- Docente: Ferdinand Mourier
- Credits: 8
- SSD: L-LIN/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Politics and Social Sciences (cod. 5819)
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from Feb 10, 2025 to May 13, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student has an active and passive basic knowledge the French language. In particular, the student is able to: - read, take notes, follow a discussion in French - deal with specialist economic and political language in French-speaking cultures.
Course contents
The linguistic content information will be selected according to the CEFR levels for French. The four skills will be developed (reading comprehension, writing, speaking and listening). In this first part of the course, the focus will be on the linguistic aspect, which will give the possibility to deepen the required cultural, historical and social issues in the second part.
At the end of this course you're expected to reach B1 level.
FUNCTIONAL CONTENT
· Talking about the present
· Talking about the past
· Talking about the future
· Expressing the duration of an action started in the past and continuing in the present
· Expressing aptitude
· Defining personality
· Expressing the cause of an event
· Expressing probability
· Expressing moods: joy, sorrow and surprise
· Giving information about a place
· Expressing wishes and plans
· Asking and giving cultural information
· Asking for the veracity of a piece of information
· Talking about personal relationships
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
· Verb tenses: présent de l’indicatif, passé composé, imparfait, futur, conditionnel présent et futur, subjonctif présent et passé
Verbs with prepositions
Verbs expressing change of mood
· Time markers
Beginning and duration of an action
Actions that happened only once
Actions that happened with a certain frequency
Expressing a project in the future
· Discourse connectors
· Prepositions
· Quantifiers
· Exclamatory phrases
· Comparative and superlative
Readings/Bibliography
Grammaire contrastive pour anglophones - Niveaux A1/A2, CLE International.
All materials will be provided by the professor via Virtuale.
Teaching methods
- Language content lessons to acquire a basis for fluent communication.
- Communicative approach through group dynamics and classroom tasks.
Assessment methods
- Written exam.
- Oral exam.
Teaching tools
All resources and materials can be found on Virtuale
Links to further information
https://virtuale.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=67037
Office hours
See the website of Ferdinand Mourier