FRII Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
What if we didn't finish last year's book?
What if I don't remember anything?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•answer questions
•play Loterie
•take dictation
Speaking
The students will:
•recite French 1 poems
•perform skill checks (picture cue cards)
•report on their daily routines
•recite the word of the day
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read anecdotes
•read conversations
•read the word of the day
Writing
The students will:
•create a reflexive collage
•compose a paragraph about their daily routine
Grammar
The students will:
•review present and passe compose
•review select irregular verbs
•identify and conjugate reflexive verbs
•structure reflexive verbs in the past
Cultural
The students will:
•learn about the cosmetic industry
•view a video clip on Estée Lauder :-)
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Are there any good French films?
So, is the Louvre anything like the DAM?
You enjoy satire, do you? Meet Molière.
Is there French rap?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•hear a poem by Paul Verlaine
•play Loterie
•listen to an excerpt from Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Speaking
The students will:
•discuss movies and plays
•discuss visits to museums of art
•memorize a poem
•recite the word of the day
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read about French cultural activities
•read an excerpt from a Molière play
•read the word of the day
Writing
The students will:
•critique a French film Jean de Florette and the sequel Manon
•create and describe a work of art
Grammar
The students will:
•review of object pronouns
•expand their understanding of the placement of object pronouns
Cultural
The students will:
•discuss Punch and Judy shows
•investigate Parisian parks
•explore music trends
•view chapter video featuring a trip to the Musée d'Orsay
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
What if I'm in France and I get sick?
Is their medical care as costly as ours?
Do they have good doctors?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
•play and sing Head, shoulders
Speaking
The students will:
•describe symptoms of an illness
•review body parts and expand vocabulary
•role-play patient and doctor
•recite the word of the day
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read about a doctor's visit
•read word of the day
Writing
The students will:
•write an excuse for your child who was ill
•outline step by step procedures
Grammar
The students will:
•review indirect object pronouns, y and en
•review imperative
•reinforce placement of object pronouns with the imperative
•conjugate and use verbs souffrir and ouvrir
Cultural
The students will:
•discuss doctors making house calls
•analyze how culture and health are related
•discuss medical services in France
•view chapter video featuring the Paris catacombs and a visit to the doctor's office
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Can we surf the net? In French, of course!
If I'm in Cracassonne, can I call home?
Technologically speaking, who's ahead?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
Speaking
The students will:
•identify computer terminology
•identify telecommunications terminology
•narrate events in the past
•recite the word of the day
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read about telephones then and now
•read the word of the day
Writing
The students will:
•write about a childhood experience
•describe their life as a dog
Grammar
The students will:
•formation of the imperfect tense
•identify uses of the imperfect
•identify irregularities
Cultural
The students will:
•discuss French achievements in the field of technology
navigate Yahoo in French
view chapter video featuring office equipment and La Cité des Sciences
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Can I ride the rails across Europe and get a good deal?
What if I fly Air France?
What about security?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
Speaking
The students will:
•describe past events using the passe compose and the imperfect
•dialogue about a trip you took
•identify select continents, countries, and cities
•recitation of Paul Verlaine poem
•recite the word of the day
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read about trains then and now
•read conversations
•read the word of the day
Writing
The students will:
•write a page from my diary: tripping!
•complete cloze activities
Grammar
The students will:
•compare and contrast use of passe compose and imperfect
•use prepositions with geographical place names
•conjugate and use verb venir and related verbs
Cultural
The students will:
•investigate how to get around Paris
•investigate how to get around France
•view chapter video featuring a train trip to Chartres
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Semester written exam
Semester oral exam
Recitation of poem
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Help! How do I get more money?
Where did francs go?
What does that really cost?
Can I mail this home?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
Speaking
The students will:
•tell how to get around a post office
•be introduced to basic banking terminology•make negative statements
•express things we do for one another
•introduce Victor Hugo poem
•recite the weekly proverb
•present a weekly current event
Reading
•discuss French teens and allowances
•role-play a conversation
Writing
•write and address a letter
•take dictation
Grammar
The students will:
•introduce the future tense
•point out irregularities
•using qui and que to lengthen sentences
•reinforce rules on agreement of past participle
•demonstrate use of reciprocal actions in the present and past
Cultural
•discuss differences between postal services in France and in the US
•view chapter video featuring two youth running errands at a post office
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Can I read something that's really French?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
Speaking
The students will:
•discuss an excerpt from Le livre de mon père
•discuss author, characters, and actions
•outline plot and outcome
•analyze the meaning of two poems
•compare lives of two African poets
•recite the weekly proverb
•drill Victor Hugo poem
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read literary pieces out loud
Writing
The students will:
•analyze plots and/or outcomes
Grammar
The students will:
•be introduced to the conditional tense
•point out irregularities
•look for and identify tenses
•point out structures such as the use of formal and informal
•cite examples of negatives
•cite examples of inversion
Cultural
The students will:
•experience an expressive product of French culture
•create your own poem
•discuss Mardi Gras and Lent
•découpage votive candle holder
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Are all French folks gourmands?
Will I like the meals?
Am I going to get fat?
How do I get around in a French kitchen?
Pierre, this is the kitchen. And that? Duh?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•play Loterie
Speaking
The students will:
•identify appliances and items in the kitchen
•identify basic cooking terms
•translate and discuss a recipe for stew
•compare and contrast provincial cuisine
•drill Victor Hugo poem
•recite the weekly proverb
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read an essay about la gastronomie
•read an essay about Maghreb cuisine
Writing
The students will:
•compose vocab intense histoirettes
•complete cloze activities
Grammar
The students will:
•review the future tense
•reviw the conditional tense
•how to position two pronoun objects within one sentence
•introduce the faire causatif
•study examples of the structure
•review the agreement of past participles with pronoun objects
Cultural
The students will:
•explore the significance of the expression a gargantuan appetite
•learn about François Rabelais
•view the chapter video featuring a teen preparing a birthday dinner
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
I want to tell my French friend about the car I drive. Help?
What's the traffic like in France?
Do French teens drive?
How well I get around Paris?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•answer simple questions
•play Loterie
•take dictation
Speaking
The students will:
•learn how to talk about cars, roads, and driving
•learn vocabulary associated with gas station services
•engage in conversations that might take place when driving
•give directions
•memorize Verlaine poem
•recite the weekly proverb
•develop a picture-cued dialog
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read an essay about driving in France
•read an essay about giving directions
•read a conversation À la station- service
Writing
The students will:
•use new vocabulary to write about a road trip they would like to take
•write directions explaining how to get from the school to their residence
•participate in board drills
•complete cloze activities
Grammar
The students will:
•review the futur and the conditionnel
•construct sentences with si clauses
•answer questions with double pronoun objects
Cultural
The students will:
•discuss French highway system and street signs
•view chapter video featuring a drive to Fontainebleau and then a look at the Paris-Dakar road race
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter video
Map
Videos
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Music
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
What if I'm in France and I get really sick?
What if I'm involved in the worst case scenario and I end up in a hospital?
Skills
Listening
The students will:
•respond to recorded exercises drilling vocabulary and grammar
•answer simple questions
•play Loterie
•take dictation
Speaking
The students will:
•learn how to describe accidents
•describe medical problems
•ask different types of questions
•compare people and things
•recite Verlaine poem
•recite the weekly proverb
•present a weekly current event
Reading
The students will:
•read an essay about l'Hôtel-Dieu
•read an essay about the Médecins Sans Frontières
•read a related conversation Au service des urgences
Writing
The students will:
•use new vocabulary to write about an accident with injuries in which they were involved
•participate in board drills
•complete cloze activities
Grammar
The students will:
•review interrogative and relative pronouns
•construct commands with pronouns
•use superlative adjectives
Cultural
The student will:
•view a video featuring an unexpected trip to the hospital and a look at the Pasteur Institute
•discuss French contributions to the world of science and medicine
Assessment
Oral presentations
Oral recitation in class
Chapter written exam
Chapter listening exam
Daily written assignments
Semester written exam
Semester oral exam
Recitation of poem
Resources
Recorded vocabulary and grammar exercises
Chapter video
Map
Paired activities
Word puzzles
Music
Optional
