Class will be held LIVE ONLINE via ZOOM.
After you register, you will receive a link to login to the class.
Please call the Adult School office at (650) 329-3752 if you have any questions.
Reading is a great way to expand your knowledge of French. You will use a contemporary French novel as a vehicle for improving your language skills and discover aspects of French-speaking culture.
For each meeting, you are invited to read 25-30 pages in advance, to choose a short passage that you would like to read aloud in class, and to propose a possible translation of it for discussion with the group. Unclear passages are used to review language points (grammar and vocabulary). In order to focus on content, you will be asked to sum up a paragraph or passage in French on which we have worked together.
Textbook: La Vie devant soi by Romain Gary. Preferred edition: Folio.
Requirements: This class is aimed at students who can express themselves fairly fluidly in French, can understand complex sentences, have a solid knowledge of past tenses, and enjoys reading fiction in any other language.
