Exercises in French Syntax

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Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquiring a complex theoretical knowledge of the grammatical system related to syntax of a French sentence.
- Acquiring a complex theoretical knowledge of the grammatical system related to verb tenses in French language – similarities and differences in verb tenses in both the source and target language, impersonal verb forms and verb periphrases.
- Acquiring the knowledge of specific phenomena in the French language (verbs with prepositions, periphrases, the subjunctive mode, etc.).
Competences:
- Acquiring the ability to distinguish between the formation and use of different verb tenses in the source and target language.
- Acquiring the ability to actively distinguish between the functioning of verb tenses in the source and target language given the different typology of the source and target language.
- Acquiring the competence to use and apply syntactical rules related to verbs.
Skills:
- Acquiring the ability to actively apply the acquired theoretical knowledge when working with a text.
- Acquiring the ability to implement the acquired morphosyntactic principles related to verbs in one’s own speech in the target language at both oral and written level.

Indicative content

- Present tense of indicative and subjunctive.
- Verbs with subjunctive.
- Prepositional rections of verbs.
- Impersonal verb forms and peripherals.
- Past tenses – differences in the use of individual past tenses.
- Passive voice.
- Subordinate clauses.

Support literature

Required:
1. AKYÜZ, A., BAZELLE-SHAHMAEI, B., et al.: Exercices de grammaire B1. Paris:
Hachette FLE, 2019. ISBN 9782014016345
2. AKYÜZ, A., BAZELLE-SHAHMAEI, B., et al.: Exercices de grammaire B2. Paris:
Hachette FLE, 2019. ISBN 9782014016352
Optional:
1. GOOSE, A., GREVISSE, M.: Le bon usage. Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck Supérieur, 2016.
ISBN 9782807300699
2. GREVISSE, M., KALINOWSKA, I.-M.: La phrase. Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck
Supérieur, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8011-1748-4

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40 %
Final evaluation: 60 %

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

French

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 07.05.2022