12404 - French Pass/Fail Examination

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: L-LIN/04
  • Language: French
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Management (cod. 0034)

Learning outcomes

French B1 Test provides for the establishment of the following skills:

  • Grammatical knowledge: lexical-morphological
  • Reading comprehension
  • Listening comprehension

Course contents

2.1 Grammar contents:

  • interrogative form
  • the negative sentence
  • regular and irregular verbs (present, imperfect, fiture, conditional)
  • present progressive, future perfect and Passé récent
  • gerundive
  • imperative
  • past participle agreement
  • subjunctive present
  • direct and indirect object pronouns
  • double pronouns
  • pronouns such as: "en" and "y"
  • comparatives and superlatives
  • relative pronouns
  • temporal markers
  • adverbs of place and time
  • indefinites
  • expression of quantity
  • prepositions of place and time
  • hypothetical sentences
  • indirect speech
  • passive form

2.2 Lexical contents:

  • daily life
  • house, food, clothing, means of transport
  • the family
  • free-time
  • travels and holidays
  • culture: cinema, art, theatre, music
  • study
  • work

Readings/Bibliography

  • L. Parodi ; M. Vallacco, Grammaire savoir-faire - Con CD e CD-ROM, CIDEB, 2001
  • L. Parodi; M. Vallaco, Grammathèque, grammatica contrastiva per italiani, CIDEB, Genova, 2003 + livre d'exercices.
  • Francofolie 2 (livre de l'élève + cahier d'exercices + CD élève), CIDEB, 2006
  • Forum 2 (livre de l'élève+cahier d'activité+CD élève), Hachette-Livvre, 2000

Useful links

Students can also use self-learning linguistic laboratories of the CLIRO and its resources: teaching tools, multimedia software, DVD films, satellite, Internet.

Teaching methods

In order to prepare attitude tests, the linguistic center (CLIRO) organizes blended modules made up as follows:

  • Group work (traditional lessons with exercises, activities, grammar and lexical explanations on the base of all the topics of the E-learning Platform)
  • Discussion forums to interact on-line with tutors and other students
  • Exercises and practice through the CLIRO E-learning Platform

Assessment methods

The final exam will consist in a 60 minutes computerised written test.

Sample tests are available on the CLIRO AlfaCert platform. 

Teaching tools

Listening: CDs & DVDs; Students Books & Workbooks; Photocopiable material; Dictionaries; Newspaper articles.

Links to further information

http://www.cliro.unibo.it/portale/corsi/corsi.asp