2023
French Language IV
Name: French Language IV
Code: LLT10815L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics
Teaching languages: Portuguese, French
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
(QCERL: A2) Understand the main ideas in complex texts on concrete and abstract subjects, including technical discussions in the area of expertise (Languages, Literatures and Cultures); communicate with a certain degree of spontaneity with native speakers; expressing oneself in a clear way.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
(QCERL: A2) Understand the main ideas in complex texts on concrete and abstract subjects, including technical discussions in the area of expertise (Languages, Literatures and Cultures); communicate with a certain degree of spontaneity with native speakers; expressing oneself in a clear and detailed way on a wide variety of topics and explaining a point of view on a current topic, exposing the advantages and disadvantages of various possibilities.
Skills:
- Oral: Make a detailed description or exposition.
- Writing: Write detailed texts, clearly.
- Comprehension of the oral: Understand the standard language.
- Reading: Read with a high degree of independence.
- Oral interaction: Use the language fluently, correctly and effectively.
- Written interaction: Report news and effectively express views in writing.
- Vocabulary: Possess vocabulary on related subjects on most subjects.
- Grammar: Good grammar control.
Skills:
- Oral: Make a detailed description or exposition.
- Writing: Write detailed texts, clearly.
- Comprehension of the oral: Understand the standard language.
- Reading: Read with a high degree of independence.
- Oral interaction: Use the language fluently, correctly and effectively.
- Written interaction: Report news and effectively express views in writing.
- Vocabulary: Possess vocabulary on related subjects on most subjects.
- Grammar: Good grammar control.
Contents
- Written production: writing a biography, taking notes and summarizing, writing a cooking recipe, summarizing a text, writing a Curriculum Vitae;
- Reading comprehension: understanding a specialized and non-specialized text; a newspaper article, etc ;
- Written interaction: writing notes, memos, letters, fax, email, online conference;
- Grammar: Direct and indirect complement personal pronouns. Complex sentence: relative pronouns; concession and opposition; condition and hypothesis). The verb: indicative, and conjunctive mood; participles; gerund;
- Vocabulary: Vocabulary in the general and scientific domain (history, meteorology, geography, information technology, science, etc ).
- Reading comprehension: understanding a specialized and non-specialized text; a newspaper article, etc ;
- Written interaction: writing notes, memos, letters, fax, email, online conference;
- Grammar: Direct and indirect complement personal pronouns. Complex sentence: relative pronouns; concession and opposition; condition and hypothesis). The verb: indicative, and conjunctive mood; participles; gerund;
- Vocabulary: Vocabulary in the general and scientific domain (history, meteorology, geography, information technology, science, etc ).
Teaching Methods
The methodology adopted will focus on the acquisition and development of oral and written skills (production, reception and interaction), grammar practice and vocabulary enhancement:
(1) direct exposure to authentic use of language (through videos, written texts - newspapers, magazines, etc. - Internet, CD-ROM, among others);
(2) direct participation in communicative interaction;
(3) presentations, explanations, exercises/exploitation activities;
(4) translation (native language/foreign language/native language)
(5) individual, pair and group working;
(6) contribution to formal and informal discussions;
(7) guided study;
(8) autodidactically, by self-study.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (1) continuous or (2) exam.
(1) Continuous assessment: a. Written quiz (35%); b. Oral quiz (25%); c. Assignments, throughout the semester, in and at home (40%);
(2) Exam: a. Written exam (60%); b. Oral exam (40%).
(1) direct exposure to authentic use of language (through videos, written texts - newspapers, magazines, etc. - Internet, CD-ROM, among others);
(2) direct participation in communicative interaction;
(3) presentations, explanations, exercises/exploitation activities;
(4) translation (native language/foreign language/native language)
(5) individual, pair and group working;
(6) contribution to formal and informal discussions;
(7) guided study;
(8) autodidactically, by self-study.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (1) continuous or (2) exam.
(1) Continuous assessment: a. Written quiz (35%); b. Oral quiz (25%); c. Assignments, throughout the semester, in and at home (40%);
(2) Exam: a. Written exam (60%); b. Oral exam (40%).
Teaching Staff
- Fernando dos Santos Gomes [responsible]
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