20802222French 2
Course Information
Description
This course is for students who have completed 1 year of high school French OR 1 semester of college French. Students will learn to understand more complicated conversations and readings and respond with longer, more complex sentences and even paragraphs. Emphasis will be placed on gaining a better understanding of and appreciation for other cultures.
Total Credits
4
Course Competencies
  1. Describe trips you have taken and tell where you went and what you did (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 objects, people, places associated with travel
    Identify activities related to travel
    Identify countries in French
    Identify the verbs that take ÊTRE in the passé composé
    Show past participle agreement in written work
    Talk about past events using verbs conjugated with both AVOIR and ÊTRE
    Participate in conversations about past events
    Communicate a written message about past events
    String together sentences in the passé composé to tell a simple story in the past
    Identify direct objects in a sentence
    Replace direct objects with pronouns in writing and speaking 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 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)

  2. Make hotel reservations and give instructions and advice (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 objects and people associated with hotel stays
    Identify and use ordinal numbers
    Identify and form adverbs
    Use regular and irregular adverbs in creating sentences and questions
    Form negative and affirmative commands to offer directions, hints, and suggestions
    Create sentences, commands, and questions using the verbs DIRE, LIRE, and ÉCRIRE
    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)

  3. Describe your home, make descriptions in the past, and talk about habitual past activities (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 parts of a house
    Identify furniture and objects in a house
    Describe your house/room.
    Identify and form verbs in the imparfait verb tense
    Make descriptions in the past using the imparfait
    Identify the imparfait in reading & listening activities
    Participate in verbal exchanges using imparfait
    Distinguish between the passé composé and the imparfait
    Use the pc and imparfait together to create sentences in the past
    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 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)

  4. Talk about chores and identify appliances (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 household chores
    Identify home appliances
    Talk about chores you like/dislike and explain why
    Identify whether to use the passé composé or the imparfait when talking about activities
    Create sentences and questions using the imparfait and passé composé
    Identify the difference between the verbs SAVOIR and CONNAÎTRE
    Talk about what you know and what you are familiar with
    Identify the meaning of SAVOIR and CONNAÎTRE in the past
    Write a short past narrative
    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 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)

  5. Talk about food and express needs, desires, abilities (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 food items
    Categorize food by shops
    Talk about shopping habits
    Talk about likes and dislikes and preferences on the subject of food
    Participate in exchanges using VENIR and similar verbs
    Tell what just happened using the passé récent
    Ask and answer questions about how long it has been since you did (or did not do) something
    Make invitations
    Refuse invitations and give excuses
    Express need, desires, and abilities using DEVOIR, VOULOIR, POUVOIR
    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 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)

  6. Describe and discuss eating habits and make comparisons (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 parts of a meal
    Identify objects used for eating
    talk about eating habits
    Compare people, places, and things using adjectives
    Compare how people do things using adverbs
    Use the superlative of adjectives and adverbs to express extremes in writing and short verbal exchanges
    Identify direct and indirect objects in sentences
    Use pronoun replacements to avoid repetition in dialogue
    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 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)

  7. Describe your daily routine and discuss personal hygiene (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 body parts
    Recognize reflexive verbs and identify their meaning
    Identify bathroom objects
    Use reflexive verbs in the présent, futur proche, passé récent
    Use the definite article with body parts
    Make affirmative commands with reflexive verb
    Make negative commands with reflexive verbs
    Identify the meaning of idiomatic reflexive verbs
    Ask and answer questions using idiomatic reflexive verbs
    Conjugate the verb SOUVENIR
    Correctly spell and use spelling change reflexives
    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 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)

  8. Describe your health and talk about remedies and well-being (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 symptoms and some common illnesses
    Identify the meaning of and use new reflexive verbs
    Use vocabulary related to health and healthcare
    Use reflexive verbs in the past tenses (passé composé and imparfait)
    Create questions with reflexives in the past tenses
    Use the correct form of the past participle for both regular verbs and reflexive verbs
    Participate in conversations in which the pronouns Y and EN are used to avoid repetition
    Write sentences with Y and EN to avoid repetition
    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 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)

  9. Talk about communication and talk about electronics (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 technology tools
    Talk about how you use technology
    Identify the meaning of and use new reflexive verbs
    Conjugate the verb éteindre
    Identify which preposition is required for certain verbs followed by an infinitive
    Use the infinitive with pour and sans
    Use reflexive verbs to show reciprocal actions
    Use the correct form of the past participle for reciprocals
    Use regular and reflexive verbs in the present tense, the passé composé, the imparfait, the passé récent, the futur proche
    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 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)

  10. Talk about cars and traffic and say what you would do under certain conditions (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 parts of a car
    Identify the people and places related to car usage
    Identify some problems related to cars
    Use the verb OUVRIR and verbs like it in the present, passé composé, imparfait
    Identify the use of the reflexive form of these verbs
    Conjugate verbs in the conditional tense
    Say what you would do
    Use the conditional to make requests more polite
    Use the conditional to explain what you would do in hypothetical situations
    Use the imparfait to create a hypothetical situation
    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 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)

  11. Make business transactions and discuss errands around town (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 places and people around town and talk about what you do there
    Talk about banking and payment methods
    Use the verbs voir, croire, recevoir, and apercevoir in the present tense, passé composé, imparfait, and conditional
    Identify affirmative expressions and their corresponding opposite negative expression
    Correctly place negative expressions
    Create sentences and questions with appropriate negative and affirmative expressions
    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 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)

  12. Ask for directions and tell what you will do in the future (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 landmarks helpful for understanding directions
    Ask for directions
    Give directions
    Put verbs into the futur simple form
    Use the following terms appropriately: le futur, l’avenir
    Use verbs that have irregular forms in the future tense
    Create sentences and questions with futur simple
    Talk about what you and others will do based on real conditions
    Initiate and maintain conversations in the future
    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 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)