MODERN LANGUAGES LAB (FRENCH LANGUAGE)

The teaching "Laboratory of languages - French language" is part of the "training and orientation internships" of the Master’s Degree Programme of the Master’s Degree Programme in Italian Literature and Philology (common course). The aim of the course is to initiate or develop and consolidate the learning of the French language and to enhance the ability to understand texts on cultural issues. Special attention will be paid to the lexicon of the humanities initiating and/or consolidating skills for the comprehension of oral utterances and texts in French (listening and reading).

The course will be based on the level of the participants.
Absolute beginner or fake beginner level: provide the student with the basic elements related to the structure of the French language, necessary for reading and understanding easy passages of descriptive, narrative and normative texts. The aim will be to develop written and oral comprehension and production skills corresponding to the A2 level of the CEFR.
Advanced level: Resume and advance previous skills until a level B1-B2 of the CEFR is reached.

No prerequisites are required.

The course aims to provide the student with the basic elements related to the structure of the French language necessary for reading and understanding descriptive and narrative texts.
Level A1-A2: phonetics, accents and spelling, article, negative form, interrogative form, feminine and plural of nouns and adjectives, possessive and demonstrative adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, c'est/il est, c'est/ce sont, the paradigm of verbs, the use of auxiliary avoir and être, the present indicative, the imperfect and the near past, the agreement of the past participle.
Listening, Reading, Understanding and Translating texts.
Level B1-B2: Review and deepening of the simplest verbal tenses. Conjugation of verbs: the near-deceased (Plus-que-parfait), the Anterior Future (Futur antérieur), the periphrastic forms, the conditional, the relative pronouns, the comparative and the superlative, the hypothetical phrase. The subjunctive, subordinate propositions and phraseological verbs.

To follow the course:
Dominique Berger- Nerina Spinacci, Savoir-dire, savoir-faire, (with digital content), 2016

For further grammatical information we recommend:
Bidaud, M.-C. Grange, J.-P. Seghi, Manuel de français, Hoepli, 2012.
Parodi, L. Vallacco, Grammathèque, CIDEB, 2010

Students attending the course will take part in ongoing tests, the results of which will be included in the final evaluation. The final exam will be held only in oral form and includes an interview on the topics addressed in class, the translation of a short text in French and any grammatical and lexical reflections. The exam aims to verify the achievement of the training objectives indicated.

Lessons and use of audio and video technologies.

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