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Course Outline - RGSL Intranet Portal
Course Outline Course number RBE229 Course title French Beginner II Credit points 2 CP (3 ECTS) Total hours 30 Lecture hours 0 Seminar and other hours 30 Course level Bachelor Prerequisites RBE159 French Beginner I (A1 level) Category Mandatory Restricted elective Free elective X COURSE TEACHERS No. 1 Name Jeļena Vladimirska Academic degree PhD Academic position Visiting Professor COURSE ABSTRACT The course is intended for students who have basic knowledge in French and able to use it in situations of elementary communication: to introduce themselves, to complete a registration form, to start and to maintain a basic conversation in French about a work, travel, interests, etc.., to book airline or train tickets, to book a hotel room, make contact by phone, write a simple email. The task of the present course is to deepen the knowledge of French while developing the skills to use in casual situations as well as in such areas as entrepreneurship and trade. Students acquire basic knowledge in written and oral business communication; develop the skills to use French in professional communication, address issues of style in the language of business. At the end of the course, students should arrive at A 1 plus - A2 level of knowledge of French. COURSE OBJECTIVES Students will develop the following skills: Intellectual: • understanding and using of casual and specific business vocabulary of French in different sectors (business, marketing, law, etc.). • ability to communicate in French in professional context as well as in pragmatic situations of communication Academic: • ability to speak French on casual and professional topics; • ability to write emails, applications, CVs, motivation letters, and to work with documents written in French; • acquire fundamental French grammar, syntax and vocabulary and to be able to pass to A2 level. Interpersonal: • to work in teams; • to understand the rules of the French business communication; • to act in the international context. GRADING CRITERIA Criteria Weighting Exam 50% Tests (2) 50% COURSE PLAN – MAIN SUBJECTS No. 1 Main subjects Subject : Booking: how to choose and to book a room, a flat, an office. Planned hours 6 Grammar: les adjectifs qualitatifs, le passé compose, l’interrogation de forme standard, les pronoms complément d’objet direct le, la, l’, les 2 Subject: casual practical life: shops, restaurants, food, daily activities. 6 Business lunch or dinner. Grammar: les partitifs et les quantitatifs, les démonstratifs, les pronoms interrogatifs, les comparatifs. 3 Subject: searching for employment. How to write an application, CV, 6 motivation letter. Job interview Grammar: pronoms relatifs, la forme passive et la forme active, l’impératif, verbes irréguliers. 4 Subject: Planning of a day, professional activity planning, organisational 6 work: how to organize business partner visit in your company. Grammar: les verbes pronominaux, le future simple, les formes impersonnelles, les pronoms complements d’objet indirects lui/leur 5 Subject: how to open an account in a bank; to visit to a doctor; to 6 declare a lost luggage. Grammar: le conditionnel, le pronom en, le passé composé et l’imparfait, le subjonctif. 2 COURSE PLAN – SESSIONS Session 1 Session subjects and readings Lecture/seminar Subject : Booking: how to choose and to book a room, a flat, an Seminar office. Vocabulary acquisition. 2 Vocabulary acquisition in situation of communication. Grammar: les Seminar adjectifs qualitatifs, le passé compose 3 L’interrogation de forme standard, les pronoms complément d’objet Seminar direct le, la, l’, les 4 Subject: usual practice life: shops, restaurants, food, daily activities. Seminar 5 Business lunch or dinner. Grammar: les partitifs et les quantitatifs Seminar 6 Vocabulary acquisition in situation of communication. Grammar : les Seminar démonstratifs, les pronoms interrogatifs, 7 Subject: research of employ. How to write an application, CV, Seminar motivation letter. 8 Grammar: pronoms relatifs, la forme passive et la forme active. Test. Seminar 9 Grammar :l’impératif, verbes irréguliers. Job interview. Seminar 10 Job interview : situation simulation. Grammar: les comparatifs. Seminar 11 Subject: Planning of a day, professional activity planning. Grammar: Seminar les verbes pronominaux, le future simple. 12 Subject: organisational work: haw to organize your business partner Seminar visit in your company. Grammar : les formes impersonnelles, les pronoms complements d’objet indirects lui/leur 13 Grammar review. Test. Seminar 14 Subject: haw to open an account in a bank; haw to declare a lost Seminar baggage. Grammar: le conditionnel, le pronom en, le passé composé et l’imparfait, le subjonctif. 15 A visit to a doctor; Grammar : le passé complsé et l’imparfait (review), Seminar le subjonctif. COURSE LITERATURE No. Author, title, publisher 1 Objectif express 1, Hachette, Paris, 2005 2 Affaires.com, CLE International, Paris, 2000 3 Vocabulaire progressif du français des affaires, CLE International, Paris, 2004. 4 http://www.lepointdufle.net/ 5 Course compendium with additional materials 3