Course Overview Years of Study
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| AP French Language - Year A Course Overview Years of Study – the school offers four years of French, beginning in Grade 9. This class is conducted in French. Teacher is a native speaker and expect students response to be almost exclusively in French. Grading: Class participation 20% Culture 8% Vocabulary/conjugation 10% Grammar and writing 15% Listening and reading comprehension 12% Final 20% Presentation/oral 15% Content and knowledge: STANDARD 1: Communication -conversation with appropriate socio-linguistic patterns promotes meaningful two way communication --conversational gambits --interactions --register --politeness forms --customs ---personal space ---entering/leaving shopping --correction/criticism -appropriate language forms --syntax --lexicon --grammar --hypothetical --extended practice of complex forms and sounds -comprehension and interpretation of world language and perspective -personal and informal stories and narratives promote cross-cultural and interpersonal understanding STANDARD 2: Culture -culture and perception of self -exposure to other cultures -personal accounts and stories of historical figures -international vs. national perspective -literature -styles of architecture -traditions -art and music STANDARD 3: Connections -language connects world through information -language learning enhances knowledge in other arenas: --circumstances and impact on reality: demographic, political, and social --indigenous populations ---governments of --driving and the metric system --compare English to language of study ---syntax ---blind spots ---literature STANDARD 4: Comparisons -Language study reinforces sameness of people around the world, while highlighting the diversity --idioms --globalization --grammar patterns and comparisons between English and language of study --dialect --regional language --awareness/feelings STANDARD 5: Communities -Relationship building strengthens communication --appreciation --opportunities --adapting to modern world Objectives: Students will study more complex grammatical structures, be introduced to writing directed composition, speak conversations of multiple exchanges, and learn about the French speaking world and its culture. Students will be able to comprehend some familiar elements – phrases, idiomatic expressions, setting, information, etc. – in everyday material produced for native speakers of the language spoken at a normal rate of speech. The themes for the AP class are: Défis mondiaux Famille et communauté Beauté Quête de soi Vie contemporaine Sciences et technologie Activities and Assessment: Reading: A variety of literacy from Children comic books and counts to Maupassant or Bellemare shorts stories, new paper, magazines, movie scripts, etc. Read article or section as a class. The students underline the words that are not familiar and try to substitute them with another word that gives sense to the content of the reading passage. Students start discussions or debates in order to find out which word fits best. After we determined all of our missing words, make a summary of the passage or article without the article being available to read. Tell the summary to class without notes. Possible class debates outcomes. Functions► Reading (multiple choice); Speaking (free response); writing summary (essay) Listening: A variety of resources is offered, from French TV news to school resources CDs, movies, songs, TV debates or entertainments. The students will listen to a conversation, interactions, news, debates, movies with and without subtitles, etc. Students will discuss content of such recordings and orally summarize them. Students will also answer mostly teacher made worksheet on the same model as the AP test for best practice and might as well write an essay on topic listened and discussed. Functions► Listening – multiple choice; Writing (essay); Speaking: (free answer) Oral: The oral will be focused this year on the AP test format. After a lesson and relevant grammar and vocabulary, the students will be given a situation to describe or discuss. Students will be given an image to describe and or discuss without notes and little personal preparation (other than the prior lesson as a class). Functions► Speaking – (Free responses) Textbook and resources: Bon voyage is the textbook used by the school and will be used for grammar references and vocabulary in situations. Guy De Maupassant short stories CD from Bon voyage methods and from AP samples and practices. Website such as : www.tf1.fr www.f2.fr www.m6.fr www.f3.fr www.tv5.org www.parismatch.com www.rmc.mo Course Planner Week 1-3 (15 days) Contemporary Life – CR6c L’été en France. Que font les français l’été ? Discussions on the vacations in France and what French people do in the summer emphasizing a review on the present tense and “vouloir” et “pouvoir” and many other irregular and regular verbs. Les parcs d’attractions. Les concerts. Les boîtes. Les campings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzAPwsCVrU St Tropez. (Les gendarmes FIII) Readings : Max et Lili font du camping and relevant articles and podcasts. DELF P 79 Les français privilégient les loisirs aux grande vacances. End of chapter – FIV et présentations en Français aux FIII. FIII – Choisir une région de France et faire présentation. Weeks 4-6 (15 days) Grammar review Focus on Imparfait Chapitre 7B in Espace. The students will learn how to book a hotel. Global challenges – Environment- CR6a Vocbulary relevant to the ecology and recycling, the renewable/clean energy and Global warming. Power Point using the imparfait: “now it is, before it used to be” regarding the environment. (AP) Mandatory use of topics such as GMO, nuclear, ozone layer… Discussions Family and community CR6e Power point on students’ habits when they were kids as a family and present to the class (III), the student will give their script to the teacher before the presentation writing skill assessment and for a better and cleaner oral presentation. Discussions and comparisons to French traditions. Lili et Max fêtent Noel en famille Weeks 7-9 (15 days) Family and community CR6e Grammar review Imparfait and passé-composé Chapters 8A and B In Espace B) Students will be able to use the passé composé & recognize the imparfait. C) Students will be able to use both passé composé and imparfait in story context. News listening, discussions and introduction to plusquam perfect and past conditional with given situation to discuss and write about. Paragraphs and translation exercises. The students will learn to differentiate and distinguish the two past tenses (perfect and imperfect) With the support of the theme “Lodging in France” the student will learn how French people live in their household and will evaluate the issues of lodging in France. FIII - The student will write a tale with both tenses and share with the class on a Power Point. Les repas en France (310) Villes et villages Français (418) Les apéros, les terrasses Les fêtes de famille Les français et le vélo (167) Les jardins publics français (165) Les français et la lecture/le cinéma Les traditions familiales The students will make comparison between their community and Fall B - Reading a story – Pierre Bellmare – FIV Vacances Octobre Second quarter Weeks 9-10 (10 days) Personal and Public Identities – Multiculturalism- CR6d Science and technology CR6b The students will learn about French Guyana and reinforce the Passé-composé/Imparfait usage. La Guyane – Papillon – Les Hmong – Dreyfus – Seznec Révisions passé composé/imparfait La fusée Arianne P 369 Week 11 Grammar : Venir de. The student will know how to express something they just did. (Espace 9A) Culture The students will earn about the French Social Security and the recent past (Espace 10 A et B) Global challenges La loi du marché/Samba ?- FIV Weeks 12-13 - FIII The student will learn infinitive idiomatic expression and have a French approach on technology. (Espace 11A) The students will learn how to express an action with doubts or reserves. They will learn to say what they would do in different situations. Conditional- (Espace 11B) The student will present a Power point in conditional to the class, things they would do in certain situations. Week 12-13 (10 jours) FIV Personal and Public Identities – Multiculturalism- CR6d Roman- Un papillon dans la cité - Gisèle Pineau- FIV La cour de Babel Immigration (Samba/ Welcome) Les Roms Weeks 14-17 (20 jours) Beauty and Aesthetics – CR6f FIV - The students will learn how to express thing they will do or that From Saint-Exupéry, the class segues to Fables. These are quick and relatively easy to read, so after reading La Fontaine’s fables together, students select fables to work on individually. They read and study a fable of their choice and then retell it in French for the class. Students are trained in Group techniques and work with their fable in small groups. . This unit culminates in writing as well, a written French retelling of one of the fables, without access to reference materials. This ensures that students begin to “own” this level of expression in French. Lili se trouve moche Articles et podcasts Les beaux gosses ? movie Third Quarter Science and technology CR6b WEEKS 1-4 (20 jours) Study vocabulary associated with technology and networking. Texte la solitude numérique – Imaginez P 268 Max est fou de jeux vidéo + discussions Solar Impulse – article et/ou podcasts Espace P 368 – La technologie et les français Grammar proposition with infinitive and reciprocal reflexive. Si and clauses Lesson 13 A. Le telephone et les artisans Review future. FIII Review and practice (written and oral) of subjunctive Espace – formation of the subjunctive Expression impersonnelles Verbes de volonté Verbes d’émotion Doute Conjonctions Uniqueness WEEKS 5 (5 jours) Contemporary Life – CR6c Espace : Administrations in France, le marché du travail Lesson 13 B. Les syndicats, et les grèves. Les Fonctionnaires Relative pronouns La loi du marché ? WEEKS 6-8 (15 jours) Personal and Public Identities – Multiculturalism- CR6d The students will study a francophone country or territory and prepare a presentation in French along with a discussion and comparison activity. They will prepare a test for their peers. Fourth quarter (FIII) WEEKS 10-11 (10 jours) Global challenges CR6a Espace : Lesson 14 A. L’écologie et l’énergie nucléaire La malbouffe et les restaurants Le pronon démonstratif. WEEKS 12-13 (10 jours) Espace : Lesson 14 B. Les parcs nationaux. Comparatifs et superlatifs WEEKS 14-16 (15 jours) Contemporary life CR6c The studens will know and identify the Belgian comic books. Les BD belges Espace: Lesson 15 A. Le théatre et Molière. 15B. Le Cirque du Soleil - Texte Grammar : Les pronoms possessifs Tintin, Astérix le Gaulois, Gaston Lagaffe et le journal de Spirou WEEKS 17-19 (15 jours) While French IV is reviewing for their AP exam, the FIII will be reading, comprehending and writing about internationally famous Belgian comic book Astérix The Gaul. Teaching Strategies I use a broad range of teaching methods within the model of a student-centered classroom. Lecture is minimal; discussion, both small group and large group is maximized. French is used to develop levels of questioning (yes-no, either-or, sentence completion, concept ordering, finally open-ended question-answer). The cycle of output, feed-back, correction, re-output would adequately describe much of the instruction. Dividing instruction into skills units:
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