Alliance Française of New Haven
Winter Session January 6, 2015-February 10, 2015
SYLLABUS ADULT BEGINNER 2 FRENCH CLASS—(6 week extension)
The Adult Beginner French Class (level 2) will meet every Tuesday starting Jan. 6 to Feb. 10. The
classes will last two hours, from 5:45-7:45pm.
Classes will be held at the co-working space named Bourse-New Haven, 4th floor, in the back 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. Parking is also available on Orange and Chapel St.
We will be using the method French in Action by Pierre Capretz, available at the Yale Bookstore, 77
Broadway Ave., New Haven. See Cécile Cohen for help. Tel: 1-203-776-YALE ext 120.
The first 30 minutes of classes will be to view the episode of the French in action DVD. The other hour
and a half will be to practice the grammar and vocabulary of the lesson with a lot of role playing.
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, Danny Stone, is from a small town on the Quebec-New York border, called Malone (in
New York). He studied English and French at the University of Buffalo before moving to France to teach
English in a small village in Lorraine (in the east of France), much like his hometown . . . but with more
baguettes! Danny presently teaches ESL courses at the University of New Haven. He is also a translator
and interpreter for IRIS Refugee Services in New Haven.
Tuition : $180.00
Jan. 6 to Feb. 10, 2015 (6 lessons)
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. Your check should include your
tuition and your membership to AFNH (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 Adult Beginner 2
We pick up where we left off, continuing from chapter 21 – 26 in the French in Action method by Pierre
Capretz, 2nd or 3rd edition, Part 1. You already know how to introduce yourself, exchange greetings, say
the alphabet, count, tell time, ask questions, use negation, make invitations and talk about nationality,
people, preferences, studies, days of the week, months, seasons, and dates, express thoughts in the
immediate future, describe people, your family. Now it’s time to build on these themes in present and past
tenses, along with increased fluency and accurate pronunciation.
Material:
French in Action, The Capretz Method, 2nd or 3rd edition, Part 1, Yale University Press,
yalebooks.com
Textbook ISBN 978-0-300-17610-0 (available at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New
Haven, CT 06511- See Cécile or Carl Cohen for help).
French in Action: Workbook, part 1 (second half of book), Yale University Press.
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.
VIDEO: The video program is available for free on the Annenberg/ CPB website and also at
Youtube.com.
IT IS ESSENTIAL that you watch as many times as possible 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 dsdjstone@gmail.com or call him at 518 651
4413.
Tentative schedule—Tuesday evenings:
1/6: Lesson 21
1/13: Lesson 22
1/20: Lesson 23
1/27: Lesson 24
2/3: Lesson 25
2/10: Lesson 26
CONTINUING FRENCH CLASSES WILL BE OFFERED IN THE SPRING SESSION (March – June 2015)