Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to written reports and recordings only. Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs) will be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application.

Material

Required and Recommended Texts

• Required:

  • Défi 3 – Défi 3/B1 Hybrid Livre élève & eBook code ISBN: 9788419236562 (will be used in French Studies 4 as well). The hybrid edition of the textbook includes a 12-month access code to the digital resources of this manual on the espace virtual platform (interactive manual and workbook, videos, audio files, self-correcting exercises, etc.). If you wish to prefer to work on a hard copy of the workbook, you may wish to purchase it separately: Défi 3 – Cahier d’exercices + MP3 téléchargeables ISBN: 9788417249670. 

• Recommended for extension work: Grammaire essentielle du français B2, Bourmayan et al., Editions Didier (will be required in French Studies 5 and 6).

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This unit prepares students to the Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Level B1 reflects the Threshold Level specification for a visitor to a foreign country and is perhaps most categorised by two features. The first feature is the ability to maintain interaction and get across what they want to, in a range of contexts, for example: generally follow the main points of extended discussion around him/her, provided speech is clearly articulated in standard dialect; give or seek personal views and opinions in an informal discussion with friends; express the main point they want to make comprehensively; exploit a wide range of simple language flexibly to express much of what they want to; maintain a conversation or discussion but may sometimes be difficult to follow when trying to say exactly what they would like to; keep going comprehensively, even though pausing for grammatical and lexical planning and repair is very evident, especially in longer stretches of free production.

The second feature is the ability to cope flexibly with problems in everyday life, for example cope with less routine situations on public transport; deal with most situations likely to arise when making travel arrangements through a third-party or when actually travelling; enter unprepared into conversations on familiar topics; make a complaint; take some initiatives in an interview/consultation (e.g. to bring up a new subject); ask someone to clarify or elaborate what they have just said.