Meeting people

Leçons 1,2

Communication

Saying hello and goodbye

Saying how old you are and finding out someone’s age

Counting to 100

Introducing yourself

Saying where you are from

Introducing friends, family and relatives

Culture

Salutations(13), La rentrée(15), Les prénoms français(15), La Martinique(19), Bonjour/Salut(23),

Amis/copains(27), Québec(31), La famille française(35)

Having a snack in

France

Leçons 3.4

Communication 

Saying you are hungry and thirsty

Paying at a café

Talking about time

Talking about dates

Talking about weather

Culture

Bon Appetit(43), Les Jeunes et la nourriture(45), Le café(49), L’argent européen(52-53)

Daily activities at home, school, on weekends

Leçons 5-8

Communication 

Describing daily activities

Talking about where people are

Finding out what’s going on

Inviting friends to do things with you

Expanding one’s conversational skills

Grammar:

Subject pronouns

Ne… pas

-er verbs

faire

être

questions with est ce que

questions with inversion

verb+ infinitive

Culture

Le téléphone (79), Le mercredi après midi(83), Une boum(93), Le Sénégal(105), Les jeunes français et l’internet(121), Les Vietnamiens en France( 123)

Rep/1

Reprise/1

Review (Getting acquainted)

Oneself and others

Culture

Telephone messages

Wedding faire part

Carnet de jour- birth, death announcements

Images

Regions of

France

French highways/roads

Holidays/Fêtes

Tour de France

Francophone Europe

Futuroscope

Communication Review:

Talking about school and classes

Expressing oneself on familiar topics

Talking about places and things

Carrying out simple conversations

Presenting oneself and others

Interacting with others

Talking about oneself and others

Describing one’s plans

Grammar:

être, c’est/il est

regular/irregular adjectives, avoir, faire, inverted questions, aller, aller + infinitive, venir, present with depuis

Reading

Vocabulary

School subjects, numbers 1-100, days, months, times of day, common objects of clothing, prepositions of location, place names, question words, er, ir, re verbs

Adjectives of nationality

family and friends, professions, descriptive adjectives, expressions with avoir, faire, depuis

2

Unité 2

Weekend activities

Culture

The weekend

Paris

Métro

The French and nature

Camping

Communication

Talking about weekend plans

Getting from one place to another

Narrating past weekend events

Grammar:

Verbs mettre, permettre and promettre, voir, sortir, partir, dormir, prendre; passé composé with avoir/être, quelqu’un quelque chose, personne, rien, il ya +  elapsed time

Reading-

Vocabulary

Going out with friends, helping at home, country and the farm, domestic and other animals, expressions of  present and future time, getting around by subway, expressions of past time 

Rep/1

Looking good; one’s daily routine

Culture

· How important personal appearance is for the French- the look; clothing and personal style

· How artists have expressed their concept of beauty

· How people begin their daily routine.

Interlude Culturel-

 Le monde des arts-Modern French art

· Impressionism 

· Post Impressionists 

· Surrealism 

· Language of art 

· Desnos 

· Prévert

Lecture- Les Trois Bagues

1^st Semester

Reprise

Describing the present, describing the past, referring to people, objects and things, daily activities, foods and beverages,

clothing

Unité 1

Communication: Describing people, discussing caring for one’s appearance, explaining one’s daily routine (what people do for themselves),

expressing how one feels and inquiring about other people

Grammaire: Reflexive Verbs in the Present and the Past

2

Being helpful around the house

Culture

· Why do French people enjoy do it yourself activities; bricolage, jardinage

· How you should take care of your plants

· How do French young people earn money by helping neighbors

Communication: Explaining what has to be done around the house, asking for help and offering to help, telling people what you would like them to do, describing an object

Grammaire: The Subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs

3

Vacation and outdoor activities; the environment and its protection

Culture

· How the French protect the environment- camping rules; young people and the environment

Communication: Talking about outdoor activities, describing the natural environment and how to protect it, talking about the weather and natural phenomena, relating a sequence of past events, describing habitual past actions

Grammaire: Review of the Passé Composé and the Imparfait,

1

Le Voyage

Fonctions: Comment saluer, se présenter et prendre congé; comment demander ou offrir un service

Reviser: Les verbes: Le présent, Pser une question, l’impératif

Apprendre: suivre, courir, mourir, rire, conduire, savoir, connaître; les expressions de temps, les noms, le conditionnel

2

L’université; l’invitation; la nourriture et les boissons

Fonctions: Comment  inviter; comment accepter ou refuser un invitation; comment offrir à boire ou à manger; comment poser des questions et répondre

Reviser: Quelques verbes irreguliers: le présent, les articles, les mots interrogatifs

Apprendre: boire, recevoir, offrir, plair; articles: choisir l’article approprié; quel et lequel

3

La Famille

Fonctions: Comment identifier les objets et les personnes; comment décrire les objets et les personnes; comment décrire la routine quotidienne et les rapports de famille

Réviser: L’adjectif possessif, l’adjectif qualitif, verbes pronominaux

Apprendre:

C’est/il est pronoms possessifs,