Teaching program - Advanced level - Stay of 1 to 7 weeks
DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING SKILLS
DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES
WEEK
1
Evaluation test
Past tenses (Imperfect past tense Plus perfect)
Direct and indirect pronouns
Development of basic communicative functions :
Telling an event / a story based on an audio or a visual document
Narrating past events
Identifying people / things
Expressing time / duration
Developing linguistic reflex
Working on pronunciation
Practicing selective reading : grasping and restituting information from all audio or written document and answering according to a specific questionnaire
French culture and civilization
Role plays
Creating a TV news program based on articles from the press
Restituting a story from pictures or mime
Listening to common dialogues or movie excerpts
Game :
The alibi
The mysterious character
Find the city
Oral report on a subject chosen in class
Debates / exchanges of ideas after viewing TV documentaries
WEEK 2
The imperative and subjunctive
Relative pronouns QUI - QUE - DONT - OU - LEQUEL - DUQUEL
development of basic communicative functions :
Expressing opinions and feelings
Expressing a wish, a necessity
Using idiomatic expressions and language structures
Facilitating spontaneous expressions
Understanding specialized documents and being able to convey the information
Culture and civilization
Role plays
Using virtual aids: associating images and ideas (ex : working on advertisement)
Debates (1/1 or 2/2) on a current subject in the news
Group work: « the trial »
Exercise in selective listening completing information (a song, a text, a dialogue)
Deciphering and reporting about statistics gathered in a board or diagram
WEEK 3
Conditional present and past
Hypothetical sentences
Consequence expression
The present participle
The gerund
Development of basic communicative functions :
Understanding dialogues in films and documentaries, TV news, the lyrics of a song
Developing fluency
Discussion within a formal environment (politeness)
Language registers: Improving elocution and getting the correct intonation
Writing a letter of advice to a friend
Preparing surveys on a theme + interviews in town + report in class
Creating a tourist report about Antibes
Role plays
Working on French films :
Guessing the picture from the sound track
Creating a story from a few movie excerpts selected by the teacher