GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Curriculum Guide
Course Title: French
2 Intermediate
Subject: French
2
Grade level: 9, 10,
11, 12
Department/School: World Language/High
School
Duration: 1
year
Number of credits: 5
Prerequisite: French 1
Intermediate
Elective or Required: Elective/language
required for 2 years in High School.
Author: Teresa L. Fitzsimmons
Date Submitted: Summer 2005
Course Description
French II
Intermediate
French II Intermediate is designed for students who have completed Spanish I in Grade 9 or above, and are looking to fulfill their two year language study to meet the graduation requirement. French II Intermediate accommodates students that require additional reinforcement to cover the curriculum. This course will afford a student that enjoys the language the opportunity to successfully continue its study in an environment that provides multiple language learning strategies and activities. French II Intermediate focuses on the integration of new vocabulary, the formation and usage of basic grammatical structures and the promotion of greater cultural understanding.
World Language
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
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Write
invitations. (7.1.17)
2. Give
addresses. (7.1.17)
3. Write
postcards. (7.1.17)
4. Express
emotions. (7.1.21)
5. Describe
character. (7.1.17-18)
6. Answer
a telephone call. (7.1.21)
7. Ask
to speak to someone. (7.2.9)
8. Respond
to a request to speak to someone. (7.2.9)
9. Ask
for information, using er, ir and re verbs. (7.1.21)
10. Give
information, using regular verbs as well as etre and avoir. (7.1.17-21)
11. Read about,
discuss, communicate about, and appreciate holiday celebrations in French
speaking countries. (7.2.9-11)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
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Write postcards to friends about a place they
have visited this summer or in the past.
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Role-play a conversation on the phone asking and
giving information.
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Describe their holidays and compare them with
French holiday celebrations.
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Read about a trip to
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Do an Internet research activity about a trip to
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Do
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Plan a party with friends.
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Read about using a telecarte and a French phone
booth.
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Listen to native speakers speaking about their
travels with the language lab.
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Use the language lab to do comprehension
activities.
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Identify professions. (7.1.17,18)
2. Describe physical traits. (7.1.17,18)
3. Describe character. (7.1.17,18)
4. Compare people and things. (7.2.9, 7.1.17)
5. Give opinions about their life. (7.2.9, 7.1.18)
6. Describe past events. (7.1.21)
7. Describe a sequence of events in the past. (7.1.21,22)
8. Give orders. (7.1.17)
9. Make suggestions. (7.1.17)
10. Use the
11. Learn about
12. Learn about
places in
13. Learn about the art in the Louvre and the Musee D’Orsay. (7.2.9-13)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Read about the Louvre.
- Choose their favorite painting or sculpture from the Louvre, describe it to the class and write about it.
- Choose a profession and say why they like it.
- Describe Paris and the people you see in pictures in magazines, newspapers and on the overhead. Describe in the past and the present.
- Pretend you are touring. Create a list of questions about places you would like to visit.
- Identify animals in the zoo.
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Research
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Present a speech with a partner about
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Describe people you would meet in stores you
would visit in
- Use the metro map and tell how to get from one place to another.
- Listen to conversations about people comparing themselves to others.
- Compare yourself to others, orally and written.
- Tell about a recent vacation in the past, using regular and irregular verbs.
- Using a picture story, tell the story in sequence in the past.
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Use the verbs mettre, prendre and voir to
describe stopping at a café in
- Research the paintings at the Musee d’Orsay using http://www.smartweb.fr/fr/orsay/page.htm
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Discuss
products from regions of
2. Discuss
a visit to a French farm. (7.1.23)
3. Express
astonishment, disbelief, and make suggestions. (7.1.23)
4. Choose
and purchase items. (7.1.17-20)
5. Order
beverages and food. (7.1.17,18)
6. Learn
about French regions and their distinct differences and similarities. (7.2.9-13)
7. Use
verbs that take etre in the passé compose to describe past events, in and out
of sequence. (7.1.23)
8. Use
correct prepositions when describing countries and continents. (7.1.23 7.2.12)
9. Write
a letter home. (7.1.21)
10. Research a
French region and present it to the class. (7.2.13)
11. Go on line
and find menus from actual French restaurants in
12. Use the
irregular verbs, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, falloir. (7.1.23)
13. Students
will correctly use partitive articles when ordering food. (7.1.17)
14. Use the
Internet to find out about French farms.
(7.2.13)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Use the language lab to listen and speak about visiting a French farm. http://perso.wanadoo.fr./ferme.auberge.buisson/index/
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Write a letter home describing their favorite
part of
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Use a travel guide book in the library to
research a section of
- Bring in a series of pictures from a vacation and tell the class about it in a speech with props and pictures.
- Go on line and find menus from French restaurants and share your findings with the class.
- Use your menus to role-play ordering in a French restaurant.
- Design a conversation between a tourist and a French man/woman, orally and written.
- Write a letter to a French tourist office in a region you would like to visit and mail it to see what response you will get. Use correct French format.
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Give and take orders. (7.1.18)
2. Describe their daily routine. (7.1.21)
3. Express likes, dislikes and make suggestions. (7.1.17-22)
4. State preferences, emotions and opinions on daily activities. (7.1.18)
5. Use reflexive verbs to state what they do when they get up and go to sleep, in the present and the past. (7.1.23, 7.1.20)
6. Talk, listen and write about activities and work around the house. (7.1.17-21)
7. Learn
about life and culture of
8. Learn
about
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Keep a personal and cultural journal.
- Hear zouk music and other island songs, fill-in words and sing along.
- Use the language lab for comprehension, pronunciation and listening to conversations.
- Find publicity on line for travel to Les Caribes.
- Give a speech to the class about life in the French Caribbean.
- Transform reflexive sentences from the present to the past orally and written.
- Describe their daily activities, orally and written.
- Find a product advertised in a French magazine and draw and design their own product. Try to sell it to the class, telling the class how it will help them in their daily routine.
- Be able to tell what products they use daily within their daily routine.
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Compare and contrast
- Write a list of chores that a parent would leave for a child or a husband/wife would leave for their spouse.
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Role-play a conversation with a
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Use the Internet to research
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Describe their talents and abilities. (7.1.21)
2. Describe their favorite sports and games. (7.2.21)
3. Make a prediction, point out exceptions and express appreciation. (7.1.17)
4. Accept or refuse an invitation. (7.1.17)
5. Congratulate and commiserate about various topics. (7.1.17-21)
6. Point out specific things in a conversation using object pronouns. (7.1.17-20)
7. Become aware of the sports and leisure activities of French young people. (7.1.22, 7.2.13)
8. Use the verbs offrir and courir. (7.1.23)
9. Learn
about the role sports plays in the lives of young people in
10. Use direct and indirect object pronouns with the past tense. (7.1.23)
11. Learn about
the “BD” (comic books) in
12. Discuss camping as a popular activity with the French. (7.2.10)
13. Discuss French films. (7.2.9-13)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
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Design a survey about leisure time activities
and sports.
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Interview their classmates about their leisure
time activities and sports and report their findings to the class.
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Listen to conversations on tape on the language
lab.
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Watch the video accompanying the text about fun
activities in
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Role-play conversations on their favorite
activities.
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Be able to use vocabulary for sports, games and
musical instruments.
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Tape themselves telling about a recent sporting
event.
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Watch a French movie and discuss it in terms of
the similarities and differences between the French and American films.
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Be able to replace nouns with object pronouns in
the present and the past.
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Read and discuss Le Tour de France.
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Go on Lance Armstrong’s web site and find out
how he trains.
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Research more information about the history of
the Tour de France on the web.
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Describe their favorite sport in a speech for
the class.
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Research water sport activities in the
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Plan a trip including what to take. (7.1.18)
2. Communicate with a tourist agency. (7.1.17-23)
3. Ask for information, make requests and ask for restatement of information. (7.1.17)
4. Choose and purchase items. (7.1.17)
5. Use the verbs dire, ecrire and lire. (7.1.23)
6. Write a postcard, letter or message and mail it. (7.1.18)
7. Learn the contribution of the French speaking “Les pays Magrebins” (North African Arab nations) to the French culture and current problems. (7.2.10-12)
8. Communicate while traveling in a bank or exchange bureau. (7.2.10)
9. Learn poetry from North African authors. (7.2.12)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
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Write short messages on postcards and send to
someone in the class about a trip they took.
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Use the language lab to listen to conversations,
improve pronunciation and do oral comprehension activities that accompany the
text.
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Role-play scenes from a tourist bureau, the post
office and the bank and also write conversations in what would take place in
these places.
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Compare and contrast travel in
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Ask and answer questions about travel.
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Read about the French banking system and
monetary units.
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Read and memorize a poem.
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Answer a questionnaire about
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Write a letter home as if they were on a trip.
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Write in their cultural journal.
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Use the overhead and retell the story in an open
market in
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Use the following site to learn more about le
Maroc and share their findings with their group at http://www.mincom.gov.ma/french/f_page.html
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Purchase a ticket, take the airplane and go through customs. (7.1.17)
2. Purchase a train ticket, ask for information, and acknowledge thanks. (7.1.17)
3. Give and get directions. (7.1.17)
4. Use double object pronoun replacements orally and written. (7.1.17)
5. Read a timetable for an airplane or train. (7.1.17)
6. Use the verbs connaitre and savoir correctly when talking about what you know and don’t know. (7.1.23)
7. Learn about the famous French châteaux and the kings that used them. (7.2.9-12)
8. Use depuis + the present tense. (7.1.23)
Duration of time: 4 weeks
Activities
Students will:
- See a film about the French châteaux and answer comprehension questions afterwards.
- Identify a French châteaux and why they are famous.
- Write and converse about taking a trip on a plane.
- Role-play purchasing a ticket.
- Replace nouns with double object pronouns.
- Use depuis + the present tense.
- Read about the French châteaux.
- Research the favorite château and its famous inhabitants and report to the class.
- Design a game with pictures of the châteaux.
- Plan an imaginary trip to a château.
- Make up a questionnaire about traveling to the châteaux.
- Use savoir and connaitre to say what they know and don’t know.
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Use faire, recevoir, boire. (7.1.23)
2. Use stress pronouns to say what they like and dislike. (7.1.23)
3. Narrate a story using the passé compose and imperfect correctly orally and written. (7.1.19)
4. Make reservations at a hotel. (7.1.19)
5. Get and give information about travel and food. (7.1.17)
6. Order food and beverages at a café. (7.1.17)
7. Identify nationalities. (7.1.17)
8. Describe needs and inquire about details. (7.1-17-19)
9. Get and give phone numbers. (7.1.17)
10. Use hotel vocabulary to get what they need in your room. (7.1.17)
11. Understand poetry and learn how to interpret metaphors. (7.2.12)
12. Read the poem “Mon Pays”. (7.2.12)
13. Use a Guide Michelin. (7.1.12)
14. Learn about Canadian travel. (7.1.21)
Duration of time: 3 ½ weeks
Activities
Students will:
- Role-play ordering at a café.
- Read and analyze the poem “Mon Pays”.
- Use the verb boire, faire, and recevoir to form a conversation and paragraph about travel.
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Design a travel brochure to
- Explain why they chose a certain hotel for their vacation.
- Describe their favorite foods and beverages.
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Respond to questions about travel in
- Using flash cards and large pictures describe the picture in the past.
- Plan a meal from a French speaking country and share with the class.
- Fill out a carte d’identite for an auberge de jeunesse.
- Put a story in chronological order.
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Research important places in
- Play a restaurant game.
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Use the following internet site to find
information about
http://www.old.montreal.qc.ca/accueil.html
- Use the language lab to do listening and comprehension activities that accompany the lessons.
THEMATIC
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Recount personal experiences. (7.1.21)
2. Describe their favorite profession and why. (7.1.21,17)
3. Hypothesize, hesitate and give compliments. (7.1.17, 19)
4. Use interrogatives to ask questions. (7.1.17, 23)
5. Use the verbs croire & vivre. (7.1.23)
6. Read about important people current and past from the French-speaking world. (7.2.11,12)
7. Become familiar with the cities of Orleans & Rouen, France. (7.2.13)
8. Use the pronoun y to replace a place in writing and orally. (7.2.12)
9. Use vocabulary referring to professions and expressions used with professions. (7.2.12)