French I Lesson Objectives Unit 1: BIENVENUE Assignment
Objectives
Bienvenue au monde francophone
Define francophone. Identify the population, size, and capital of France. Identify French-speaking countries and communities.
Les salutations
Compare and contrast how the French and American people greet each other. Explain how the French, Swiss, and Senegalese people greet each other. Identify the appropriate greetings to use in certain situations.
L'alphabet et les accents
Identify letters of the alphabet. Identify and use French accent marks.
Les nombres de 0 à 60
Count from 0 to 60 in French. Identify numbers 0 to 60.
Un pays divers
Explain that France is a diverse country. Compare the diversity between French and American cultures. Explain how France has been influenced by other cultures.
Etre: To Be or Not to Be D'où es-tu ?
Identify and use subject pronouns. Make adjectives agree in number and gender. Use adjectives to describe where people are from.
Masculin ou féminin
Identify the gender of nouns. Identify and use the appropriate definite or indefinite article.
Un autoportrait
Identify and define cognates and false cognates in French. Identify cognates in the reading passage.
Dossier : le monde francophone
Research one particular francophone country in the francophone world.
Révision
Review for the Unit 1 Test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 2: AU LYCÉE Assignment
Objectives
En classe
Identify and use key vocabulary words relating to school.
Les expressions utilisées à l'école
Identify classroom expressions.
Le système éducatif en France
Explain that Senegal's educational system is similar to France's system. Compare and contrast the educational systems in France and in the United States (U.S.).
Les matières
Identify and use key vocabulary words pertaining to school life, schedules, and likes and dislikes.
La construction infinitive
Use the infinitive construction to express likes and dislikes.
Les structures interrogatives
Use interrogative structures to ask yes/no questions in French.
Emploi du temps
Identify and use days of the week to talk about your schedule.
Quelle est la date d'aujourd'hui ?
Identify and express the date in French. Identify common dates important to France and the United States (U.S.).
Les chiffres de 60 à 100
Identify numbers in French from 60 to 100.
Dossier : ton emploi de temps
Write a paragraph about your schedule.
Révision
Review for Unit 2 Test
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 3: LA FAMILLE ET LES AMIS Assignment
Objectives
Les structures familiales en France
Identify the average age when French couples get married. Identify the various familial structures in France. Identify the average number of children in French families.
La famille
Use key vocabulary words to talk about a family. Identify family members.
Les adjectifs possessifs
Use possessive adjectives to indicate possession.
Les expressions interrogatives
Use interrogative expressions to learn information.
Dossier : Votre arbre généalogique
Create a family tree and write a paragraph describing yourself and five of your family members.
Les adjectifs
Compose adjectives that agree in number and gender. Use adjectives to describe a person.
Les adjectifs irréguliers
Analyze and identify the correct form of irregular adjectives.
Les adjectifs qui précèdent le nom
Identify what adjectives are placed before the noun.
Dossier : Un ami idéal
Write three paragraphs describing yourself, an ideal friend, and characteristics of a bad friend
Révision
Review for Unit 3 Test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 4: LES LOISIRS ET LES SPORTS Assignment
Objectives
Les loisirs en France
Explain that leisure activities and sports are an important part of everyday life. Identify the most common leisure activities in France.
Les passe-temps
Identify key vocabulary words pertaining to activities.
Dossier : Un correspondant français
Write a letter in French to a pen pal.
Les sports en France
Identify key information about various sports in France.
Les sports
Identify and analyze sports-related vocabulary.
Plus d'adverbes
Identify and use adverbs to say how well or how often something is done.
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Identify important facts about Marseille, Avignon, and the ProvenceAlpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Dossier : les jeux Olympiques
Identify key information about the Olympic Games. Write a paragraph about the Olympic Games.
Le temps
Express the weather by using key vocabulary words and expressions.
Les saisons
Identify and analyze the four seasons in French. Use the correct preposition when talking about the seasons.
Dossier : Une prévision météorologique
Write a paragraph describing the weather where you live.
Révision
Review for Unit 4 test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 5: LES FÊTES ET LES TRADITIONS Assignment
Objectives
Noël en France
Identify numerous Christmas traditions and festivities in France. Identify and use vocabulary pertaining to Christmas in France.
Les fêtes en France
Identify various holidays celebrated in France and various francophone countries. Explain how learning about a country's holidays gives you insight into the country's culture, traditions, and beliefs.
Faisons la fête!
Identify holidays celebrated in France. Identify key vocabulary words.
Un cadeau d'anniversaire cher. Les chiffres
Identify numbers 100 and higher.
à partir de 100
Express dates in French.
Le carnaval
Identify facts about the carnivals in various countries.
Dossier: Une fête en France
Write a detailed paragraph about a French holiday
La fête nationale de la France
Identify and explain what the National Holiday commemorates. Identify common festivities in France for the National Holiday.
Dossier: Les fêtes nationales
Create a Venn diagram and write a paragraph comparing the French Bastille Day with the American Independence Day.
Joyeux anniversaire !
Identify birthday traditions in France. Identify and use key vocabulary words and phrases pertaining to birthdays.
Les invitations
Identify and use expressions to invite someone. Identify and use expressions to accept and to refuse an invitation.
Les verbes qui changent d'orthographe
Conjugate and identify the correct forms of stem-changing verbs.
Les périodes de la vie
Identify and analyze vocabulary pertaining to the different stages of life.
Les couleurs
Identify various colors and make the adjectives of color agree in both number and gender with the nouns they're describing. Identify expressions of color in French.
Les pronoms complément d'objet direct
Identify direct objects. Replace direct objects with direct object pronouns.
Révison
Review for Unit 5 test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 6: RÉVISION ET CONTRÔLE SEMESTRIEL Assignment
Objectives
Révision
Review and reinforce French 1 concepts from Units 1–5 in preparation for the semester exam.
Unit 7: EN VILLE Assignment
Objectives
Visitons la ville
Identify the main idea when listening to a dialogue or when reading a paragraph about cities and their public buildings. Identify and analyze key vocabulary words.
Les prépositions de lieu
Give directions using key expressions and prepositions of place. Identify key prepositions of place to describe where something is located.
La Bretagne
Identify and analyze key facts about the region of Bretagne.
Dossier : Mon quartier
Draw a picture of your neighborhood, and label your home and other buildings. Describe your neighborhood.
Paris
Identify various monuments, sites, and museums in Paris. Analyze information about the Ile de France region and the capital of France.
Les nombres ordinaux Les moyens de transport
Identify and use ordinal numbers to express rank, position, or location. Use expressions to say how people travel. Explain the various modes of transportation available in France.
Dossier : L'itineraire pour mon voyage à Paris
Write an itinerary describing what you're going to do when you're in Paris.
Révision
Review for Unit 7 test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 8: BON APPÉTIT Assignment
Objectives
Les repas français
Identify key vocabulary pertaining to meals. Explain mealtimes in France and summarize how lunchtime in France has changed.
Faire les courses
Analyze where French people shop. Identify food-related vocabulary.
Les verbes irréguliers en -ir
Explain how the markets have changed in France.
Au café
Identify key vocabulary words.
L'article partitif
Use the partitive article.
Les expressions de quantité
Identify and use expressions of quantity.
Dossier : Recette de crêpes
Translate and summarize a recipe in French.
À table
Identify the order in which a traditional meal is served. Identify key vocabulary.
Au restaurant
Analyze expressions used to order a meal in a restaurant.
Dossier : Au restaurant
Write a review of a restaurant in your city or town.
La cuisine française
Analyze regional cuisines and explain how geography influences those cuisines. Explain how French cuisine has influenced other cultures
Révision
Review for Unit 8 test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 9: LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE Assignment
Objectives
Les vêtements et les couleurs
Identify and explain key information regarding les Galéries Lafayette. Identify and analyze clothes-related vocabulary.
En solde
Identify clothes-related vocabulary. Explain sales in France.
Faisons du shopping
Identify and analyze key expressions for buying clothes in a store.
Dossier : Un défilé de mode
Describe the clothes that people are wearing.
Le look en France
Identify, analyze, and explain fashion trends among adolescents in France. Explain how fashion in France has been influenced by the United States (U.S.).
Dossier : Ton look
Write a paragraph explaining what clothing you wear, your favorite color in clothing, and whether or not you're interested in fashion.
Les parties du corps
Identify parts of the body.
Dossier : Un ami imaginaire et bizarre
Draw and describe a bizarre creature using parts of the body.
Les gestes et les expressions
Identify French gestures and their meanings. Identify and analyze expressions that use the names of parts of the body.
Les verbes réfléchis
Conjugate reflexive verbs. Explain how teenagers' daily routines are similar or different between France and the United States (U.S.).
L'interrogation et la négation des verbes réfléchis
Identify and construct negative sentences.
Dossier : votre routine quotidienne
Write a letter describing your daily routine by using reflexive verbs.
Révision
Review for Unit 9.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 10: LES MÉDIAS Assignment
Objectives
À la télévision
Identify television channels in France. Identify and analyze television related vocabulary.
La publicité
Identify and analyze television-related vocabulary. Analyze and explain how commercials have changed in France.
Dossier : Le journal télévisé
Summarize what you saw and heard on the French news.
Sur Internet
Identify and analyze how the Internet has influenced people's daily life in France Identify and analyze the role that the Acadmie Franaise has in France. Identify and analyze computer-related vocabulary.
Les pronoms complément d'objet direct
Replace direct objects with direct-object pronouns. Identify direct objects.
La presse
Identify and analyze vocabulary relating to what you read. Identify and analyze the press in France.
Les pronoms complément d'objet indirect
Use verbs that are followed by a preposition Use indirect-object pronouns in both the present and near-future tenses.
Dossier : Le Monde
Summarize an article from a French newspaper.
Révision
Review for Unit 10 test.
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French I Lesson Objectives Unit 11: LES VACANCES Assignment
Objectives
À l'agence de voyage
Identify and analyze travel-related vocabulary. Identify key information about vacations in France.
Le passé composé avec les verbes –er
Identify and analyze what regions are visited the most in France
Le passé composé avec les verbes –ir
Identify the correct form of the passé composé in interrogative structures. Identify and analyze key vocabulary words.
Le passé composé avec les verbes –re
Identify and analyze key information about vacations in France
Mes vacances en Normandie
Identify the most visited monuments in France. Analyze key facts about Normandy and its cultural sites.
À la gare
Identify and analyze train-related vocabulary. Identify the modes of transportation French people prefer to use.
La Corse
Identify and analyze key information about Corsica. Identify irregular past participles.
Révision
Review for Unit 11 test.
Unit 12: RÉVISION ET CONTRÔLE SEMESTRIEL Assignment
Objectives
Révision
Review and reinforce French 1 concepts from Units 7-11 in preparation for the semester exam.
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