FRENCH II

SYLLABUS

Textbook: Bon Voyage

FIRST NINE WEEKS (Review- Chapters 1-10 of Bon Voyage I)

Vocabulary

Review (chapters 1-8 of Level I): Greetings, Salutations, Days of the week, Months, Seasons, Numbers 1-20, Date, Food, Specialty Stores, School, People, Travel, Restaurant

Review (chapter 9 of Level I): More Travel

Review (chapter 10 of Level I): Sports, Question words

Grammar/Language Structure

Review (chapters 1-8 of Level I): Aller, Aller + infinitive, contractions ‘a’ and ‘de’, Prendre

Review (chapter 9 of Level I): Present tense of –reverbs, demonstrative adjectives, dire, ecrire, lire

Review (chapter 10 of Level I): Past tense of regular verbs, Boire, Recevoir, Devoir, Qui, Que, Quoi

Culture:

Review (Ch. 10): Le Tour de France

SECOND NINE WEEKS (Chapters11-13 of Bon Voyage, Level I)

Vocabulary

Chapter 11 (Level I): Going to the beach, summer and winter activities, ski resort, Describing weather and seasons

Chapter 12 (Level I): Daily routines, Family members

Chapter 13 (Level I): Theater and Cinema

Grammar/Language Structure

Chapter 11 (Level I): Negation (no one/never/always, etc), Passe compose of irr. Verbs, passé compose etre

Chapter 12 (Level I): Reflexive verbs-present and past tense, Faire

Chapter 13 (LevelI): Savoir, Connaitre, Pronouns, direct object pronouns

Culture

Chapter 12 (Level I): Fine Arts, Le peitit dejeuner autour du monde, aux Etats-Unis, en Algeria, en France, etc.

Chapter 13 (Level I): Musee D’Orsay

THIRD NINE WEEKS (Chapters 13 and 14 of Level I and chapters 1- 3 of Level II)

Vocabulary

Chapter 13 (Level I): Theater and Cinema

Chapter 14 (Level I): Health and Medicine

Chapter 2 (Level II): Health, Medicines, Minor health problems, more body parts, speaking with the doctor and pharmacist

Chapter 3 (Level II): Describing a Computer, Using a computer, Sending a fax, Describing a telephone, making a phone Call, giving telephone numbers

Grammar/Language Structure

Chapter 2 (Level II): Pronouns lui and leur, Souffrir, Ouvrir, Imperative commands, Pronoun en

Chapter 3 (Level II): How to describe habitual and continuous actions in the past, L’Imperfait of regular verbs, use of the Imp. Tense

Culture

Chapter 13 (Level I): Movies, plays, museums

FOURTH NINE WEEKS (Chapters 3-5, Level II Bon Voyage)

Vocabulary

Chapter 3: Describing a Computer, Using a computer, Sending a fax, Describing a telephone, Making a phone Call, giving telephone numbers

Chapter 4: Airport, On board a plane, Getting around the train station, On board the train

Chapter 5: Talking about the bank, currency, saving and spending money, Talking about the post office

Grammar

Chapter 3: How to describe habitual and continuous actions in the past, L’Imperfait of regular verbs, use of the Imp. Tense

Chapter 4: Compare Imp. and past tenses, narrating in the past, Venir, use of prepositions with cities, countries, and continents

Chapter 5: Qui and Que, agreement of past participles, reciprocal actions, expressing negatives (personne ne and rien ne)

Culture

Chapter 4: A trip to Switzerland