| Code: | LTU2112 | Acronym: | LFRI |
| Teaching Area: | Modern Languages |
| Acronym | Study plan | Curriculum Years | ECTS | Contact hours | Total Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LTU | Aviso nº 9929/2017 & Ret. nº 612/2017 | 1º | 4 | 38 | 107 |
| Theoretical-Practical: | 30,00 |
| Other: | 0,00 |
Teaching - Hours
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Course unit summary
This course unit aims to provide to the student a contact with the French language, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for level A1 (basic user) directives.
It intends to provide a basic communicative competence in French to accomplish simple and familiar actions, both written and oral, as well as favoring the contact with sociocultural aspects in a professional context.
Goals and Learning outcomes
This course unit allows the student to interact efficiently in simple situations, on family subjects and in specific professional contexts in a way to answer appropriate and nimbly to immediate communicative needs.
Learning outcomes
- Understand familiar words and basic phrases
- Read correctly basic phrases such as news, informative notes, simple professional documents, short articles, etc.
- Write simple texts, such as professional notes, messages, emails to request information, to present complaints, etc.
Skills
At the end of the semester, the students
- Can understand a native speaker who expresses himself/herself in a clear way with a normal debit
- Can interact fluidly, using a simple lexical repertoire and basic grammatical tools about familiar subjects in professional contexts
- Can compare sociocultural and professional events
- Greeting and Introducing
- Filling in forms
- Asking for a document
- Asking questions to obtain something
- Talking about personal experiences
- Talking on the phone
- Writing a short message, an email, etc.
- Buying and reserving
- Interacting in a hotel
- Asking for and giving directions
-Talking about and describing routines
- Giving instructions and explanations
The syllabus articulates the indicators of the competences to reach in the level A2 of CEFR of Council of Europe and some characteristics of the profile degree.
| Dubois, Anne-Lyse ; Tauzin, Béatrice ;Objectif express Nouvelle Edition A1 A2 , Hachette, 2013. ISBN: 9782011560070 |
| Helena Rangel, Fernanda Lopes Martins;Apprends et révise la grammaire, Porto Editora , 2016. ISBN: 978-972-0-31289-1 |
| Robert, Paul;Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française, Robert , 2017. ISBN: ISBN: 9782321008583 |
| Andreu Coll Arnaud Laygues;Le français en contexte Tourisme A1 A2 , Maison des langues , 2014. ISBN: 9788415640226 |
The adopted methods presuppose the active participation of the student in several learning tasks (oral and written), directed in way to coordinate individual work, work in pairs and collective work.
The communicative and action oriented approach seeks the fast development of a linguistic autonomy through the execution of simple concrete tasks, related with the everyday life and the professional world.
Avaliação distribuída com exame final
| Description | Type | Time (hours) | Conclusion Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance (estimated) | Lessons | 30 | |
| Tutorial sessions | Participação Presencial | 8 | |
| Test/Exam | Teste/Exame | 3 | |
| Self study | Study | 66 | |
| Total: | 107 |
One practical teamwork (speaking) + one work record (listening): 40% (20%+20%)
Two written tests: 60% (written understanding and expression)
Under Degree Regulations:
1. The actual presence of students in classes will registered, and if the number of absences for student exceed 30% of the total number of contact sessions scheduled for each course will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the regular season.
2. In written tests and evaluation elements referred to in sub-paragraphs b) to e) of paragraph 2 of Art. 39 is required to obtain a minimum score of 7.5 (seven point five) values.
3. If the student lacks or get a grade below 7.5 points in the tests or on the elements of assessment referred above, will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the regular season.
4. If the student lacks or get a grade below 7.5 points in the second written test (conducted on the same date of the written test end of the regular season) may be required registration for evaluation at the appeal time.
One written test : 100%
The practical projects can also be considered, with half of the percentage defined for the continuous assessment, as long as the teacher is informed about this decision by the student.
The objectives of learning of UC are organized around the understanding competences and the communication as described in the level A2 of the CEFR. The teaching methodologies, based on the approach acional of the teaching-learning of languages, serve those objectives promoting the application of explicit linguistic contents on execution of tasks (communicative competences).