64456 - FRENCH LANGUAGE

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Politics and Social Sciences (cod. 5819)

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