This class will meet 9 times per week: 5 hours will be in a Master class with your professor; 3 hours will be in a small group session with an assistant; 1 hour will bring together both sections of Intensive 001 for a special Monday evening session with both professors and the assistants.

Texts:
Interaction, St. Onge, Kulick, 7e édition Text + workbook;
We will continue to use the textbook of French in Action, Pierre J. Capretz et al. Second Edition;
Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Harcourt Brace Jovanich mass marketing edition;
(Also xeroxed materials to be distributed in class.)

Master Class: This will be taught each weekday at 9 or at 10 in Taylor D. The course will be organized around the French in Action video and Interaction print and audio materials. We will be continuing to learn French in context using authentic materials. The overall approach will be similar to that used in semester I.

No matter what the homework assignment may be each day you should review the material covered in class, learn thoroughly all new structures, and be sure to memorize spelling of new vocabulary.

Small Group Sessions: Meeting 3 times per week, these sessions will be spent with an assistant who is a native or near-native speaker of French. Working in a smaller group of students than is possible in the Master Class you'll have the opportunity in these sessions to practice your oral work. You will still be dealing with structured exercises designed to have you respond quickly to questions in French but from these rapid-paced communicative drills you'll progress more often this semester to dialogues, simulations, and to more open-ended activities such as discussions, interviews and mini-debates. The small group sessions will be scheduled on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at either 8 a.m. or 5 p.m. We will ask you for your time preference and will do our best to accommodate you. Once you've been assigned to a group, however, you must remain with that group for the remainder of the semester.

Monday Evening Session: This will bring together both sections of Intensive 'Baby' French 6.30 to 7.20 p.m. in Thomas 224. Most Monday evenings we will present a new video. The remaining time will be devoted to other activities including presentation of skits you've prepared in your small group session.

Assignments and Testing:

Schedules on the web will be updated on a regular basis and will detail what we will be studying in class and what your homework assignments will be for each evening.

There will be regular quizzes, one short paper, a final written examination (self-scheduled), and a final oral proficicency interview with an outside tester. Your final grade will be calculated as follows: quizzes 35%; short paper 5%; final written exam 35%; oral exam 15%; participation (in all class sessions, non-graded homework etc.) 10%.

All audio materials for Interaction will be available on the web in digitized form and accessible via the LLC page where you will find full instructions. Unfortunately French in Action mises en œuvre will not be available via the web since we were unable to obtain copyright permission from Yale University Press. You can listen to the FIA audio version of the mise en œuvre in the Language Learning Center using a cassette player.

Take advantage of every opportunity to listen to and speak French. Watch subtitled French movies for instance, and you now have enough French to be able to benefit from the "Table Française" in Haffner for lunch and/or dinner one day per week. Exploit the resources of the Language Learning Center, get into the habit of watching the French news at least once a week (videocassette recordings are available in the LLC, or you can watch news broadcasts on-line.), and explore French web-sites.We want you to learn as much as you possibly can and to have fun doing so! This course does involve a lot of hard work but also lots of laughs. We hope you'll have a real sense of achievement at the end of the year when you look back and take stock of all you've accomplished.