FSI French Basic Course

FSI French Basic Course

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Contents of:   French 1 |  French 2 |  French 3 |  French 4

Course

Planned in four volumes, the French Basic Course was designed to help students reach a level of proficiency which will enable them to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations. The dialogues, drills, situations and narrations have been recorded on audio unless otherwise indicated in the text.

For beginning students, the twenty-four units are designed for a six-month intensive training program of six hours of work per day, plus outside preparation. Each unit presents a situational topic introduced in a dialogue, and usually five grammar points. Each grammar point is preceded by grammar notes which generally are expressed in non-technical terms.

Other units include materials of the following kinds:

• 1. A dialogue to provide a body of natural French conversation as a source for subsequent drills and exercises. (At FSI these dialogues are commonly memorized.)

• 2. Useful words to supplement the vocabulary with a limited number of additional words, usually related to the topic of the dialogue.

• 3. Vocabulary awareness to enable the student to better identify the elements of the utterances learned as a whole and to regroup and review vocabulary.

• 4. Drills of six different kinds, each type designed for a specific purpose.

  • a. Lexical drills to manipulate already acquired vocabulary and improve fluency.

  • b. Learning drills to introduce new grammar points (with reference to the corresponding grammar notes).

  • c. Practice drills to give the student an opportunity to illustrate in sentences the grammar point he just covered.

  • d. Question drills to prepare the student for normal conversation.

  • e. Answer drills to prepare the student for normal conversation.

  • f. Review drills (Drills preceded by an (*) have been included for optional use with fast-moving students..)

• 5. Situations to improve comprehension and serve as a basis for questions and elementary conversation.

• 6. Narrations to provide reading material and introduce a very limited number of vocabulary items.

• 7. Written exercises to offer to the student opportunity to relate the spoken language to the writing system.

Here is an MP3 sample for Level 1 of the CD version of the French Basic Course, a sample for Level 2, and a sample for Level 3. MP3 is a common sound format for the compression of CD quality audio, and there are many freeware and commercial players downloadable from the Internet, including current versions of the Windows Media Player.

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