Scope and Sequence

Scope and Sequence
T’es branché? Level 1
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 1 Bonjour, tout le monde!
Essential question: In what ways is learning another language beneficial?
• Greetings
• Nationalities (in
Vocabulaire actif)
• Introduce oneself
• Introduce someone
else
• Respond to an
introduction
• Ask someone’s
name (in Pour la
conversation)
• Greetings
• Popular first names
• La Francophonie:
Francophones in
France and North
America (in Points
de départ)
• Respond to Ça va?
• Say good-bye
• Ask how someone is
• Say how I am doing
• Back to school
• Ways to say good-bye
• La Francophonie:
Europe and North
Africa
Communication:
Register in speaking
and writing
(in Stratégies
communicatives)
• Locations
• Parents
• Extend an invitation
• Accept an invitation
• Refuse an invitation
• French teens
• La Francophonie:
Sub-Saharan Africa,
Caribbean, and South
America
Culture:
Assess comfort level
with Francophone
cultures (in La culture
sur place)
Produits:
La Négritude
Fine art:
Impressionistic
techniques (Jean
Béraud)
(in Le monde visuel)
Reading:
Answer the five “W”
questions and decipher
words (in Lecture
thématique)
Unité 2 Les passe-temps
Essential question: What do activities and pastimes reveal about a culture?
•
•
•
•
Pastimes
Olympic sports
Weather
Food
• Ask what someone
likes to do
• Say what I like to do
• Say what I don’t like
to do
• Pari Roller
• Olympics
• Paris
La Francophonie
(Sports):
• Tour de France
• Hockey in Canada
• Subject pronouns
• tu vs. vous
• Present tense of
regular -er verbs
Produits:
Cubism in Paris
• More pastimes
• Adverbs
T 6
• Ask how much
someone likes to
do something
• Say how much I
enjoy doing things
• Lyon
La Francophonie (Les
passe-temps):
• Mancala in Africa
Produits:
Guignol
• Position of adverbs
Communication:
Cognates
Vocabulaire
• Nouns:
Sports
Music
Pastimes
• Numbers 0–20
Fonctions
• State my preferences
• Ask what someone
prefers
• Agree and disagree
Culture
• Count on fingers
• Rachid Taha and
World music
• Singer Corneille
• Fête de la musique
Structure
• Gender of nouns and
definite articles
• The verb préférer
• Negation with ne…
pas
La Francophonie
(Instruments):
• Kora in Africa
Stratégies
Culture:
Sports viewing habits
Fine art:
Coloration (Béatrice
Boisségur)
Reading:
Paraphrasing and
finding meaning in
repetition
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 1 – 2
Unité 3 À l’école
Essential question: How does education shape individuals and societies?
• Classroom objects
• Numbers 20–100
• Say what I need
• Ask what someone
else needs
• Ask what something
costs
• State what
something costs
• Carrefour
• School supplies
• The euro and the
Eurozone
• Online instruction
• Classroom subjects
• Adjectives
• Time expressions
• Describe a class
• Ask for a description
of someone
• Describe someone
•
•
•
•
• Indefinite articles
• Plurals of articles and
nouns
• Present tense of the
irregular verb avoir
• Avoir besoin de
24-hour clock
• Telling time
Wednesday afternoon • Present tense of the
Classes and exams
irregular verb être
The lycée and the
• Agreement and
bac
position of regular
• Naming schools
adjectives
Communication:
Combine sentences
La Francophonie:
• French Polynesia
Produits:
Le paréo in French
Polynesia
• Places in school
• Places in the city
• Ask where someone
is going
• Ask when someone is
going somewhere
• Ask why someone
cannot do something
• Establish a place and
time to meet
• La cantine and
school meals
• Lycées hôteliers
• Fête de la musique
• English words of
French origin
La Francophonie
(Éducation):
• Education in Mali
• Present tense of the
irregular verb aller
• À + definite articles
• Forming questions
with est-ce que
Culture:
Reflect on learning
about French schools
and compare them to
schools in the United
States
Fine art:
Focal point (Robert
Doisneau)
Reading:
Point of view and
Context clues
T 7
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 4 Le weekend ensemble
Essential question: What activities do friends in other countries do together?
• Soccer
• Soccer clothes
• The métro
• Food and drink
• Numbers 100–1.000
• Give a reason
• Set a time and place
to meet
• Suggest a different
time
• Soccer in France
• Soccer clubs
• Famous soccer
players
• Aller + infinitive
• Forming questions
Produits:
The media and soccer
in France
• Understand what the • Cafés and bistrots
server will ask
• Paris cafés and
• Order food
famous writers
• Ask for the bill
• Fast food chains in
France
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
prendre
• Avoir expressions:
avoir faim/soif
Communication:
Use adjectives and
adverbs
• The interrogative
adjective quel
• Present tense of the
irregular verb voir
Culture:
Remakes of French
films
Produits:
Le croissant
• Movie genres
• Early, on time, and
late
• Make a prediction
• Respond to a
prediction
• French cinema
• French comedies
• Bienvenue chez
les Ch’tis, French
comedy
Produits:
French film starring
Johnny Depp
Fine art:
Poster art
Reading:
Identify the conflict in
a story and recognize
false cognates
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 3 – 4
Unité 5 Les gens que je connais
Essential question: What is the nature of relationships in other cultures?
T 8
• Family members
• Physical descriptions
• Numbers 1.000–
1.000.000
• Ask for a description
• Point out
resemblances
• The metric system
• Months of the year
• Birthdays
• Descriptions of
character
• Ask someone’s age
• Tell my age
• Tell what gift I am
giving
• Plan a party with
others
• Birthdays and saints’
days
• La FNAC
• French-speaking
African countries
and nationalities
• Professions
• Find out someone’s
profession
• Ask where someone
comes from
• Tell where I come
from
• Singers Amadou and
Mariam
La Francophonie:
• Martinique
• Possessive adjectives
• Indefinite articles in
negative sentences
Produits:
Zouk music
• Present tense of
regular verbs ending
in -ir
•
Dates
La Francophonie
•
Expressions with
(Fêtes d’anniversaire):
avoir: J’ai… ans
• Birthday celebrations
•
Present tense of the
in Guadeloupe, North
irregular verb offrir
Africa, and Subsaharan Africa
Communication:
Ask questions to
extend a conversation
• C’est vs. il/elle est
• Present tense of the
irregular verb venir
• De + definite articles
Culture:
Collect anecdotal
evidence about a
Francophone family
Fine art:
Composition (Alfred
Wolf)
Reading:
Theme and Monitoring
comprehension
La Francophonie:
Sub-saharan
Francophone Africa
Produits:
African masks
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 6 La rue commerçante
Essential question: How is shopping different in other countries?
• Articles of clothing
• Colors
• What to ask the
• Shopping online
salesperson
• French flea markets
• What the salesperson • High fashion houses
says
in Paris
• Present tense of the
verb acheter
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
vouloir
La Francophonie
•
Demonstrative
(Vêtements):
adjectives
Clothing in West Africa
• Stores and grocery
items
• Quantities
• Sequence my
activities
• Superstores vs. small • Present tense of
shops
regular verbs ending
• French cheeses
in -re
• Metric measurements • Expressions of
quantity
Produits:
Communication:
Tell a story through
pictures
Le pâté
• Fruits and vegetables • Make a purchase at
• Outdoor markets
the market
• Slow food movement
• Respond to questions
La francophonie
from the vendor
(Le marché):
Les souks in North
Africa
• The partitive article
• The partitive in
negative sentences
Produits:
North African arts and
crafts
Culture:
Go shopping online
Fine art:
Black and white
photography
d’après-guerre
(Sabine Weiss)
Reading:
Setting and Word
families
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 5 – 6
Unité 7 À la maison
Essential question: What makes a house a “home”?
• Stories in a building
• Rooms in a house
• Furniture in the
kitchen and living
room
• Give a tour of a house
or an apartment
• Ask where someone
lives
• Agree and disagree
• Housing in France
• Bathrooms in France
• Ordinal numbers
La Francophonie
(Habitations):
North African
dwellings, focus on
Algeria
Produits:
Le raï
• Meals
• Table setting
• Give directions in the • Marseille
kitchen
• Provence
• Regional culinary
specialties
Produits:
The Starry Night by
Van Gogh And “La
Marseillaise”
• Comparative of
Communication:
adjectives
Write descriptions
• Present tense of the
irregular verb devoir
• Present tense of the
irregular verb mettre
T 9
Vocabulaire
• The bedroom and
bathroom
• Computer and other
technology
Fonctions
Culture
• Say that I don’t
• Technology and
understand
French youth
• Talk about computers La Francophonie:
• New Brunswick
• The Grand
Dérangement of the
Acadians
• Singer Natasha
St-Pier
Structure
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
pouvoir
Stratégies
Culture:
Evaluate whether
student’s home is like
or unlike Francophone
homes
Fine art:
Impressionism and
Cubism (Paul Cézanne)
Reading:
Rhyme Scheme and
Deciphering new
grammatical structures
Produits:
Zydeco music
Unité 8 À Paris
Essential question: How do major world cities tell their stories?
• Weather
• Seasons
• Pets
• Extend an invitation
• Accept or refuse an
invitation
• Paris
• Parisian pastries
La Francophonie
(Une autre capitale):
Port-au-Prince
Produits:
La galette des rois
• Present tense of the
irregular verb faire
• Expressions with
avoir: avoir froid,
avoir chaud, avoir
envie de
• Places in the city
• Monuments in Paris
• Notre-Dame
• Excuse oneself
• Describe actions that • L’arc de triomphe
• La tour Eiffel
took place in the
past
• Sequence past events
• Passé composé with
avoir
• Irregular past
participles
• Position of irregular
adjectives
Communication:
Personal narrative
• Time expressions
• Express actions that • Le jardin des
took place in the
Tuileries
past
• Le métro
• Sequence past events
• Passé composé with
être
• Position of adverbs in
the passé composé
Culture:
Identify customs
and React to French
culture
Fine art:
Pointillism (Paul
Signac)
Reading:
Personification and
Making inferences
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 7 – 8
Unité 9 En forme
Essential question: How do people stay healthy and maintain a healthy environment?
• Parts of the body
• Parts of the face
• Say it is necessary
to do, or not do,
something
• La sécu in France
• Present tense of the
• “Manger-bouger” ad
irregular verb falloir
campaign
• Le thermalisme
Produits:
Homeopathic
medications
T 1 0
Vocabulaire
• Illnesses and other
health expressions
Fonctions
• Ask for advice
• Give advice
Culture
La Francophonie:
Rwanda
• Fighting AIDS in
Rwanda
• Home health care
workers in Rwanda
Structure
• The imperative
Stratégies
Communication:
“How-to” writing
Produits:
Languages and
language education in
Rwanda
• Environmental
problems
• Environmental
solutions
• Endangered species
• Persuade someone
• Respond to
persuasion
• Les Verts in France
• Vélib’ Paris
• Verbs + infinitives
Culture:
• De + plural adjectives Hunting for diabetes
education aids in
Produits:
Francophone countries
La souris verte, online
magazine for young
Fine art:
people
Cubism (Roger de
La Fresnaye)
Reading:
Characterization, Text
organization, and
Making a prediction
Unité 10 Les grandes vacances
Essential question: How do travel experiences shape our worldview?
• Places in North
America
• Quebec essentials
• Compass directions
• Tell someone where a La Francophonie:
• Prepositions before
place is located
• Quebec
cities, countries, and
• Montreal
continents
• FrancoFolies festival
in Montreal
Produits:
Maple syrup
• At the train station
• Features of the
countryside
• Remind someone to
• Departments and
do something
regions of France
• Wish someone a good • Loire castles
trip
• Tours
• European countries
• European
nationalities
• Expressions for
giving directions
• Ask for directions
• Give directions
La Francophonie:
• Switzerland
• Geneva
• International
museum of the
Croix-Rouge
Produits:
Swiss watches
• Other negative
expressions
Communication:
Writing a postcard
• Superlative of
adjectives
Culture:
Interviewing a traveler
who has visited a
Francophone location
Fine art:
Perspective
(Achille Varin)
Reading:
Imagery and the
Progression of stanzas
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 9 – 10
T 1 1
T’es branché? Level 2
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 1 Comment je passe l’été
Essential question: What do young people do in the summer in other cultures?
• Holidays in France,
Quebec, and the
United States
• Ask someone if they
celebrate a particular
holiday
• Ask when something
takes place and
respond
• Quebec City
• 400th anniversary
of the founding of
Québec
La Francophonie
(Les fêtes):
• Celebrations in
Quebec and France
• Native Singer Samian
• Present tense of
regular verbs ending
in -er, -ir, and -re
• Negation
• Possessive adjectives
• Forming questions
• Dates
Produits:
Le cirque du soleil
• Television programs
• Television
professions
• Ask for an opinion
• Give an opinion
• Find out what
someone is thinking
• Agree or disagree
La Francophonie:
• Luxemburg
• French and
Luxemburg TV
channels
• Reality shows in
France
Produits:
• Canal +
• ”La Nouvelle Star”
• Rides and attractions • Inquire about future
at amusement parks
plans
• Respond
• Present tense of the Communication:
irregular verbs avoir Create a TV commercial
and être
• Indefinite articles in
negative sentences
• Demonstrative
adjectives
• Agreement and
position of adjectives
• Comparative of
adjectives
• French fair la Fête
• Present tense of the
des Loges
irregular verbs aller
• Amusement parks
and faire
and other attractions • De and à + definite
in France
articles
•
The irregular verb
La Francophonie
venir and venir de +
(Parcs d’attractions):
infinitive
La Ronde
• Telling time
Produits:
Le Parc d’Astérix
Culture:
Investigate bilinguism
in Canada
Fine art:
Realism (Jean-Louis
Ernest Meissonier)
Reading:
Paraphrasing and
Learning from the title
Unité 2 Dans la capitale
Essential question: What stories does Paris tell about art and architecture?
• Art terms
• Types of paintings
• Describe a painting
• The Louvre
• The musée d’Orsay
• The Centre
Pompidou
Produits:
La Joconde
• Places in the
neighborhood
• Say I’m lost
• Tell someone not to
worry
• Ask for directions
• Give directions
• Paris
arrondissements
• Le Quartier latin
• Saint-Germain des
Prés
Produits:
La Sainte-Chapelle
T 1 2
• Present tense of the
irregular verb suivre
• Passé composé with
avoir
• Present tense of the
irregular verbs mettre,
prendre, and voir
• Present tense of
the irregular verbs
vouloir, pouvoir,
devoir, and falloir
• Irregular past
participles
• Imperative
Communication:
Describe art
Vocabulaire
• Modes of
transportation
• Versailles
Fonctions
• Ask about
transportation
• Respond
Culture
• Tourist offices
• The R.E.R.
• Versailles
Structure
• Present tense of the
irregular verbs partir
and sortir
• Passé composé with
être
• Superlative of
adjectives
Stratégies
Culture:
Explore le musée
d’Orsay
Fine art:
Modern Art (Marc
Laberge)
Reading:
Drama basics and
Finding evidence in
the text
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 1 – 2
Unité 3 La vie quotidienne
Essential question: How do the routines of people in other cultures differ from mine?
• Toiletries
• Daily routine
• Complain
• Respond to a
complaint
• Express frustration
• Respond
La Francophonie:
• Cameroon
• Goals of the
community of la
Francophonie
• Present tense of
reflexive verbs
• Irregular plural
forms of nouns and
adjectives
Produits:
Le Ngondo
• Household items
• Household chores
• Make comparisons
• Respond to
comparisons
• Express injustice
La Francophonie:
• Ivory Coast
• Artists from the
Ivory Coast
• Africa today
• African immigrants
in France today
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
s’asseoir
• The imperative of
reflexive verbs
Communication:
Tell a story through
pictures
• Passé composé of
reflexive verbs
Culture:
Examine the
controversy of Halal
meat in fast-food
restaurants
Produits:
Zouglou music
• More reflexive verbs
• Find out if someone
remembers
something
• Recount past events
La Francophonie:
• Senegal
• Senagalese artists
• Griots
• Singer Youssou
N’Dour
Produits:
L’hymne national
sénégalais
Fine art:
Batik (Anonyme)
Reading:
Sensory details
and Making inferences
Unité 4 Autrefois
Essential question: How does the past shape us?
• Farm
• Farm animals
• Reminisce
• Describe past events
• Agriculture in France • Imperfect tense
• World ranking of
• Present tense of the
France’s agricultural
irregular verb croire
products
• French rural life
today
Produits:
Emmental
T 1 3
Vocabulaire
• Professions of the
past
Fonctions
• Describe past events
Culture
• Montmartre
• Toulouse-Lautrec
Produits:
Poster art
• University life
• Make a suggestion
• Demonstrations
• May 1968
• University of
Vincennes vs.
Sorbonne
Structure
Stratégies
• Il y a + time
• Imperfect and passé
composé
Communication:
Write an oral history
Si on + imperfect
Culture:
Discover the
reasons why people
demonstrate
Fine art:
Impressionism’s use of
light (Camille Pissarro)
Reading:
Text organization
and Fact vs. opinion
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 3 – 4
Unité 5 Bon voyage et bonne route!
Essential question: What do you need to know to travel successfully?
• At the airport
• Describe a health
problem
• Give instructions
• Air France
• Airports in Paris
• Bordeaux
• Direct object
pronouns: me, te,
nous, vous
Produits:
Les Nubians, hip-hop
group from Bordeaux
• Types of cars
• Exterior of cars
• Interior of cars
• Express that I’m
looking forward to
something
• Peugeot-Citroën
and Renault car
companies
• Learning to drive in
France
Produits:
Renault and General
Motors
• Hotel room
• French breakfast
• North American
breakfast
• Ask for a hotel room • Hotels, inns, and
• Ask if something’s
bed & breakfasts in
included in the price
France
• Understand what the • Luxury hotels and
receptionist asks
the movies
Produits:
Sofitel, hotel chain
• Direct object
pronouns: le, la, l’,
les
• Direct object
pronouns in the
passé composé
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
conduire
Communication:
Write a dialogue
• Indirect object
pronouns: lui, leur
• Indirect object
pronouns: me, te,
nous, vous
• Present tense of the
irregular verb boire
• The adjective tout
Culture:
Find a hotel that meets
your needs
Fine art:
Pop art (François Le
Diascorn)
Reading:
Motif and Cause and
effect
Unité 6 Les arts maghrébins
Essential question: How do other cultures enrich our lives?
• Things we read
• Things we write
T 1 4
• Say what a book is
about
• Introduce an author
or a novel
• Borrow something
La Francophonie:
• Morocco
• French language
comic books
Produits:
• Henna decoration in
North Africa
• Le racisme expliqué
à ma fille by Tahar
Ben Jelloun
• Present tense of the
irregular verb lire
• Present tense of the
irregular verb écrire
Vocabulaire
• Music genres
• Musical instruments
Fonctions
• Ask if someone
plays a particular
instrument
• Say what instrument
I play
Culture
La Francophonie:
• Algeria
• Raï music
• Singer Faudel
• North African music
instruments
Structure
Stratégies
• Present tense of the
irregular verb savoir
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
connaître
Communication:
Write a character
sketch
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
recevoir
• Present tense of the
irregular verb ouvrir
Culture:
Reflect on negotiating
a price in North
African souks and in
North America
Produits:
Indigènes, French film
about North African
soldiers
• Accessories and
fabrics
• Jewelry
• Begin and end a
letter
• Thank someone
formally
La Francophonie:
• Tunisia
• Souks
• How to write a
formal letter
Produits:
Carthage
Fine art:
Perspective in modern
photography
(Peet Simard)
Reading:
Images and Refrain
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 5 – 6
Unité 7 En province
Essential question: How do smaller communities enrich a country’s culture?
• Foods and courses
• Compliment the host
or hostess
• Politely refuse more
food
• Offer help
• Alsace
• Strasbourg
• The relative
pronouns qui and
que
La Francophonie
•
The partitive
(Une autre province):
•
The pronoun en
Kabylie in Algeria
Produits:
La choucroute garnie
• French regions and
their adjectives
• Things to eat and
drink in a crêperie
• Youth hostels
• Ask a friend what’s
new
• Find out someone’s
associations with a
place
• Say I like a
suggestion
• Normandy
• Rouen
• Interrogative
pronouns
Communication:
Combine sentences
• Stress pronouns
Culture:
Explore regional
identity
Produits:
• French influence on
the English language
• Bayeux tapestry
• Cider
• Claude Monet
museum in Giverny
• Understand what the • Brittany
server asks
• Saint-Malo
• Order food
• Youth hostels
Produits:
Food specialties of
Brittany
Fine art:
Still lifes (Paul
Cézanne)
Reading:
Refrain and tone,
and Anticipating
vocabulary
T 1 5
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 8 Les Antilles
Essential question: What are the benefits of encountering other cultures?
• Flora in Guadeloupe
• Fauna in Guadeloupe
• Ask what someone
prefers
• State ambivalence
La Francophonie:
• Guadeloupe
• Parc national de la
Guadeloupe
• Green tourism
• Present tense of the
irregular verb vivre
• Pronoun y
Produits:
“Prière d’un
Petit enfant nègre”
by Guy Tirolien
• Carnival in
Martinique
• Weddings
• Make an observation
La Francophonie:
• Martinique
• Carnival in
Martinique
• Double object
pronouns
Communication:
Circumlocution
• Depuis + present
tense
Culture:
Find a good humanitarian organization
Produits:
La Rue Cases-Nègres
• Water management
• Seafood
• Say what I’m in
charge of
• Express appreciation
La Francophonie:
• Haiti
• Toussaint Louverture
• Haitian cuisine
Fine art:
Seascapes
(Claude Salez)
Produits:
Haitian music
Reading:
Theme and Citing
others’ works
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 7 – 8
Unité 9 La vie contemporaine
Essential question: What influences and changes contemporary society?
• Features of
smartphones
• Steps for taking a
digital photo
• Problems in
contemporary
society
• Possible solutions
• Ask someone to lend
me something
• Say that I know or
do not know how to
use something
• Express what
someone was happy
about
• French
transportation
technologies:
aviation, space
program, rail
• Hypothesize
• Propose solutions
• Nuclear energy
• Objectives and
problems in French
education
• Unemployed young
people
Produits:
Rubber from Indochina
and Michelin
Produits:
French Grandes Écoles
T 1 6
• Conditional tense
• Conditional tense in
sentences with si
Communication:
Write a proposal
Vocabulaire
• Job sectors
• Today’s professions
Fonctions
• Express my future
goals
• Give a reason
Culture
La Francophonie:
• Belgium
• Famous Belgians
• Brussels
• European Union
Structure
• Future tense
Produits:
Flemish/French song
by Jacques Brel
Stratégies
Culture:
Investigate what new
words in Le Petit
Larousse reveal about
contemporary French
culture
Fine art:
Textures of acrylic
paints (Daniel
Cacouault)
Reading:
Dystopias in fiction
and Social commentary
Unité 10 En vacances
Essential question: What opportunities does travel afford us?
• At the beach
• Say I’ve been
wanting to do
something for a long
time
•
•
•
•
French Riviera
Nice
Chagall museum
Matisse museum
• Adverbs
• Verbs + infinitives
Produits:
The promenade des
Anglais in Nice
• Camping
• Continents and
bodies of water
• Adventure tourism
• Say I need something
• Ask someone to
return something as
soon as possible
• Alps
• Grenoble
• Camping in France
• Ask what to bring
La Francophonie:
• French Guiana
• Kourou
• Prisons
Produits:
Téléphérique in
Grenoble
La Francophonie
(Tourisme
d’aventure):
Adventure tourism
in France and French
Guiana
Produits:
• Poems of Léon
Gontran-Damas
• Papillon
• Present tense of
the irregular verb
dormir
• Comparative of
adverbs
Communication:
Travel writing
• Superlative of
adverbs
Culture:
Compare French and
American vacation
destinations
Fine art:
Point of view
(Delphine D. Garcia)
Reading:
Point of view and
Characterization
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 9 – 10
T 1 7
T’es branché? Level 3
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 1 Les moments de la vie
Essential question: Comment les objectifs et les intérêts des Francophones évoluent-ils avec le temps?
• Human emotions
• Teen destinations
• Say where I met
someone
• Advise someone
• Tell someone not to
worry
• Describe how
someone seems
• Teen socialization
• Maisons des Jeunes
et de la Culture
(MJC)
Produits:
French blogs
• Present tense of
regular -er,-ir, and
-re verbs
• Present tense of
irregular verbs
• Depuis + present
tense
• Different types of
• Explain how
families
something happened
• Childhood games and • Say what I
activities
discovered
• Ask for a suggestion
• Different types of
families in France
• The irregular verb
courir
•
Passé composé with
La Francophonie
avoir
(Les familles):
•
Passé composé with
• Families and family
être
values in Africa
•
Imperfect
tense
• Provence-Alpes-Côte
•
Imperfect
and passé
d’Azur
composé
Produits:
Perfumes and Grasse
Communication:
Write a personal
narrative
• Weddings
• Workplaces
• Preparatory and Ivy
league schools
• Civil and religious
marriage ceremonies
Culture: Describing
adolescent cultures
• Say I don’t care
• Say where I’d like to
work
• Conditional tense
• Conditional tense
with si
• Future tense
La Francophonie
(Le mariage):
• Marriage ceremony in
Maghreb
Fine art:
Line drawing
(Édouard Albert)
Reading:
Setting and Using
context clues
(Les petits enfants
du siècle, Christiane
Rochefort)
Produits:
French wedding cake
Unité 2 Les rapports personnels
Essential question: Qu’y a-t-il d’universel dans les rapports entre les gens?
• Christmas eve dinner
• Talk on the phone
• Invite someone
• Respond
affirmatively to an
invitation
• Say that a proposal
works for me
• Descriptions: shapes, • Ask for help
sizes, material, and
• Respond to a request
usage
for help
• Kitchen utensils
T 1 8
• Christmas Eve
holiday
Produits: Bûche
de Noël
• Interrogative
pronouns
• Direct object
pronouns
La Francophonie
(Les fêtes):
• Ramadan
• Aïd-el-Fitre
• Classic French
cooking
• La nouvelle cuisine
Produits:
Le Cordon Bleu
• Indirect object
pronouns
• C’est vs. il/elle est
Communication:
Using circumlocution
Vocabulaire
• Dinner table topics
of conversation
Fonctions
• Express that I can’t
stop myself
• Say someone is right
• Ask about dinner
table topics
Culture
• Traditional meal for
Christmas Eve
• Rules of table
etiquette
Structure
• Relative pronouns
qui, que
• Relative pronouns
ce qui, ce que
Produits: French wine
Stratégies
Culture: Identify
food preferences
Fine art: Landscapes
behind portraits (Jules
Ernest Renoux)
Reading:
Dialogue and Conflict
(Deux couverts, Sacha
Guitry)
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 1 – 2
Unité 3 La Francophonie
Essential question: Comment les Francophones restent-ils fidèles à leurs traditions?
• Extended family
members
• States in the United
States
• Say where my
ancestors came from
• Say where my
ancestors settled
• Alliance Française
and its outreach
programs
• French immigration
to Quebec and île
d’Orléans
• French-Canadian
immigration to New
England
• Pronouns y, en
• Double object
pronouns
• Types of stories
• Words from a North
African children’s
story
• Start a fairy-tale
La Francophonie:
• Tunisia
• Immigration of
Maghrébins in
France
• Reflexive verbs
Communication:
Describe in detail
• Comparative of
adverbs
• Superlative of
adverbs
Culture: Needs of new
immigrants
La Francophonie
(Les contes):
• Overview of contes
maghrébins
Produits:
North African cuisine
• Types of housing
• Home repair terms
• Respond to an
introduction
• Say where I grew up
• Give a compliment
• HLMs and
allocations
familiales
La Francophonie:
• Senegal
(Logement):
• African housing
Produits: Oral
tradition in Africa
Fine art: Primitive Art
(Cécile Delorme)
Reading:
Make cultural
inferences, Gender
criticism
(Une si longue lettre,
Mariama Bâ)
T 1 9
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 4 Préparatifs de départ
Essential question: Qu’est-ce qu’on doit connaître de sa destination pour réussir son voyage?
• Sports and activities
to do on vacation
• Ask someone’s
opinion
• React positively to
someone’s opinion
• React negatively to
someone’s opinion
La Francophonie:
La Réunion
• Chamonix and other
stations de ski in
France
• Present participle
• Negation
• Other negative
expressions
La Francophonie
(Stations de ski):
• Switzerland
Produits:
Training Saint Bernard
dogs
• At the ski resort
• Ski clothing and
equipment
• Say what I must do
• Tell someone they’ll
have an opportunity
• Say I was expecting
something
• Haute Savoie
traditions and
specialties
• Classes de neige
Produits:
La raclette savoyarde
• Savoir vs. connaître
• Subjunctive of
regular verbs after
il faut que
• Subjunctive of
irregular verbs
Communication:
Write a “how-to” piece
using subjunctive
• Subjunctive
after impersonal
expressions
Culture: Volunteer
travel experiences
La Francophonie
(La récréation):
Aquatic or “bleu”
activities in SaintMartin
• Other winter sports
• Travel planning
expressions
• Say I’m doing
something different
• Tell someone to not
hurt himself or
herself
• Volunteer travel
experiences in
Francophone
countries
Produits:
Sports in the Winter
Olympics
Fine art: Classicism
(Sébastien Bourdon)
Reading:
Structure and Meaning,
Allusions (“Heureux
qui, comme Ulysse, a
fait un beau voyage,”
Joachim du Bellay)
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 3 – 4
Unité 5 Comment se renseigner en voyage
Essential question: De quelles compétences ai-je besoin pour réussir un séjour?
• At the hotel
• Hotel amenities
• Ask for information
La Francophonie:
• Monaco
• Monte Carlo
• Rainier family
• Subjunctive after
expressions of wish,
will, desire
Produits:
Le Bal de la Rose
• Food in Bourgogne:
• Ask about restaurant
meats, dishes, sauces
specialties
• Ask what a dish is
served with
• Dijon and its region
• Food specialties in
Bourgogne
Produits: Dijon
museum and mustard
La Francophonie
(La cuisine):
• North African dishes
T 2 0
• Subjunctive after
expressions of
emotion
• Subjunctive after
expressions of doubt
or uncertainty
Communication:
Write a movie review
Vocabulaire
• Movie expressions
Fonctions
• Say what I’m not in
the mood for
• Report a review of a
film
• Ask someone’s
reaction (to a piece of
art)
• Express disagreement
Culture
• Le septième art
• Les Césars
Produits: Lumière
brothers and birth of
cinematography
Structure
• Interrogative
adjective quel
• Interrogative
pronoun lequel
(duquel, auquel)
Stratégies
Culture: Planning a
trip online
Fine art: Cartoons
(Christian Cailleaux)
Reading: Comedy
Sketch, Straight Man
(“Les croissants,”
Fernand Reynaud)
Unité 6 On se débrouille en France.
Essential question: Comment s’intégrer à une autre culture?
• Banking terms
• University
departments
• Open a bank account
• Get a credit card
• Make a promise
• French banks
• French universities
and free education
Produits:
La Carte bleue
• Things to read
• Ask what a book is
about
• Say I can’t decide
• French reading
habits
• Le Clézio
• Future tense in
sentences with si
• Future tense after
quand
• Verbs + de + nouns
• Relative pronoun
dont
Communication:
Persuade someone to
read a book or see a
movie
• Demonstrative
adjectives
• Demonstrative
pronouns
Culture: Problem
solving sur place
Produits:
French TV shows about
books
La Francophonie
(Les écrivains):
Maryse Condé
• At the post office
• Say what I need
• Specify items
• French post office
and its services
Produits:
Films that feature mail
carriers
Fine art: Cartoon art
(Marjane Satrapi)
Reading: Narrator and
Narration, Direct and
Indirect Reporting
(Petropolis, Marjane
Satrapi)
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 5 – 6
Unité 7 Les Arts
Essential question: Comment l’art est-il un reflet de la culture?
• Art descriptions
• Art movements
• Say when a painting
was painted
• Describe an artist’s
approach
• Describe colors in a
painting
• Académie, salons
• Atelier vs. en plein
air
• Salon des refusés
Produits:
Monet painting
that gave name to
Impressionnists,
Sunday in the Park
with George
• Agreement and
position of adjectives
• Comparative of
adjectives
• Superlative of
adjectives
T 2 1
Vocabulaire
• Music
Fonctions
• Describe an artist’s
development
• Say that an artist
was successful
• Describe an artist’s
ability to connect
with his or her
audience
Culture
• The modern French
song and its themes
Structure
Stratégies
• The irregular verb
plaire
Communication:
Compare and Contrast
• Pour + infinitive
• Subjunctive after
pour que
Culture:
Compare French and
American music
Produits:
“La vie en rose”
La Francophonie
(Les chansons):
Quebec group
Produits: “Mon pays,”
Gilles Vigneault
• Poetry
• Describe how an
artist raises themes
• Describe how a work
of art takes a position
• Describe what an
artist worked on
• Attribute new
inventions
• Describe how an
artist fits into a
culture
• French poets
Produits:
Apollinaire’s
calligrammes
Fine art:
Multiple exposure
(Walter Limot)
Reading: Free Verse
and Oxymorons
(“Familiale,” Jacques
Prévert)
Unité 8 La France hier et aujourd’hui
Essential question: Comment le passé influence-t-il le présent?
• French Revolution
• Express what
someone was
obligated to do
• Find that someone is
forced to do
something
• Louis XVI and Marie- • Expressions with
Antoinette
faire
• Les États généraux • Faire + infinitive
• La Déclaration des
Droits de l’homme et
du citoyen
Produits:
La Conciergerie,
guillotine, La
Déclaration des Droits
de la femme et de la
citoyenne
La Francophonie
(La révolution):
Arab Spring in Tunisia
• Applying and
• Indicate quantity
interviewing for a job • Say I did something
in vain
• Health care terms
• Debate terms
• European Union
Institutions
Produits:
Flag of E.U.
• Express that
• Rights of the
someone has a right
French citizen
• Express that
under la sécu:
someone can afford
unemployment,
something
health care, family,
• Say I want to discuss
disabled protection,
something more later
retirement
Produits:
La crèche
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 7 – 8
T 2 2
• Expressions with
avoir
• Past infinitive
Communication:
Write a CV
• Expressions with
être
• Pluperfect tense
Culture:
Rights issues and
challenges the press
faces abroad
Fine art:
Theatrical photography
(Joseph Nicéphore
Niépce)
Reading:
Word families and
setting (Le bourgeois
gentilhomme, Molière)
Vocabulaire
Fonctions
Culture
Structure
Stratégies
Unité 9 Récits de la vie contemporaine
Essential question: Quels sont les défis de la vie contemporaire?
• Emotions
• Express how someone • Recent changes to
• Past conditional
looked
French school system
tense
• Le bac and student
• Past conditional
stress
tense with si
Produits: Les annales
du bac
• Physical description:
hair, age, ethnicity,
clothing
• Say I realized
something
• Different types of
French police
• Crime in France
• Possessive adjectives
• Possessive pronouns
Communication:
Tell a story through
pictures
• Indefinite adjectives
• Indefinite pronouns
Culture:
Interview a French
speaker about
challenges of life today
Produits: Une
déclaration de vol
Le château d’If
• Reactions
• Say I did not expect
something
• Internet resources
for teens
Produits: Loisirs ados
Fine art:
Book illustrations
(Anonymous)
Reading:
Characterization and
Le passé simple
(Les Misérables,
Victor Hugo)
Unité 10 La culture des affaires
Essential question: Qu’est-ce qu’on apprend de la culture d’un pays en étudiant son économie?
• Export products
• Say where an item
was made
• Types of companies
• Ask if someone’s
• French and U.S. trade
been here a long
time
• Say I wanted to get
away
• French attitude
toward globalization
• Luxury products
and LVMH
Produits: Louis
Vuitton brand
• France’s position in
world trade
• Multinational
companies
• French business
etiquette and taboos
Communication:
Make a storyboard to
sell a North American
product in France
Produits: Ariane
rockets
• Professional
qualifications
• Job positions within
a company
• Describe adaptability • Evolution of French
• Say what I’m
marketing strategies
interested in
Produits:
Advertisements for La
vache qui rit
Culture:
How globalization
affects our lives
Fine art:
Advertising
photography
Reading:
(14.99 €, Frédéric
Beigbeder)
Bilan cumulatif: Unités 9 – 10
T 2 3