Course Objective:
Learn modern European languages and excel in them.
Course Outcomes (at course level) | Learning and teaching strategies | Assessment Strategies |
Students will: CO11. Analyze, master, and possess all the elements of the machinery of basic grammar. CO12. Classify categories of parts of speech, contrast their usages, select & apply appropriate elements/rules of language. CO13. Compose the paragraphs. CO14. Analyze comprehension and choose relevant elements to answer questions. CO15. Develop themes into texts. | Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Demonstrations, Group activities
Learning activities for the students: Effective assignments, Giving tasks. | Assessment Strategies Class test, Semester end examinations, Practical Assignments, Individual and group projects |
Grammar: Verb << to be, to call oneself, >>, personal pronouns (subject), interrogation (intonation), definite and indefinite articles, gender of the nouns, adjectives depicting qualities, 1st group –er ending verbs in the indicative mood,. Comprehension and paragraph writing: Reading of the lessons 1--2 + comprehension passages from the lessons. Listening and speaking skills: to make acquaintances with someone, to welcome someone, to wish, to say good bye.
Grammar: preposition before the name of the countries and the cities, interrogative adjectives, possessive adjectives, irregular adjectives.
Comprehension and paragraph writing: Reading of the lesson 3 + comprehension passages from the lessons + paragraph: my family.
Listening and speaking skills: to express appreciation, to take or give information about someone.
Grammar: indefinite pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, special negations, special interrogation, present tense of the verbs: faire= to make/do, voir= to see, aller = to go, sortir = to go out,connaitre = to know, venir= to come, pouvoir = can, vouloir= to want, verbs of 1st group – er ending,
Comprehension and paragraph writing: Reading of the lesson 4 + comprehension passages from the lesson 4 + paragraph: my college. Listening and speaking skills: to accept and refuse invitation.
Grammar: interrogative adverbs, venir= to come, pouvoir = can, vouloir= to want, verbs of 1st group – er ending, articles contractes (two forms), usage of chez, future.
Comprehension and paragraph writing: Reading of the lesson 5 + comprehension passages from the lesson 5 + paragraph: my friend. Listening and speaking skills: to speak on the telephone.
Grammar: remaining part of the possessive adjectives, exclamative adjectives, accordance of the adjectives, use of très (very) and trop (too), present tense of the indicative: acheter ( to buy), regarder ( to look), imperative form of 1st group verbs
Comprehension and paragraph writing: Reading of the lesson 6 + comprehension passages on the lesson 6 + paragraph on the topics : the festivals in India, my professor etc.
Listening and speaking skills: To ask the price of the things while shopping and bargaining.
Links:
[1] https://csit.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/french-i-6
[2] https://csit.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2022-23