French A2

Code:

LLC038

Acronym:

FA2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

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	6	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
LA	37	LA - Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
LLC	49	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	1	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	1	-	6	52	162
LRI	40	LRI - Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

French

Objectives

1) Understand isolated sentences and frequently used expressions in relation to immediate priority areas (eg, simple personal and family information, shopping, close environment, work).

2) Communicate in simple and routine tasks that require only simple and direct information exchange on familiar and familiar topics.

3) Description with simple means of his training, his immediate environment and evoke topics that correspond to immediate needs.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester students should: • have consolidated and reinforced their communicative skills acquired throughout the first semester; • be able to communicate in a simple way in different situations; • have enlarged their lexical knowledge; • have deepened their knowledge of Francophonie and the habits of French speakers; • have developed their written and oral expression

Working method

Presencial

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

A level test will be carried out if necessary at the beginning of the semester so that the teacher can ensure that the student is enrolled in the corresponding level.

Program

• The comparison


• The personal pronouns COD and COI


• adverbial pronouns en and y


• The negation (2) (no ... no, no ... never, no ... nothing, no ... nobody, ... no ... neither ... neither, none


• The imperative (2) with pronouns


• Futur tense


• The times of the past: compound past (with COD and agreement) and the imperfect


• The present conditional (training and employment as a courtesy form)


• The place of adjectives


• The relative pronouns who, what, where.


• The expression of the frequency


• The adverbs

2. Communicative skills • communicating in simple and routine tasks requiring only simple and direct information exchange on familiar topics and activities, knowing how to navigate, directions • Understanding and producing descriptive, informative or narrative texts simple

3. Questions will be asked about the work "En français Sarah" which started reading in the first semester (A1) and must be finished at the end of A2.

Mandatory literature

Jacky Girardet - Jacques Pécheur- Colette Gibbe; TENDANCES Méthode de français A1_A2, Clé International, 2016. ISBN: 978-209-038525-0
Nathalie Lachance; En français Sarah, The Luck Edition, 2015

Complementary Bibliography

J. Girardet / J. Pécheur; Écho A2 Méthode de français 2ème édition, CLE INTERNATIONAL, 2013. ISBN: 978-2-09-038592-2
Sylvie Poisson-Quinton, Reine Mimran, Michèle Mahéo-Le Coadic; Grammaire expliquée du français - niveau intermédiaire, CLE INTERNATIONAL-PORTO EDITORA, 2005. ISBN: 972-0-31203-3
Maïa Grégoire, Odile Thiévenaz; Grammaire progressive du français - Niveau intermédiaire, CLE INTERNATIONAL-PORTO EDITORA, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-01176-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

Communicative and actional approach, based on tasks.

The proposed activities focus on developing skills and self-reliance through the performance of a variety of individual or group tasks with the intention of achieving results to be shared in progress.

These tasks include (1) the individual search for lexical information to be shared in progress (2) The search for various information to be shared in progress; (3) Preparation and presentation of dialogues; (4) writing course texts; (5) an individual or group oral presentation may be requested.

Software

Courriel dynamique
Sigarra

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages > European languages > Romance languages

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	88,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to attend 75% of classes and validation of the continue avaliation. Exceptions according to general and FLUP regulations.

 

 

Calculation formula of final grade

"Epoca Normal":

Attendance, oral and requested work: 10% (minimum 75% attendance and 75% of the tasks proposed in class and at home) to validate the ongoing evaluation.

Written examination: 55% (written comprehension, language structures, written production)

(minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam)

Oral examination: 35% (oral comprehension, continuous production and interaction)

The average of the written and oral exam must be equal to or greater than 10/20 to validate the semester.  

"Epoca de Recurso", "Época Especial" and Students enjoying a special status (TE, DA, etc.):

Written exam: 50% (minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam)

Oral exam: 50% (comprehension, continuous production and interaction)

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See "Fórmula de calculo da classificação final"

Classification improvement

Students may only repeat ONE of the written tests in which they obtained a negative result. To do this, they must inform the teacher in a timely and written (email) manner, specifying which of the tests they wish to repeat, thus ensuring that their names appear on the list of the examination exams in the Sigarra.