Course Overview
A multi-media, game-based approach makes this introductory French course different from traditional approaches to language learning. Advanced teaching techniques are used to turn compelling adventures and activities into rigorous lessons in grammar and vocabulary. This course provides a solid foundation for reading, speaking, writing, and understanding French and cultivates a passion for the language through exposure to culture and dynamic experiences of real people and real places. This course also features adaptive learning technology that lets students select the learning style that’s right for them.

Take this course and polish your foreign language skills during summer when you have more time. Take it for enrichment or for course credit. You get half credit for a semester course (4 weeks) and full credit for full year course (8 weeks).

What You Will Learn

• Phrases
  • Greetings, introductions, relationships, cause and effect, how to express likes and dislikes and how to ask questions.
• Vocabulary
  • Adjectives, animals, body parts, family words, colors, shapes, food, numbers 1-900 and household vocabulary.
• Grammar
  • Noun/adjective agreement with gender, direct and indirect articles, transitive and intransitive verbs, pronouns, verb infinitives and base forms and aspects of tensing.
• Culture
  • Students will gain an understanding of French speaking cultures including economy, traditions, history and political structure.