YCLFR 050 - Elementary French for Social Services (Online Synchronous)

Description

Topics Covered

Topics and Vocabulary:

• Your identity;
• A social worker's studies;
• A social worker's professional duties and tasks;
• Your leisure activities;
• Greetings and wishes;
• The various workplaces of a social worker;
• The human body;
• Physical and psychological traits;
• Social work staff and their duties;
• CLSCs, CHs, CHSLDs, CPEs and CRs;
• Cardinal points;
• Expressions of place;
• Mental health issues;
• Mental health symptoms;
• Medical histories;
• Specialized vocabulary in social work;
• Diagnoses;
• Mental and physical wellbeing;
• Intervention plans;
• Adaptation, rehabilitation and social integration.

Learning Outcomes

Communicative learning outcomes:

• Engage in social interactions: greet, initiate a conversation, thank, wish someone something, take leave;
• Ask and give information about a client;
• Identify and describe an object;
• Describe how a piece of equipment works;
• Describe a person, a position, a social service center, and a mental or physical state;
• Find their way in the various health establishments and social services centers;
• Give directions;
• Ask and provide information on a client's mental health;
• Provide their opinion;
• Recount a succession of events in the past;
• Talk about the future of a situation;
• Consider an intervention plan;
• Make professional recommendations; and
• Talk about their workday at the present, past and future tenses.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to use the following grammatical concepts:

• Formulate questions (questions on identity + asking how clients are doing);
• Answer questions + say whether one is doing well or not;
• Use the verbs "être", "avoir" and regular verbs ending in "ER" and the present tense;
• Use negative sentences;
• Use disjunctive pronouns;
• Use adjectives;
• Use determiners;
• Differentiate between the use of "C’est" and "Il est";
• Use direct and indirect object pronouns;
• Use transitive direct and indirect verbs;
• Use question words and the various language registers;
• Use verbs to describe staff tasks and duties;
• Use verbs to give directions;
• Use the imperative tense;
• Use prepositions of place;
• Formulate questions at the past to learn about the nature of symptoms, when and how often they appeared, how severe they were;
• Use the "passé composé";
• Use prepositions of time ("en, dans, pendant, pour, depuis, il y a");
• Use pronominal (reflexive) verbs;
• Use adverbs; and
• Use the future ("le futur proche et futur simple").

Notes

As the course will be delivered online, students must be equipped with:

A computer or tablet; Internet connection.

To continue to the next level, learners must complete both the online and the face-to-face conversation courses for this level.

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