Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of French prepositions, covering their use with nouns and verbs, common expressions, frequent errors made by English speakers, and special cases such as double-construction verbs and geographical names.
- What is a preposition?
- The preposition à
- Used with nouns & verbs
- Common expressions with à
- The preposition de
- Used with nouns & verbs
- Common expressions with de
- Verbs with double construction (penser à / penser de)
- Common preposition mistakes for English speakers
- Other common prepositions
- Simple prepositions (avec, sans, en, dans, sur, sous, entre, pour, par, etc.)
- Compound prepositions (à cause de, à partir de, en face de, par rapport à, etc.)
- Prepositions with geographical names
Audience: Advanced Levels Only
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
This workshop explores the different types of anglicisms in French, their social impacts, and strategies to recognize and avoid them, with examples, classifications, and supporting resources.
- What are anglicisms?
- Social impacts of anglicisms
- Lexical anglicisms
- Loan translations (calques)
- Semantic anglicisms
- Syntactic anglicisms
- Graphical anglicisms
- Morphological anglicisms
- Phonetic anglicisms
- Other anglicisms
- Hybrid anglicisms
- Pseudo-anglicisms
- Conclusion and list of resources
Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
This introductory workshop equips participants with essential French medical vocabulary, focusing on key systems, conditions, and communication skills for healthcare contexts.
Basic Medical Terminology
- Root words - body organs
- Common prefixes, suffixes
- Root words for directions, tumours and colours
- Signs and symptoms
- Abbreviations and acronyms
Respiratory System Terminology
- Organs
- Functions
- Related terms
- Diseases
- Procedures
Cancer Terminology
- Common types of cancer
- General cancer terminology
- Staging terminology
- Grading terminology
- Testing and diagnosis terminology
- Related terms
- Treatment terminology
Audience: Advanced Levels Only
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
This workshop guides participants in applying inclusive and gender-equitable language practices in French, enhancing clarity, respect, and representation in written communication.
French: A Gendered Language
Feminization in Writing
- Lexical feminization
- Proximity agreement
- Doubling of nouns
- Agreement of adjectives in feminization
- Exercises in rewriting gendered text into feminized text
Inclusive Writing
- Gendered and non-gendered pronouns
- Gender-neutral writing
- Neutral wording
- Non-binary writing
- Exercises in rewriting gendered text into inclusive text
Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Dr. Ramona Pál-Kovács
This 3-hour workshop will explain the role that the relative pronouns have in the French sentence structure. It will give an overview of the main relative pronouns in French: qui, que, où, dont, lequel, with practice exercises.
We will then focus on main areas of difficulties, for example, when to use qui or que, or what the difference between dont and duquel is.