The French language and culture’s undergraduate courses I is offered to the students of the Ionian University’s Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology and is focused on the development of reading and listening comprehension skills, French grammatical structures and related vocabulary/terminology. Our aim is to offer courses that meet the students’ needs and learning objectives. As a result, the aforementioned linguistic competence levels are indicative and can be modified according to the students’ needs.

• Introduction to the French culture.
• Understanding of the written and spoken language, written and oral expression.
• Basic vocabulary.

Students learn to present themselves and their family members, ask simple questions, understand words, practice writing sentences and phrases correctly, produce short/standard texts, pay attention to verb agreement, conjugation and sentence structure.

Week #1: Approaching grammar (simple present, present continuous, personal, relative and possessive pronouns) and applying it on relevant exercises. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #2: Approaching grammar (articles, nouns, simple past, past continuous, and relevant past tense phenomena) and applying it on related exercises. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #3: Approaching grammar (present perfect simple, present perfect continuous) and applying it on related exercises. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #4: Approaching grammar (past perfect simple, past perfect continuous) and applying it on related exercises. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #5: Revision of past weeks’ material and discussion in French on a selected topic. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #6: Provision of graded reading material for beginners, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #7: Continue dealing with the aforementioned reading material, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of the theory, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #8: Continue dealing with the aforementioned reading material, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of text production, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #9: Continue dealing with the aforementioned reading material, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of text production, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #10: Provision of new graded reading material for pre-intermediate level, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of text production, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #11: Continue dealing with the aforementioned reading material, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of text production, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #12: Continue dealing with the aforementioned reading material, aiming to approach new vocabulary and grammar found in the given material and to help students comprehend written speech. Use of audiovisual material, in order to help students familiarize with French speech use (10-minute videos), accompanied by comprehension questions. Weekly assignment for a more practical application of text production, which shall be turned in within a deadline pre-determined by the instructor.

Week #13: Review of the course and discussion on the course content throughout the term. Suggestions for improvement, changes and what could be approached during the next term.

• Grégoire, M., Grammaire progressive du Français, Niveau Débutants, CLE International, Paris: 2004.
• Apartian S., Bertin N., Prêts…Partez!!!, Le Livre Ouvert, 2016.
• http://enseigner.tv5monde.com/
• http://www.culturetheque.com/EXPLOITATION/GR/
• http://www.ifa.gr/fr/
• https://www.lemonde.fr/
• Αdditional folder: grammar rules/ exercises and vocabulary exercises.

The course duration is three hours and aims to introduce students to a more systematic use of the French language, in order to be prepared for approaching foreign literature related to their studies in the following years. The use of literary texts which corresponds to students’ level is also suggested, in order to enable their contact with the language’s cultural elements.

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• exercises in class, during the semester
• project (optional)
• academic essay (optional)

Students final assessment and grading is carried out through written exams. The students are expected to apply the course’s learning material on exercises of relevant content (text-grammar-vocabulary-text production).