Students can participate with ease and confidence in conversations on familiar topics. They can usually describe people, places, and things. They can usually talk about events and experiences in various time frames.
Students can handle social interactions in everyday situations, sometimes even when there is an unexpected complication.
Students can write about topics related to school, work, and community in a generally organized way. They can write some simple paragraphs about events and experiences in various time frames.
Students can easily understand the main idea in messages and presentations on a variety of topics related to everyday life and personal interests and studies.
Students can usually understand a few details of what I overhear in conversations, even when something unexpected is expressed. The student can sometimes follow what they hear about events and experiences in various time frames.
Students can understand the main idea of texts with topics related to everyday life, personal interests, and studies, as well as sometimes follow stories and descriptions about events and experiences in various time frames.
Students can analyze beliefs, behaviors and cultural artifacts of the French-speaking world, and recognize and discuss the representations and controversies of French and Francophone products, practices, and perspectives.
Course Description In this fourth semester course, students will continue to broaden and refine skills gained during previous semesters, including understanding, speaking, reading and writing French aiming at the ACTFL intermediate-high level. This course is designed to teach the student to communicate in a more sustained way in situations that go beyond the everyday. Students will evaluate various French and Francophone products, practices, and create ways to demonstrate their sense of personal and social responsibility through participation in cultural interaction.