James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

FR1002:03

Foundation French 2

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 26 hours tutorials. Semester 2 (Townsville campus); 26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials, 19 other contact hours held in Cairns over three weekends. Semester 2 (Cairns campus).

Available to all students who have passed FR1001 or have an equivalent knowledge of French.

Staff: Dr C Mann.

General French language appropriate to the objectives below.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to take students to a level of minimum ‘creative’ proficiency (approximately 1- on the ISLPR scale). Students will be able to understand and use simple time expressions and their accompanying verbal inflections, write short sentences about themselves, perform such tasks as shopping with the use of number words.

Assessment by in-class tests and/or end-of-semester examinations: listening (25%); speaking (25%); reading (25%); writing (25%). Completion of fortnightly homework assignments is a compulsory requirement of the subject.