French 2

The course aims to enable students to know and to understand French grammatical structures, in particular complex sentences, and to know and understand formal and semantic structure of French lexicon: recognizing simple and constructed lexical units, being aware of lexical creation processes and loan words; distinguishing between polysemy and homonymy, recognizing the main tropes underlying changes of meaning, analysing key semantic relationships.
Practical language classes objectives: to consolidate and to develop reception, production and interaction at different levels, corresponding to the CEFR levels B1, B1+.

Knowledge: students knows and understands
French grammatical structures and in particular on complex sentences; they know the basics of French lexicology.
Skills: students are able to analyze - including in a contrastive way - the characteristics of French complex phrases, and to master their use to improve written and oral production; they will also expand their active and passive lexical competence.

Skills acquired through Practical language classes
Achievement of B1+ level for all linguistic-communicative activities. Reception: ability to listen and to understand contemporary audiovisual texts in standard French (films, documentaries, television broadcasts); ability to follow (with guidance) French lessons / lectures with argumentative structure; reading and understanding news articles / dossiers in standard French on current issues recognizing the author's attitudes / points of view; reading and understanding contemporary fiction and non-fiction texts.
Production: expressing oneself orally in a clear and correct manner from the point of view of morphosyntax and pronunciation; knowing how to write short clear and detailed texts with the help of a monolingual dictionary, using linguistically correct French with relevant lexical choices.
Interaction: actively participate in conversations / interactions in French on familiar topics (also with reference to texts and films covered by the program).