FRENCH PART 3: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION I 16.7 3rd year To be advised. 116-214 French Part 2 Language, or equivalent. First semester Three hours a week. Students completing this subject should be able to:
  • understand complex authentic audio-visual materials;
  • perform a range of communicative activities associated with academic, executive and administrative work in national or international institutions;
  • read a novel or a play in French with the same degree of facility as reading a comparable book in English.
Advanced written and spoken communication, advanced comprehension based on authentic audio-visual material and reading which involves a reader-response approach. Written assessment not more than 5,000 words:

Continuous assessment: Practical exercises, tests, drills in written and oral communication, not more than 1,000 words (25 per cent); written language test, not more than 1,000 words (25 per cent); aural and oral tests, not more than 20 minutes (25 per cent); reading journal, not more than 1,500 words (25 per cent).

Judge A. and Healey F. G. A Reference Grammar of Modern French Edward Arnold, A Division of Hodder and Stoughton 1985 FRENCH PART 3 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION I 16.7 To be advised. 116-214 French Part 2 Language, or equivalent. First semester. Three hours each week. Students completing this subject should be able to:
  • understand complex authentic audio-visual materials;
  • perform a range of communicative activities associated with academic, executive and administrative work in national or international institutions;
  • read a novel or a play in French with the same degree of facility as reading a comparable book in English.
Advanced written and spoken communication, advanced comprehension based on authentic audio-visual material and reading which involves a reader-response approach. Written assessment not more than 5,000 words:

Continuous assessment: Practical exercises, tests, drills in written and oral communication, not more than 1,000 words (25 per cent); written language test, not more than 1,000 words (25 per cent); aural and oral tests, not more than 20 minutes (25 per cent); reading journal, not more than 1,500 words (25 per cent).

Vigner G Perspectives, Cours de Perfectionnement Hachette, Paris 1991 Judge A. and Healey F. G. A Reference Grammar of Modern French Edward Arnold, A Division of Hodder and Stoughton 1985