French III Syllabus

Unit I - Francophone Countries of the World and their Geography

Comps : .......students can express themselves in the present and future
.......... .......... students can descibe a scene from the outdoors
.......... .......... students can identify and describe life in French speaking countries in the world
.......... .......... students can identify countries of the world using French
......................students can plan a trip to a French speaking country and what they will do there

Grammar Review: expressing the future using the futur proche
.......................using verbs in the present (regular and irregular)

Vocab: .........adverbs of the future
.......... .......... nations and nationalities
.......... .......... the outdoors

Evaluations: oral interviews about future plans*
.......... .......... quiz on nations and nationalities
.......... .......... geography quiz on the Francophone world
.......... .......... student presentation on trip to a Francophone country*
......................reading comprehension activity on the francophone world *

Unit II - Les Vêtements et le Passé

Comps : .......students can ask each other’s sizes
......................students can role play buying clothes in a store in appropriate (non-US) sizes
......................students can discuss events that took place
......................students can use être and avoir appropriately in the passé composé

Grammar Review : the passé composé tense
......................review reflexive verbs
......................passé composé w/être and avoir
......................comparison of equality
......................adjective placement and description with multiple adjectives

Vocab: .........more advanced clothing, jewelry, footwear
......................types of materials
......................retail vocabulary

Evaluations: 2 quizzes on vocabulary
......................J.Peterman type story in the past about clothing*
......................taped retelling of a story or picture sequence*
......................role play scenes at a store*
......................clothing description evaluation
......................test on passé composé

Unit III - Les sports de la France par Région

Comps. ........students can discuss preferences, wishes, and future plans
......................students are familiar with different geographical regions of France
......................students can discuss different sports, and equipment

Grammar :....future, conditional
.......................Review of pronouns and basic pronoun sequence

Vocabluary ...more geographical features
.......................sports and equipment

Evaluations: oral evaluation on preferences, wishes and future plans
......................quiz on vocab of geography
......................quiz on vocab of sports
......................report on a region of France*
......................test on future and conditional
......................design and record picture sequence for sports*
.......................listening comprehension activity about sports *

Unit IV - Les Voyages

Comps. :........students can function at the airport and in the airplane
..................... students can pass through customs
..................... students can explain a series of events that happened in the past
.......................students understand the difference the EEC has on currency and travel in Europe

Grammar :......introduce the imparfait
.......................if - then questions

Vocab:.......... the airport, the airplane, customs.............

Evaluations: ..students tape role play at the airport/airplane (choice of 4 scenes)*
......................vocab quiz on the airport
......................vocab quiz in the airplane
......................essay : mon expérience à l’aeroport*
......................students retell and tape a travel experienc*
......................oral question and answering activity about sports *

Unit XI - Functioning in a hotel

Comps. ...... students respond to situations in a hotel
......................students use the preterite and imperfect appropriately
......................students understand the difference between hotel, auberge, and auberge de jeunesse

Grammar regular and irregular forms of the imperfect
.....................the difference in usage between the preterite and imperfect

Vocab: .. the hotel
.....................adverbs used with the imperfect tense

Evaluations: quiz on the imperfect
......................quiz
......................role play situations in the hotel
..................... hotel presentation
......................exam on the passé composé and the imparfait

Unit VI - Faire de la Cuisine

Comps: .........students follow a French recipe
.....................students make conversions using the metric system

Grammar: ....pronoun placement with positive and negative commands

Vocab: .........cooking terms
.......................measurements

Evaluations: ...students describe how to make something (video)*
.......................students prepare food from a French recipe
...................... vocab of cooking/conversion quiz

Last revised 1/27/2003 BB