FRENCH
DETAILS OF ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
Department: Modern Foreign Languages
Subject: French
Course Content
D Form
Greetings and salutations, Numbers, Vocabulary, Describing places, Days and Months of the year, Home and Family, Holidays and Festivals
C Form
Weather, Clothes and Seasons, Food and Drinks, Telling your habits and daily routine and leisure time activities, Recipes, Writing letters and invitations
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Linking the language with other urbanities
- Evolve intercultural understanding & tolerance of other cultures: a must in today’s youth.
- Assisting them appreciate art, literature, cinema and music of other cultures
- Aptitude like problem solving & dealing with abstract concepts.
STUDENTS SKILL DEVELOPMENT
At the elementary stage of their life, Students get introduced to the language & acquire the basic grammatical structure & related vocabulary. Students develop skills like:
Interactive skills – Students learn to converse & communicate in the desired language. They can interrogate & respond accordingly.
Productive skills – They are able to describe their surroundings like their house, their families and pets, their activities and their school and daily routines.
Research skills – Students are able to explore through different technologies.
Receptive skills – They can grasp basic instructions and can solve comprehensive exercises on the related topic.
GENERAL COMMENTS
At this initial stage the students exhibit glaring excitement for new languages, they have slight burden of other subjects and have expeditious processing in their brains and what they learn now, can use it later for higher skills. Learning a foreign language also provide them with a better perception of their own language and help them develop linguistic skills and finesse which is of lifelong utility.
The English language has borrowed heavily from the French vocabulary; hence the students connect it easily with their daily language & vocabulary, and they further reap benefit of this learning in their careers as well.