This is what you will be able to do and know at the end of French 1!
Chapters:
Preliminary chapters A-F
Chapters 1-7
Additional information in your notes throughout the year.
Préliminaire A
Skills and Abilities
*Greetings
*Saying Goodbye
*Asking people how they are
*Asking and telling names
*Expressing simple courtesies/politeness
*Finding out and telling days of the week
*Finding out and telling the months of the year
*Finding out and telling the date
*Numbers
*Finding out and telling time
Knowledge
:
Expressions of greetings, expressions of goodbyes, questions for finding out a person's name, food vocabulary, vocabulary associated with the calendar, numbers 1-30, vocabulary associated with telling time.
Chapter 1
Skills and Abilities
Asking or telling what someone if like
Adjectives
Asking or telling where someone is from
Asking or telling who someone is
Describing yourself or someone else
Information about students from France and Martinique
Knowledge
Numbers 30-60, singular forms of definite and indefinite articles, adjective agreement, the conjugation of the verb etre, negation, vocabulary associated with people, adjectives, and question words.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 18 and 19
Mots 2 – Pages 22 and 23
Articles – Page 26
Agreement of adjectives – Page 28
Etre – Page 30
Negatives – Page 33
Lectures Culturelles – Pages 36 and 37

Chapter 2
Skills and Abilities
Describing people and things
Talking about more than one person or thing
Telling what subjects you take in school and expressing some opinions about them
Speaking to people informally and formally
Talking about French-speaking people in the United States.
Knowledge
Numbers 70-100; plural forms of articles; nouns; and adjectives; plural forms of the verb etre; the difference between the pronouns; tu and vous; vocabulary associated with people at school, school subjects, adjectives, questions, and other useful expressions; Haitian,
Canadian, and Cajun influences in the US; schools in France.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 50 and 51
Mots 2 – Pages 54 and 55
Plural Articles – Page 58
Etre – Pages 60 and 61
Tu and Vous – Page 64
Lectures Culturelles – Pages 68 and 69
Chapter 3
Skills and Abilities
Talking about what you do in school
Talking about what you and your friends do after school
Identifying and shopping for school supplies
Talking about what he or she doesn't do
Telling what he or she and others like and don't like to do
Discussing schools in France
Knowledge
School activities, afterschool activities, school supplies, the present tense of -er verbs, negative of indefinite articles, verb + infinitive, differences between school in the US and France, music in the Frenchspeaking world.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – pages 82 and 83
Mots 2 – pages 86 and 87
Er Verbs – page 90
Negation of indefinite articles – page 94
Verb + Infinitive – page 95
Lectures Culturelles – pages 98 and 99

Chapter 4
Skills and Abilities
Talking about his or her family
Describing his or her home and neighborhood
Telling his or her age and finding out someone else's age
Telling what belongs to him or her and others
Describing more people and things
Talking about families and homes in French-speaking countries
Knowledge
The verb, avoir, in the present tense; possessive adjectives, other adjectives, vocabulary associated with family, home, neighborhood, and age; housing in France; housing in other French-speaking countries; family names, some facts about France.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 112 and 113
Mots 2 – Pages 116 and 117
Avoir – Page 120
Possessive Adjectives – Page123
Other irregular adjectives – Page 126
Lectures Culturelles – Pages 130 and 131
Chapter 5
Skills/Abilities :
Ordering food or a beverage at a café or restaurant
Telling where he or she and others go
Telling what he or she and others are going to do
Giving locations
Telling what belongs to him or her and others
Describing more activities
Comparing eating habits in the United States and in the French-speaking world
Knowledge :
The verb aller in the present tense, aller + infinitive, contractions with à and de, the verb prendre in the present tense, vocabulary associated with places, vocabulary associated with foods and drinks, meals and dining out in France, differences between restaurants in the US and France.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 154 and 155
Mots 2 – Pages 158 and 159
Aller – Page 162
Aller + Infinitive
Contractions with à and de – page 166
Prendre – page 168
Lectures Culturelles – Pages 172 and 173

Chapter 6
Skills/Abilities :
Identifying more foods
Shopping for food
Telling what he or she or others are doing
Asking for the quantity he or she wants
Talking about what he or she or others don't have
Telling what he or she or others are able to do or want to do
Talking about French food-shopping customs
Knowledge :
The verb faire in the present tense, the partitive and the definite article, the partitive forms in the negative, the forms vouloir and pouvoir in the present tense, markets in the francophone world, vocabulary associated with food and shopping.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 186 and 187
Mots 2 – Pages 190 and 191
Faire – Page 194
Partitive and Definite Articles – Page 196
Partitive Articles in the Negative – Page 198
Pouvoir and Vouloir – Page 201
Lectures Culturelles – Pages 206 and 207
Chapter 7
Skills/Abilities :
Identifying and describing articles of clothing
Stating color and size preferences
Shopping for clothing
Describing people's activities
Comparing people and things
Expressing opinions and make observations
Discussing clothes and clothes shopping in the French-speaking world
Knowledge :
The verb mettre in the present tense, comparative adjectives, the verbs voir and croire in the present tense, vocabulary associated with clothing, colors, and shopping, facts about shopping for clothes in France, clothing sizes in France, typical clothing in Africa, and facts about French-speaking Africa.
Some Page Numbers
Mots 1 – Pages 220 and 221
Mots 2 – Pages 224 and 225
Mettre – Page 228
Irregular Adjectives – Page 229
Comparative of Adjectives – Page 230
Voir and Croire – Page 232
-yer verbs – Page 233

Lectures Culturelles – Pages 236 and 237