French B1.1
Objectives
To perform at level B1 (partly) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (independent user).
The students should be partly able to:
1. understand overall various types of authentic oral documents (familiar matters).
2. understand overall various types of authentic written texts (familiar matters).
3. produce coherent and simple oral speeches (familiar matters), communicating experiences, feelings and personal opinions, as well as to interact orally in the same situations.
4. write relatively coherent and simple texts (familiar matters), communicating experiences, feelings and personal opinions.
5. start to develop linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences necessary to achieve different communicative tasks (level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference).
6. acquire knowledge about Francophone cultures for an awareness of interculturality.
General characterization
Code
711111125
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Cristina Clemente Monteiro
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
French
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: French A2.2
Bibliography
- Avanzi, A. et alii (2016). Entre Nous 3. Paris, Ed. Maison des Langues (unidades 1 a 4).
- Caquineau-Gündüz, M.-P. (2005). Les exercices de grammaire, niveau B1. Paris: Hachette.
- Rey-Debove, J. (2002). Dictionnaire du Français. Paris: Le Robert - Clé International.
- Ancion, N. (2014). La cravate de Simenon. Paris : Didier.
- Atividades diversas provenientes dos sítios TV5 (http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/lf/p-26292-Langue-francaise.htm) e RFI (https://savoirs.rfi.fr/fr/apprendre-enseigner)
Teaching method
Communicative method (with action-oriented approach) seeking to stimulate interaction and engender increasingly autonomous learning.
Intercultural approach which raises the student’s awareness of cultural diversity carrying out tasks which draw on communicative competences.
Frequent use of the ICT.
In class teaching.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - 2 written tests (60%) + 1 oral presentation (20%)(80%), Active participation during classes (10%) + homework (10%)(20%)
Subject matter
The course resolves around various topics (television, reality-shows, image's importance, tourism and travels, holidays, theater, cultural activities, music, ecology etc.) and presents:
1. Listening and reading activities from authentic documents (newspaper articles, TV reports, etc.).
2. Activities of written/oral interaction: simulation of authentic oral communication situations.
3. Speaking and writing activities of various text types (descriptive, narrative, explanatory, argumentative and dialogical), especially explanatory texts.
4. Various activities for the acquisition and strengthening of grammar and vocabulary necessary to achieve different communicative tasks (past tenses, conditional , subjunctive, use of past participles, gerund, possessive pronouns, complement pronouns, prepositions, adverbs formation, levels of language, hypothetical sentences, logical connectors (time, cause, condition), intonation).