French A1

Code:

LLC037

Acronym:

FA1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	0	study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LA	0	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LLC	0	study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LRI	0	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162

Teaching language

French

Objectives

The main objective of French A1 is to introduce students to the French language and to enable them to master the five competences defined for level A1 by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in terms of written and oral comprehension and production in an academic context.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester students will be able to

(1) understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic sentences;
(2) interact in a simple way provided the interlocutor speaks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Students will also have to develop their own strategies to face challenges when completing tasks and discovering Francophonie. These strategies will help them to monitor their life long learning process.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

If necessary, a level at the beginning of the semester will help both student and teacher to decide about the enrolment in the appropriate level (A1 or B1.1).

Program

1. Phonetics: alphabet, pronunciation of phonemes that do not exist in Portuguese, silent endings and liaison between words.

2. Grammatical skills: articles, contraction and elision; possessive and demonstrative determiners; regular and irregular verbs conjugation in the present tense of indicative and imperative moods; future tense (aller + infinitive); introduction to passé composé; plural of nouns; gender and number agreement of adjectives; simple negation; subject and tonic personal pronouns; interrogative sentences.

3. Communicative skills: greeting, farewell and other polite conventions; introducing oneself or someone else; describing oneself and others; making or answering a phone call; expressing likes and dislikes; speaking about daily routine, and personal plans; asking and answering personal questions; asking for and giving information on familiar topics; expressing agreement; locating in time and space; understanding simple written and oral texts; writing short descriptive texts.

The reading of a book may be requested at the beginning of the semester.

Mandatory literature

Akyüz, A., Bazelle-Shahmaei, B., Bonenfant, J., Gliemann, M.-F.; En Contexte - Exercices de grammaire A1 + audio MP3 + corrigés , Hachette, 2019. ISBN: 9782014016321
Boulet, R., Vergne-Sirieys, A. & Poisson-Quinton, S.; Grammaire expliquée du français - Niveau débutant - Cahier d'activités, CLE International, 2003. ISBN: 978-2-09-033708-2
Campopiano, S., Baylocq Sassoubre, M.-P., Brémaud, S., Cheilan, C.,Dambrine, E. & Pinson, C.; Edito 1 - Cahier + CD mp3, Didier, 2016. ISBN: 9782278083619
Mensdorff-Pouilly, L., Opatski, S. & Spérandio, C.; Édito A1_édition 2022-2024- Livre + didierfle.app, Didier, 2022. ISBN: 9782278103645
Poisson-Quinton, S., Huet-Ogle, C., Boulet, R. & Vergne-Sirievs; Grammaire expliquée du français - Niveau débutant, CLE International, 2003. ISBN: : 978-2-09-033706-8

Complementary Bibliography

Maïa Grégoire ; Grammaire Progressive du Français. Niveau débutant. , Clé International, 1997. ISBN: 209033858
Miquel Claire; Vocabulaire progressif du français, niveau débutant A1 , CLE International, 2017. ISBN: 978-2-09-038017-0
Josette Rey-Debove; Le^nouveau Petit Robert. ISBN: 978-2-84902-321-1

Comments from the literature

Further references will be provided during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Interactive and task-oriented approach.

Students will develop their skills and autonomy by carrying out various tasks, individually or in groups, in order to obtain results to be shared in class.

These tasks include (1) individual search for lexical information to be shared in the form of a glossary; (2) search for information on gastronomy, music and tourism (recipes, flight schedules, entry price and time of a tourist visit, etc.) to be shared in class; (3) preparation and presentation of dialogues; (4) writing of short texts (postcards, self-portraits and portraits, descriptions of daily activities); (5) a group oral presentation on gastronomy, tourism or another topic defined with the teacher.

Software

Courrier électronique
SIGARRA

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages > European languages > Romance languages
Social sciences > Cultural studies > European studies > French studies

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Prova oral	25,00
Teste	65,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	101,50
Frequência das aulas	60,50
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to attend 75% of classes. Exceptions according to FLUP regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

1. Distributed evaluation without final exam ("Epoca Normal"): 

Participation: 10% (minimum 75% attendance and 75% of the tasks proposed in class and at home)
Written test: 55% (written comprehension: 10%; language structures: 20%; written production: 25%). [Note: minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam]
Oral comprehension: 10%
Individual oral test (continuous production and interaction): 25%.
A passing mark of 8/20 is required for each component of the assessment plan.

2. "Epoca de Recurso" for students who have failed the individual oral test (Distributed evaluation)

Students who have at least 11/20 in the written test will be able to retake only the individual oral test. The calculation formula of final grade is the same as for the "normal" session and a passing mark of 8/20 for the oral test is still required.


3. "Epoca de Recurso" and "Época Especial": 

Written exam: 55% (the same as the written test) [Note: minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam] 
Oral exam: 45% (oral comprehension 10%, continuous production and interaction 35%)
A passing mark of 8/20 is required for each component of the exams.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students with special status are asked to contact the teacher no later than three weeks after the start of the course to define the assessment components appropriate to each case. After this period, only calculation formula number 3 ("Época de Recurso" and "Época Especial") will apply.

Classification improvement

At the "Recurso" session, students who have passed in distributed evaluation may improve two of the following three assessment components: language structures, written production and oral production. The calculation formula is the same as for distributed evaluation.