2024

French Language III

Name: French Language III
Code: LLT10814L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

(CEFR - Level A2). Understand phrases and expressions related to immediate priorities;
communicate in simple tasks, simply describe his education, the surroundings and refer immediate

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

(CEFR Level: A2)
Understand phrases and expressions related to immediate priorities;
communicate in simple tasks, simply describe his education, the surroundings and refer immediate needs.
Skills:
Oral: Describe simply a person, living conditions, work, everyday life, (dis)likes, etc. .
Writing: Write simple sentences connected by simple connectors.
Listening comprehension: Understand sentences related to immediate priorities, in an articulated speech.
Reading comprehension: Understand simple texts on familiar topics in a frequent or work-related language.
Spoken interaction: Interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations, ask and answer questions, share information about family matters.
Written interaction: Write simple notes.
Vocabulary: Enough vocabulary to conduct day-t -day transactions.
Grammar: Uses simple structures, but with elementary errors.

Contents

A. Written production: write a letter, a journal, an article, a comment;
B. Reading comprehension: understand a text (argumentative, technical);
C. Interaction writings: notes, memoranda, letters, faxes, email, online conference;
D. Grammar: the sphere of the name (direct speech, indirect speech, determinants and substitutes of the name), quantification, qualification; the sphere of the verb (syntax of the verbs, active forms, passive, impersonal pronoun, tenses, declarative verbs) ;
E. Vocabulary: lexical elements of the various knowledge areas (tourism, gastronomy, history, geography, etc ...).

Teaching Methods

According to the descriptors, 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, etc);
(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 (2023/2024 )