Description

Having an intermediate knowledge of a language is important in order to access better jobs, so the B1 university certificate in French is essential if the candidate wishes to direct their career towards French-speaking environments. In addition, adding this language to the resume provides a distinction that is not available to candidates who opt for more common languages such as Spanish or English.

More than 20% of current job openings in management, marketing and customer service require a second language. Get certified with TECH and increase your employability"

You will have access to better job offers, and may even be eligible for work programs abroad, as French is the official language in more than 20 countries"

 

A personal examiner will give you the option to take the exam when you want, giving you the greatest flexibility.

It is proven that learning languages increases your intelligence. Learning a foreign language strengthens the brain's neural networks”

José Antonio Marina. 
Philosopher, writer, and teacher.
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Objectives

Listening comprehension objectives

The candidate is able to:

  • Understand concrete everyday or work-related information and identify both the general message and specific details as long as the speech is clearly articulated and with a normal accent 
  • Understand the main ideas of clear, standard speech on everyday topics related to work, school or leisure time, including short narratives. 
  • Generally follow the main ideas of a long discussion going on around them, provided that the discourse is clearly articulated at a standard language level 
  • Understand, in general terms, simple and short speeches on everyday topics provided they are delivered with standard and clear pronunciation 
  • Understand a lecture or talk that deals with their area of expertise, provided that the subject matter is familiar and the presentation is simple and clearly structured 
  • Understand simple technical information, such as operating instructions for frequently used appliances, as well as follow detailed instructions 
  • Understand the main ideas of radio news and other simpler recorded material dealing with everyday topics delivered relatively slowly and clearly. 
  • Understand the information content of most recorded or broadcast material related to topics of personal interest with clear standard pronunciation 

Reading comprehension objectives

The candidate is able to:

  • Read simple factual texts on topics related to their field of expertise with a satisfactory level of comprehension 
  • Understand the description of facts, feelings and wishes in personal letters well enough to correspond regularly with a foreign friend. 
  • Find and understand relevant information in everyday written material, such as letters, catalogs, and short official documents. 
  • Consult long texts in order to find the desired information and know how to gather information from different parts of a text or from different texts in order to perform a specific task. 
  • Recognize significant ideas from simple newspaper articles that deal with everyday issues 
  • Identify the main conclusions in clearly argumentative texts. Recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented, though not necessarily in full detail 
  • Understand simple, clearly written instructions related to an appliance 
  • Understand many films where visuals and action drive much of the storyline and are articulated clearly and with a simple level of Language 
  • Capture the main ideas of television programs dealing with everyday topics when they are articulated relatively slowly and clearly 

Speaking objectives

The candidate is able to:

  • Carry out, with a reasonable degree of fluency, a simple description of a variety of topics that are of interest to them, presenting them as a linear sequence of elements 
  • Give simple descriptions on a variety of common topics within your specialty  
  • Give simple narratives or descriptions , with a reasonable degree of fluency following a linear sequence of elements 
  • Make detailed accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions.  
  • Report the details of unpredictable events, such as, for example, an accident 
  • Relate book or movie plots and describe your reactions to them 
  • Describe dreams, hopes and ambitions 
  • Describe real or imagined events. Tell stories 
  • Provide brief rationales and explanations for opinions, plans and actions. 
  • Develop arguments well enough so that they can be understood without difficulty most of the time. 
  • Make short rehearsed statements on a relevant topic within their specialty, which are clearly intelligible despite being accompanied by an unmistakably foreign accent and intonation 
  • Deliver a brief, prepared presentation on a topic within their specialty, with sufficient clarity to be followed without difficulty most of the time and whose main ideas are explained with reasonable accuracy. Can also answer supplemental questions, but may have to ask for repetition if spoken quickly 

Writing objectives

The candidate is able to:

  • Write simple, cohesive texts on a range of everyday topics within their field of interest, linking a series of different short items in a linear sequence 
  • Write simple and detailed descriptions of a range of everyday topics within their specialty 
  • Write accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions in simple, structured texts  
  • Write a description of a specific event, a recent trip, real or imagined, and narrate a story. 
  • Write very brief reports in conventional format with information about common events and the reasons for certain actions 
  • Write short and simple essays on topics of interest. Can summarize, communicate and offer their opinion with a certain degree of confidence on concrete facts related to everyday matters, whether usual or not, in their field of expertise. 

CEFR B1 French Exam

TECH Technological University, through its School of Languages, offers its students a level test adjusted to the standard established by the European Framework of Reference for Languages. In this way, students obtain a certificate of recognition that is valid before any public or private body. For this specific case, the CEFR B1 French Exam addresses the qualification of skills such as, first, identifying communicative intentions, essential information and relevant details in speeches, debates, lectures, instructions and narratives. And second, expressing oneself appropriately, effectively and with reasonable fluency, accuracy and correctness in a wide range of situations, narrating and describing experiences, feelings and events, conveying information and justifying one's opinions.

Get your own CEFR qualification

To accredit a language corresponds to demonstrating through a proficiency exam that one possesses a certain level of linguistic competence in a specific language. This exam, to that extent, leads to the accreditation of B1 French. A language that, according to the most recent measurements, has more than 200 million French speakers and, therefore, represents a significant window of job opportunities for those who add the certification to their curriculum vitae. It should also be noted that French is the language of international organizations such as the Red Cross, the UN, Unesco, the IMF and the European Union.