French - Treshold level (B1) - Pronunciation and speaking techniques

Teacher(s)

Briet Geneviève coordinator; Rassart Emmanuelle;

Language

French

Prerequisites

To take this class, the student must be enrolled at the same semester in the general course LFRAN 1301, or having achieved previously a minimum mark of 10/20 on the course LFRAN1301.
Any request for derogation should be made to the Head of French Department

Main themes

Reading with expression, make a short presentation about her/his backgroung or about somebody else, make an oral annuncement, play a short scene, make phone calls, leave a message on a voicemail, narrate a story real or imaginary, describe feelings and reactions, give personal views in an informal discussion.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this course, the student is supposed to be able to : be conscious of all the settings involved in oral communication (language, voice, body, space) have increased her/his French pronunciation (sounds, rythm, articulation, intonation) respect more, when speaking, the French phrase structure express her/himself in a clearer and more intelligible way, in daily life situations

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

The course presents in a progressive way several oral situation of everyday life (speak about her/his background, make phone calls, give personal views).

Thanks to varied exercises, students will become more conscious of all the settings involved in oral communication (language, body, voice, space).

They will speak on a regular basis to arise her/his French pronunciation (sounds, rhythm, articulation, intonation), and her/his French syntax.

Teaching methods

Each class counts 3 parts :

1. After some relaxation work, the first part consists in a technical warm up (rythm, intonation, phonetics, body language)
2. During the second part, students will discover an oral situation (annoncement, phone call) and the vocabulary and linguistic structures related to it
3. During the third part, the students will make several spoken productions related to the situation discovered formerly, or practice his ability to speak in front of an audience

This class requires a regular work at home. Every week, the student will prepare a grammatical and/or lexical point. She:he will also have several oral homework using the voice recording application Voxopop.

Evaluation methods

During the semester (50 %)

• Active participation to the classes = 10 %
• Tests = 20 %
• Oral exercices = 20 %

Final test (oral) = 50 %

1. Non prepared interaction
2. Presentation (2 minutes)
3. Interpretation of a literary piece

Other information

This course corresponds to the BI level of the Common European Framework  of Reference of the Council of Europe

Online resources

Moodle UCL

Bibliography

Syllabus (en vente à l'ILV)

Faculty or entity

ILV