YCOFR 220 - Elementary French for Social Services (Online Self-Directed)

Description

Elementary French for Social Services (Online Self-Directed) is designed for current or future social service workers who wish to improve their communication skills in French. The course focuses on oral skills necessary to function effectively and professionally in real-life social worker settings. It is comprised of five learning modules, each with approximately six hours of learning time. The first four modules will contain presentations, videos, exercises, and interactive activities in four main areas: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and listening comprehension. The fifth module is a learning assessment module. It involves three tasks in which learners are asked to demonstrate their knowledge from the previous four modules. These tasks assess their skills in oral comprehension, written comprehension, and written expression

Topics Covered

Topics and Vocabulary:

• Your identity;
• A social service worker's studies;
• A social service worker's professional duties and tasks;
• Your leisure activities;
• Greetings and wishes;
• The various workplaces of a social service 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:

• Establish 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.

In order to continue to the next level, learners must complete both the online self-directed and the online synchronous (face-to-face) conversation courses for this level

Who Should Attend?

Current or future social service workers with little or no previous exposure to French.