FRENCH LANGUAGE (LEVEL B1)
Syllabus
EN
IT
Prerequisites
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Program
At the B1 level, independent users can comprehend the main points of clear and standard input on familiar topics commonly encountered in work, school, leisure, and daily life. They possess the ability to handle most situations that may arise while traveling in a region where the language is spoken and can generate straightforward, connected texts on subjects of personal interest or familiarity. Additionally, B1-level learners can articulate experiences, events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, providing brief reasons and explanations for their opinions and plans.
In terms of language functions, they can describe people's physical attributes and character, express emotions and moods, depict cities, geography, and climate, make comparisons between places, individuals, and customs, discuss leisure activities, offer their opinions, demonstrate agreement or disagreement, narrate past events, talk about future plans and schedules, formulate hypotheses, provide advice and assess possibilities, give instructions and orders, grant or prohibit permission, request and furnish information, express obligations, and convey reported speech connected to the present.
Regarding grammatical content, learners at this level must be familiar with various grammatical elements, including the passé composé and l'imparfait (past tenses), temporal indicators like "il y a" and "depuis," expressions of duration, adverbs ending in -ment, intensity adverbs, exclamations using "Quel" + noun and "Comment/Qu'est-ce que" + phrase, as well as various other elements such as negation, cause and consequence expressions, possessive adjectives and pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, quantity expressions, and more.
The lexical content includes vocabulary related to everyday life, encompassing topics like home, work, university, food, leisure, and nature, along with descriptions of physical characteristics and personalities. Furthermore, learners are equipped with general abstract vocabulary to discuss contemporary issues like climate change, emigration, politics, and interculturality, or topics of personal interest such as art, cinema, sports, music, and emotional states.
In terms of language functions, they can describe people's physical attributes and character, express emotions and moods, depict cities, geography, and climate, make comparisons between places, individuals, and customs, discuss leisure activities, offer their opinions, demonstrate agreement or disagreement, narrate past events, talk about future plans and schedules, formulate hypotheses, provide advice and assess possibilities, give instructions and orders, grant or prohibit permission, request and furnish information, express obligations, and convey reported speech connected to the present.
Regarding grammatical content, learners at this level must be familiar with various grammatical elements, including the passé composé and l'imparfait (past tenses), temporal indicators like "il y a" and "depuis," expressions of duration, adverbs ending in -ment, intensity adverbs, exclamations using "Quel" + noun and "Comment/Qu'est-ce que" + phrase, as well as various other elements such as negation, cause and consequence expressions, possessive adjectives and pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, quantity expressions, and more.
The lexical content includes vocabulary related to everyday life, encompassing topics like home, work, university, food, leisure, and nature, along with descriptions of physical characteristics and personalities. Furthermore, learners are equipped with general abstract vocabulary to discuss contemporary issues like climate change, emigration, politics, and interculturality, or topics of personal interest such as art, cinema, sports, music, and emotional states.
Books
Inspire 2 Jean-Thierry Le Bougnec et M.José Lopes ed. HACHETTE FLE
Bibliography
Inspire 2 Jean-Thierry Le Bougnec et M.José Lopes ed. HACHETTE FLE
Teaching methods
Tasks will be set within the framework of a communicative methodology. Meetings with the teacher are aimed at activating the language that is required to communicate at this level and at monitoring progress. Students must undertake the activities presented in the class manual and other activities independently in order to consolidate the required linguistic and socio-cultural content.
Exam Rules
Students will undergo assessment through a final written and oral exam, which accounts for 60% of their overall grade. The written test is designed to assess their proficiency in various areas, including grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and listening comprehension, with exercises presented in a multiple-choice format. Other tasks involve linguistic completion and transformation exercises based on the course's linguistic content. Additionally, students will engage in a written production activity, either based on a provided text or a specific prompt.
In this intensive course, continuous assessment plays a crucial role, constituting 40% of the final grade. Students are expected to independently reinforce their linguistic and cultural knowledge by utilizing supplementary course materials and actively participating in classroom activities. Their final grade will be a composite of their performance in independent learning and their contributions to in-class activities.
Those students who do not actively engage in the course will be required to prepare extra reading materials. Non-attending students will need to take the final written and oral exam, which includes an additional written component based on assigned readings. Their grade will be determined solely by this final examination.
Furthermore, students who have attended less than 80% of classes will be categorized as non-attending students and will also be mandated to take the final exam.
In this intensive course, continuous assessment plays a crucial role, constituting 40% of the final grade. Students are expected to independently reinforce their linguistic and cultural knowledge by utilizing supplementary course materials and actively participating in classroom activities. Their final grade will be a composite of their performance in independent learning and their contributions to in-class activities.
Those students who do not actively engage in the course will be required to prepare extra reading materials. Non-attending students will need to take the final written and oral exam, which includes an additional written component based on assigned readings. Their grade will be determined solely by this final examination.
Furthermore, students who have attended less than 80% of classes will be categorized as non-attending students and will also be mandated to take the final exam.