French - Grammar - Objective A2

lfran1205  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

French - Grammar - Objective A2
3.00 credits
30.0 h
Q1 or Q2
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Teacher(s)
Masuy Françoise (coordinator);
Language
French
Prerequisites
To take this course, students must have reached the level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This should be attested by
  • The A1 placement test organised by the ILV at the start of the four-month course OR
  • A recent DELF A1 certificate (maximum 1 year) OR
  • Previous success in LFRAN1001 or LFRAN1211 or LFRAN1201 or LFRAN1221 or
  • Concurrently follow the general course LFRAN1201 or LFRAN1221 at the same level.
Main themes
Level A2 themes (elementary user cfr. CEFR)
Basic situations and interactions in everyday life: introductions, leisure, travel, housing, health, meals, shopping.travel.
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

By the end of this course, students will be able to identify and use the following in speaking and writing:
 
Verb morphology
  • number and person forms of the indicative: être, avoir, aller, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, savoir, venir, dire, faire, comprendre, connaitre, verbs in -er and other very common verbs
  • common forms of the present imperative (persons 2 and 5)
  • values and main uses of the present indicative, imperative, past compound, near future and future simple tenses
 
Morphology of nouns and adjectives
  • the gender of the most common nouns
  • gender and number marks for adjectives and nouns
 
Morphology of determiners and pronouns
  •  
  • Determiners le, la, l', le ; ce, cet, cette, ces ; un, une, des ; du, de la, de l', des
  • Possessive determiners mon, ton, votre, ...
  • Tonic personal pronouns moi, toi, lui, elles, eux
  • Direct and indirect personal pronoun complements in persons 1, 2, 4, 5 me, te, nous, vous
  • The values of on
  • ça, celui-ci, celle-là 
 
Simple sentence structures
  • Questioning
  • Negation
 
Content
This course is designed to reinforce grammatical knowledge and skills at A2 level. It is divided into several thematic units.
Each session begins with the discovery of a corpus of grammatical forms. This is followed by a variety of tasks involving comprehension, analysis and appropriation of the targeted grammatical objective. The resulting reservoir of structures is used to (inter)act in French, with the aim of achieving a specific task.
Teaching methods
This course adopts an active learning pedagogy: in a dynamic set of practices, students will develop their knowledge and skills by interacting with a contextualized grammar, while taking an analytical and reflective look at it. Students have the opportunity to make choices and express themselves in activities. These activities are varied: drawing, diagramming, acting, manipulating, summarizing, playing, imagining, self-assessment, teaching. They enable progress to be made (badges). They take place in a climate of cooperation and encourage learning. Students also have the opportunity to seek out and suggest different sources and learning aids.
Class work is divided into three phases:
  1. revision (presentation and exercises/games) prepared by the student.
  2. discovery of new content and reinvestment in written and/or oral productions based on documents.
  3. recapitulation/summary of new knowledge by the student, using multiple intelligences, games, songs, mind maps, etc.
The course takes place face-to-face, but some sessions could take place on Teams if distance learning offers added pedagogical value.
Evaluation methods
Certification is made up of continuous assessment and examination performance.
Continuous assessment during the term: 50%
  • Written production: 10
  • Language test: 10
  • Oral presentation: 10   
  • Formative tasks on Moodle: 10
  • Attendance and active participation in class: 10
Continuous assessment tasks may not be submitted (for the first time) after the deadline set by the teacher, except in the case of a medical certificate.
Final exam: 50
  • Written exam only
Absence (justified or not) from the examination (or any part thereof) will result in a final mark of absence.
Other information
  • Mandatory class attendance (75% min.)
  • Active participation in class.
Online resources
https://moodle.uclouvain.be
Bibliography
  • Abry D. & Chalaron M.-L.(). La grammaire des tout premiers temps. Presses universitaires de Grenoble.
  • Bérard E. & Lavenne C. (1991). Grammaire utile du français. Hatier/Didier.
  • Capelle G. & Grellet F. (1991). C’est facile à dire ! Recueil d’exercices de grammaire et d’actes de parole. Hatier/Didier.
  • Conseil de l’Europe (2008). Niveau A2 pour le français. Un référentiel, Didier.
  • De Clercq M. (dir). (2020). Oser la pédagogie active. Presses universitaires de Louvain.
  • Dupré Latour S. & de Salins G.-D. (1991). Premiers exercices de grammaire. Hatier/Didier.
  • Grand-Clément  O. (2016). Grammaire en dialogues. Niveau débutant A1. CLE International.
  • Grégoire  M. (2010). Grammaire progressive du français. Niveau débutant. CLE International.
  • Lafon M. & Zeggagh-Wuyts F. (2010). Grammaire en action. Débutant. CLE International.
  • Miquel  C. (2018). Grammaire en dialogues. Niveau débutant A1-A2. CLE International.
  • Petitmengin V. & Fafa  C. (2017). La grammaire en jeux. Presses universitaires de Grenoble.
Faculty or entity
> ILV