French Intensive Course B1.1

Code:

CIF01

Acronym:

CIFB11

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Foreign languages and literatures

Instance: 2024/2025 - SP (of 22-10-2024 to 19-12-2024)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	French (B1.1) - Intensive Course

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EC_CIF	0	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2014	1	-	3	60	81

Teaching language

French

Objectives

To consolidate / deepen / "refresh" French knowledge for personal or professional purposes, to develop written and oral comprehension and expression strategies, to respond effectively to the political, social, scientific, professional and human challenge that requires multilingual training today and in the future

Learning outcomes and competences

I can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. I can understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.
I can understand texts that consist mainly of high frequency every day or job related language.
I can understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.
I can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. I can enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).
I can connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and events, my dreams, hopes and ambitions. I can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. I can narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or film and describe my reactions.
I can write simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. I can write personal letters describing experiences and impressions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Pragmatic objectives
 
- Talking about appearance and its relation to body image perception
- Characterizing people and professional behaviour
- Talking about consumption and buying habits
- Understanding a complaint email and its response
- Writing a complaint email
- Characterizing objects and services
- Understanding and describing online sales system
- Talking about different ways of learning
- Talking about school remembrance and one’s memory
- Understanding testimonies about entering into the working life
- Presenting one’s career during a motivational interview
- Registering at foreign students’ university
- Comparing the French university system with others
- Talking about ways to get informed
- Identifying magazines and readers
- Understanding and writing a personal letter
- Giving information on current events of one’s country
- Understanding headlines
- Reporting an event in the press
- Understand a press article
- Writing a fait-divers (news briefs)
- Mentioning an unconfirmed event
- Giving your point of view about the front page of daily newspapers
- Understanding the development of some information on the radio
- Comparing the press of different countries

 Sociocultural contents  •  Themes

- Image in friendly, social, professional and romantic relationships         
- Consumption habits and buyer profiles         
- Places and learning paths         
- Entering into the working life         
- Media and information processing         
- Information and rumours   

Mandatory literature

Catherine Dollez – Sylvie Pons; Alter Ego + B1, Hachette FLE, 2013. ISBN: 978-2-01-155814-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practical classes with emphasis on the activities of reception, comprehension and expression (oral / written) and on concrete tasks that insist on communicative situations close to reality. The chosen methodology will be diversified and defined according to the age and cognitive profile of the trainees and the training needs.
Each participant will be evaluated through works developed throughout the course. The final grade to be given to trainees who successfully complete the course consists of qualitative and quantitative information on a scale of 0 to 20.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Estudo autónomo	21,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance

Calculation formula of final grade

Test
20%: language structures, written comprehension, written production, oral comprehension, continuous production and interaction