French VI

Objectives

Students enrolled in French VI have to complete the level B2 from the Common European Framework for Languages.

Writing: They should be able to produce long texts and to develop a reasoning centered on a point of view, to make comments, organize ideas, classify them, reformulate them, express facts or feelings.

Speaking: they should be able to clearly present their ideas, taking sizes in discussions and making favorable or unfavorable comments, using periphrases and metaphors whenever needed.

Reading: they should be able to master the explanatory and the argumentative texts, of a practical nature, but also to understand literary texts in prose or complex professional correspondence.

Listening: They should be able to understand radio or television news and oral exchanges between francophone speakers, even in loud environments and interact naturally.

Program

Grammar contents:

At this level, theoretically, students should only be a reviewing learned notions, perfecting them, since students should already master the basic grammar structures.

The complex sentence.

Logical speech connectors.

Connectors to organize the text.

Expressing cause, consequence, comparison, restriction and opposition, condition and hypothesis, concession and purpose.

To clearly know the difference between the use of the Indicative and the Conjunctive modes.

To express precedence, simultaneity and posterity in temporal propositions.

To perfect orthography and phonetics.

Suffixes and Prefixes.

Language levels.

Abbreviations.

Thematic contents

Interpersonal relationships;

Current proverbs;

Human feelings.;

Environmental geography;

Lodging and its problems;

Social organization;

Unemployment;

Women’s role in contemporary society;

Political news;

Economy;

Studies, Sciences and techniques;

Literature and the arts.

Teaching Methodologies

Classes will be mainly practical.

A great amount of written and oral exercises will be done, where grammar will have an important role to play. In every class homework will be corrected.

However, linguistic skills – grammar, phonology and orthography – are acquired in performing tasks where their use if mandatory. There will be reading and writing of formal and informal texts (of a social nature); letters and personal messages; memoirs; real or imaginary facts: description of people, places, objects, activities, professions; debates about present time situations.

Dialogues will be constant as well as the listening of recorded documents.

Bibliography

Boularès, M. et Frérot, Jean-Louis. Grammaire progressive du français : niveau avancé. Paris, CLE International, 1997.

Callamand, Monique. Grammaire Vivante du Français. Paris, CLE International, 1989.

Caquineau-Gunduz, M.-P., Delatour, Y., Girodon, J.-P., Jennepin, D., Lesage-Langot, F. et Somé, Pascal. Les 500 exercices de Grammaire Niveau B2. Paris, Hachette, 2007.

Le cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues. Paris, Didier, 2001.

Leroy-Miquel Claire. Vocabulaire progressif du français : niveau avancé. Paris, CLE International, 1999.

Niveau B2 pour le français. Textes et références. Paris, Didier, 2004.

Niveau B2 pour le français. Un référentiel. Paris, Didier, 2004.

Sirejols, Evelyne et Claude, Pierre. Grammaire. 450 nouveaux exercices. Niveau avancé. Le Nouvel Entraînez-vous. Paris, CLE International, 1997.

Steele, Ross. Civilisation Progressive du Français. Paris, CLE International, 2002.

Um corpus de textos escolhidos.

Sites:

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