French 4

Recommended Prerequisites

French 3

Teaching Methods

Intermediate level language learning processes use language practice and translation tasks of multimodal documents prepared before class. Students will practise their skills through analysis and rewriting of selected texts, in order to develop a formal and fluent complex expression.

Learning Outcomes

- To develop communicative skills in French in various social and academic life areas. These will help students to master communicative, linguistic and social knowledge and know-how beyond French 3 level;

- To master foreign language learning strategies introduced in previous levels, in order to develop learning autonomy;

- To develop reading in French in specific subjects from Social Sciences and Humanities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Topics: Current trends – Literature – Arts – Areas of knowledge

Grammar: Complex sentence – Simple and complex tenses (passé simple – futur antérieur – passé antérieur - subjonctif passé) – Nominal tenses (gérondif – participe) - Pronominal passive – Relatives – Tense agreement

Vocabulary: to be chosen according to the topics discussed in class.

Language uses: Formal speech and writing in professional and academic contexts (formal letters; job interview; CV) - Technical languages - Presenting and sustaining arguments in writing - Synthesis, compte rendu. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Cynthia De Jesus Cravo

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Periodic Assessment
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Delaunay, B.; Laurent, N. (2019). Bescherelle. La grammaire pour tous. Paris: Rodopi.

Escoufier, D.; Gomy, C.; Min, K.T. (2018). Communication progressive du français - niveau intermédiaire. Paris: Clé International.

Glucksmann, R. (2018). Notre France. L’histoire oubliée de la France humaniste et cosmopolite.  Paris: Poche.

Leitão-Heyman, A.; Pires, M.C. (2000). Du mot à la phrase. Vocabulaire portugais contemporain. Paris: Ellipses.

Miquel, C. (2011). Vocabulaire progressive du français - niveau intermédiaire. Paris: Clé International.

Miquel, C.; Goliot-Leté, A. (2011). Grammaire progressive du français - niveau intermédiaire. Paris : Clé International.

Morsel, M.H.; Richou, C.; Descotes-Genon, C. (2019). L'exercicier – 600 exercices pour le B1-B2. Paris: PUG.

 

Textos selecionados representativos da expressão em língua francesa.