Français 4 College

Class Zone Île École Quia.com SUNY Albany Verbs

French 4 is offered with the option to take the course for college credit through SUNY Albany.
For more information, please see Madame Cronin or visit the SUNY Albany University in the High School website.

Objective:  provide extensive opportunities for students to practice the 4 required skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking while completing a complete review of French grammar and extensive exploration of francophone culture.

Marking Period 1

L'Importance du Look

Discovering French Rouge Unit 1

Introduction: 
Qu'est-ce que vous portez?

 

Reading: Petit Nicolas – an introduction

Grammar:  Discovering French Rouge (DFR) – Reprise A, B, C

Listening:  video sample from Comme une Image

Speaking:  Choose a look from a magazine and describe it.  How closely does it match your own look

Assessment:  Quiz Reprise A, B, C

How is fashion and style important to the French, in particular young people?  Does how we look define who we are?

 

Reading:  La Révolution Impressioniste (pp 60-63)

Grammar:  Reflexive verbs (p. 44, 50, 54)

Vocabulary :  Personal Appearance (pp. 36-37,42, 48, 52)   

Listening:  video sample from Comme une Image

Speaking:  Reaction/Reflection - impressionist paintings (Monet et Dégas)

Web activity:
French Designers

 

Reading:  Après L’Impressionisme (pp. 64-65)

Grammar:  Reflexive verbs (p. 50, 54)

Vocabulary :  Personal Appearance (pp. 36-37,42, 48, 52)  

Listening:  video sample La Belle et la Bête de Jean Cocteau

Speaking:  Reaction/Reflection – Post-impressionists (Gauguin et Matisse)

Assessment:  On the hour from 7:00am to 9:00 pm (20 entries). Stop and write down what you just did and what you are about to do next.

On-line Shopping

 

Reading:  Le Surréalisme (pp. 66-67) et Les Poètes Desnos et Prévert (pp. 67-68)

Grammar:  Reflexive verbs (pp. 50, 54)

Listening:  video sample Camille Claudel

Speaking:  Reaction/Reflection - surrealist paintings (Magritte et Dali)

Assessment:  Lesson quizzes for Part 2

What is beauty?

 

Reading: Petit Nicolas Le Musée de Peintures

Grammar:  Unit review

Listening:  song La Chanson de Prévert

Speaking:  Presentation of WebQuest results

 

Unit Assessment:  WebQuest – L’Art en France Après 1870

 

Marking Period 2

Travailler ou S'Amuser?

Discovering French Rouge Unit 2

What a chore! (or …Things that I hate to do around the house.)

Reading:  Petit Nicolas – La Vase Rose du Salon

Grammar:  Subjunctive (p.78, 79)

Vocabulary:  Household chores (pp. 74, 75, 77)

Listening:  Antenne 2 news sample

Speaking:  Team activity “À la maison, il faut que…”

 

Le Monde du Travail

 

ReadingLe Travail, Ça paie! (pp. 82-83)

Grammar:  Subjunctive (p. 81 - stem changing)

Listening: video sample Le Dîner de Cons et Le Père Noël est une Ordure

Speaking:  My ideal job  http://dico.monemploi.com/

Assessment:  Lesson Quiz Part 1

 

Un Coup de Main?

Reading:   Les Scouts et Les Guides de France http://www.sgdf.fr/-Historique-

Grammar:  Subjunctive (p. 86 – irregular)

Vocabulary:   Pour rendre service (pp 84, 87)

Listening:  Video sample Bon Voyage (Help me hide the body)

Speaking:  Role play textbook activities (p. 84)

 

Mes parents insistent…

 

Reading:  La Couverture (pp. 93-96)

Grammar:  Subjunctive (p. 88 – vouloir que)

Vocabulary: Descriptive words (pp. 90-91) 

Listening:  Radio excerpt France2 – Le Bac

Speaking:  La morale de l’histoire (Discussion - stories with messages)

Assessment:  Lesson Quiz Part 2

S’amuser commes des fous!

 

Reading:  Petit Nicolas – L’Anniversaire de Mari-Edwige

Grammar:  Unit review of subjunctive

Listening:  Song “C’est la Fête” (VF Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)

Speaking:  Prepare and present a recipe (using il faut que…) for a party

Assessment:  Unit 2 exam

 

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