French B1.1

Code:

LLC039

Acronym:

FB1.1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French

Instance: 2023/2024 - 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	8	study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2
LA	33	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2
LLC	19	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
		Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2
LRI	51	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2

Teaching language

French

Objectives

French B1.1 aims to lead students to an intermediate level between A2 and B1 as defined in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. In addition, the aim will be to encourage students' autonomy by getting them to think about recurring errors and strategies they can use to correct and avoid them.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester students should be able to:

• understand the main points of authentic audio and audio-visual documents in which speakers express themselves clearly in standard language in everyday situations (work, school, leisure, etc.);
• read and understand descriptive, narrative and explanation texts;
• express themselves orally, with or without preparation, on topics discussed in class or in everyday situations;
• write short descriptive, narrative and explanatory texts

Students should also have acquired geographical and cultural information on France and the French speaking countries.

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) Development of oral and communicative skills:

• Listening comprehension of short authentic documents
• Correction of pronunciation errors leading to misinterpretation
• Expressive reading
• Prepared and spontaneous role plays
• Oral presentation to be prepared and presented in groups
• Regular classroom exercises

2) Consolidation and extension of grammatical skills

• Review of A1 and A2 level grammatical contents
• Plus-que-parfait (indicative mood)
• Present(revision) and past conditional
• Storytelling in the past: practice in the use of indicative mood, personal pronouns, determiners and negation
• Simple future
• Relative pronouns
• Passive voice
• Present subjunctive 
• Hypothesis and condition
• Cause and consequence

3) Reading comprehension of documents on current social issues

4) Production of descriptive, narrative and explanation texts to use or reuse the lexicon and grammar points studied

5) Reading a short story in French and giving a group presentation

6) Reflection on recurrent errors and definition of strategies to improve oral and written production

Mandatory literature

Maïa Grégoire, Odile Thiévenaz; Grammaire Progressive du Français. Niveau Intermédiaire. Nouvelle édition, ., Clé International, Porto Editora, 2004. ISBN: 978-972-0-01176-3 (Another grammar of the intermediate level is possible.)

Complementary Bibliography

Josette Rey-Debove et Alain Rey (dir.) ; Le Nouveau Petit Robert de la Langue Française, Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française, Le Robert, 2009. ISBN: 978-2-84902-386-0
Ch.Descotes-Genon, M.H. Morsel, C.Richou; L’exercisier (l’expression française pour le niveau intermédiaire), PUG

Comments from the literature

References of a short story will be given at the beginning of the semester and will be part of the assessment plan.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Communicative and actional approach, based on tasks.

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.

Software

SIGARRA
Courrier électronique

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages > European 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. Exceptions according to FLUP regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed evaluation without final exam ("Época Normal"):

Attendance, oral and requested work: 10% - minimum 75% attendance and 75% of the tasks proposed in class and at home to validate the distributed evaluation 
Written test: 55% (reading comprehension: 10%, language structures: 15%, written production: 30%) - minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam
Oral test: 35% (listening comprehension: 10%, continuous production and interaction: 25%) 

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

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

Written exam: 50% (reading comprehension: 10%, language structures: 10%, written production: 30%) - minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam
Oral exam: 50% (listening comprehension: 10%, continuous production and interaction: 40%)

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

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See "Fórmula de calculo da classificação final"

Classification improvement

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

Written exam: 50%
Oral exam: 50%