BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL LOTE Department COURSE OF STUDY in FRENCH: FFS 65 (Level III) Fall Term Overview In the first term of third-year French, students review key elements of first- second-year French (Checkpoint B 1 ), begin the B 2 (third-year) Checkpoint sequence along the continuum of the New York State Learning Stards in LOTE. The two stards, communication cultural understing, are integrated through performance-based tasks. Differentiated instruction is used to meet the needs of all students in a student-centered environment, to support all students in achieving the learning outcomes. Materials Text: Discovering French Today (Level Three), ancillary materials to the text : audio CDs, unit DVD program, workbooks. Authentic listening reading materials from the target language cultures, such as online sources, newspapers, magazines, music, film, various realia. Teacher-made material. Course Outline Reprise (Review unit) Vive les vacances! A La vie courante NB: TL=Target Language; TC=Target Culture(s) -Read discuss what Frenchspeaking students did during their vacation -Discuss what they did during their vacation -Give biographical information (name, date of birth, nationality, etc.) -Describe their personality -Descriptive adjectives -Expressions with avoir -Expressions with faire -Food -Sanary-sur-Mer -Le Jura -La Gaspésie -L Auvergne -The passé composé (brief overview) -Regular irregular adjectives -Avoir -The near future - être en train de + infinitive -Venir de + infinitive -Regular verbs -Vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, sortir, partir, dormir, servir, prendre, apprendre, comprendre, mettre, promettre, permettre -Faire -Expressions with faire -Definite, Indefinite, Partitive articles -The pronouns y en (brief overview) Interdisiplinary -Culture overview: What do you remember about the French-speaking world?
Course Outline Page 2 Reprise (Review unit) Continued B Hier et avant C Nous et les autres -Discuss what they did last weekend -Discuss a weekend in the country -Read discuss a travel itinerary -Recount what happened in a story -Discuss friendship -Ask for favors -Invite someone out -Food -Clothing -quelqu un; quelque chose; ne..personne; ne rien -Morocco -Getting around the French-speaking world : À votre tour! -The passé composé: regular irregular verbs with avoir -Il y a + elapsed time -The passé composé with être -L imparfait (overview) -Direct Indirect Object pronouns (overview) -Connaître vs. savoir -Negation -Voir, écrire -Travel itinerary -Culture Review -Cultural Situations -Reading: Les trois bagues
Course Outline Page 3 1 Au jour le jour La description physique; La toilette et les soins personnelles La routine quotidienne -Read discuss the topic of personal style -Discuss concepts of beauty -Describe themselves others -Ask for give advice -Explain why they need something -Read discuss what apartment-living is like -Discuss their daily routine -Discuss physical condition -Express feelings -physical description -Clothing -Accessories -parts of the body -avoir mal à + parts of the body -Toiletry items daily routine movement, feelings, other meaning -Comparing style among French American teenagers -l Académie française -The definite article with parts of the body -à + definite article -de + definite article -Other uses of the definite article Present tense with verb + infinitive -Stress pronoun + même -Reflexive verbs in the passé composé -Reflexive verbs expressing a reciprocal action -Reading: Conte pour enfants de moins de trois ans -Interlude culturelle : L impressionnisme; après l impressionnisme; le surréalisme (artistique et littéraire); Poems : «La fourmi» «Pour faire le portrait d un oiseau»; l art dans la rue
Course Outline Page 4 2 Soyons utiles! Les travaux domestiques -Read discuss an article on pastimes -Read discuss a dialogue about household chores -Discuss how household chores are shared in their homes -Express what they need -Discuss obligation -Pastimes -household chores -household objects for cleaning -Expressions used to express lack of obligation (You don have to ) -Learning about how French teens make extra spending money -de + definite article -formation of the subjunctive -Il faut que + subjunctive -Reflexive verbs having two stems Pour rendre service -Ask for help -Accept help -Refuse a request -Make an excuse -Thank someone -Answer someone who says Thank you -Describe an object -Polite expressions (asking for help, etc.) -shapes, weight, capacity, material, etc. -Social structure before the French Revolution -Formation of irregular subjunctive -Subjunctive after impersonal expressions -Subjunctive after expression of wishing desire -Reading: La couverture -Interlude culturelle : French history: Prehistoric times to the 100 Years War; Lascaux; La chanson de Rol;William the Conqueror; Aliénor d Aquitaine; Joan of Arc
Course Outline Page 5 3 Vive la nature! Les vacances : Plaisirs et problèmes -Read discuss an article about nature -Discuss rules of camping -Discuss the pleasures potential problems of the outdoors -Discuss how things used to be -Discuss specific events in the past -déjà -ne jamais -ne pas encore -tôt; tard -Learning about how the French view nature -The passé compsé (review) -Negation in the passé compose -Position of adverbs in the passé compose -Verbs that can be conjugated with avoir or être in the passé composé: monter, descendre, sortir, passer -l imparfait (the imperfect tense) -The passé composé vs. the imparfait -Reading : Jacque- Yves Cousteau; Ecology; the Sun; Poem: Soyez polis Quoi de neuf? -Describe an event -Tell a story -Express surprise -Talk about the weather End of FF65 (Level III) Fall Term -Expressions used to describe events -Expressions of surprise -Weather expressions -The preposition pendant -Conjunctions: pendant que; lorsque; au moment ou -le jardin public -The passé composé vs. the imparfait: Describing an event -The imparfait the passé composé in the same sentence -The passé simple Reading: King - Le Petit Nicolas; folklore about frogs weather -Interlude culturelle: French history: The Renaissance to death of Louis XIV (1715); François I er ; Cyrano de Bergerac (excerpt); La Fontaine: Le Corbeau et le renard; les châteaux