Course detail

French for Intermediate Students

FAST-BYF3Acad. year: 2024/2025

This course deals with the following topics: understanding everyday phrases and the ability to talk about everyday problems, the use of past, present and future tenses. The use of phrases with the subjunctive mood and the use of reported speech. Attention is paid to the subjunctive and conditional sentences. This grammar is projected into topics such as daily news, works and topics related to work life. Finance and shopping.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Horváthová

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

"French for Pre-Intermediate Students II"

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Mastering vocabulary to the extent of 1100 words, intermediate level of grammar.
Reading skills, translating texts with intermediate difficulty, writing skills about everyday topics.
Levels A1, A2 of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.


Student will accomplish the aim of the course, which is: mastering vocabulary to the extent of 1100 words, intermediate level of grammar.
Reading skills, translating texts with intermediate difficulty, writing skills about everyday topics.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Robert Menand: Taxi! 2. Hachette, 2005.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Markéta Horváthová

Syllabus

1. Speaking about the health state, expressing hypothesis. Vocabulary related to health. 2. Expressing positive ideas, giving advice. Uses of future perfect tense. Healthy lifestyle. 3. Speaking about travelling and events related to it. Localize events in the time line.Vocabulary related to travelling. 4. Expressing desires and doubts. Complaining and making a complaint. Warning someone (positive and negative). Transportation means. Tourism, different types of tourism and tourists. 5. Speaking about work conditions. Comparative phrases, absolute superlative. Irregular comparative phrases. Different professions. 6. Expressing the intensity, assessing events, confirmation or negation of a hypothesis. Impersonal phrases. Vocabulary related to work. Working environment and women. 7. Identifying someone, expressing owe, reflexive phrases. Clothes. 8 Expressing compassion, speaking about familiar and unfamiliar things or events. Physical description of people. 9. Reporting commands. Expressing preferences and asking about them. Reconstruction of houses. 10. Evaluating things. Expressing indifference. Professions related to the reconstruction of a house. 11. Review of grammar 12. Conversation on reviewed topics 13.Credits