FRENCH LANGUAGE

The French Language course involves the attainment and / or strengthening of the communicative functions and the corresponding morpho-syntactic structures suitable for achieving a know-how, in terms of oral and written competences, related to the sectoral tourism sector. Outgoing language skills must be at level B1 (CEFR)

The educational objectives, expressed according to the Dublin Descriptors, are the following:

Applied knowledge and understanding (DD2) -

- Link the methodological contents learned to the interpretation of sectoral texts.

Autonomy of judgment (DD3) -

- knowing how to formulate the training request

Communication skills (DD4) -

- Knowing how to communicate projects and the meaning of one's actions.

- Knowing how to comment, dialogue, negotiate and argue.

- Knowing how to write written texts of various kinds.

Learning ability (DD5) -

Knowing how to identify your training needs

The teaching methods proposed will be mainly those of integrated teaching with participatory lessons and cooperative activities to stimulate motivation, confrontation and active participation; lectures will mainly focus on the stages of systematization and meta-linguistic reflection

Attendance at the
lessons of the general and lettorato course is highly recommended.

The course includes analysis of authentic or didactic documents and activities on general communication functions and related to the tourism sector (take contact; accueillir; renseigner; promouvoir un site; réserver, vendre, annuler un produit touristique; the courriel); linguistic reflection on the morpho-syntactic structures (genre, nombre et place du nom et de the adjectif; adjectives et pronoms possessifs, demonstratifs et personnels simples et doubles; pronoms relatifs; the interrogation, the négation, the comparaison; indicatif présent, passé composé, imparafait; futur; condictionnel; subjonctif présent; cheques emplois des modes et des temps; gallicismes; passive forms connecteurs spatio-temporels); description of the main types of tourism and professional categories. The in-depth course includes activities on the presentation of places of interest and monuments, in order to start the students on a personal tourist presentation to be presented during the exam.

- S.Corbeau, Ch Dubois; J.-L.Penfornis; Tourisme.com, Français professionnel, Cle International, Paris, 2013.

- L.Parodi, M.Vallacco, Grammathèque grammatica contrastiva per italiani + Grammathèque exercices, Cideb, Torino, 2014.

 -Lecture notes and indepth dossiers will be publised on Studium

The exam includes a written test and an oral test. The two tests take place on the same day, except in the case in which, exceptionally, there is an excessive number of booked. The positive outcome of the written test determines access to the oral exam. The written test includes: a written comprehension; grammar exercises for transformation and completion; written production on tourist services (internship request, booking of tourist services, proposals for visits). The oral exam includes: the exhibition of a personal touristic production, presentation of localities, circuits, monuments, of the territory; ascertaining the acquisition of the skills and contents envisaged in the programming; the exposition of the geographical and cultural aspects of a French locality, treated during the lectorate exercises.

 The evaluation criteria that are followed for the exam are set out:

- Communication skills

- Knowledge of the topics covered

- Ability to organize and rework knowledge

- Linguistic and phonetic correctness

- Lexical adequacy

The final mark of the entire course will derive from the average of the marks obtained in the three parts (written test, interview with the reader, interview with the teacher in charge of the course).

Written test: reading comprehension questions, closed and open; transformation exercises eg. Transform to the interrogative form with inversion Les touristes ont visité l'église, ex. transforms Les romains ont construit le temple to the passive form; completion exercises eg. Complete with the tense indicated Ils (passé composé faire) .............. le tour de la ville; Write a booking e-mail based on the data elements (destination, date, stopover, company).

Oral exam: Presentation of a tourist presentation prepared by the candidate. Sample questions about the program: Quels sont les types de tourisme ?; Those sont les qualités que doit have a guide / animateur ?; Faites une annonce de départ à partir des éléments du panneau of information; What sont les villes les plus touristiques de la France?

A model of the written test is available on Studium in the lettorato folder.