृतभाषायाः सर्वव्यापकत्वं, अधुनातन काले कृत्रिम मस्तिष्केषु (कम्प्यूटर् यन्त्रेषु) तस्याः प्रयोगम् -प्रयोजनादीनि विषदयन्ति I अनुवादाभ्यासर्थं संस्कृतभाषा अति सुलभ भाषा भवति I संस्कृत भाषा माध्यमेन संस्कृति, संस्कारं, भारतीय आचार व्यवहाराण इत्यादिरपिज्ञातुं शक्नुवन्ते |
- Teacher: VASANTHA RAO B
- Teacher: SAIKIRAN D
- अयं पाठ्यक्रमः संस्कृतस्य साहित्यस्य प्रारंभिक अध्ययनाय समर्पितः अस्ति। संस्कृतसाहित्ये अनेकरूपाणि काव्यानि, नाटकानि, गद्यानि, च विकसन्ति, येषां अध्ययनेन विद्यार्थिनः संस्कृतभाषायाम् अन्तर्भूतं भावनासुषुप्तिं प्राप्नुवन्ति। भाषायाः संक्षेपः, साहित्यस्य महत्त्वं, विकासः, गद्यं, पद्यं, नाटकं, अलंकारादिषु प्रमुखानि रूपाणि। साहित्य विषयेषु उत्तररामचारितादि काव्यानि अपि उल्लिखितानि I प्रतिपादित विषयानि निम्नलिखितं I
पाठ्यक्रमस्य लक्ष्यं
संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य विशालस्य इतिहासस्य छायां छिद्यति छात्रान् समर्थयितुं च, संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य धरोहरस्य जागरूकीकरणं च। पाठ्यक्रमस्य लक्ष्यं संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य विशेषतः परिचयं करोतु च, छात्रान् संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य धरोहरस्य ज्ञानेन च परिचिन्तयतु।
- Teacher: SAIKIRAN D
- Teacher: Dr SOUMYA K