PREREQUISITES
None
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
Students of this course
have a beginner's level or some French knowledge acquired in school or by
contact with French-speaking people.
SUBJECTS TO BE TAKEN SIMULTANEOUSLY
None
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
The professors of the course: Marie-Hélène Nuc, Elizabeth Marie. The French course is made up of 4 modules of 39 hours
respectively: French 1, French 2, French 3 and French 4. It consists of
pragmatic, functional teaching/learning focused on carrying out tasks related
to communicative situations that students will face throughout their
professional career.Each module presents professional life situations to develop the four
competences (oral and written comprehension and production) according to a
progression that corresponds to the levels of the Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe. The textbook Objectif
Diplomatie - Le Français des relations européennes et internationales is
the basis of the course and principal tool for learning the language. The
comprehension work is carried out through authentic written, audio and
audio-visual documents. Oral or written production work consists of recreating
real communicative situations through simulations or role-playing games.Module 1 of this course includes a dossier analyzing daily communicative
situations in a professional context. The textbook
employed is Objectif Diplomatie 1 - Le français des
relations internationales et européennes, A1 / A2, (Hachette,
2006).
COMPETENCES
The competences attained in module French 1 will be
evaluated following the evaluation criteria given below in the corresponding section.
1. Regarding communicative skills in French:
1.1 To be able to communicate orally in
simple and ordinary communicative situations (face to face, by
phone) in daily and professional life.
2. Regarding oral and written comprehension:
2.1 To be able to globally understand texts, written or audio-visual, short
and standard, related to daily and professional life.
3. Regarding written production:
3.1 To be able to write simple and standard texts
(emails, forums, blogs) or complete standard forms in the
context of everyday and professional life.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Student
will be able to communicate in writing and orally in a second foreign language
(French) at an intermediate level. (Result of level 1: level A1.1 of the Common
European Framework.)
CONTENTS
Communication
Introducing yourself
Introducing and describing (places, people)
Expressing opinions and interests (I prefer, I hate, etc. +
definite article)
On the phone (Allô ! Ne quittez pas...)
Talking about your plans, confirming dates.
Grammar
Present
Imperative
Recent past (venir de + Inf)
Near future (aller + Inf)
Adjectives for nationalities, professions
Personal pronouns: Moi, toi, lui/elle, eux/elles.
Prepositions of place (country: au, en, aux; city: à)
Possessive pronouns (mon, ma, mes)
Demonstrative adjectives (ce, cet, cette, ces)
Negation (ne...pas)
Questions (3: est-ce que?, direct, subject, inversion)
C'est / Il est
Contracted articles: au, aux, à la, à l'; du, de la, de l', des
Intention: pour + infinitive, parce que + verb
Vocabulary
Countries, languages (en Espagne, au Portugal)
Family
Numbers
Describing characters and physical attributes (looks like, hight,
hair...)
Professions (jobs)
Months, days, periods during the day, time
Pronunciation
Alphabet
Silent letters
e/è/é
Nasal sounds
Verb endings
Intercultural
Greetings (La bise, Karambolage)
Using tu and vous
Stereotypes
Ways of working
Schedules
Being invited to a French person's house (drinks, gifts,
punctuality, good table manners)
L'Auberge espagnole (filmfra.com)
Stereotypes, describing personalities and physical attributes,
nationalities, the city
METHODOLOGY
Students work on a text (audio, video or written document) representing
communicative situations about daily or profeessional life. They practice French
sounds, grammatical structures, different ways of speaking or the lexicon
employed in this document. The issues addressed are applied in practice by
recreating a brief scenario and completing a task.
This methodology involves the following types of activities:
a. Classroom instruction.
b. Individual exercises in class
c. Individual exercises outside of class
d. Reading of texts
e. Listening to audio documents, viewing of videos
f. Group activities in class
g. Group activities outside of class
h. Role-playing games, simulations
i. Participating in class activities
j. Preparing the final exam
k. Final exam
EVALUATION
A. Written exam
B. Oral exam
C. Evaluation of homework
D. Evaluation of oral intervention (presentations, debates, ...)
E. Evaluation of participation in class activities
Final exam 50%:
Oral comprehension: 20%
Written comprehension: 10 %
Oral expression (and pronunciation): 20%
Linguistic structures: 30%
Written expression: 20%
Continuous evaluation 50%:
Role-playing games, simulations
Written exercises, including homework and mid-term tests
Pronunciation
Participation
Participation in 85% of regular class sessions is a
prerequisite for taking the final exam. Students must have taken the five tests
of the final exam in order to pass to the higher level.
Those students who have not attended 85% of the class sessions and/or have
not taken the five tests of the final exam will have to repeat the level.
To pass level 1, students must pass at least 3 out of 5 tests of the final exam.
At the end of the 2nd semester, students who have taken the exam but have
failed the course may take the resit exam in June. The final grade for students
taking this exam will take into account the grade obtained for continuous
evaluation (50%) and the grade on the resit exam (50%).
Students who are not able to take the exam at the end of the 2nd semester
cannot take the resit exam and must register the following semester for the
same level.
CRITERIA OF EVALUATION OF RESULTS
At the end of Français 1:
Objective 1:
Regarding French communicative capacities (B,C,D,E):
• The student is able to produce simple, isolated expressions about people
and things.
• The student is able to describe himself, as well as what he does, where
he lives or his studies.
• The student is able to ask and answer simple
questions, respond to simple statements or produce statements in the
area of immediate needs or on very familiar topics.
• The student is able to easily cope with numbers, quantities, money and
hours.
• The student has a limited control of syntactic
structures and simple grammatical forms from a
memorized repertoire.
• The student has a limited selection of simple
expressions to give information about himself or his regular
needs.
• The student is able to state his address, nationality and
other personal information of this sort.
Objective 2: Regarding oral and written comprehension (A,B,C,E):
• The student is able to understand an intervention if it is articulated
slowly and with long pauses allowing him to assimilate its meaning.
• The student is able to understand very short and simple texts, from
sentence to sentence, and to identify nouns, familiar words and very basic
expressions, rereading the texts if necessary.
Objective 3: Regarding written production (A,C):
• The student is able to write isolated simple expressions and sentences.
• The student is able to request or to transmit in writing detailed personal
information.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
Riehl,
L., Soignet, M., Amiot, MH, Objectif Diplomatie 1, Le Français des relations européennes et
internationales, A1/A2, (with CD included), Hachette-Livre, 2006.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND MATTER COMPLEMENTARY
- Gregoire,
M., Thievenaz, O., Grammaire progressive du français 600 exercices – Niveau intermédiaire,
CLE International, 2003
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Rey-Debove,
j (dir.), Dictionnaire
du français langue étrangère, CLE International, 1999
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Learn French with TV5Monde http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/enseigner-apprendre-francais/accueil_apprendre.php
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RFI Langue française http://www.rfi.fr/lfes/statiques/accueil.asp
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Web productions on artetv http://www.arte.tv/sites/webdocs/?lang=fr
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Reports and testimonials on
arteradio http://www.arteradio.com/
On-line French exercises
http://www.lepointdufle.net/ressources_fle/exercices_de_francais.htm#.Ubs54diISVY