Prerequisites: students are expected already to possess a B1.1 knowledge of French (Common European Framework of Reference).

This course aims at bringing students to level B2.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, through the formal study of French, as well as through the critical analysis of realia and documents pertaining to the professions involved in tourism and tourism-related activities.
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Programma del corso
Title: French language and culture for cross-cultural communication in the sectors of tourism and related activities.

Content of the lessons

By the end of this course students are expected to develop the macro ability of planning and managing guided tours for French-speaking tourists. For this purpose a choice of realia and documents focusing on the tourist industry, hospitality services and the guide business will be introduced for analysis and discussion. Case studies will focus on the management of tourism-related enterprises in France. Students will be encouraged autonomously to access and collect tourism-related information (online and in libraries and centres of documentation) and make use of this information in a variety of simulated activities that will develop their linguistic and professional competencies. Acquiring the ability to make practical use of guidebooks, catalogues, ads, legal and legislative documents, etc. will, in fact, help students prepare for lifelong learning in any tourism-related activity.

Linguistic content

The students' knowledge of French grammar (phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax) as well as the pragmatics of contemporary French usage will be revised and further studied in depth.
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• 1.  (C) A) F. Bidaud - Grammaire du français pour italophones utet università, torino, 2012 » Pagine/Capitoli: 448 pp

• Metodi didattici
  Classes will be in French; the relation existing between French language and culture will be explored. Tourism-related realia will be used as a starting point for discussion and analysis, as well as for the acquisition of French.
  
  A) Learning to handle, with ever greater sophistication, French discourse structures, as well as developing intercultural communicative competence in simulated cross-cultural activities, will be achieved thanks to the coordination between this course and the practical language activities carried out in the ULC. .
  
  B) The real-life documents used as the basis of the course will be rich in tourism-related terminology. Reading skills as well as the skills necessary for an active production of textual materials will be strengthened trough group activities:
  
  - Introduction to the main issues pertaining to the tourism industry;
  - reading and discussions in French;
  - production of papers on tourism-related topics.

• Modalità di valutazione
  
  
  Final exam: grades will be zero through thirty. This exam will consist of three parts:
  
  1) a discussion in French on any of the various issues that have been raised (or texts that have been read) in class.
  
  2) Reading and explanation of one of the French texts that have been studied;
  
  3) Grammar questions concerning rules and linguistic features found in the text.
  
  The overall grade will be calculated as the average of the mid-term and the final examination grades.