MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
Honors French V
Authored by: Silvana Berardo
Reviewed by: Lee Nittel,
Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Stacy Snider
Supervisor of Visual & Performing Arts/World Language
Adopted by the Board: January, 2013
Members of the Board of Education:
Lisa Ellis, President
Patrick Rowe, Vice-President
David Arthur
Kevin Blair
Shade Grahling
Linda Gilbert
Thomas Haralampoudis
James Novotny
Superintendent: Dr. Michael Rossi
Madison Public Schools
359 Woodland Road, Madison, NJ 07940
Madison Public Schools
I. OVERVIEW
French V Honors continues the French language sequence at Madison High School. This full year course continues
the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing competency in French. It is designed for students who
have successfully completed French IV. Students improve their control of the past tense, learn to express their desires
and recommendations via the past subjunctive, and understand the uses of compound tenses.
All objectives are practiced with the goal of communicative and cultural awareness. Students will communicate with
spoken and written forms using interpretive, interpersonal and presentation modes. Students will demonstrate
understanding of a culture via these same three modes.
II. RATIONALE
New Jersey citizens are part of a dynamic, interconnected, and technologically driven global society centered
on the creation and communication of knowledge and ideas across geographical, cultural, and linguistic
borders. Individuals who effectively communicate in more than one language, with an appropriate
understanding of cultural contexts, are globally literate.
The study of another language and culture enables individuals to communicate with people from diverse
cultures. The study of another language fosters attitudes, values, and skills that indicate a positive disposition
and understanding of cultural differences and that enhance cross-cultural communication.
III. GOALS (Linked to NJ Core Content Standards)
7.1 World Languages: All students will be able to use a world language in addition to English to engage in
meaningful conversation, to understand and interpret spoken and written language, and to present
information, concepts, and ideas, while also gaining an understanding of the perspectives of other cultures.
Through language study, they will make connections with other content areas, compare the language and
culture studied with their own, and participate in home and global communities.
Language learners can be expected to move through levels of proficiency at different rates. In addition,
language learners may demonstrate differing proficiencies depending upon the communicative mode in which
they are functioning (interpersonal, interpretive, or presentational). In Madison High School, students who
are taking French V Honors should meet the cumulative progress indicators for the Intermediate-Mid Level
of proficiency. Intermediate-Mid Level students communicate using strings of sentences to ask and answer
questions, to handle simple transactions related to everyday life, and to talk about subject matter studied in
other classes. By the end of French V Honors, students taking a continuing sequence of language from middle
school will:
A. Interpretive Mode:
1. Compare and contrast information contained in culturally authentic materials using electronic
information sources related to targeted themes.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of oral and written instructions connected to daily activities and to some
unfamiliar situations through appropriate responses.
3. Analyze the use of verbal and non-verbal etiquette (i.e., gestures, intonation, and cultural practices) in
the target culture(s) to determine the meaning of a message.
4. Use target language to paraphrase what is heard or read in oral or written descriptions of people, places,
objects, and daily activities.
5. Comprehend conversations and written information on a variety of familiar and some unfamiliar topics.
6. Compare and contrast the main idea, theme, main characters, and setting in readings from age- and
level-appropriate, culturally authentic materials
7. Infer the meaning of some unfamiliar words in some new contexts.
8. Use knowledge of structures of the target language to deduce meaning of new and unfamiliar structures.
B. Interpersonal Mode:
1. Use digital tools to participate in short conversations and to exchange information related to a variety
of familiar topics and some unfamiliar topics.
2. Give and follow a series of oral and written directions, commands, and requests for participating in
age- and level-appropriate classroom and cultural activities in familiar and some unfamiliar situations.
3. Use appropriate gestures, intonation, and common idiomatic expressions of the target
culture(s)/language in familiar and some unfamiliar situations.
4. Ask and respond to factual and interpretive questions of a personal nature, on school-related topics,
and on some unfamiliar topics and situations.
5. Engage in short conversations about personal experiences or events, topics studied in other content
areas, and some unfamiliar topics and situations.
C. Presentational Mode:
1. Synthesize information related to the cultural products, cultural practices, and cultural perspectives
associated with targeted culture(s) to create a multimedia-rich presentation on targeted themes to be
shared virtually with a target language audience
2. Dramatize student-created and/or authentic short plays, skits, poems, songs, stories, or reports.
3. Use language creatively to respond in writing to a variety of oral or visual prompts about familiar and
some unfamiliar situations.
4. Synthesize information found in age- and level-appropriate culturally authentic materials
5. Compare the cultural perspectives of the target culture(s) with those of one’s own culture, as
evidenced through the cultural products and cultural practices associated with each.
IV. ESSENTIAL CONTENT AND ACTIVITES
See attached.
V. EVALUATION
Listening, speaking, reading and writing in a variety of modes will be considered to determine the final grade.
Assessments will include:
A. Tests and quizzes that accompany the text
B. Teacher-made achievement tests and quizzes
C. Aural testing
D. Oral testing in interpersonal and presentational modes
E. Written evaluations in interpersonal and presentational modes
F. Homework
VI. RESOURCES
Discovering French Rouge, McDougall Littell 2001
Workbook to accompany Discovering French Rouge
CD’s to accompany Discovering French Rouge
Overhead Transparencies to accompany Discovering French Rouge
La Fugue de Bach, NTC
Graded French Reader, AMSCO
Madison School District
HONORS FRENCH 5 Scope and Sequence
Unit of
Study
Review of
past tenses
(Sept)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Key
Use Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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Vocabulary – La Fugue
de Bach
All passé composé,
imparfait formations
Distinguishing between
the two tenses
Agreement of past
participles with
compound past tenses
Le plus-que-parfait
Activities/Assessment/Project
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Reading
Listening
Vocabulary acquisition
from reader
Retelling story
Speaking activities
Writing sentences
Vocabulary tests – fillins
Grammar review
through reader
Flashcards
Teacher made tests
Cultural Connections
Cultural Connections
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Paris – Opéra Garnier
and the new opera house
of Paris
Baroque French music
Claude Debussy
Related Literature, Video, and
Related
Songs Literature, Video, and
Songs
Songs:
• Claude Debussey
L’Après-midi d’un faun
• CD of reader
• DVD clip of the
L’Opéra Garnier
Unit of
Study
Unit 6
Séjour en
France
(Oct-Nov)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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Hotel vocabulary
Reserving a hotel room
Getting hotel services
Hotel amenities
Comparatives and
Superlatives of
adjective, nouns, and
adverbs
Irregular comparatives
and superlatives
Interrogative pronoun
forms for lequel
Review of verbs and
verbal expressions that
take à and de for use
with lequel
Pronoun forms of
“celui”
Possessive pronouns
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Reading a French
Michelin guide
Preparing an itinerary
Internet activities on
www.classzone.com
Smartboard activities for
vocabulary
Dialogues/skits
Vocabulary fill-ins
Writing a formal email
to request a hotel
reservation
Listening activities
Vocabulary fill-ins
Speaking activities
Flashcards
Cultural Connections
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La société Michelin
Using a Michelin guide
Eurocard
Types of
accomaodations you can
stay in France
Well known hotel chains
in France
Regions of France
• Alsace
• Bretagne
• Languedoc
• Aquitaine
• Provence
History of France 1945-present
• La Resistance
• Charles de Gaule
• Jean Moulin
Related Literature, Video, and
Songs
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Guide Michelin (rouge)
Internet
DVD Discovering
French Rouge
Discovering French
Rouge Workbook
DF Activité pour tous
book
Teacher transparencies
DVD –Louis Malle’s Au
revoir les enfants
Poem Paul Eluard
Liberté
Unit of
Study
Unit 7
La Forme
et la santé
(Nov- Jan)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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Health and fitness
Review and expansion
of body parts vocabulary
At the doctor’s office
At the emergency room
At the dentist’s office
Physical conditions
Emotions
Irregular verbs croire
and craindre
Review of formation of present
and past subjunctive (regular
and irregular)
Use of the subjunctive:
• Wishes
• Emotions
• Impersonal expressions
including exceptions
• Doubts
• Orders
• Opinions
• Relative clauses
• Superlatives
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Vocabulary fill-ins
Role playing
Listening Activities
Oral Activities
Written tests
Dialogues/skits
Songs
Intenet activities on
www.classzone.com
Activites pour tous
Short essay writing
Cultural Connections
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Health care in France
Spa, Belgium
Carte de santé
Louis Pasteur
Médecins sans frontières
Le Samu
La Sécurité Sociale
Related Literature, Video, and
Songs
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DVD, Discovering
French
Reading, Guy de
Maupassant En Voyage
Graded French Reader
• Guy de Maupassant, La
Parure
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Discovering French
Transparences
CD Discovering French
Rouge
Workbook
Unit of
Study
Unit 8
En ville
(FebMarch)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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Cities and city life
City life vs. country life
Making a date
Review of imparfait
Si + imparfait to make a
suggestion
Le plus-que-parfait
Review: Le conditionnel
Special uses of the
conditionnel in indirect
discourse
Le conditionnel passe
Use of “si” clauses
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Flashcards
Vocabulary acquisition
Vocabulary fill-ins
Dialogues
Concentric circles
activity to practice “si”
clauses
Sentence completions
Writing sentences
Vocabulary quizzes
Written tests
Listening Activities
Speaking activities
Songs
Short composition
Short readings
Cultural Connections
Major French cities
• Paris
• Lyon
• Bordeaux
• Strasbourg
• Toulouse
• Rouen
• Tours
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Street entertainers in
France
Restos au Coeur
Chiffoniers d’Emmaus
Le Chômage
Immigration from the
Maghreb in France
Related Literature, Video, and
Songs
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Internet
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CD Discovering French
Rouge
Reading: André
Theuriet, Les Pêches
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Songs:
• Si j’avais su…
Unit of
Study
Unit 9
Relations
personnelle
s
(April- mid
May)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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Describing friendships
Expressing feelings
towards others
Discussing relationships
Congratulating,
comforting, expressing
sympathy
Describing life’s phases
Reflexive verbs in
reciprocal sense (with
and without agreement
in the passé compose)
Review verbs and verbal
expressions followed by
a or de
Use of relative pronouns
qui, que, dont, lequel,
ou, ce qui, ce que ce
dont
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Short Readings
Listening Activities
Family photos oral
presentations
Charades
Role playing
Describing relationships
in Rue Case-Nègres
Vocabulary Fill-ins
Activites pour tous
Grammar review
Songs
Cultural Connections
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Marriage in France
Les Antilles Francophones
• La Martinique
• Josephine de
Beauharnais
• Aime Césaire
• Haiti
• Toussaint Louverture
• Haitian Art
Related Literature, Video, and
Songs
Readings:
• Prosper Mérimée, Mateo
Falcone
• Tristan et Yseult
• Michelle Maurois Le
Bracelet
Poem: René Depestre, Pour
Haiti
DVD clips: Rue Case Nègres
Unit of
Study
Unite 10
Vers la vie
active
(University
studies and
careers)
(Mid MayJune)
Key Vocabulary/ Language in
Use
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College majors
Professions/trades
The workplace
Searching for a job
The Infinitive
Prepositions used with
infinitives (sans,pour,
avant de, au lieu de, afin
de)
Après + past infinitives
En + present participles
Subjunctive usage with
conjunctions
Activities/Assessment/Project
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Role playing
Create a job interview
Reading want ads
Listening
comprehension
Flashcards
Internet - Reading want
ads
Review of Subjunctive
Write a Curriculum
Vitae
Vocabulary Fill-ins
Written test
Cultural Connections
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French educational
system
History of “Le Bac”
Le Service militaire
French businesses
International companies
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Le télétravail
L’histoire
francoaméricaine
Marquis de La Fayette
La Louisiane
Related Literature, Video, and
Songs
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DF Rouge Comment se
presenter a une entrevue
Reading: Yves
Theriault, Le Portrait
DVD clip Les Choristes
Youtube: Zachary
Richard “Réveille”
Internet