| CODE | FRE1501 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Français pour grands débutants niveau A1.2 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | French | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit builds on the previous one and addresses all 4 linguistic skills: reading comprehension, oral comprehension, speaking and writing. Themes tackled include daily activities, lodging, travelling, city life, physical descriptions etc. Study-unit Aims: - To improve students' speaking skills by training them in a range of communicative scenarios through speech acts; - To improve students' listening skills by exposing them to level-appropriate dialogues; - To improve students' writing skills by training them in grammar, vocabulary and written layout for basic correspondence; - To improve students' reading skills by exposing them to a range of level-appropriate texts. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Use a greater variety of verbs and tenses in a communicative context; - Tell the time in French and use expressions of time; - Use vocabulary related to daily activities, leisure, city life; - Give directions and use prepositions of place; - Answer a phone conversation in French. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Follow speech which is carefully articulated, with pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning; - Understand instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions; - Understand short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required; - Ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics; - Write a string of short simple sentences. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Totem 1, Livre de l’élève A1, Hachette 2014 - Totem 1, Cahier d’activités A1, Hachette 2014 - Alter Ego + 1, Méthode de Français, Livre de l'élève, Hachette 2012. - Alter Ego + 1, Cahier d’Activités. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: FRE1500 or equivalent | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Anna Scicluna |
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