GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Curriculum Guide
Course Title: French
1 – Grade 8
Subject: le
francais
Grade level: 8
Department/School: World Language/High
School
Duration: 1
year
Number of credits: 3
Prerequisite: French 1
- Grade 7
Elective or Required: Elective/language
required for 2 years in High School.
Author: Teresa L. Fitzsimmons
Date Submitted: Summer 2005
Course Description
French 1B: 8th Grade
The Middle School World Language Program is continually refined to provide interdisciplinary units and special projects designed to maximize student potential. French 1B, eighth grade includes a continued introduction to francophone culture and French language at a basic level. The language laboratory and audio programs are an integral part of the curriculum. Realia, such as music, newspapers, magazines and videos are used in the target language for motivation, oral and listening proficiency. The students will be able to read, write, listen and speak at a communicative level in the present and past tenses. They will have an appreciation and awareness of the cultures in the French speaking world through their research, discussions and readings in class.
French
STANDARD 7.1 (COMMUNICATION)
STANDARD 7.2 (CULTURE)
GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WORLD LANGUAGE
In a changing world of technology and multiculturalism, the world is getting smaller and the importance of multilingual abilities is becoming increasingly important. We in the World Language Department believe every individual in our school is capable of learning a foreign language to the best of their ability. Our emphasis is on communication and culture. Students will use correct syntax, grammar, and pronunciation. Included in our repertoire of activities is a study of both Francophone and Hispanic cultures. This also includes non-verbal clues common to these cultures. Students will be exposed to all forms of literature in the native language in their chosen second language, in the original form, depending on the level of study.
Students will also be exposed to the language not only through the use of the textbook but also through the use of multimedia, listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Native speakers will be invited and engaged whenever possible. Students will be expected to take an active role in the learning of the language since true communication is an active process. Students will be assessed in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Authentic assessment in real life and survival situations will be a part of all teachers’ classrooms. Available technology will be employed, working on collaborative activities within the framework of the topic.
Curriculum Description
Students will be
able to:
1. Identify and describe city places, streets, buildings, and neighborhoods. (7.1.9)
2. Ask and give directions. (7.1.9,10)
3. Give their address. (7.1.10)
4. Describe the inside and outside of their home. (7.1.9)
5. Talk about how you get around and modes of transportation. (7.1.9,11)
6. Describe places where you often go. (7.1.9,11)
7. Talk about going to someone’s house. (7.1.14)
8. Tell what they are going to do. (7.1.14)
9. Use the impersonal il y a and c’est. (7.1.16)
10. Learn about
the two cities of
11. Use the verb aller and aller + infinitive. (7.1.16)
12. Use contractions with a. (7.1.11)
13. Learn the expression chez. (7.1.11,16)
14. Learn about
attractions in
Duration of time: : 4 weeks
Activities
Students will:
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Use the verb aller + infinitive to state some
things they will do in the future.
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Identify places, modes of transportation, and
rooms in the house on flash cards, the overhead and in pictures.
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Describe their rooms from their own photographs
or personal drawings and give a speech in class.
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Design a town, draw it, and give directions on
how to proceed from place to place using a shower curtain. Then talk about the places in simple terms.
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Give a speech about their town.
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Make up a story about a town using a French
map. Then research and find the real information
about the town.
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Sing songs about
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Use a map of
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Use a memory game to learn about
- Participate in motivational games using a and de and their contractions with places.
Students will be
able to:
1. Talk about activities: sports, games and music. (7.1.16,11)
2. Talk about where people are coming from. (7.1.11, 13)
3. Contradict someone. (7.1.13)
4. Express surprise. (7.1.13)
5. Talk about possessions. (7.1.13,14)
6. Identify and describe family members. (7.1.8)
7. Express doubt. (7.1.14)
8. Use stress pronouns and contractions of de. (7.1.14)
9. Use the verb venir. (7.1.11)
10. Use the construction nous + de + noun. (7.1.11,13,8)
11. Pronounce and learn about attractions in Paris and French cafes. (7.2. 8)
12. Use ordinal numbers and possessive adjectives. (7.1.15)
13. Indicate possession with de. (7.1.11)
14. Learn about
places in
15. Be aware of
the popularity of French and American films in
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Students will:
- Identify family members.
- Present findings from Paris Internet project from last 4 week project.
- Find visuals to use with Paris Project and present in a pleasing visual.
- Design a conversation with family members.
- Identify their family using photos.
- Describe their pets, bringing pictures from home.
- Describe possessions.
- Design a family tree, bring it to school and use it to question others about their family, describing nationalities and where people came from using venir de.
- See Asterix and Wallace and Gromit films.
- Listen to MC Solar and other current French singers, fill in words and sing along.
- Listen to native speakers and do comprehension activities; listening to speakers talk about family.
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Watch a film on
- Listen to Edith Piaf songs.
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Watch videos that accompany the text which show
homes in
- Compare a French home and family to their own.
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Do a
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be
able to:
1. Talk about clothing, accessories and stores that sell clothes. (7.2.2, 7.1.4)
2. Talk about what people are wearing and where to go shopping. (7.2.5, 7.1.9)
3. Say whether clothes fit and what they look like. (7.1.13)
4. Learn how French young people buy clothing. (7.2.6)
5. Ask for help from a salesperson and find out prices. (7.1.8, 7.1.11)
6. Use expressions of opinion. (7.1.11, 7.1.8)
7. Use numbers to 1000 to discuss prices. (7.1.10)
8. Use regular –er verbs in the present tense. (7.1.10)
9. Be aware of the French concept of style. (7.2.5)
10. Use shoe verbs, acheter, preferer, amener, & esperer. (7.1.16)
11. Use the demonstrative and interrogative pronouns, cette & quelle, and all their forms. (7.1.16)
12. Use the verb mettre in all its contexts. (7.1.16, 7.2.1)
13. Learn about French department stores. (7.2.8,9)
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Identify clothing and accessories using multi-media prompts.
- Compare French and American clothing style using the video program.
- Listen to native speakers conversing about clothing using the language lab.
- Use their listening skills to do dictation using the tapes and the language lab.
- Listen to conversations and choose appropriate responses using the CD program.
- Act out skits buying clothing at a store, taking on both the role of the buyer and the seller using props.
- Design an advertisement for their favorite clothing store and convince the class to come to their store.
- Interview a family member about clothing styles in their times.
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Read Culture Notes and see Vignette Culturelle
describing outdoor markets in
- Question each other using aimer, preferer, esperer and amener, expressing preferences likes and dislikes using Quel (which) and answering with Ce (this/that).
- Do paired activities in the Communipak and then present their conversations to the class.
- Keep a writing portfolio of their conversation and descriptions of preferences.
- Use French magazines and the Internet to research current styles in francophone countries.
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Participate with the teacher in a conversation
with a salesperson in a clothing store using
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Do a research project using the Internet on
aspects of life in
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Participate in a
Objectives:
Students will be
able to:
1. Describe actions. (7.1.11)
2. Describe people and things using adjectives. (7.1.11,16)
3. Express comparisons. (7.1.11, 16)
4. Introduce an opinion. (7.1.11,16)
5. Decide what to choose. (7.1.11,17)
6. Use regular –ir verbs. (7.1.11, 16)
7. Learn about what young French people like to buy. (7.2.5,6)
8. Talk about where to go shopping, what you need and what you like. (7.2.5,6)
9. Use money-related expressions and find out prices. (7.1.9)
10. Give advice and indicate approval. (7.1.10)
11. Give commands. (7.1.10)
12. Use regular –re verbs and the verb payer. (7.1.16)
13. Use the pronoun on and the imperative. (7.1.16)
14. Learn the ways in which young people earn money. (7.2.7)
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Students will:
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Use adjectives to describe pictures of their own
family, written and oral.
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Compare themselves to others in their class, and
to others in different cultures.
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Design conversations discussing likes and
dislikes.
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Listen to native speaker conversations using
comparisons and answer comprehension questions afterwards.
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Do a survey with a member of their family (also
with a member of the class), and then return to class and share the
similarities and differences.
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Use both adjectives that are placed before the
noun and those used after the noun to describe home and school people, places
and things both orally and written.
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Write descriptions of French scenes on the
overhead with guided vocabulary.
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Imagine the conversation between the young
people in a scene using the overhead projector.
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Use the language lab to hear native speakers
discussing opinions, giving commands, and describing home and family.
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See the video presentation of young people in
francophone countries.
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Explore jobs for young people, here and in
francophone countries.
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Read “L’argent des jeune” and compare work
opportunities for French and American youth.
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Create questions and sentences using words and
expressions about money.
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Give each other commands and give examples of
commands given to them by their parents.
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Read and discuss the basic dialog in the
beginning of each lesson.
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Continue both their oral and writing performance
assessment packets.
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Listen and reproduce commands using the language
lab.
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Compare large cities in
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Participate in a
Objectives:
Students will be
able to:
1. Discuss common weekend activities, summer and winter sports, and French holidays. (7.2.2,3,16)
2. Discuss leisure activities: going out with friends, sports. (7.2.2,3 7.1.9)
3. Talk about household chores and helping around the house. (7.1.11)
4. Describe vacation travel plans: travel dates, how to travel, how long to stay. (7.1.11,16)
5. Talk about how you and others feel. (7.1.10)
6. Narrate what did and did not happen in the past, and talk about sequence of events. (7.1.14)
7. Use expressions with avoir. (7.1.16)
8. Use the passé compose with avoir of –er verbs & irregular verbs that take avoir. (7.1.12)
9. Compare French and American concepts of weekend. (7.2.2,3,4,8)
10. Use faire de + sport. (7.1.16)
11. Learn about
popular weekend sports activities in
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Be able to take sentences from the present to the past, orally and written.
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Read about “les sports d’hiver” and discuss
winter sports in
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Research the Olympics that were held in
- Be able to use expressions with faire to say what they do and do not do and express desires for what they would like to try to do in the future.
- Design questions asking their partners and family members about what they like to do.
- Be able to identify activities, summer, winter, spring and fall sports and activities using flash cards.
- Make a vacation scrap book.
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Do a project, planning a trip to
- Make and try onion soup in class.
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Describe holidays in
- Compare their holidays to others in the class using a survey and then report their findings.
- Compare their holiday activities to those in French speaking countries.
- Bring in post cards from trips they have gone on and tell the class why they enjoyed the trip so much, using extra guided vocabulary.
- Listen to native speakers on tape and on video describing vacations and weekend activities.
- Design a conversation between themselves and a fellow student asking about their weekend activities.
- Choose a place they have never been, write 10 questions they would want to know about the place and then research the answers in travel books and the Internet.
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Create a news story about a weekend event in
- Narrate a story in the past tense using appropriate time vocabulary.
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Participate in a
THEMATIC
Students will be
able to:
1. Identify periods of future and past time. (7.1.13)
2. Describe past trips and events in your life. (7.1.14,13)
3. Describe future goals and aspirations. (7.1.12)
4. Discuss things they never do. (7.1.8)
5. Remain vague about certain details. (7.1.8, 16)
6. Use the negative expressions, ne … jamais, ne.. rien, ne..personne, ne..plus. (7.1.16,1)
7. Use the passé compose with ir, and re verbs. (7.1.11,16)
8. Use the passé compose with etre. (7.1.11.16)
9. Use the relative pronoun que. (7.1.11, 16)
10. Use quelqu’un and quelque chose and their opposites. (7.1.16)
11. Use the verb voir. (7.1.11,16)
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Students will:
- Narrate stories in the past using overhead pictures of French scenes of young people.
- Hear native speaker conversations and narration of stories and conversations in the past using etre and avoir verbs together.
- Do comprehension activities after hearing conversations and narrations in the past.
- Design a survey to interview their parents about the past and come to class and share their findings.
- Take on the parts of a famous French person that they researched and be interviewed about their past, asking simple questions in the past of your partner.
- Be able to differentiate between present and past statements using the language lab.
- Use the Communipak and design a conversation between yourself and your partner about a chosen past event.
- Read about “Le roller” and develop questions about it.
- Be able to transform sentences and paragraphs from the present to the past.
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Participate in a
Objectives:
Students will be
able to:
1. Talk about meals, place settings, foods, beverages, fruits, and vegetables. (7.1.9)
2. Express food preferences. (7.1.9)
3. Make a shopping list, interact with vendors, and ask prices. (7.1.8)
4. Identify foods and beverages. (7.1.8)
5. Talk about what you can, should, and want to eat. (7.1.8)
6. Use quantity expressions. (7.1.11, 16)
7. Learn about French meals and grocery shopping habits. (7.2.6,5)
8. Use the verbs vouloir, prendre, and boire. (7.1.11,16)
9. Use partitive articles. (7.1.11)
10. Compare French and American cafeterias and food selections. (7.2,7,8)
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Students will:
- Identify foods and beverages with flash cards.
- Design questions, conversations and paragraphs about foods and restaurants.
- Act out conversations in a café, and restaurant, proofread each others conversations in writing before acting out.
- Act out conversations with a person in a food store.
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Discuss the difference between shopping at an
open market in
- Research French recipes on the Internet.
- Design a menu for a French restaurant.
- Create a funny story about a person in a restaurant who has problems.
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Do an Internet project on La Martinique,
- Talk about their favorite foods.
- See a video on French cafeterias and food in school and compare them with ours.
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Use articles correctly while describing eating
customs in
- Participate in the listening activities and do the comprehension activities with the unit material.
- Use the language lab to listen to music from the francophone islands.
- Listen to French rap music, fill-in missing words and sing along.
- Research the kind of French music they like the best and share them with the class.
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Participate in a
Students will be able to:
1.
Talk about what you can, should, and want to
eat. (7. 1.8)
2.
Ask others to help you plan a meal. (7.1.8)
3.
Eat out with friends and talk about people you
know. (7.1.11,8)
4.
Ask for service. (7.1.8)
5.
Ask the waiter/waitress to bring things for
others. (7.1.8, 11,16)
6.
Talk about what others have said and written. (7.1,8,11,16)
7. Use the verbs pouvoir and devoir.