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FRENCH – Level 1
7 units plus review
Text: Bien Dit French 1, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030398889
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
1. Introduction
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2. Likes/dislikes
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Greetings
Numbers
Classroom objects
Classroom
expressions
Accents/special
characters
Subjects and verbs
Subject pronouns
Indefinite articles and
plural of nouns
The verb “to have”
negation
Likes and dislikes in
and out of school
Leisure activities
definite articles
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Greet someone
and say goodbye
 Ask how
someone is
 Introduce
someone
 Ask how old
someone is
 Ask about things
in a classroom
 Give classroom
commands and
ask the teacher ?s
 Ask how words
are spelled
 Ask for and give
e-mail addresses
 Ask about likes or
dislikes and
answer same
questions
Teaching Strategies
Resources
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Bien Dit French 1
Chapter 1
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Bien Dit French 1
Chapter 2
I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
 Simon Says
 Spelling Bee
 Object
identification
 Dialogues
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Dialogues
Able to write
simple sentences
about likes and
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3. Family
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4. School
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5. Free time
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regular verbs (French:
ER, Spanish: ,
German: )
irregular plurals
Basic questioning
techniques
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Physical descriptions
and personality traits
Family and pets
The verb “to be”
Adjective agreement
Regular and Irregular
adjectives
Possessive adjectives
It is versus he/she is
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Agree/disagree
Ask how often an
activity is done
Ask how well an
activity is done
and talk about
preferences
Ask about and
describe people
Ask for and give
opinions
Identify family
members
Ask about
someone’s family
dislikes.
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Draw and act out
descriptions –
Pictionary/Simon
says
Draw a family
picture
Family photo
albums w/
written
descriptions
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Bien Dit French 1
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Chapter 3 and
Bien Dit French 2
Chapter 1.1
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School subjects
 Ask about classes  Fill out school
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schedule for a
Days of the week
 Ask for and give
week (days and
opinions
Time
classes)
 Ask others what
School supplies
they need and tell  Describe classes
Colors
what you need
 Ask and tell time
Numbers 31-1000
Regular verbs French:  Inquire about and  Draw time on
buy something
clock as teacher
Re, Spanish: ,
says it
German: .
 Bingo
The verbs to prefer
 Color by number
and to buy
Adjectives as nouns
Agreement with
numbers
Sports and activities
 Ask about
 Ask and answer
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interests
round robin
Season and months of
the year
 Ask how often
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
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Describe a person
from a picture
Draw a given
description of a
person
Fill out a blank
family tree w/
family
relationships and
possessive
adjectives
Bien Dit French 1
Chapter 4
Bien Dit French 1
Chapter 5
Bien Dit French2
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Follow directions
to draw and label
a town.
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Birthdays
Idioms with “to have”
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6. Around town
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7. Café/
restaurant foods
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Places around a town
Directions review
Means of
transportation
Weather
The verb to do/to
make
Question words
Adverbs
The verb “to go” and
near future
The verb “to come”
and recent past
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Breakfast food/drinks
Café foods/drinks
Place settings
The partitive
Regular verbs: French,
Ir, Spanish: , German:
.
The verb to want
The verb to take
The verb to drink
The imperative
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someone does an
activity
Extend, accept,
and refuse an
invitation
Make plans
Ask how old
someone is
Ask for and give
directions
Ask about the
weather and
describe the
current weather
Offer, accept, and
refuse food
Inquire about
food and place an
order
Ask for an give an
opinion
Chapter 1.2
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Draw and label a
town
Simon says w/
directions
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Create a menu
Identify
realia/pictures
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Draw and label a
town from
written directions
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Dialogue –
café/restaurant
Chapters 5 and 9
I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit French 1
Bien Dit French 1
Chapter 6
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FRENCH – Level 2
7 units plus review
Text: Bien Dit French 1, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030398889,
Bien Dit French 2, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030796234
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
1. Clothes
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Clothing
Accessories
Sports equipment
Leather goods
Jewelry
Numbers 1,0001,000,000
Demonstrative
adjectives
Interrogative
adjectives
The verb to put or to
place
Past tense (passé
compose in French, ..
in Spanish, .. in
German)
Adverbs w/ the past
tense
The verb to see
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Identify types of
clothing and give a
description (sizes,
colors, style)
 Offer and ask for
help in a store
 Ask for and give
opinions about
clothing
 Ask about and give
prices
 Make decision
 Count to
1,000,000 (in
increments)
Teaching Strategies
Resources
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Create mini
store windows
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit 1
Chapter 7
Use realia!
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
2. House
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3. Summer
vacation/
celebrations
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4. Food
shopping
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5. School/
computers
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Describe a house
 Dream house
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architectural
Tell where things
plan/labeled
are in a house
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(directions)
 Talk about weekly
chores
 Ask for, give, or
refuse permission
 Tell how often you
do things
 Imperative
Review past tense
 Ask about summer
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vacation
Celebrations specific
to countries
 Describe own
summer vacation
Party preparations
 Wish someone a
Gifts
good time
The verb to receive
 Ask for and give
To verb to open
advice
The verb to offer
 Ask for help
 Check if things
have been done
Fruits, vegetables,
 Ask about prices
 Mini-store
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and cooking
and pay check
windows and
simulate
Food shopping (mini
 Identify all types
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shopping
stores)
of foods
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experience
Partitive,
 Ask about food
preparation
Pronouns
 Make requests
Contractions
about food
 Shop for groceries
 Ask where things
are in a store
School places and
 Ask how
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events
something turned
I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
House and furniture
Chores
The verb to be able to
the verbs to sleep, to
go out, to leave
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
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Bien Dit 1
Chapter 8
Use realia
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 2
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 3
Use realia
Use pictures
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 4
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Menu creations
for a dinner party
with grocery list
Store
simulations,
purchasing food
for a menu
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6. Daily routine
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7. Childhood
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Computer terms
Direct object
pronouns
Indirect object
pronouns
Object pronouns w/
past tense
Negation (nobody,
nowhere, nothing)
Daily routine
Some body parts
Reflexive verbs
Expressing “all”
Reflexive verbs w/
past tense
Reflexive verbs w/
infinitives
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Childhood activities
Country life/city life
Teach the imperfect
tense
Teach use of both
past tenses together
Adverb placement
The superlative
The comparative
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out
Wonder what
happened
Ask for
information
Express frustration
Talk about their
daily routine
Express
impatience
Say when they
do/did things
Make
recommendations
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Power point
Simon says
Pictionary
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Describe their
childhood, say
what they used to
do
Tell about an
event in the past
Describe life in the
country and in the
city
Compare life in
the country and
the city
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Simon says
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit 2
Chapter 5
Realia to teach
vocabulary
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 6
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Students create
own power point
showing daily
routine in
images, no words
– they must
present the
project and orally
describe to the
class what they
did from waking
up to sleeping on
a past day.
Write a
“mémoire” of
their childhood
Debate: country
life or city life?
FRENCH – Level 3
7 units plus review
Text: Bien Dit French 2, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030796234
Bien Dit French 3, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030796241
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
1. The great
outdoors
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2. The body and
health
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Camping
Nature
Animals
Activities
Past tense review
French: “être en train
de” – in the process
of
The future
Future of irregular
verbs
The verb to run
Parts of the body
Injuries
Illnesses
The doctor
The pharmacy
The subjunctive of
regular and irregular
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Identify
vocabulary
 Say what
happened
 Describe
circumstances
 Say what they
were doing when
something else
happened
 Tell what they will
do
 Wonder what will
happen
 Identify body parts
 Ask and tell how
you feel
 Describe
symptoms
 Give advice
 Complain about
Teaching Strategies
Resources
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Verb-board
races
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 7
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Body drawings
and label
Round robin w/
illnesses
assigned –
express concern
and give advice
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 8
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
 Write a story
about a weekend
camping trip
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Giant body
drawings
Dialogue at
doctor,
pharmacy, or
emergency room
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verbs and when to
use it
The gym
Exercise and
exercising/eating well
The conditional
“if” statements
Books
Movies
TV shows
Music
Relative pronouns
Present participles
Interrogative
pronouns
Demonstrative
pronouns
Review
comparatives/
superlatives
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4. Vacation and
travel
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Countries
Continents
Making travel
preparations
Hotel
Train station
Airport
Customs
If statements
(conditional) review
Review past tense
Review future
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health
Sympathize with
someone and
express concern
Identify genres
and give examples
of each
Describe a book or
movie
Ask for and give
information about
media/
entertainment
Ask about
preferences
Recommend or
advise against
something
Give opinions and
why
Identify countries
on a map
Ask about a
vacation
Say what they
would do in
different locations
if they could
Express necessity
Ask about what
has been done
Get travel
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Game show
simulation
speed games for
genres (students
give examples of
genres on slips
of paper – two
come up at a
time and race to
identify the
genre first)
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Bien Dit 2
Chapter 9
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Written
Book/movie
review
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Bien Dit 1
Chapter 10
Bien Dit 2
Chapter 10
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 1
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Create a travel
brochure and
travel
presentation to
the class –
convince them
your trip is the
best
Blank maps – fill
in designated
countries and
write sentences
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
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5. Work
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Professions and
services
Telephone and formal
letter
Future review
The future perfect
Present participles
The verb to drive
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6. Once upon a
time
7. History/
Colonization
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Legends
Fairytales
fables
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Historical accounts
from countries of
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information
Ask for
information at a
train station or
airport
Buy tickets and
make a
transaction
Pay hotel bill
Identify
professions and
describe what
they do and where
they work
Ask about future
plans w/ work
Ask about job
descriptions
Make polite
requests
Make a phone call
Write a formal
letter
identify
set the scene for a
story
continue and end
a story
Relate a sequence
of events in the
saying what they
would do if they
could go there.
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 2
Almost French,
Sarah Turnbull
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 3.1
Shrek
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 3.2
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Simulate a
professional
phone
conversation to
get an interview
Create a job
announcement
Reply to a job
announcement in
the form of a
formal letter
students read a
fairy tale in the
target language,
rewrite it in their
own words,
create an imageonly power point,
and then tell the
story to the class
with no notes
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language
War vocabulary
The past perfect
Sequence of tenses in
indirect discourse
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past
Tell what
happened to
someone else
Describe the
concept of
colonization and
the effects on
language in
countries
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
La Bataille
d’Algers
Hotel Rwanda
FRENCH – Level 4
7 units plus review
Text: Bien Dit French 3, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008, ISBN: 9780030796241
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
Students can… (I, I, P)
1. Love and
Friendship
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2. Nature
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Relationship
vocabulary
Life events (marriage,
divorce, moving,
etc…)
Reciprocal verbs
The past conditional
The verbs to miss and
to please
The subjunctive
review and in more
depth
Stress pronouns
Nature
Animals continued
Exploration
Extreme sports
Subjunctive with
expressions of fear
The imperative
review
To take/to bring
people and things
Verbs with idioms
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Teaching Strategies
Resources
Say what
happened in a
relationship
Ask for and give
advice about
dating
Share good and
bad news
Renew old
acquaintances
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Bien Dit 3
Chapter 4
Identify animals
found in nature
Describe extreme
sports
Express
astonishment and
fear
Forbid and give
warning
Give general
directions
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Bien Dit 3
Chapter 5
I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
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3. News
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4. Our planet
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Newspapers and
magazines
The news
Subjunctive review w/
doubt and
uncertainty
The verb to believe
The verb to appear
Somewhere,
someone, something,
sometime
Natural disasters
Environmental issues
and solutions
The comparative and
superlative review
Passive voice
Prepositions
Subjunctive after
conjunctions
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5. Society and
politics
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Complain and
offer
encouragement
Express certainty
Express possibility
Express doubt
Express disbelief
Break news
Ask about
information
Identify and
describe natural
disasters
Caution about
disastrous events
Tell why
something
happened
Make predictions
and express
assumptions
Express and
support an opinion
Express a point of
view
Speculate about
what happened
Ask for assistance
Get information
and explain
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Political campaign
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Government
Government services 
(police/firefighters/
administration)
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The past subjunctive
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The verb to conquer
Each
I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 6
Internet newssites
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Simulate a
breaking news
story (possibly
even video tape)
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 7
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Presentation:
breaking news,
natural disaster
French: Read
environmental
articles and
create Brochure:
ways to save our
planet
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Bien Dit 3
Chapter 8
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Debates: political
topics
6. Fine art
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7. Travel/cars
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Types of fine arts
Music and other
performing arts
Inversion
The verb to know
Cars
Gas station
Travel by car
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Ask for and give
opinions
Introduce and
change a topic of
conversation
Make suggestions
and
recommendations
Give an impression
Ask for and give
information and
clarifications about
travel by car
Remind and
reassure
Ask or and give
help
Ask for directions
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I1-Interpersonal I2= Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL French/8/2011
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 9
Bien Dit 3
Chapter 10
Museum-tour –
present a work of
fine art (or an
artist).
Critique a piece
of art