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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
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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