Pentucket Regional High School

 

 

Teacher: Jimmy Douangdara

Subject: French Level 1

 

 

 

Time Frame

Essential Questions

Content/ Concept

Skills      

Assessments

 

September

 

 

 

 

Can I describe activities that I am going to do at a certain place in a certain time in French?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can I describe where people are going and what activity they are going to do?

Communication:

ü      Activities

ü      Describe what students themselves and other people are going to do

ü      Make comparisons

Grammar:

ü      Futur proche: aller+infinitif

ü      places (review)

ü      Expressions with the verb faire

ü      Faire in the negative form

ü      Demonstrative and Interrogative  Adjectives

ü      Comparative forms of adjectives

Culture:

ü      French concept of leisure time activity

ü      Find out about how French teenagers do during their free time

 

 

ü      French pronunciation, speaking and listening

ü      Verb conjugations

ü      Adjective agreements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ü      Observe similarities in ways French and English make commands and express comparisons

 

 

ü      Quizzes

 

ü      Simulations

(the market place)

 

ü      Test

 

ü      Dialogue

 

ü      Homework

 

 

 

 

October

 

 

 

Can I talk and write about what I did a few hours ago, yesterday, last week, and last month?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communication:

ü      Talk about individual sports, helping out at home, weekend and summer activities

ü      to describe your vacation and travel plans

ü      to talk about what you do and what you never do

Grammar:

ü      How to form past tense in French (regular er verbs)

ü      Past Participle

ü      Irregular verbs: voir,être,avoir,faire,mettre

Culture:

ü      Popular French sports and activities and importance of leisure time in France

 

 

ü      Reading

Comprehension

 

ü      Speaking

ü       

ü      Listening

 

ü      Indicate the order in which actions take place

 

ü      Negative form

 

ü      Ask questions

 

 

ü      Journal entries

 

ü      Quizzes

 

 

ü      Chapter test

 

ü      Homework

 

November

 

 

 

Can I buy food in a French market or order food in a French restaurant and get what I want?

 

 

 

 

Communication:

ü      Describe the different meals of the day

ü      Talk about your favorite foods

ü      Prepare a shopping list and do the grocery shopping

ü      Set the table

Grammar:

ü      Object pronouns

ü      Partitive articles

Culture:

 

 

ü      French pronunciation, speaking and listening

 

ü      Increase fluency

 

ü      Recall past participle

 

ü      Use new vocabulary

 

 

ü      Simulation

(market / restaurant)

 

ü      Role play

(ordering/serving food)

 

ü      Listening

(CDs/videos)

 

ü      Quizzes

 

ü      Tests

 

ü      Writing

(French menu/

shopping list/

French recipe)

 

ü      Homework

 

December

 

 

 

Can I speak and write using object pronouns?

Communication:

ü      Order a meal and a drink in a restaurant

ü      Ask for certain amount or a certain quantity of something

ü      Ask for a price, check, whether or not tip is included

ü      Ask people to do things for you

ü      Talking about others using pronouns

 

Grammar:

ü      Recall commands

ü      Object pronouns

ü      Irregular verbs:

prendre/vouloir/

boire/devoir/pouvoir/

connaitre

Culture:

ü      French table manners

 

ü      French pronunciation, speaking and listening

 

ü      Perform skills which include the use of object pronouns

 

 

ü      Use new vocabulary

 

 

ü      Role play

(Talking about others)

 

ü      Listening

(CDs/videos)

 

ü      Quizzes

 

ü      Tests

 

ü      Writing

(dialogue using object pronouns)

 

ü      Homework

 

 

January

 

 

Can I fluently introduce myself, my family and the people I know?

 

Can I make a telephone call?

 

 

Can I read and write a newspaper article about family events such as birth, wedding, birthday?

 

 

Communication:

ü      to give basic information about yourself and your family

ü      Professions

ü      Describe your friends and other people: their personalities and what they look like

ü      Express feelings

ü      -to talk about what they plan to do

ü      -to describe what they have recently done

ü      -to introduce their friends to other people

Grammar:

ü      Vocabulary

ü      Recall verb être

ü      Expressions with être

ü      Irregular adjective

ü      Recall adjectives agreement

Culture:

ü      French family

ü      French employment system

 

 

ü      Increase  fluency

 

ü      Read newspaper adds about jobs and family events

 

 

 

ü      Call your teacher and leave a message

 

ü      Quizzes

 

ü      Test

 

ü      Homework

 

ü      Listening activities

 

ü      Role Play

 

ü      Create a newspaper add

 

 

 

February

 

Can I talk about up coming events?

 

 

Can I talk about an event that just occurred or something that I have just done?

Communication:

 

Grammar:

ü      Recall verb avoir/faire

ü      Expressions with avoir/faire

ü      Verb venir to express past events

ü      Verb aller to express future events

Culture:

 

 

 

March

 

Communication:

 

Grammar:

 

Culture:

 

 

 

April

Can I express how I feel in French?

 

 

 

Communication:

 

Grammar:

 

Culture: -How the French subway system works and why it is convenient-to use the public transit system

 

 

 

 

 

May

 

Communication:

 

Grammar:

 

Culture:

 

 

 

June