French B1.2

Code:

LLC040

Acronym:

FB1.2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French

Instance: 2024/2025 - 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	0	study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
LA	0	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2
LLC	0	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
		study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2
LRI	0	Study plan	1	-	6	60,5	162
			2

Teaching language

French

Objectives

French B1.2 aims to develop students' autonomy and involvement, to consolidate and expand general skills and
communicative language skills acquired in A1, A2 and B1.1
so that students reach B1 level in most of the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

Learning outcomes and competences

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

• get the gist of authentic audio and/or audiovisual documents on the news;


• read and understand contemporary short stories and recent newspaper articles;


• express themselves orally and take part in conversations on familiar topics, with or without preparation;


• write coherent texts to describe, tell a story and/or argue.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Development of oral and communicative skills

• Reading aloud practice
• Listening comprehension of authentic audio and/or audiovisual documents in standard and informal French: comprehensive understanding, information tracking and oral or written report
• Role play, prepared or improvised
• Introduction to topolectal variation

2. Development of written discursive skills

• Reading comprehension of authentic and recent press articles (faits divers, columns, editorials, opinion articles) and contemporary short stories
• Writing descriptive, narrative and argumentative texts (letters to describe and recount personal experiences and/or share impressions, letters of complaint)

3. Consolidation and improvement of linguistic skills

• Consolidation of acquired skills in oral and written training exercises
• Lexical enrichment on commitment and major social issues: solidarity, mutual aid, social movements in France, ecology, immigration, etc.
• Awareness of phraseology (idioms, collocations, phrases)
• Grammatical contents:

1. Past subjunctive; futur antérieur; gerund and present participle
2. Demonstrative, possessive and interrogative pronouns
3. Construction with two pronouns
4. Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
5. Opposition and concession
6. Expression of the goal
7. Condition and restriction
8. Expression of time

4. Project on one of the short stories from the collection "13 à table!" (2025).

Mandatory literature

Akyüz, A., Bazelle-Shahmaei, B., Bonenfant, J., Gliemann, M.-F.; En Contexte : Exercices de grammaire B1 + audio MP3 + corrigés, Hachette, 2019. ISBN: 9782014016345
Collectif; 13 à table! 2025, Pocket, 2024
Poisson-Quinton, S., Mimran, R. & Mahéo-Le Coadic, M. ; Grammaire expliquée du français - Niveau intermédiaire (B1/B2) - Cahier d'activités - 2ème édition, CLE International, 2020. ISBN: 978-2-09-038988-3

Complementary Bibliography

Maia Grégoire; Grammaire progressive du français. ISBN: 978-209-038103-0

Comments from the literature

Further references will be provided during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Communicative and interactive approach based on the performance of individual and group tasks, in class and outside of class:

• Listening comprehension of authentic documents in standard French, then of documents reflecting the topolectal variation of spoken French.


• Reading comprehension of contemporary short stories and press articles.


• Search for press articles to be classified according to their genre (fait divers, column, editorial or opinion article).


• Presentation of role plays; discussions, debates.


• Group work.

Software

Courrier électronique
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	5,00
Prova oral	25,00
Teste	60,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	71,50
Frequência das aulas	60,50
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

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

Calculation formula of final grade

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

Participation: 5% (at least 75% attendance and 75% tasks)
Project on a short story: 10%
Written test: 50% (written comprehension: 10%; language structures: 15%; 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: 50% (written comprehension: 10%; language structures: 15%; written production: 25%)
[Note: minimum 10/20 to be able to sit for the oral exam]
Oral comprehension: 15%
Individual oral test (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.