Engage your intermediate French students with this course highlighting the language and cultures of the Francophone world. Students will explore Guadeloupe, France, and Québec as they learn to express their opinions on themes such as music, cuisine, language, identity, sports, and culture.
Confluences Francophones (Intermediate French)
$25
- Description
- What students will learn
- Learning objectives by module
- Course assessments, activities, and outline
- Other course details
- System requirements
- Included instructor tools
Description
This two-semester Intermediate French course presents an integrated approach to studying the French language and culture at the intermediate level by zooming in and out across three Francophone cities: Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, Lyon in France, and Montréal in Québec. Each lesson centers authentic video resources and textual documents. Each lesson is introduced with a Micro-trottoir video, or short interviews with locals about their everyday life. Other lesson videos include Un.e expert.e parle, in which students listen to experts like professors, museum directors, musicians, and politicians talk about their expertise on themes like public transportation, history, language and identity, race, and music. Finally, you will experience Entre amis videos, in which friends converse about their daily lives (e.g., deciding where to go to dinner, discussions while watching a hockey match).
The course includes literary and cultural reading and analysis, listening comprehension activities, grammar, and intensive practice activities in written and spoken French. This course explores the history, transportation, music, foods, and architecture of Francophone cities with an aim to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization while developing proficiency in French.
What students will learn
By the end of this course, students will learn to:
- Compare and contrast Francophone cities through speaking, writing, and multimodal compositions.
- Synthesize textually and orally the main ideas of authentic interviews with historians, politicians, artists, museum directors and locals from Francophone cities.
- Write narrative and descriptive essays with complex sentences describing the past, present, and future as well as necessary or hypothetical situations.
- Express their own opinions in conversations on a variety of daily life and cultural topics including transportation, art, food, and urbanism.
Learning objectives by module
COMING SOON.
Course assessments, activities, and outline
UNIT 1: Introduction
UNIT 2: Pointe-à-Pitre
Module 1: Introduction à Pointe-à-Pitre
Module 2: Esclavage et abolition
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Poste sur les réseaux sociaux sur l’histoire du nom de la Guadeloupe
Module 3: De colonie à région française
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Enregistrement oral pour un musée
Module 4: La rue Frébault
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Histoire digitale: les rues de votre ville
Module 5: Portraits de femmes à Pointe-à-Pitre, littéraires et médias
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Publicité pour la Journée Internationale de la Femme
Module 6: Le projet de rénovation urbaine
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Proposition pour les travaux à votre université
Module 7: Le Mémorial ACTe
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Une exposition pour le Mémorial ACTe
Module 8: La musique à Pointe-à–Pitre
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Vlog sur un concert
Module 9: La Route du Rhum
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Vidéo publicitaire pour un événement sportif
Unit 3: Lyon
Module 10: La Capitale des Gaules
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: L’architecture chez vous
Module 11: La Capitale de la Résistance
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Module 12: Lyon Centre
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Module 13: La vie en périphérie
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Rédaction sur la vie en banlieue
Module 14: La Vélorution du Vélo’v
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Rédaction sur le transport public
Module 15: Un projet controversé: Confluence
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Rédaction sur la transformation des villes
Module 16: L’art en ville, ville en art
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Analyse d’une fresque lyonnaise
Module 17: La cuisine lyonnaise
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Un courriel pour planifier une soirée
Unit 4: Montréal
Module 18: Introduction
Module 19: L’histoire de Montréal
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Infographie pour l’Immigration Québec
Module 20: Langue et révolution
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Conversation sur la langue et l’identité
Module 21: Le transport et l’urbanisme
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Une lettre au gouvernement municipal
Module 22: Montréal linguistique
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Un paysage linguistique
Module 23: Les quartiers
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Des conseils pour déménager
Module 24: Manger à Montréal
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: La nourriture et l’identité
Module 25: Le hockey
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Préparons une soirée de hockey
Module 26: La musique en ville
Checkpoint: Épreuve linguistique
Project: Analyse multimodale d’une chanson québécoise
Other course details
Estimated time to complete: two semesters. Instructors can use this course for third and fourth semester college French, or for a third-year college “bridge” course (e.g., French Conversation).
January 2023
Project Director
- Dr. Christopher M. Jones
- Dr. Sébastien Dubreil
- Dr. Natalie Amgott
- Dr. Patricia Kyle Mosele
Contributing Authors
- Natalie Amgott
- Sébastien Dubreil
- Christopher Jones
- Yasmina Fawaz
- Marie Léticée
- Mame-Fatou Niang
- Clémence Ozel
- Heather Pelletier
- Sophie Queuniet
- Brett Wells
Technical Team
- Dylan Barclay: videographer and editor
- Marc Siskin: online learning technologist
- Jacob Weiss: sound engineer and editor
- Catherine Wetmore: videographer and lead editor
Funding Credits
- Carnegie Mellon University: Language Online in the Department of Modern Languages
- University of Texas, Austin: video production
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
System requirements
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- internet access
- an operating system that supports the latest browser update
- the latest browser update (Chrome recommended; Firefox, Safari supported; Edge and Internet Explorer are supported but not recommended)
- pop-ups enabled
- cookies enabled
Some courses include exercises with exceptions to these requirements, such as technology that cannot be used on mobile devices.
This course’s system requirements:
- If the student is working with an instructor in a distance-learning situation, chat environment and videoconferencing software.
Cost and payment options
$25 per student
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