French Beginners, Level 1
CCOM 2080
Develop your French conversational skills in a relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere. By the end of this course, you will have some basic elementary vocabulary and be able to understand, ask and answer questions using simple sentences.
This course will cover greeting and farewells, making phone calls, talking about you and your family and other simple topics. You will learn the alphabet and French sounds, numbers, days and months, colours, telling time, adjectives, possession and some verbs in the present tense.
Materials: The textbook "Learn French the Fast and Fun Way" by E. Leete (Blue cover paperback - Nov 2, 2002) Third Edition - Barrons Educational Series. This book is available on www.amazon.ca
Instructor: Sara Trindade
Dates: 6 weeks, Thursdays May 9 to June 13, 2013
Time: 5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
Location: May 9 to June 6: Room # 2, Saint John Free Public Library, Market Square
June 13: Room #1, Saint John Free Public Library, Market Square
Course fee: $150 (no HST)
About the instructor: Sara Trindade was born and raised in Saint John, NB. Growing up, she developed a passion for languages. Her mother tongue is Portuguese and she learned English and French in the school system. She graduated High school in 2005 having completed French Immersion and having gone to Brazil on an Economic Mission, as well as an exchange program to Quebec.
In 2005 she began her studies at UNB Saint John completing all the Spanish language classes offered, including the GoMEXICO Intersession in Mexico. In 2006, she moved to Fredericton and concluded her Arts degree with a semester abroad in Spain. In the spring of 2010, she graduated with a Double Honours in French & Spanish. That fall, she began her Education degree and graduated in the Fall of 2010 with a specialisation in CTESL & FSLC.
Sara taught three undergraduate Spanish classes at UNB Saint John during the winter semester of 2011. Currently Sara is an Immersion teacher in District 8.
For more information
Please contact pce@unb.ca or phone 1-866-599-4646
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