Course Capsule: Selected lessons from Cosmopolite3-B1 (Text book) to introduce advanced grammar structures, expressions and vocabulary and writing skills: Reading comprehension on selective authentic texts from the text book, newspapers, magazines, conversations on audio, video material, letter writing (letter of motivation, complaint..etc), professional portfolios, job interviews employment and talk about work experiences, and compose argumentative essays, monologues and introduce basic methods of translation from French to Sinhala/ English and vice-versa, language registers, translate sentences French to Sinhala/ English and vice-versa, translate cultural proverbs, translate Non-Literary texts, (translate a menu, train schedule, dialogues on real-life situations, cartoons…etc), translate literary extracts (novel, short stories, poems …etc), interpret simple French documentaries in Sinhala / English and vice-versa,
Course Aim: To introduce advanced grammar rules and structures, expressions and vocabulary to enhance students’ ability to apply grammar rules in reading, writing, listening and speaking in B1 Level -advanced User (CEFR) enabling the students to demonstrate understanding of variety texts given, to prepare students to compose formal documents, to develop skills to handle formal conversations, to enhance ability to compose argumentative essays, to prepare argumentative monologues, to respond in writing and in orally to audios documents in B1 level and to To introduce basic methods of translating written documents, audios and videos; to demonstarte proficiency in French Language through translating various types of texts from different genres, to enhance the application of grammar structures learnt, the basic knowledge and practice in translation from source language to target language, to enhance reading, writing and oral competencies in B1 level- advance user (CEFR), to enhance skills required in translation to become professional translators in future.
Course ILOs:
After completing of this course, the students will be able to:
- use grammatically accurate sentenses in writing and in oral.
- respond in writing and in orally to variety of advanced text.
- prepare argumentative documents.
- select suitable words, grammar structures, idioms, proverbs …etc which correspond as closely as possible to the source text and comprehensible to the target text.
- translate a literary/non-literary text, documentaries in writing and in oral context.
- assess skills required to become future professional translators.
- communicate successfully in French at level B1 (CEFR) demonstrating skills of all four competencies; Reading, writing, speaking and listening