French 4

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01011983
Subject Area
French Language
Language of Instruction
French
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

French 3.

Teaching Methods

Learning processes of intermediate levels of foreign languages are carefully put into practice. Each syllabus topic will be presented with care and in detail. Students have an active role in their own learning process: they will observe, discover, deduct, reuse and organize French structures. The main metholologies are interactive language practice in reading / writing comprehensio and in oral / written production.

Learning Outcomes

This course enables students to accomplish tasks in different areas of academic and social life in French language, through the acquisition of communicative, linguistic and cultural knowledge. It will develop what students have learned in French 3.

The course corresponds to the B.2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Grammar:

- The verb : le participe, le subjonctif  présent, l’infinitif, formes impersonnelles, le conditionnel

- Compound relative pronouns

- Emphasis structures (c’est… qui…)

- Time intervals (antériorité, simultanéité, postériorité) ; tense agreement ; connecting words

- Negative (sans+ infinitif)

 

Lexikon :

- Contemporary society themes

- Specialised and technical lexikon

- Lexical development : polysemy, synonymy, antonymy

- idiomatic expressions

- Cultural lexikon : cinema. literature and the arts 

 

Socio cultural contents and language uses

- Strategies and rituals in formal and informal discussions

- Explanatory and argumentative discourse

- Special languages

- Job interview

- Presentation / motivation letter.

Head Lecturer(s)

Bruna Isabel Joaquim Plácido

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alter Ego + B2 (livre et cahiers d´exercices), Paris, Hachette.

Grammaire progressive du français– niveau intermédiaire, Paris, Clé international.

Communication progressive du français – niveau intermédiaire, Paris, Clé international.

Exercices communicatifs – niveau intermédiaire, Paris, Clé international.

Dictionnaire bilingue ou unilingue Larousse / Le Robert.