University French 101

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Build on Your Foundation: Improve Your Speaking, Listening, Grammar, and Cultural Understanding in French

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Last updated 6/2025

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What you'll learn

This course is a continuation of French 100. So, you need a basic knowledge in French to take this course. The course objective is to help students develop the skills necessary to function in simple communicative situations, to acquire knowledge of basic grammatical concepts and to foster an awareness of the various cultural aspects of the Francophone world. Specifically, at the end of the course, students should be able to: understand simple conversations formed of sentences in the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms, and distinguish between the three main time frames; participate in communicative exchanges on a variety of daily topics using the structures and vocabulary taught in class; correctly apply fundamental grammar rules in speaking and writing; demonstrate knowledge of the various cultural components discussed in the course.

Course content

3 sections • 47 lectures • 6h 23m total length

Course Textbook0:11
Chapter 5 - Introduction3:49
This lesson covers page 267 and presents the three key learning objectives of the chapter. It also identifies certain things you need to know by the end of the chapter in order to achieve each of the learning objectives.
Chapter 5 - Vocabulary15:51
This lesson covers pages 286 to 288. Part of the communication objective is to introduce you to vocabularies and expressions. The more of them you know how to use, the better you get in spoken French. Watch, listen and practice how to say those words and expressions.
Chapter 5 - Les chambres dans ma maison7:21
In this lesson, you will learn the names of the various rooms and compartments of a typical home. You will learn the names of certain objects that may be found in each room.
Chapter 5 - Faire Expressions3:53
In this lesson, you will learn a bunch of expressions based on the verbe "faire". They are called "faire expressions". You will revise the conjugation of the verb "faire" in the present tense. You will see how to combine "faire", conjugated in the present, with the "faire expressions" to begin to make simple sentences to tell who does what domestic chores in your home.
Chapter 5 - Qui fait le menage chez vous?6:42
In the previous lessons, we have concentrated on acquiring vocabularies to give you the ability to identify various household chores and responsibilities. In this lesson, we will begin to tie everything together. You will revise the conjugation of certain verbs (travailler, habiter, passer) in the present tense so that, using the verb as the centre of speech, you shall connect the vocabularies and begin to create your own simple sentences to tell who does what in your family.
Chapter 5 - Qu'est-ce qu'il y a chez vous?3:52
In the previous lesson, we started connecting the vocabularies to our communication objective by making some simple sentences. In this lesson, using the model home and vocabularies on page 268, I introduce you to composition writing. At this point, you are moving from just writing single sentences to creating paragraphs where you identify the different rooms in your house and various objects that can be found in each room.
Chapter 5 - General Intro/Revision of Verb Groups5:48
In this lesson, we identify the verb as key to connecting all the vocabularies and expressions we have acquired in the previous lessons. We go through a quick overview of French verb groups and identify the key grammatical concepts that we are going to be focusing in during this week. This introduces us into the grammatical learning objectives of the chapter.
Chapter 5 - Regular -RE Verbs8:48
In this lesson, we re-emphasize the three major verb groups (-er, -ir and -re verbs) in French. We identify the two parts of an infinitive (stem + terminaison) and focus on how to conjugate regular -re verbs in the present tense. You are introduced to other online tools that you can use to practice and enhance your knowledge of verb conjugation.
Chapter 5 - Irregular -RE Verbs10:02
In this lesson, you are introduced to a common ending patterns for irregular -re verbs. You learn a bunch of -re verbs and how they are conjugated in the present. You are introduced a some online tools that you can use to practice conjugation of verbs in this category.
Chapter 5 - Verbs vouloir, pouvoir and devoir10:58
In this lesson, you will learn how to conjugate vouloir, pouvoir and devoir in the present tense. You will learn how these helper verbs can be combined with other infinitives as well as other parts of speech to begin to construct your own simple sentences.
Chapter 5 - Passe Compose with AVOIR - Regular Verbs11:22
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the "passe compose" so that you can begin to make simple sentences to describe things that happened in the past. You will see the two auxiliary verbs in French. You will learn how to obtain the past participles of regular verbs. You will learn how to use the auxiliary verbs with past participles to conjugate regular verbs in the "passe compose".
Chapter 5 - Passe Compose - Verbs with Irregular Past Participles8:10
In this lesson, you will revise the technique for conjugating regular verbs in the "passe compose" using AVOIR. You will revise how to add things up into simple sentences. Then you will learn how to obtain the past participles of irregular verbs. You will see how to combine the auxiliary with the past participle to conjugate irregular verbs in the "passe compose."
Chapter 5 - Passe Compose - Negation & Question Formation12:21
In this lesson, you will revise how to form negative sentences in the present tense. You will learn how to form negative sentences in the "passe compose." You will learn how to insert the auxiliary verb between the negation elements, ne...pas, with some examples of sentence formation. You will also revise the three major question formation methods in the present tense. From there, you will learn how to apply the question formation techniques to asking questions in the passe compose.
Chapter 5 - Exercises on Passe Compose with AVOIR11:29
In this lesson, we try to consolidate our understanding of the "passe compose" by attempting certain exercises in the chapter. This lesson covers exercises B.3.1, B.3.2, and B.3.3.
Chapter 5 - Travail en France11:38
Chapter 5 - Days of the week and more exercises13:25
In this lesson, we revise the days of the week. We go through the following exercises: A.3 (page 277), A.3.2 (page 278), A.3.3 (page 279). Through these exercises, we see how people's daily activities are described. You learn more vocabularies and most importantly how to combine various parts of speech to form your own sentences.
Chapter 5 - Life and Work on Francophone Africa6:36
In this lesson, we continue to expand our understanding of life in the French-speaking parts of the world. We continue to expand our vocabularies as we look at life in a few francophone African countries.
Wrap up/Chapter Answer Keys1:56
This provides an encouragement to you. You have worked hard so far. You have learned quite a lot too! You now know how to describe your house and some of your domestic chores. You remember the three main verb groups in French and how to conjugate -RE verbs in the present tense. You know how to describe things you did in the past, using the "passe compose" with AVOIR. There is a lot of work to do. But it is all to make you a better French speaker. The book has answer keys on page 311 that you can rely on as you attempt the chapter exercises. More power to you as we head into chapter six!

Chapter 6 (Learning Objectives)3:03
In this lesson, you are introduced to the learning objectives of Chapter 6. There are three key areas: communication, culture and grammar. You learn the different concepts we intend to cover in each of the three key areas of learning objectives.
Chapter 6 (Revision of Parts of Speech)8:41
In this lesson, we go through a general revision of things we covered in French 100. We revise the different parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, etc.) We revise definite and indefinite articles. We do this so that you remember these key words as we shall be using them often in the course.
Chapter 6 (Prepositions of places)9:33
In this lesson, you learn the prepositions of places, which are used with towns, cities, countries and continents to say where you are going to or where you are coming from. You learn how some of the prepositions contract with masculine definite articles. You see example sentences showing how to combine verbs (aller and venir) with the prepositions and names of places to express your destinations or places of origin.
Chapter 6 (Les continents et les pays)7:45
In this lesson, you learn the key continents of the world, their genders and some countries that can be found in each continent. You are building up your vocabulary so that you will soon be able to combine parts of speech to start making sentences, telling where you come from/are going to.
Chapter 6 (Nos origines)3:16
In this lesson, you go through a short conversation on page 322 between two people. You will see how they ask various questions relating to their family origins as well as how they answered those questions. The goal is for you to be able to adapt the example and talk about your own family.
Chapter 6 (Passe recent/immediat)5:43
In this lesson, you will revise how to conjugate the verb "venir" in the present on page 335. You will learn one of the past tenses in French, the passe recent/immediat. We will try exercise B.1.2 to see how this past tense is used in context.
Chapter 6 (Passe Compose - ETRE)8:08
In chapter 5, you learned how to conjugate verbs in the "passé composé" using the verb AVOIR. You learned that the auxiliary verb is conjugated in the present tense and followed by the past participle. In this lesson, you will see a list of French verbs that you can conjugate in the passé composé using ETRE. You will see how to do the conjugation. Most importantly, you will learn the major difference between using AVOIR and ETRE, especially in terms of the agreement of the past participle.
Chapter 6 (Passe Compose - ETRE) 28:38
In this lesson, you will continue to learn and deepen your knowledge of verb conjugation in the passé composé using être. We use the verb devenir with past participle devenu as an example to show you many aspects of the passé composé with être, such as agreement of the past participle, and pronunciation differences between the various forms of the past participle. We clarify the simple conjugation technique that you can begin to apply to other être/movement verbs.
Chapter 6 (Passe Compose - ETRE) 313:57
In this lesson, we consolidate our knowledge of verb conjugation in the passé composé through certain exercises in the chapter. In some of the exercises, your ability to determine/choose the correct auxiliary, avoir or etre, depending on the verbs, is tested. Certain aspects of the past participle such as the pronunciation of consonants are emphasized.
Chapter 6 (Passe Compose - ETRE) 47:11
In this lesson, still we continue to work on passé composé using être. Through a dialogue/written exercise, we focus on building our ability to identify the verbs that take avoir and those that take être as auxiliary.
Chapter 6 (Verbs like VENIR)3:00
In this lesson, we return to the conjugation of verbs in the present tense. We learn a few verbs that are conjugated in a similar way as the verb venir in simple present tense. We also see how these verbs are conjugated in the passé composé.
Chapter 6 (Days, Months, Giving Dates)5:26
This lesson is more or less a revision of some of the basic concepts covered in French 100. You will revise the days of the week and the months of the year. You will revise how to ask for the date as well as how to give the date in French.
Chapter 6 (Telling your age)6:29
This lesson is a revision of some of the basic concepts covered in French 100. You will review the conjugation of Avoir in the present tense. You will revise how to ask questions to get people's age. You will revise how to give your age and say the year in which you were born.
Chapter 6 (Comparing things)16:05
Have you ever wondered how you can compare things side by side in French? For example, John is taller than Mike. In this lesson, you will learn the various ways of making this type of comparison. You will learn how to compare things using adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns. You will go through some exercises that help to consolidate the knowledge.
Chapter 6 (Culture, origins, religion, racial issues in France)5:30
This lesson takes us back to the cultural aspect of the chapter. Your attention is drawn to a few reading passages that focus on the origins of the French people. You also see passages that underline many issues facing France today, including immigration, racism, religion, etc.

Chapter 7 (Introduction)2:41
This lesson covers page 373 and presents the three key learning objectives of the chapter. It also identifies certain things you need to know by the end of the chapter in order to achieve each of the learning objectives.
Chapter 7 (Parts of the human body)7:40
In this lesson, we learn the various parts of the body human body in French.
Chapter 7 (Parts of the human body and functions)13:21
In this lesson, we use exercise A.1.3 to identify the various parts of the human body and what functions we can perform with them.
Chapter 7 (Telling where you have pains in your body)11:18
In this lesson, we learn how definite articles preceding the name of the part of the body help in identifying the gender and number. We revise the contracted articles. We study how to use the expression "avoir mal" with contracted articles and parts of the body to tell where we have pains in our body.
Chapter 7 (Adjectives in French)12:02
In this lesson, you learn about adjectives in French. You learn the four basic forms of a regular adjective and when to use them. You learn that a few adjectives have 5 forms instead of 4 and you learn how and when to use the 5th form. You learn where to place your adjectives in relation to the nouns they are describing.
Chapter 7 (Adjectives with plural indefinite article)13:09
In this lesson, you consolidate your knowledge of the use of adjectives in French, using exercises. You will revise the definite and indefinite articles. You will learn how the use of plural adjectives lead to change in the use of plural indefinite article "des."
Chapter 7 (Placement of adjectives in French)5:35
In this lesson, you consolidate your knowledge of the placement of adjectives. You go through exercise B.2.2 to test and at the same time strengthen your ability to place the correct adjective in the correct place, either before or after the noun, making the necessary changes in number and gender.
Chapter 7 (Placement of multiple adjectives in French)8:25
In this lesson, you will learn how to use more than one adjective to qualify or describe the same noun. You will use exercise B.2.3 to test your understanding of the placement of multiple adjectives with nouns.
Chapter 7 (Mes vetements)8:10
In this lesson, you will revise the conjugation of two verbs, porter and mettre, in both the present tense and passe compose. You will learn the vocabulary of different dresses that you can wear. You will learn how to use the above verbs to describe what you are wearing.
Chapter 7 (Object pronouns)5:07
In this lesson, you learn what is a direct object pronoun. You revise nouns and pronouns in general. We revise the subject pronouns and see a list of object pronouns. We see two different categories of object pronouns, direct object and indirect object, which shall be fully explained in future lessons.
Chapter 7 (Grammatical functions - direct and indirect objects)8:11
In this lesson, you learn how to identify the grammatical functions of nouns and pronouns. You use some simple SVO sentences to show the key difference between direct object and indirect object.
Chapter 7 (Placement of object pronouns)16:26
In this lesson, you learn how and where to place object pronouns in a simple sentence. You will see various examples and scenarios such as present tense, negative sentences, present tense with an infinitive, passé composé, etc.
Chapter 7 (Placement of object pronouns - Recap)4:19
In this lesson, we review what we have learned about the placement of the object pronoun depending on the structure of your sentence.

Requirements

French 100

Description

University French 101 is the natural continuation of University French 100. It is designed for learners who already have a basic foundation in French and are ready to build upon their initial skills.

The course focuses on helping students further develop their ability to function in everyday communicative situations, expand their knowledge of French grammar, and deepen their understanding of the diverse cultures of the Francophone world.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

Understand simple conversations that include affirmative, negative, and interrogative structures.
Differentiate between the three primary time frames: past, present, and future.
Engage in communicative exchanges on everyday topics using appropriate vocabulary and structures.
Apply fundamental grammar rules accurately in both spoken and written communication.
Demonstrate awareness of the cultural themes and practices introduced throughout the course.

This course reflects the second level of a first-year university or college French program. It provides learners with clear guidance, practice opportunities, and engaging content to support their continued progress in the language.

You will also work with authentic materials, interactive exercises, and practical examples that make your learning experience enjoyable, dynamic, and relevant to real-world communication.

A basic knowledge of French is required to succeed in this course.

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Beginners in French studies

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Liberte - Chapter 5 (My family/domestic chores)19 lectures • 2hr 34min

Liberte - Chapter 6 (Les voyages/Traveling)15 lectures • 1hr 52min

Chapter 7 (Mon corps)13 lectures • 1hr 56min

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