| 1. General language competences
Building on French Communicative Skills, students extend knowledge of language learning strategies and communication strategies appropriate to B1.2 level. They are able to produce and understand French at a B1.2 level according to the CEFR.
2. Specific language competences
They can understand the main ideas of complex French texts or podcasts relating to familiar issues of business and economics. They can produce clear, detailed text on an increasing range of business- related issues and a clear oral presentation of issues related to social, business or economics topics. They can give reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various options. They are able to discuss a topical socio-economic issue, examine its various aspects and justify their point of view.
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Learning Outcomes
- Summarise information provided on different media in order to present, in writing or orally, a company (history, performance, prospects....)
- Identify and explain, on the basis of an organisation chart, the functions and responsibilities of a company's various departments; identify the people to contact to answer one’s questions and needs.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of SMEs and large companies for the company itself (performance, management, etc.) and for its employees.
- Express motivations, skills, needs and risks associated with setting up a business.
- Knowledge of the legal forms best suited to a business start-up project.
- Analyse the differences between managers and business leaders.
- The ideal manager : awareness of the different expectations that employees may have of their managers, particularly in a French business context.
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- Oral presentations (detailed and/or in the form of company pitches) and written presentations of companies based on various documents (also oral and written), most of which are authentic: history, activity, performance, prospects. Company pitches: audiences, objectives, techniques
- Company classification: economic criteria (economic sector, branch, size, etc.) and legal criteria (main types of company)
- Internal organisation of companies: organisation charts, departments (missions, tasks, responsibilities)
- SMEs vs large companies: differences, advantages and disadvantages from a managerial and employee point of view.
- Starting a business: skills required, profiles of entrepreneurs, procedures, risks to consider
- Managers and leaders: differences, profile studies of famous examples; management & AI.
- Top French companies, with a focus on the luxury sector
Learning Outcomes
1. Acquisition of knowledge relating to…
… the classification of companies and their internal organisation;
… company start-ups and the various skills that characterise company founders, managers and leaders;
… the main legal forms of company
… the most important groups and sectors of economic activity in the target country (e.g. the luxury goods industry)
2. Acquisition and practice of presentation and argumentation techniques in a professional environment; elaborate and structured oral and written production on a topical socio-economic theme; collection and synthesis of information contained in texts, podcasts, statistics or infographics.
3. Grammar : Questionning with inversion (revision); passé composé vs imparfait; indirect style; passive form, expression of purpose, cause and consequence.
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