French I

Overview -

Learn basic French grammar to help build your fluency and understanding, and apply what you learn through interactive games, written practice, and listening and speaking exercises.

MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS -

  • Culture: Paris
  • The alphabet and pronunciation
    Using cognates and borrowed words to build French vocabulary
  • Greetings, asking for names, and providing your name
  • Question words: asking and responding to questions
  • Numbers 1-1000
  • How you are and where you are from
  • Classroom objects
  • Definite and indefinite articles
  • Where French is spoken
  • Why study French
  • Culture: Train travel in France
  • Days of the week, months of the year, dates
  • Culture: Holidays of the French-speaking world
  • Subject pronouns
  • Formal vs. informal
  • Telling time
  • Talking about likes and dislikes
  • Using irregular verbs: Être, aller, avoir
  • Adjectives and adjective agreement
  • Singular vs. plural nouns
  • Negation
  • Culture: French-speaking Africa
  • Talking about family members
  • Occupations and employment possibilities for French-speakers
  • Culture: Markets and shopping
  • Talking about your city
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Expressing needs
  • Talking about clothing and colors
  • Using Avoir expressions
  • Culture: Strasbourg
  • Talking about communities
  • Culture: Carcassone
  • Review telling time
  • Transportation
  • Entertainment vocabulary
  • Using être a
  • Er verbs
  • The prepositions à and de
  • Culture: Weather in France
  • Describing weather
  • Culture: Nice, the French Alps
  • Activities for different seasons
  • Culture: The Eiffel Tower
  • Using the irregular verb Faire
  • Disagreeing with negative questions and statements using si
  • Talking about the future using aller + an infinitive
  • Disjunctive pronouns
  • Culture: Northwestern France
  • Talking about leisure activities and sports
  • Culture: Astérix
  • IR verbs
  • Irregular adjectives
  • Demonstrative adjectives
  • Talking about countries and nationalities
  • Culture: Quebec
  • Using irregular –Ir verbs
  • Interrogatives
  • Culture: French-speaking Asian countries
  • Re verbs

    Grade Level

    Grade 9, 10, 11, 12

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    Duration

    Annual

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    Prerequisites

    None

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    Mode

     Online

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    Ratio

    1 Teacher : 9 Student (Standard)

    1 Teacher : 15 Student (max)

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    Exams & Assessments

    Online via Learning Management System

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    Academic Year

    9.6 Months ≈ 10 Months

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    Commencement of Academic Year

    January

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    End of Academic Year

    November

    Requirements

    • Microphone and speaker, or headset.