French A2.2 - 1st semester
Code
711111124
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Cristina Clemente Monteiro, Danielle Place Oliveira
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
French
Objectives
1. Understanding, describing and reporting things that happened in the past, even if only with limited vocabulary.
2. Being able to give an order or a piece of advice.
3. Expressing an intention or short/long term goal.
4. Expressing different degrees of certainty as well as formulating possibilities.
5. Expressing agreement, disagreement, and preferences using simple sentence structures.
6. Describing people, objects or happenings using specific vocabulary.
Prerequisites
French A2.1
Subject matter
1. Aquisition of basic gramar:
Form and basic uses of main past tenses, of imperative and present conditional used for narrating past experiences, expressing judgments and giving instructions. .
2. Position of personal pronouns. Nouns, adjectives, connectors and adverbs linked with past actions.
3. Language levels: formal, informal.
4. French phonetics and prosody.
5. Widen basic vocabulary and syntax for personal and social interactive situations.
6. Elementary phraseology in daily contexts.
7. Introduction to French civilisation using mass media and ICT: Internet resources, TV, Press.
Bibliography
Chahi, Fatila & alii, Entre Nous 2, Éditions Maison des Langues, Paris, 2015.
Akiyüz, Anne & alii, Exercices de grammaire en contexte, niveau intermédiaire, Hachette, 2000.
Teaching method
Continuous Evaluation. Two tests done in class; one oral exam and written work. Evaluation will be based on communicative competence, accuracy and appropriacy, the use of learning strategies, knowledge about sociocultural aspects of the french world and an ability to think seriously about cultural matters.
Evaluation method
-Level and quality of class participation + other practices (30%)
-Oral term exam (20%)
- twoo term tests of linguistic and cultural content (50%).