French Conversation, Elementary level

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Practical classes, where role-playing activities will be developed, as well as exercises designed to foster communication, and especially discussion and debate among students. For this purpose, the instructor will provide all the theoretical and lexical material necessary for the development of communicative skills.

Particular attention will also be paid to pronunciation and oral syntactic constructions.

The grammatical component will be addressed according to communication needs, through review/application exercises.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students are expected to acquire knowledge and skills in French corresponding to level B1.1 of the CEFR, and as such they will be able to:

a) understand the essential points when the standard language used is clear, dealing with family aspects in contexts of: work, school, leisure time, etc.

b) participate in most situations that may occur on the go, in a region where the target language is spoken.

c) organize a simple and coherent discourse on family issues in different areas of interest.

d) report events, experiences or a dream, express a desire or ambition and briefly justify the reasons for a project or an idea.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Describe a place, compare it

- To be located and to be located in the space

 

- Ask for accurate information

- Express an exact or known quantity

 

- Talk to someone, talk about someone

- Invite someone

 

- Count your vacation

- Complain

 

- Tell a life story

- Situate your narrative in time

 

- Whine, repent

- Express a hypothesis

 

- Give your point of view, convince

- Convince and justify itself

 

- Talk about obligations

- Advise against

 

- Analyze the events

- Expose a fact

Head Lecturer(s)

Bruna Isabel Joaquim Plácido

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Continuous evaluation based on a set of activities proposed to the students throughout the teaching-learning process.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Lefigaro.fr

Lemonde.fr

Slate.fr

Tv5monde.com

Vocabulaire Progressif du Français – Niveau Intermédiaire. CLE International

Vocabulaire Progressif du Français – Niveau Avancé. CLE International