20802226French 5
Course Information
Description
This course is for students who have completed the grammar review of French 3 and 4 and are now ready to advance their proficiency through more extensive writing and speaking. Various sources of cultural significance from the Francophone world will be used as we explore the idea of identity.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Describe people, places, and things with detail, in both writing and speaking, using paragraphs most of the time
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use a variety of adjectives to describe familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and things with detail.
    Adhere to the rules of gender and number agreement when using both regular and irregular adjectives.
    Accurately pronounce all forms of adjectives such that a non-sympathetic listener would understand.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Use a variety of adverbs, correct in form and placement, to describe how people do things.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  2. Compare and contrast people, places, and topics, in both writing and speaking, using paragraphs most of the time
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use both adjectives and adverbs in the comparative and superlative structure.
    Use not only the basic comparative and superlative structures but also more complex transitions to indicate comparison and contrast.
    Accurately pronounce all parts of your sentences such that a non-sympathetic listener would understand.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing on this topic.
    Extend comparisons and contrasts into full, well-developed paragraphs in speaking and writing.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  3. Narrate in the past on familiar and researched topics, in both writing and speaking, using paragraphs most of the time
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use a variety of verbs in the passé composé, including those conjugated with AVOIR and ÊTRE as well as reflexives.
    Adhere to the rules of gender and number agreement for past participles.
    Accurately pronounce all forms of passé composé and imparfait, such that a non-sympathetic listener would understand.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing in the past, using adverbs of time, transitions, and other indicators that clarify your message.
    Accurately use the imparfait and passé composé together in past narrations.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  4. Narrate in the future on familiar topics and researched topics, in both writing and speaking, using paragraphs most of the time
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use a variety of verbs in the future simple and the future proche.
    Accurately use the future in SI clauses as well as with dès que, quand, espérer, and other structures that indicate future tense.
    Accurately pronounce all forms of the future tenses, such that a non-sympathetic listener would understand
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing in the future, using adverbs of time, transitions, and other indicators that clarify your message.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  5. Add complexity and length to sentences, in both writing and speaking
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use a variety of adjectives and adverbs to make your sentences more interesting.
    Give explanations and details to extend your answers into longer sentences and paragraphs as well as to clarify your message and to get around what you don’t know.
    Ask questions to sustain conversations with more detail and more extensive language use.
    Use relative pronouns with accuracy to extend sentences for better clarity.
    Use transitions, interjections, and other additions to make your speech more accurate and engaging.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  6. Use more organized paragraphs, in both writing and speaking, and begin to use transition phrases to link paragraphs together to express ideas and opinions
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Develop strings of sentences into clearly organized paragraphs.
    Use accurate spelling when writing.
    Use accurate pronunciation when speaking.
    Extend thoughts and opinions into paragraph form, even when dealing with unfamiliar topics.
    Engage with others in extensive conversations rooted in opinions and conjecture.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  7. Express opinions about familiar and researched topics, in both writing and speaking, using paragraphs most of the time
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use all formulas for SI clauses to express opinions and hypotheticals with accurate verb tenses.
    Use a variety of expressions indicating emotion, doubt, will, importance, necessity, and opinion.
    Use correct verb forms, including the subjunctive, when expressing opinions and complex thoughts.
    Create complex sentences when expressing opinions through speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Ask others about their opinion to sustain conversations.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  8. Ask and answer questions on a deeper level about topics that are familiar and some topics that are researched
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Use a variety of question forms to sustain conversations with others, including native speakers.
    Use questions that indicate varying levels of register (formal, conversational, familiar).
    Use inversion accurately when creating questions in a more formal context.
    Create complex questions when speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Use natural techniques such as stalling for time and asking for clarification.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages when responding, both orally and written.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  9. Ask and answer questions on a deeper level about readings that are connected to familiar topics and that also come from Francophone literature, news articles, and other sources of cultural significance
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Sustain conversations with others by asking for specific details and opinions connected to readings and other sources.
    Express your own opinions and thoughts connected to readings and other researched topics.
    Cite examples from sources of cultural significance when expressing opinions or thoughts.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Discuss ideas from both a personal point of view and a more universal point of view.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  10. Discuss various aspects of the French identity and support statements with real world examples
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Develop a definition of the French identity using specific examples from sources used.
    Discuss the idea of identity in personal terms and on a more universal scale.
    Engage with others on this topic, asking specific questions that sustain the conversation and go deeper.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

  11. Discuss the idea that we are all interconnected through shared human experiences, no matter our language or culture
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly writing, speaking, listening, and reading activities
    Criteria
    Engage with others on this topic, asking questions to sustain the conversation.
    Compare and contrast your own experience and perspectives with those of others.
    Provide examples of our shared human experience, based in particular on sources we use.
    Create complex sentences when speaking and writing on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
    Discuss the value of shared language and culture(s) as well as the potential dangers of other ideas related to group identity.
    Communicate paragraph-length messages, both orally and written, with accuracy.
    Identify the important details of culturally significant written texts and spoken messages within this topic.
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language and convey your message.
    Engage in regular, repeated practice of the four skills in the target language (reading, writing, listening, speaking).