Designed for teaching French to healthcare professionals from beginner to advanced levels, the À vous! Santé collection focuses on expressing health-related ideas and communicating with coworkers and clients in a healthcare setting.
It helps healthcare professionals develop empathetic communication through the active offer of services in French.
Note: These are not courses in medical or specialized terminology.
Each handbook in this collection includes:
- Adult education strategies to facilitate language learning and communication
- Concise language notes and written exercises
- Communicative and experiential activities
- Language games, fun facts and cultural activities related to the French-speaking world
- Answer key
Levels
FMS-0101 Beginner 1
Theme: Introducing yourself
Topics covered: identity, family, activities, greetings, simple numbers, health-related vocabulary
FMS-0102 Beginner 2
Theme: Visiting the doctor
Topics covered: seasons and weather, shopping, instructions, verbs in the past and future tenses, basic questions, polite expressions, time, vocabulary for a medical appointment
FMS-0103 Beginner 3
Theme: The healthcare workplace
Topics covered: describing the workplace and professional duties, expressing tastes and preferences, instructions, questions, reflexive verbs, spelling, verbs faire, pouvoir, falloir and vouloir
FMS-0104 Beginner 4
Theme: Your community
Topics covered: parts of the body, comparing people and things, providing descriptions, asking for news, opinions, verbs in the past and future tenses
FMS-201A Low Intermediate A
Theme: Active listening
Topics covered: telling more complex stories in the past, frequency and time intervals, hypothesizing, defending opinions, using different pronouns, using superlatives
FMS-201B Low Intermediate B
Theme: Empathic motivation
Topics covered: telling more complex stories in the past, developing more complex sentences with relative pronouns, making requests and giving orders, using a greater variety of communication strategies, planning an event, narration, expressing the relationship between two ideas, giving permission and prohibiting, synonyms
FMS-201C Low Intermediate C
Theme: Reassuring words
Topics covered: talking about hypothetical situations or desires, permitted or prohibited actions, ways of doing things, more complex sentence structures, quoting speech, restating ideas, writing a summary
FMS-0202A High Intermediate A
Theme: Health services in French
Topics covered: telling stories about the past, providing nuanced advice, placing events in time, relationships between people, places and things, connections between ideas, interrupting, using persuasion, writing messages
FMS-0202B High Intermediate B
Theme: Supporting your community
Topics covered: speaking confidently about hypotheses or desires, understanding longer texts, accurately situating events in the past, appropriate responses in sensitive situations, providing descriptions, expressing an opinion or feeling, using persuasion, reacting, discussing, polite expressions, active listening, relating facts and events, adjectives, correction tools
FMS-0202C High Intermediate C
Theme: Interculturality in health
Topics covered: speaking confidently about hypotheses or desires, understanding longer texts, formulating and defending nuanced opinions, expressing possibilities, word classes and functions, persuasion techniques, polite expressions, introductions, writing techniques, writing a summary
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