The goal of Advanced French Grammar is to improve students’ understanding of the rules of French grammar and to increase their ability to express themselves accurately and comprehensibly through the use of these rules in controlled and open exercises.

Advanced French Grammar provides a deeper understanding of the basic principles guiding French grammar, in part by introducing new grammar rules, but primarily by reviewing and explaining in depth the grammar rules that were learned on the 100 level and reinforced in FR 213 (Advanced Techniques in Written French) and FR 220 (Advanced French Reading and Vocabulary Skills).  The course focuses on the advanced grammar necessary to read, write, and speak in a 300-level course.

Advanced French Grammar teaches students to use grammatical knowledge practically and critically by having them complete and analyze daily grammar exercises in the book and on the web and by administering periodic quizzes and exams.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

1) Students will be responsible for completing, before coming to class all "Application immédiate" written exercises in Grammaire française.   Web exercises are due Saturday midnight of the week in which they are assigned. When possible do the assigned web exercises ("Mallard") before the class for which they are assigned.  Sometimes I will suggest that you put them off until after the class explanation.

a) "Application immédiate" exercises should first be done without referring to the answer key, then corrected by means of the answer key   (page of answer key given at end of exercise). After completing all questions in each written exercise, circle incorrect answers and write the correct answer in the column. If you write your answers on a separate piece of paper, you must write the entire sentence, not just the word to fill in the blank, and you must circle and correct your incorrect answers.

During quizzes and exams, I will verify that you are doing and correcting the exercises, so you must bring your exercises to all quizzes and exams.

b) For web exercises, fill in the boxes or click on the correct multiple choice answer.  After completing all answers, click on the submit button at the end of the quiz to see answers, then correct your answers by using BACK button. See detailed instructions below. Web exercises not submitted by Saturday midnight of the week for which they are assigned will be docked 20%.  Some should

2) A class absence will mean a 0 for the day's class participation grade unless the student provides a note from a doctor. Class attendance is essential to succeed in this course! Students who miss class explanations and exercises consistently score lower than those who do not.

3) If absent, you are responsible for all assignments, including those made in the class missed (e-mail me or ask a fellow student if additional assignments were made).

4) In class, take notes. I will emphasize in class those grammar points that you most need to know and that will be quizzed and tested.

5) Prepare for three quizzes, two exams, and a comprehensive final exam.   There will also be three review quizzes (before the exams) and one review exam (Exam III, before the final)

6) Learn all verb conjugations in Bescherelle as assigned and do all conjugation web exercises before the day assigned. You must pass the 250 conjugation verb test (minimum 70%) by the end of the semester to pass the course. You will take the exam on your own time (max 1 hour 15 minutes). You must make an appointment with me.

REQUIRED TEXTS:
Ollivier, Jacqueline. Grammaire française. 2^nd Ed. Philadelphia:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993.

Bescherelle. La Conjugaison: 12000 Verbes. Paris: Hatier, 1990.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Barson, John. La Grammaire à l'oeuvre. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1987.

---. A l'oeuvre. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1987. Exercise book (answers can be found on web)

Grévisse, Maurice and A. Goose. Nouvelle grammaire française. Paris: Duculot, 1989. (Reference Grammar)

Battye, A. and M.A. Hintze. The French Language Today. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Dubois. Le Petit Robert: Dictionnaire du français contemporain.

FINAL GRADE

Exam #1                   15%
Exam #2                   15%
Quizzes                     15%
Participation &
Written Grammar
Exercises                   10%
Web Exercises          20%
Final Exam                 25%

I reserve the right to raise a final grade if I feel that a student has made substantial progress in a specific area or overall over the course of the semester.

SCHEDULE

OL=Ollivier (Grammaire française).
B=Bescherelle (La Conjugaison: 12000 verbes.

Jan. 18 Introduction to the course and to Mallard Web Exercises

Jan. 20 Chp. 1 Le presént de l’ indicatif/impératif (OL) 1-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25-30. (For each chapter, you must write out all "application immédiate" exercises before coming to the
class for which they are assigned). Web exercise "Conjugaison 1" (B verbes types 1-4).
(Do all web exercises before the class, see instructions below.

Jan. 25 Chp. 2 Les pronoms personnels (OL) 34-43, Web exercises "Conjugaison 2 and 3" (B) 5-15.

Jan. 27 Chp. 2 Les pronoms personnels (OL) 43-57, Web exercises "Object pronouns," Quiz I (Jan 18-25).

Feb. 1 Chp. 3 Le passé (OL) 62-76, 83-86. Web exercises "Past Situations."

Feb. 3 Chp. 4 Les Nombres (OL) 89-99, Web exercises "Depuis," "Conjugaison 4" (B) 16-23

Feb. 8 Chp. 5 Les articles (OL) 102-13, Web exercises "Articles" (Best to do "Articles" after, not before, the class).

Feb. 10 Chp. 5 Les démonstratifs (OL) 118-25, Review Quiz 1 (Jan. 27-Feb. 10), Web exercises "Demonstrative Pronouns," Conjugaison 5a (B) 25-27.

Feb. 11 Extra Review Session for Exam 1 if desired (to be scheduled)


Feb. 15 Exam 1 (Jan 12-Feb 4)

Feb. 17 Chp. 6 Les verbes pronominaux (OL) 129-42, Web exercises "Agreement,""Conjugaison 5b and 6a" (B) 28-34.


Feb. 22 Chp. 7 L’adjectif qualificatif et Le nom (OL) 149-73, Le nom, L’adverbe (OL) 166-82, Web exercises "Conjugaison 6b and 7a"  (B) 35-42.

Feb. 24 Chp. 8 Le futur et le conditionnel (OL) 186-95, 200-08, Web exercise "Quand plus futur."


Feb. 29 Chp. 8 Le conditionnel (OL) 200-08, Chp. 9 La comparaison (OL) 213-20, Web
exercise "If-clauses," Quiz 2 (Feb. 17-24).

Mar. 2 Chp. 10 Le subjonctif (OL) 225-42, Web exercises "Subjunctive I" and "Subjunctive II," "Conjugaison 7b" (B) 43-45.

Mar. 7 Chp. 10 Le subjonctif (OL) continued, Chp. 11 La possession 249-53,Web exercises "Subjunctive III," "Vouloir"

Mar. 9 Chp. 11 La possession (OL) 249-57, 261-3, Chp. 12 L’infinitif (OL) 266-70, Web
exercise "Parts of the Body."

SPRING VACATION

Mar. 21 Chp. 12 L’infinitif (OL) 270-81, Review Quiz 2 (Feb. 29-Mar. 21), Web exercise "Conjugaison 8" (B) 46-52.

Mar. 22 Extra Review Session if desired

Mar. 23 Exam 2 (Feb. 11-Mar. 16), Web exercises "Conjugaison 9a, 9b (B) 53-60.


Mar. 28 Chp. 13 Les pronoms relatifs (OL) 290-301,Web exercises "Relative Pronouns I, II,"

Mar. 30  Chp. 13 Les pronoms relatifs continued, Web exercises "Relative Pronouns III"


Apr. 4 Chp. 14 La négation (OL) 308-22, Web Exercises "Relative Pronouns IV, V.

Apr. 6 Chp. 14 La négation 322-23, Chp. 15 L’interrogation directe (OL) 330-38, Web
exercises "Conjugaison 10a and b" (B) 62-67.


Apr. 11 Chp. 15 Le style indirect (OL) 343-49, Web exercises "Interrogative Pronouns,"  "Indirect Discourse."

Apr. 13 Chp. 16 Le participe présent, le participe passé, le passif (OL) 354-60, 364-69, 371-74, Web exercise "Conjugaison 11a, 11b" (B) 68-74 (leave till Friday), Quiz 3 (Mar. 28-Apr. 11).


Apr. 18 Chp. 16 Le passif continued, Chp. 17 Les verbes impersonnels et les mots indéfinis (OL) 376-86, Web exercises "Le Participe Présent,"

Apr. 20 Chp. 17 Les mots indéfinis (OL) 386-95, Web exercises "Active vs. Passive Voice," "Conjugaison 12 a, 12 b" (B) 75-82. REVIEW ALL CONJUGATIONS AND MAKE APPOINTMENT WITHIN WEEK TO TAKE VERB EXAM FIRST TIME


Apr. 25 Chp. 18 Les prépositions et les conjonctions (OL) 400-12, 415-18.  Web exercise "Où que."

Apr. 27  Chp. 19 Les temps littéraires (OL) 420-31, Web exercise "French Literary Tenses"


May 2 Chp. 20 Devoir, pouvoir, savoir, connaître, faire, laisser, verbes de perception (OL) 434-45,  Review Quiz 3 (Apr. 13-May  2)

May 3 Extra Review Session if desired.  Web exercise "Faire vs. Rendre."

May 4 Review Exam 1 (Mar. 23-Apr. 27), Web exercise "Complex Sentences."

May 5 or May 7, Extra Review Session for Final Exam if desired

May 8, Monday 3:10 PM, Final Exam


MALLARD WEB EXERCISES

In order to do web exercises:
1) go to my homepage (http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/) and click on "235 French Grammar";
2) click on "Mallard Exercises";
3) fill in your user ID (same as for e-mail), then your password, for235, which you may change;
4) on your personalized Mallard page, click on "Lessons";
5) click on assigned group of web exercises;
6) do all grammar exercises in each quiz relatively quickly, without reviewing the on-line grammar explanations or consulting Bescherelle;
7) click on "Submit" button;
8) on the corrections page, try to figure out why specific answers are marked wrong;
9) click on Netscape "Return" button, which will take you back to the original exercises. Correct the exercises marked wrong (You can go back and forth between the exercises and correction page with "Return" and "Forward" buttons).
10) if you do not understand why the answer is wrong use "Hint" button (if there is one) the "Review" button (which will take you to the relevant part of the grammar explanations) or Bescherelle.
11) after you correct exercises, submit for grading again.
12) you may continue this process as often as you like. During different computer sessions, you need to redo all exercises, including the ones you got previously correct. Your highest grade, before the deadline, will automatically come to me and be recorded on the day of the deadline. At the end of the course, I will assign you either the score you achieved by the deadline or 80% of your score done after the deadline, whichever is highest.
13) you can continue using the exercises for review after the deadline.

Additional exercises can be found on the Grammar Homepage. They are translation exercises, which I will correct when I have time and return to you by e-mail. You will receive extra credit if you do any of these exercises well by the end of the semester.

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