20802221French 1
Course Information
Description
This course is for students beginning the study of French or those who need to review the basics before going on to French 2. Students will learn to participate in uncomplicated conversations on everyday topics and gain a better understanding of and appreciation for people and cultures other than their own.
Total Credits
4
Course Competencies
  1. Greet people and respond accordingly when participating in a very basic conversational exchange (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Use appropriate greetings in French.
    Say your name and ask others for theirs.
    Use appropriate titles and register.
    Identify nouns as masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.
    Distinguish between definite and indefinite articles.
    Identify a few people, things, and places.
    Count from 0-60.
    Ask and answer questions that use the phrase “how many?”.
    Use numbers in simple exchanges.
    Use “il y a” to describe what is or is not present.
    Ask and answer questions with “il y a”, including in the negative.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  2. Identify yourself and others and talk about items in the classroom (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify and list objects and people in the classroom.
    Ask what something is.
    Ask who someone is.
    Identify the subject pronouns used in French.
    Distinguish between the use of “vous” and “tu” and “on”.
    Use the verb ÊTRE to identify people and things.
    Identify various adjectives and their meaning.
    Use the correct form of adjectives in speaking and writing activities.
    Identify various nationalities in French.
    Say what your nationality is.
    Identify the nationality of people and things.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  3. Talk about your classes and ask others about theirs (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify names of courses
    List courses you are taking
    Talk about courses you like and do not like and explain why
    Identify regular ER verbs
    Talk about your activities and ask others about theirs
    Use the definite article when talking about likes/dislikes/preferences
    Identify the negative structure in reading and listening
    Communicate what you and others do not do
    Identify the various question formats in reading and listening
    Participate in short interviews about activities
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  4. Say when things happen and discuss your schedule (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify the days of the week
    Identify time periods, like day, month, year, week, etc
    Ask what day it is
    Use the verb AVOIR to talk about your schedule and ask others about theirs
    Use the verb AVOIR to talk about personal items
    Use DE after the negative when talking about things you do not have
    Identify idiomatic expressions that use AVOIR
    Use idiomatic expressions with AVOIR in short exchanges with others
    Distinguish between official and conventional time
    Ask for the time
    Tell what time it is
    Say when you do things
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  5. Discuss family, friends, and pets, and express ownership (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify members of your family or another’s family
    Talk about your family and pets
    Ask others about their family
    Use regular adjectives to describe physical and personality traits
    Identify the correct forms and placement of adjectives
    Use irregular adjectives to describe physical and personality traits
    Identify the correct forms and placement of adjectives
    Talk about your family
    Talk about your possessions
    Talk and ask others about your favorite things and people
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  6. Describe people’s physical attributes, personality, and occupation (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Use adjectives to describe people
    Identify some occupations
    Match adjectives in gender and number
    Identify all numbers from 0 to 100 in listening activities
    Participate in exchanges where numbers 0 to 100 are used
    Identify prepositions of location in listening and reading activities
    Use prepositions to describe where things and people are
    Identify the appropriate disjunctive pronoun to use
    Use disjunctive pronouns with prepositions in short exchanges with others.
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences and some strings of sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  7. Say where you are going and what you are going to do (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify places in town
    Say what you and others do at those places
    Ask others what they do in those places
    Use the verb ALLER to talk about where you go
    Use the verb ALLER to talk about what you and others are going to do in the future
    Initiate and maintain conversations by asking a variety of questions
    Use Comment? and Pardon? to ask for clarification
    Use forms of QUEL to ask others which/what questions
    Use forms of QUEL as an exclamation in conversation
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  8. Order food and beverages and ask for your check (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify drinks and food items
    Order food and beverages, using appropriate register
    Ask for prices
    Say what you’ll have for food and drink
    Talk about what you learn
    Express when you do not understand something
    Use the partitif to talk about food and drink
    Distinguish between definite articles, indefinite articles, and the partitif
    Use regular IR verbs to expand topics of conversation and to initiate and maintain conversation
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  9. Talk about activities and tell how often and how well you do things (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify sports and leisure activities
    Talk about activities you and others do
    Say how often you do things
    Talk about instruments you and others play
    Talk about sports and games you and others play
    Identify sports and games
    Identify expressions that use FAIRE
    Talk and ask others about these activities
    Express necessity with “Il faut”
    Identify the irregular IR verbs
    Use irregular IR verbs to expand on conversations about your activities and others’ activities
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences and some strings of sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  10. Talk about seasons, identify the date, and discuss weather (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify the seasons and months
    Say and ask for the date
    Identify important dates for the French people
    Describe your favorite season
    Say what the weather is like
    Say what the weather is going to be like
    Ask about the weather
    Identify seasonal weather
    Participate in exchanges where numbers 101 and higher are used
    Identify years in French
    Identify prices in French
    Communicate written and spoken messages that feature some spelling change ER verbs
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences and some strings of sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  11. Talk about celebrations and the stages of life (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify the stages of life
    Identify people and things at a party
    Talk about celebrations
    Use demonstrative adjective to identify this/that/these/those
    Distinguish between this/these and that/those
    Identify past actions in listening and reading activities
    Communicate a written message about past events
    Say what you did and did not do in the past
    Ask others about past events
    Participate in conversations about past events
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences with the new vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

  12. Describe clothing and offer and accept gifts (in French).
    Assessment Strategies
    Through completion of weekly online textbook activities
    Through weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities with classmates and instructor
    Criteria
    Identify items of clothing
    Identify colors
    Ask what color something is
    Say what you and others are wearing
    Identify verbs used with indirect object pronouns
    Replace indirect objects with pronouns in writing and speaking activities
    Identify some irregular RE verbs and their conjugation
    Create sentences and questions with irregular RE verbs
    Identify some regular RE verbs and their conjugation
    Create sentences and questions with regular RE verbs
    Use new and old vocabulary to convey meaning
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language as much as possible
    Create simple sentences and strings of sentences with the new and old vocabulary and structures in order to convey meaning
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking)