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 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
Fee Details
| Program | Regular | Honors |
| Fee | $ 558 | $ 583 |
Grade Level
Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration
10 Months
Requirements
Microphone and speaker, or headset.
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