Alliance Française of New Haven
Spring Session March 30, 2014- June 9, 2014
SYLLABUS FOR THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 2 COURSE
The Adult Intermediate level 2 French Class will meet every Wednesdays starting April 2, 2014 to June
June 4, 2014. The classes meet once a week for two hours, from 5:45-7:45 pm.
Classes will be held at the co-working space named Bourse-New Haven, 2nd floor, in back of room,
located at 839 Chapel Street, New Haven CT. Parking is available on the streets (Chapel and Orange St.)
and at the covered parking garage above Elm City Market. The entrance of the parking garage is at 360
State Street, New Haven. The parking ticket costs $2.00/hour but if you buy something at the market,
you will have an hour parking for free.
The first 15 minutes of classes will be to review the poignant 15 minute-video that opens up the chapter.
The other hour and forty five minutes will be to practice the grammar and vocabulary related to the
lesson, with a lot of discussions of texts and interpretations of situations.
All our language classes offer an immersion experience in the French language which means that
instruction will be given in French as much as possible. Students are encouraged to express themselves
in French and they will learn French grammatical principles intuitively through repetition. Grammatical
instruction will be a tool, not a goal.
The instructor, Khalid Bename comes from Morocco and speaks French beautifully (French is the second
language in Morocco). He has experience teaching on private schools. Khalid has a great motivation to
share his French knowledge with others and learn something from them too.
Tuition: $300.00
March 30, 2014– June 9, 2014 (10 lessons)
Tuition is $280.00 if paid in full by March 23, 2014.
Students must be members of the Alliance Française of New Haven to qualify. Membership fees are
$30 for student, $35 for senior, $45 for an individual, $55 for a couple, and $60 for a family. Please send
your check made out to Alliance Française of New Haven (including your tuition fee and your
membership to Alliance Francaise of New Haven if you are not already a member), and your registration
form to the address: Alliance Française New Haven, PO Box 207333, New Haven CT 06520.
FRENCH Intermediate 2
The Intermediate level 2 class is a continuation of the Intermediate level 1 class offered by the Alliance
Française of New Haven. Students will have completed the first 5 chapters of the method Imaginez by
Mitschke, Vista publisher, and will have reviewed the present imperfect and passé composé at the
intermediate level as well as studied the themes of personal relations (civil status, personality,
relations, feelings), of living in town (activities done in town, people in town, how to ask for directions,
describe places), of the medias (the cinema and the television, people in the medias, the press), of the
world of justice and politics (the law, people’s rights, politics, our security), and of our society in
evolution (changes in society, problems and solutions).
The method Imaginez, features a magazine-like design that engages students while integrating
thematic, cultural and grammatical concepts within every sections of the text. The lessons are arranged
thematically and introduced by a poignant 15 min-movie. We will study the following themes : “Les
générations qui bougent”, “Les sciences et la technologie”, “S’évader et s’amuser”, « Perspectives de
travail », « Les richesses naturelles ».
Magazine articles will teach us about parts of the Francophone world and its creators (writers, painters,
sculptors, architects, engineers…) associated with North Africa and Lebanon, Belgium, Switzerland and
Luxembourg, the Indian Ocean, Central Africa, and the French Polynesia, New Guinea and Asian French
colonies.
In grammar, we will learn the subjunctive tense, the relative pronouns, the future tense, the
comparative and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs, the present and past conditional, the
prepositions of geographical names, the present participles, the -OIR verbs, the Si-clauses.
MATERIAL:
Method: Imaginez by Mitschke, 2nd edition, Boston: Vista publisher, 2012. The textbook goes along with
short videos (15 minute- videos). You can find some of them on Youtube.com. The other movies not
available on Youtube will be watched in class. Students are required to watch the videos before class.
The Textbook (available at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511- See
Cécile or Carl Cohen for help).
Recommended material:
English Grammar for Students of French by Jacqueline Morton, 4th edition, The Olivia and Hill Press,
1997.
French Grammar by Julio Celestin, Harper Perennial, 1991.
IT IS ESSENTIAL that you watch the video and repeat the script (lesson in your book) as many times a
week as possible.
HOMEWORK: Your instructor will assign homework to do each week. Have workbook and textbook with
you.
INFORMATION: For any info, email your instructor at khalidbenamere@gmail.com or call him at 860
890 9321.
TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE
April 2: Leçon 6: Vocabulaire : « En famille », Video : « de l’autre coté », Grammaire : the subjunctive,
Culture : L’Afrique du Nord et le Liban.
April 9: Leçon 6: Zapping : Générations en construction, Grammaire : Les pronoms relatifs and the -RE
verbs, Culture : Galerie de créateurs, Jour de mariage, « Père Mère » de Lamine Sine Diop.
April 16: Leçon 7: Vocabulaire : Le progrès et la recherche, Vidéo : Dépendance, Grammaire : The
Comparative and superlative, Culture : Belgique, Suisse, Luxembourg.
April 23: Leçon 7: Zapping : Le robot à la française, Grammaire : Le futur simple, le passé du subjonctif,
Culture : galerie de créateurs, CERN : à la découverte d’un univers particulier, Texte : « Solitude
numérique » de Didier Daeninckx.
April 30: Leçon 8: Vocabulaire: « Les passe-temps », Vidéo: « Le ballon prisonnier », Grammaire: Les
infinitifs, Prépositions avec noms géographiques, Culture : L’océan indien, Galerie de créateurs.
May 7 : Leçon 8 : Zapping : L’art du déplacement, Grammaire : Le conditionnel présent, Culture : L’île de
la Réunion : île intense, Texte : « Le football » de Sempé-Goscinny.
May 14: Leçon 9 : Vocabulaire : « le travail et les finances », Vidéo : Bonbon au poivre, Grammaire : Le
participe présent, Culture : l’Afrique centrale.
May 21: Leçon 9 Zapping : «Des conseils dans un marché concurrentiel », Grammaire : Pronoms
démonstratifs, -OIR verbs, Culture : galerie de créateurs, Textes : Des Africaines entrepreneuses,
« Profession Libérale » de Marie Le Drian.
May 28 : Leçon 10 : Vocabulaire : Notre monde, Vidéo : « L’homme qui plantait des arbres »,
Grammaire : Le conditionnel passé, les phrases conditionnelles avec Si, Culture : La Polynésie française,
La Nouvelle Calédonie, l’Asie.
June 4 : Leçon 10 : Zapping : « l’environnement vu du ciel », Grammaire : le futur antérieur, Culture :
Galerie des créateurs, les richesses du pacifique, Texte : « Baobab » de Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard.