French A2

Code:

LLC038

Acronym:

FA2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French

Instance: 2022/2023 - 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	5	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LA	50	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LLC	49	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LRI	55	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	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 to exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations;
• have enlarged their lexical knowledge;
• have deepened their knowledge of the diversity of the French-speaking world;
• have improved their writing and oral communication skills;
• understand and write simple descriptive, informative or narrative texts (letters, invitations, etc.)

Working method

Presencial

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

Enrolment in French A2 presupposes the acquisition of the contents of French A1.

Program

1. Pragmatic skills:

• Asking/giving something to someone.


• Following and giving simple instructions, advice,...


• Welcoming, praising, appreciating, reacting to different events.


• Describing and comparing places, things and people


• Telling and describing past activities and personal experiences.


• Talking about the future: expressing a forecast, explaining plans.


• Situate oneself in time (express the moment of an action, the frequency).


• Talk about his/her daily environment (leisure, work,...).

2. Linguistic competences:

• Comparison (adjective, noun, verb and adverb).


• Present tense (revision + other verbs of the 3rd group).


• Personal pronouns


• Adverbial pronouns en and y


• Negation (2) (ne... plus, ne... jamais, ne... rien, ne... personne, ne ... ni ... ni...)


• Indefinite pronouns (quelque chose, quelqu’un,…).


• Restriction (ne…. que and seulement).


• Affirmative and negative imperative (with pronouns).


• Futur simple (+ revision of aller + INF).


• Past tenses: passé composé and imparfait.


• Expressing duration(depuis, dans, pendant, il y a…(que), ça fait…(que)


• Conditionnel présent to express politeness


• Place and agreement of adjectives (revision).


• Relative pronouns qui, que, où.


• Expressing frequency (souvent, parfois, toujours,…).


• Adverbs in -ment.


• Understand and use vocabulary related to daily life activities, the immediate environment and work.

Mandatory literature

Girardet Jacky, Pécheur Jacques, Gibbe Colette; TENDANCES Méthode de français A1_A2, CLE International, 2016. ISBN: 978-209-038525-0

Complementary Bibliography

Maïa Grégoire, Odile Thiévenaz; Grammaire progressive du français - Niveau intermédiaire, CLE INTERNATIONAL-PORTO EDITORA, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-01176-3
Leroy-Miquel Claire, Goliot-Lété Anne; Vocabulaire progressif du français,- Niveau intermédiaire, CLE International, 2004. ISBN: 978-2-09-033872-0
Biras Pascal, Denyer Monique, Gloanec Audrey, Witta Stéphanie ; Défi 2, Maison des Langues, 2018

Comments from the literature

Further references will be provided in class, including a book that all students will be required to read.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Communicative and action-oriented, task-based approach.

The proposed activities aim at developing skills and autonomy through the completion of various tasks, individually or in groups, in order to obtain results to be shared in class.
These tasks include (1) individual research of lexical information to be shared in class; (2) research of various information to be shared in class; (3) preparation and presentation of dialogues; (4) writing of class texts. Finally, an individual or group oral presentation may be required.

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	35,00
Teste	55,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	81,50
Frequência das aulas	60,50
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

Continuous assessment ("Época Normal"):

• Attendance, oral and homework: 10% (minimum 75% attendance and completion of 75% of the tasks proposed in class and at home to validate the continuous assessment)
• Written test: 55% (reading comprehension, language structures, written production - minimum 10/20 to be able to take the oral test)
• Oral test: 35% (listening comprehension, continuous production and interaction)

A passing mark of 8/20 is required for each component of the assessment plan.

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

• Written exam: 50% (minimum 10/20 to be able to take the oral exam)
• Oral exam: 50% (comprehension, continuous production and interaction)

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See "Calculation of final grade".

Classification improvement

Students wishing to improve their final result will have to take the exams in the "Recurso" session. The result of the participation will not be taken into account.

Written: 50%.

Oral: 50%.