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Talking about hobbies. Community life.
Personal pronouns after à and de. Indirect pronouns en and y.
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| 2 |
Different types of tourism. Organizing a trip, making a reservation.
The gerunds.
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| 3 |
Talking about wishes and aspirations for the future.
Expression of wishes [souhaiter que; espérer que; j’aimerais/je voudrais (que)]
The tense conditionnel présent to make a suggestion
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Humanitarian actions, volunteering. Talking about interests, commitments. Expressing a goal, an objective. Imagining a hypothetical or unreal situation.
Expressing a goal: afin de / pour + infinitive, afin que / pour que + subjunctive
Conditionnel présent to express a project, an unreal situation
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Travel stories. Presenting / Summarizing a book. Giving opinion, justifying choices. Expressing agreement, disagreement.
Connectors to express cause and consequence: car, comme, en effet, c'est pourquoi / c'est pour cette raison que/ c'est pour ça que, donc, alors
Grâce à / à cause de
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| 6 |
Changes in life, career path. Evoking a change of life. Understanding a biography.
Time markers : en + duration
The expression of temporal relations: avant de + infinitive, après + past infinitive
The relative pronoun où
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| 7 |
Midterm
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| 8 |
Masculin and feminin professions. Achievements and successes. Reporting a conversation. Reporting an exceptional event, a success.
Reported speech in past.
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| 9 |
Imagining a different past. Situating an event in a story in the past tense. Expressing regret.
The unreal of the past: si + plus-que-parfait, conditional
The recent past and the near future in a story
The expression of regret: regretter de + past infinitive, j’aurais aimé / voulu + infinitive
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| 10 |
Environmental issues. Understanding a manifesto. Inciting to act. Taking a position, expressing an opinion.
Expressing a necessity, an opinion, a doubt... (subjunctive)
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| 11 |
Reading. Understanding history. Talking about one’s reading. Requesting to lend an object.
The expression of temporal relations: à partir de, dès, dès que, depuis, depuis que, jusqu'à ce que
Double pronouns.
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| 12 |
Health education and prevention. Understanding / giving arguments for prevention: warnings and encouragement. Expressing outrage and reproach.
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| 13 |
Structures for expressing consequence.
The imperfect or the conditional for reproach (imparfait ou conditionnel)
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| 14 |
Discovering the founding books of the French.
The French people and reading. Reading habits of French people.
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| 15 |
Overview
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| 16 |
Final Exam
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