040404 UK French - Business Communication in the Second Foreign Language I (2021W)

AIMS
The course is an introduction to French business communication for intermediate learners. It prepares students for the oral and written requirements in the French-speaking world of work.
Language level achieved: B1.2 (Business French)

Didactic goals
Improve receptive and productive language skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking, interaction and monologue)
Develop job-related skills and build up business vocabulary
Master the basic rules of pronunciation
Know the basic rules of grammar and apply them correctly

CONTENT
Textbook: Units 1 to 6

Topics / competences
Get to know a new work environment: get to know new employees, report on the first month of work, present the premises of a company, and integrate yourself into your new work environment.
Advertise for products and services: describe IT tools, advertise products and services, present the history of a company / a product / a service, offer a service.
Organize your work: make appointments and plan, explain how to organize your work, discuss problems / difficulties in the work organization, take part in meetings, and write simple minutes of the meeting
Sell products and services: conduct a survey, hold a business conversation, discuss terms of sale.
Working abroad: Talking about your professional career and motivations, organizing a business trip, dealing with problems during the trip, writing a final report.
Participate in professional events: prepare a professional event, invite, give a simple speech and write a final report.

GRAMMAR
Révision des temps à l´indicatif : présent, présent continu, futur proche, futur, passé récent, imparfait, passé composé.
Révision de l´impératif présent.

Futur : futur simple, futur antérieur
Passé : passé composé, imparfait, plus-que-parfait
Accord du participe passé (1)
Conditionnel présent
Subjonctif présent
Voix passive
Participe présent et gérondif
Hypothèse : si + imparfait + conditionnel présent
Discours indirect au présent
Indicateurs temporels : quand, lorsque, une fois que, dès, dès que, aussitôt que, à partir de.
Liens logiques : expression de la cause et de la conséquence
Expressions de la durée et du but
Pronoms indéfinis
Pronoms possessifs
Pronoms compléments (rappel)
Pronoms compléments : en et y
Adjectifs et pronoms indéfinis : tout, quelqu´un, personne, rien, quelque chose
Pronoms relatifs : qui, que, où, dont
Place de l´adjectif qualificatif
Superlatif
Adverbes en –ment
Interrogation à la forme soutenue
Expressions impersonnelles suivie de l´infinitif

METHOD
Communicative, interactive and action-oriented lessons
Simulations, role plays, case studies
Grammar in context

AIMS
The course is an introduction to French business communication for intermediate learners. It prepares students for the oral and written requirements in the French-speaking world of work.
Language level achieved: B1.2 (Business French)

Didactic goals
Improve receptive and productive language skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking, interaction and monologue)
Develop job-related skills and build up business vocabulary
Master the basic rules of pronunciation
Know the basic rules of grammar and apply them correctly

CONTENT
Textbook: Units 1 to 6
Topics / competences
Get to know a new work environment: get to know new employees, report on the first month of work, present the premises of a company, integrate yourself into your new work environment.
Advertise for products and services: describe IT tools, advertise products and services, present the history of a company / a product / a service, offer a service.
Organize your work: make appointments and plan, explain how to organize your work, discuss problems / difficulties in the work organization, take part in meetings, write simple minutes of the meeting
Sell products and services: conduct a survey, hold a business conversation, discuss terms of sale.
Working abroad: Talking about your professional career and motivations, organizing a business trip, dealing with problems during the trip, writing a final report.
Participate in professional events: prepare a professional event, invite, give a simple speech, write a final report.

GRAMMAR
Révision des temps à l´indicatif : présent, présent continu, futur proche, futur, passé récent, imparfait, passé composé.
Révision de l´impératif présent.
Futur : futur simple, futur antérieur
Passé : passé composé, imparfait, plus-que-parfait
Accord du participe passé (1)
Conditionnel présent
Subjonctif présent
Voix passive
Participe présent et gérondif
Hypothèse : si + imparfait + conditionnel présent
Discours indirect au présent
Indicateurs temporels : quand, lorsque, une fois que, dès, dès que, aussitôt que, à partir de.
Liens logiques : expression de la cause et de la conséquence
Expressions de la durée et du but
Pronoms indéfinis
Pronoms possessifs
Pronoms compléments (rappel)
Pronoms compléments : en et y
Adjectifs et pronoms indéfinis : tout, quelqu´un, personne, rien, quelque chose
Pronoms relatifs : qui, que, où, dont
Place de l´adjectif qualificatif
Superlatif
Adverbes en –ment
Interrogation à la forme soutenue
Expressions impersonnelles suivie de l´infinitif

METHOD
Communicative, interactive and action-oriented lessons
Simulations, role plays, case studies
Grammar in context