FRENCH LANGUAGE

This is one of the basic courses within the common route of the Corso di Laurea "Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa".
Its formative objectives are within the area of language skills learning.

- Knowledge and understanding
Ability to complete the knowledge of the grammatical structures of the French language at level B1 (base/intermediate etc.)
Knowledge and understanding of the functions of the grammatical structures of the French language at level B1

- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
Ability to identify the different grammatical categories and their properties
Abikity to demonstrate a general understanding of the basic grammatical structures of the French language
Ability to describe the constructions and grammatical phenomena studied during the teaching using correctly the terminology and the basic tools of the acquired syntactic analysis

Even absolute beginners can attend the course; it is recommended to attend with particular assiduity the practical training lessons of Dr. Durello from the beginning.

Students will be offered different kinds of texts and audio documents (taken from essays, articles, etc..) in French, mainly related to their geographical-linguistic field of study, the texts will be addressed during the lessons (from a lexical, morophosyntactical, cultural perspectives) through cloze exercises, short open questions, true-false, multiple choice etc ...

Practical training (Dr. Durello):
- Berger, Spicacci, "Savoir dire, savoir faire" (Zanichelli), vol. 1 (A1/A2/B1)
Recommended grammar textbook:
- Beneventi Lisa, "Grammaire facile du français" (Zanichelli)

Oral exam: presentation in 10 minutes of a summary on a theme chosen by the students from 3 documents chosen by them (information and/or in analytical articles, editorials, press reviews…).
In particular, students will have to:

Present the main theme and the content of the three articles (source, topics, structure)

Present the main and critical points regarding the chosen topic

Express a personal opinion about the content and-or about specific issues linked with the chosen topic

Interactive face-to-face lessons. Readings will be made during the lessons.
For the course, the texts presented in class will be contained in a booklet downloadable online before the lessons (available here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6eBJD-xBomsPm-eaToVOmXtTpX9r3n7/view?usp=sharing .
You can also download the file here: http://lingue.cmm.unive.it/course/view.php?id=142
Students will have to print it out and take it with them to class (doc version on laptop or tablets).
Some of the material used during the lessons will be uploaded on google drive

Italian

written and oral