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 A2 (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.
Objectives and expected 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 to be developed 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.
Programme
1- Revision work
2- Presenting a service 3- Business communication 4- Preparing a meeting 5- Presenting the project of an event 6- Explaining the security rules 7- Solving problems
Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives
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.
Main literature
Mitchell, Margaret & Fleuranceau, Ariane;Pour parler affaires A2/ B1, Paris : Editions Maison des langues, 2019. ISBN: 978848448564
RANGEL, Helena; MARTINS, Fernanda;;Apprends et révise la grammaire, Porto Editora, 2020. ISBN: 978-972-0-00287-7
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.
Assessment Components
Avaliação distribuída com exame final
Assessment Components
Description
Type
Time (hours)
Conclusion Date
Attendance (estimated)
Lessons
22,5
Projectos
12
Study
40
Participação Presencial
5,5
Total:
80
Continuous Assessment
Two written tests: 35 + 35%
Oral presentation: submission of the plan (E-Learning): 10% Oral presentation: 20%
According to the general regulation:
a) All students will register their presence during lessons and, if their absenteeism rate is over 30% of the total number of lessons for each course unit, they will automatically be transferred to the final assessment modality of the regular season. b) In written tests and evaluation, a minimum score of 7.5 (seven point five) values is required. c) In case students miss or obtain less than 7.5 in the written tests or the written projects, they will be automatically transferred to Final Assessmen of the regular seasont d) In case students miss or obtain less than 7.5 in the second written test, they may only be subject to the Appeal season for tests. e) All the written assessments included in the evaluation (reports, case studies, etc.) must be submitted through the Turnitin data base, available at the eLearning Platform. It would be accepted a similarity rate of less than 30%.
Final Exam
One written test : 100%
Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes
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).