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The purpose of the practice drills?...

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Forum Name: French
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying French using the FSI course.
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:32am


Topic: The purpose of the practice drills?...
Posted By: willcouchman
Subject: The purpose of the practice drills?...
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 2:37pm
Hey, guys. I know this is similar to some questions that have been asked before, but I would like to be clear on this.

We all know that the Practice Drills go as follows:

Il est au restaurant
On est au restaurant

etc as an (very simple) example. Now are the purpose of these drills to fix the words in the subconscious, or are we supposed to figure out the correct response and then say them out loud?

What I mean is (I'm articulating this really poorly, I apologise), and I realise I am only on Unit 6 (just starting), but are these drills supposed to be so easy? They are not really teaching anything new, just rehashing stuff we have already covered ie I haven't yet needed to repeat any drills as I didn't understand them - I'm sure that will come though!

P.S. Does anybody know the level that the French course takes us to e.g. S2 or S3 etc?

Cheers,
           Will



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Posted By: MontyD
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 5:32pm
If you hear the prompt and come out with the right response automatically, then well done. It does get harder later on.

If you hear the prompt and just read the answer from the book then you are pretty much wasting your time. The only exercises that need you to have the book open in front of you are the number ones, and I found them some of the hardest as you are given so little response time.



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