FRENCH LANGUAGE SP

The teaching "French Language" is one of those that characterize the Master’s Degree Course in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature (european path).

The course will be based on the level of attending students.
Absolute beginners level or false beginners (pre-a1): provide the student with the basic elements related to the knowledge and understanding of the structure of the French language, phonetic and prosodic aspects, necessary for reading and understanding easy passages of descriptive, narrative, journalistic texts as an approach based on the textual genre stimulates the creation of content and the acquisition of formal patterns (speech organization) appropriate to the genre; enhance the ability to elaborate elementary language statements; be able to understand expressions related to areas of immediate priority (e.g. truly basic information about the person and family, purchasing, local geography and work)as long as you speak slowly and clearly. understand short sentences of daily scope and texts concerning cultural issues; statements that allow the expression of self interpersonal and articulate.
The expected level of competence is A2 of the CEFR.

Advanced level: resume and advance your previous language-communication skills, develop and strengthen your ability to produce complex sentences; be able to understand the salient points of a clear speech in standard language or in a family variety that covers familiar topics routinely addressed at work, school, leisure etc. , including short stories; be able to understand clear factual information on common topics relating to everyday life or work, recognising both the general meaning and the specific information, provided the speech is clearly articulated in a rather familiar variety. The activities are presented under four modes of communication: reception, production, interaction and mediation, as these categories better reflect the way in which people actually use the language compared to the four skills up to a level B1 of the CEFR.

Reading and understanding of short texts, taken from literary works or current affairs articles.

For the frequency of the course it is preferable to have an A1 level.

The text adopted provides for the development of all the topics covered by Unit 1 to Unit 8.
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, 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

The final exam includes a written test preparatory to the oral assessment. Both tests will be held on the linguistic, syntactic and lexical topics dealt with in class, with exercises related to the topics studied. The exam is aimed at verifying the achievement of the stated educational objectives.

Lessons and use of audio and video technologies.

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Students who have not attended the Course will not be provided with certificates of linguistic attainment and in any case only after the final test.

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