French 1 Curriculum Map
Month
September
Content
Bienvenue
Preliminary lessons
 Greetings and
introductions
 Objects in a classroom.
 Numbers 1-60
 Eating in a café
Ch. 1
 Adjectives that describe
people.
 French and American
schools.
 Definite and indefinite
articles (sing.).
 The verb, être, in the
singular.
 Negative sentences.
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Assessment
Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Writing
sentences,
correctly using
target vocabulary
and structures.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
Essential Questions
 Comment
t’appelles-tu?
 Ça va?
 Describe the
boy/girl.
 Combien coute. .
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October
November
December
January
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Chapter 2
 Plural articles, nouns,
and adjectives.
 Plural forms of the verb,
être.
 Names of subjects in
school.
 Telling time.
 Days of the week.
 The difference between
the formal and informal
you.
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Chapter 3
 Activities in class and
after school.
 Conjugating –er verbs in
the present tense.
 Indefinite articles in
negative sentences.
 Using two verbs in the
same sentence (infinitive
constructions).
 The indefinite pronoun,
on.
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Chapter 4
 Naming family members.
 Describing a house or
an apartment.
 The forms of the verb,
avoir.
 Singular possessive
adjectives.
 Adjectives that precede
the noun.
Le Noël de Mickey (holiday
video)
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Chapter 5
 Dining at a café or at a
restaurant
 The forms of the verb,
aller.
 Contractions with à and
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Writing
sentences,
correctly using
target vocabulary
and structures.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Writing
sentences,
correctly using
target vocabulary
and structures.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Writing
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Describe your
friends and tell
where they are.
Quelle heure estil?
Quel jour
sommes-nous?
Which form of
“you” do I use to
address. . .?
Quelle classe
avez-vous à
(time)?
Describe the
actions of a
student going to
school.
What do students
do at a party?
Talk about
different people
doing the same
action.
What do you like
to do? What don’t
you like to do?
Describe what
people, in
general, do.
Describe your
family and your
house.
Say that a given
object belongs to
you, to me, to
him, or to her.
Say that you have
an object.
Choose the
correct position
for a given object.
How is the French
version of
Mickey’s
Christmas Carol
different from the
English version?
Identify this
number. . .
What will you
order?
Say that we/they
own a given
object.
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de.
Using aller to express
future actions.
The plural possessive
adjectives.
Numbers from 61 to 100.
Midterm exam
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sentences,
correctly using
target vocabulary
and structures.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
Midterm exam.
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What are you
going to do this
weekend?
Tell when a
contraction is
necessary and
make the correct
contraction.
Demonstrate
mastery of
semester
vocabulary and
structures.
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February
March
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Chapter 6
 Stores and food
products.
 Numbers from 100 to
1000.
 Using partitives.
 The difference between
the partitive and the
definite article.
 The forms of the verbs,
faire, vouloir, and
pouvoir.
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Chapter 7
 Travelling by plane.
 The 2 groups of –ir
verbs in the present
tense.
 Adjectives that end in –
al and the irregular
adjectives, tout and quel.
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Creating a
conversation,
using vocabulary
and the partitive.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
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April
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Chapter 8
 Train travel.
 The verbs that end in –
re.
 Demonstrative
adjectives.
 The irregular verb,
mettre, in the present
tense.
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May
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Chapter 9
 Summer weather and
activities
 Visiting the beach.
 Playing tennis.
 Verbs like prendre.
 Stress pronouns.
 Adjectives that double
their final consonant.
Final exam
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Create a
conversation
between a train
passenger and a
ticket agent.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
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Oral and written
activities and
quizzes.
Homework.
Class
participation.
Chapter test.
Chapter
paragraph.
Final exam.
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Can you count
from 1 to 1000?
How do you ask
for an
object/objects?
Say what you
want to do and
what you can do.
Where is . . .
sold?
What do they sell
in . . .?
Describe a plane
trip, including
what the
passenger does
at the airport.
Ask “what”
questions and
answer with “all”
or “every”.
Say that various
people choose,
finish, sleep, and
go out (-ir verbs).
Describe a train
trip, starting with
purchasing the
ticket at the train
station.
Say that various
people wait, hear,
and go downstairs
(-re verbs).
Indicate this or
that given object.
Quel temps fait-il?
Describe objects
that you would
find at the beach.
Describe a tennis
match and the
players.
Say and write the
forms of the verb,
prendre, and like
verbs.
Use the correct
form of bon or
italien to describe
a given person or
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object.
Demonstrate
mastery of
vocabulary and
structure studied
during the second
semester.