SHS Mrs. Hoelmer’s Classes

French 3: 2nd Nine Week Syllabus
Mme. Hoelmer

Following is an outline of the objectives, grammar and vocabulary that we will be covering this quarter. With every unit students should expect the following: a speaking assignment, a listening quiz, grammar and vocabulary quizzes; a writing assignment and reading comprehension assessments. Additionally, there will be short and extended projects throughout the quarter designed to add creativity, fun and culture to the class.
All students will complete a 5-paragraph essay before the end of the quarter. This quarter students will be working on an a compare and contrast essay.
Unité 3: (environs 15 journées)
1. Talking about outdoor activities
2. Describing the natural environment and how to protect it
3. Talking about the weather and natural environment
4. Relating a sequence of past events
5. Talking about the past 1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 3.1; 4.1
1. The passé composé
2. The imperfect
3. Contrasting uses of passé composé and imparfait
4. The passé simple Note: in World Languages, the standards “wrap” and with each lesson and topic, they are continually being touched on.
1. How the French feel about nature and their land
2. How the French protect their environment
3. La Renaissance
4. Le Grand Siècle
5. François Premier
6. Louis XIV
7. French castles
8. La Fontaine, Prévert
Unité 4 (environs 15 journées)
1. Objectives
2. Shopping for various items
3. Buying stamps and mailing items at the post office
4. Having items fixed or cleaned
5. Having one’s hair cut
6. Asking for a variety of services
7. Talking about quantities
8. Answering questions and referring to people, places, and things using pronouns
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 3.1; 4.1
1. The pronoun y
2. Object pronouns
3. Two-pronoun sequences
4. The pronoun en
5. Indefinite expressions of quantity
6. Faire + infinitive
1. Shopping in a supermarket
2. Services at the post office
3. When to tip and not to tip
4. Lully, Chopin, Bizet, Debussy
5. Music of Francophone world
6. Famous French singers
Unité 5 (environs 15 journées)
1. Planning a trip abroad
2. Going through customs
3. Making travel arrangements
4. Travel in France
5. Making negative statements
6. Describing future plans
7. Hypothesizing about what one would do
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 3.1; 4.1
1. Making negative statements
2. Use of expression ne…que
3. Future tense
4. Future tense with si clauses
5. Future after quand
6. The conditional
1. TGV
2. Eurotunnel
3. French on vacation abroad
4. The French Revolution
5. Napoleonic era
6. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
7. La Marseillaise

After a quick review during the first week, French 3 students have begun working on Unit 3. In this Unit, we will explore eco-tourism and the vocabulary associated with it. Students will also review how to discuss events in the past. This week, students will create a “7 Commandments of the Enviroment” poster, read several passages in the book and create flashcards for their vocabulary. Students will have a vocabulary test on Friday, October 23.

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French I: 2nd Nine Week Syllabus

Following is an outline of the objectives, grammar and vocabulary that we will be covering this quarter. With every unit students should expect the following: a speaking quiz, a listening quiz, grammar and vocabulary quizzes; one unit test. Additionally, there will be short and extended projects throughout the quarter designed to add creativity, fun and culture to the class.

*** While not written on the syllabus, students will be given reading and writing prompts that will be kept in a journal. Writing entries are expected to be a minimum of 5 sentences. Journals will be collected 3-4 times throughout the quarter and will be graded.
All students will complete a 5-paragraph essay before the end of the quarter. This quarter students will be working on persuasive essay.

Unit 3 (approximately 22 Days)
Describe some of your daily activities
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 3.1; 4.1
Say what you like and do not like to do
Note: in World Languages, the standards “wrap” and with each lesson and topic, they are continually being touched on.
Ask and answer questions about where others are and what they are doing

Invite friends to do things with you

Politely accept or turn down an invitation

Expressing preferences and wishes
Words, expressions used to indicate where someone is (locatives)

Expressions used to respond to yes/no questions

Verb conjugation: Irregular verbs être, faire;Forming yes/no questions using “est-ce que” and rising intonation; Negation; –ER verb conjugation; Verb + infinitive construction

Unit Four (approximately 22 Days)
Talk about yourself; your personality and why you look like
Describe your friends and how old they are
Describe your room
Talk about everyday objects that you own or use
Describe these objects: their color and size
1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 2.1; 3.1; 4.1
The irregular verb avoir
Gender/gender-markers
Plural forms of nouns and articles
Forms of indefinite articles in affirmative & negative sentences
Use of definite article in general sense & with days of the week
Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives; plural forms of adjectives; position of adjectives
C’est versus Il est
Impersonal expressions with c’est
Note: in World Languages, the standards “wrap” and with each lesson and topic, they are continually being touched on.
Haiti
Social grouping among French teenagers
The French and the automobile/the mobylette/the scooter
City of Toulouse

Quarter 2 begins with Unit 3. Unit 3 really introduces students to the grammar and structure of the French language for the first time. We will take what we learned in first quarter and “pick it apart”.
During the week of October 19-23 we will build our vocabulary in lesson 5.
Students will be learning how to say a variety of actions. The vocabulary is found on pages 74-75 in the book.
At the end of the week, students will prepare a brief conversation inviting someone to do something over the weekend.

We have had a busy four weeks.  The girls (yes the class is all girls!) are doing well and have been writing and reading a lot.  They are currently working on a storyboard to summarize a short story they read in French.  We are also working on reading passages to prepare them for the National French Exam in January.

Things are going very well in French 2.  We have been very busy and I wanted to update you on where we’ve been and what to expect in the next few weeks. 

Things are going very well in French 1.  We have been very busy and I wanted to update you on where we’ve been and what to expect in the next few weeks.