What we are doing during the months of March & April 2011
French 8th Grade
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Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities and cultural topics
through story telling
The imperfect tense versus the passé composé
Review of major verbs in the present, imperfect and passé composé tenses
Direct object versus indirect object
Direct and indirect object pronouns
Reflexive verbs
The imperative
Reflexive verbs in commands
Negative commands with reflexive verbs
The future tense and major uses
Irregular verbs in the future tense
Project- going to a restaurant
Offering, accepting or refusing food
Project-Going shopping for clothes
Expressions with the verb aller
Cultural readings
The verb ‘faire” and expressions with the verb
The conditional tense
Conditional tense versus future tense
The pronouns “en” and “y”
The verbs savoir and connaître – to know
Asking for and giving an opinion
Describing likes and dislikes and preferences
Describing different types of activities in the present and past tenses.
German – 7th Grade
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Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities and cultural topics
through story telling.
The accusative case and major uses
Pronouns in the accusative case
Major uses of the accusative case
Prepositions in the accusative case
Stem-changing verbs in the present tense
Helping verbs “sein”, “haben”, and “werden .”
The Dative Case in German
The major uses of the Dative Case
Comparing the dative case to the accusative case
Direct object versus indirect object
Definite and indefinite articles in the dative case
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Possessive adjectives in the dative and accusative cases
Verbs that take the dative case
Prepositions that take the dative case
Dative and accusative pronouns
Idiomatic expressions with the dative case
Going to a restaurant
Ordering food and beverages
Talking about how something tastes
Going shopping for clothes
Separable prefix verbs versus inseparable prefix verbs
Offering and responding to an invitation
Talking about personality traits
Word Order
French – 7th Grade
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Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities and cultural topics
through story telling
Agreement of adjectives
Position of adjectives
Adjectives that normally come before noun
Direct object versus indirect object
Direct and indirect object pronouns
Reflexive verbs
The imperative
Reflexive verbs in commands
Negative commands with reflexive verbs
Uses of the partitive
The partitive versus the definite and indefinite article
Review of major verbs in French
Leisure activities
Project- going to a restaurant and ordering food
Contractions with à and de
Going shopping for clothes
Expressions with the verb aller
Cultural reading
The verbs préférer and acheter
The verb ‘faire” and expressions with the verb
The verbs savoir and connaître – to know
Asking for and giving an opinion
Describing likes and dislikes and preferences
The conversational past tense
The imperfect tense
The conversational tense versus the imperfect tense
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French 6th Grade
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Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities and cultural topics
through story telling.
The definite and indefinite articles
The plural forms of the articles
Common expressions
Geography of France
Introduction to some of the major verbs and common expressions in French through
storytelling
Personal pronouns and the verb “être” – to be
Classroom objects
Commands and classroom directives
Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities through story telling.
The definite and indefinite articles
The verb “avoir” – to have and major expressions with the verb
The plural forms of the articles
Common expressions
Numbers
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Geography
Important cities and rivers in France
Introduction to some of the major verbs and common expressions in French through
storytelling
German 6th Grade
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Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities and cultural topics
through story telling.
Greetings and responses
The definite and indefinite articles
The plural forms of the articles
Common expressions
Classroom objects and commands
The German alphabet and sounds
Introduction to some of the major verbs and common expressions in German through
storytelling
Personal pronouns and the verb “sein” – to be
The verb “to go” and common expressions with the verb
Classroom objects
Colors
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Family members
Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking interactive activities through story telling.
The definite and indefinite articles
The verb “haben” – to have and major expressions with the verb
The plural forms of the articles
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
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