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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: FREN3102 or FREN1012 or FREN3004
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Excluded: FREN1021, FREN2013
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Description
Consolidation of all skills and initiation to the study of some forms of spoken and written discourse of vocational interest, mainly interview, oral report and short essay. Systematic study of syntax and contemporary French culture.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Initiate and sustain spontaneous conversations on a reasonably wide range of topics, including some of personal and vocational interest
- Use spontaneously and with accuracy a good range of linguistic structures, including all the main tenses and moods (e.g. Present, past tense, future, subjunctive, and conditional)
- Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of these structures (e.g. at a grammar test)
- Explain and synthetise the content of documents from authentic sources (French radio, television, internet, newspapers, and books) through oral and written communication
- Present and develop a point of view, a narrative or some factual information through oral and written communication
- Describe and discuss some current events and issues in francophone societies, related to topics such as food, communication, media, talk show, and multiculturalism
- Compare these behaviours with their counterparts in their culture.
Assessment
- Class work and learning portfolio - 20%
- Four assignments (Video comprehension, oral presentation, reading comprehension, written composition) - 30%
- One grammar test - 10%
- End of session tests (Listening, speaking, reading, writing) - 40%
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