French 4
Content
Skills
Assessment
Content
Skills
Assessment
September
The Family
present
reflexives
infinitives
commands
Video: "L'Amour de la Vie"
Song
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
role plays
listening
debate
skit
essay writing
question and answer
vocab quiz
essay
video project
October
Immigration and jobs
passe compose
imperfect tenses
Video: "L'Amour de la Vie"
Song
personal stories or interviews of
grandparents
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
role plays
listening
debate
interviewing
question and answer
November
Children's Fairy Tales in French
write and illustrate your own
children's story based on a moral and
using correct past tense
Video: Madeline
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
story writing
question and answer
listening
vocab quiz
listening comprehension quiz
essay
unit test
reading content quiz
children's book project
story
vocab quiz
Current Events: Election 2000
Readings from French newspaper
view and listen to Le Journal, French
TV news, French web news
review passe compose vs. imperfect
plus-que-parfait
past infinitives
Video: "L'Amour de la Vie"
Song
Completion of stories
Exam Review
Oral Exams
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
vocab quiz
graded roundtable discussion
listening comprehension quiz
essay
Exam: oral interview
Written exam: (grammar, vocab.,
essay)
French 4
Content
Skills
Assessment
December
Technology, the future and society
future and conditional tenses
si clauses
Video: cartoon in French
Song: Practice for the Modern
Language Song Fest
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
vocab quizzes
grammar quizzes
graded roundtable discussion
listening comprehension quiz
Content
Skills
January
One Act Play: "L'Anglais Tel
Qu'on le Parle"
filmed play acting
future and conditional tenses, esp. si
clauses
introduction to future perfect and
past conditional tenses
review of imperfect and plus-queparfait and si clauses
Video: "L'Amour de la Vie"
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
vocab quiz
video project
grammar quiz
essay
February
Current Events
Compare and contrast French and
Canadian education with US by
reading web pages
review of present subjunctive
Video: completion of "L'Amour de la
Vie"
Song
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oral presentation in class
vocab quizzes
essay
unit test
"Dantes" (excerpt from Le Comte
de Monte Cristo")
subjunctive vs. indicative
past subjunctive with conjunctions
how to avoid using the subjunctive
Video: French in Action
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Assessment
reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing using the
subjunctive and indicative
question and answer
nightly questions
vocab quizzes
debate: graded roundtable discussion
listening comprehension
graded homework questions
French 4
Content
Skills
March
Alternative Assessment
Films: "Les Comperes," "La
Chevre," or "Les Visiteurs"
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listening
question and answer
Assessment
graded roundtable discussion
Content
“Les Chandeliers de l’Eveque”:
long excerpt from Les Miserables by
Hugo.
Final review of the subjunctive
Pronouns: direct and indirect objects
Video: French in Action
Songs: French version of the
London/Broadway play “Les
Miserables”.
Skills
Assessment
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
nightly questions
vocab quizzes
grammar quizzes
debate
April
Complete “Les Chandeliers de
l’Eveque"
introduce passe simple vs. passe
compose
relative pronouns: qui/que/dont
Video: French in Action
Song:French version of the
London/Broadway play “Les
Miserables”.
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reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
debate
role plays
listening
essay writing
question and answer
nightly questions
unit test
Reading: "L'Ile Mysterieuse" excerpt from Jules Verne novel
review and contrast passe simple
with passe compose
more relative pronouns
negatives
Video: French in Action
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May/June
Reading: "La Belle at la Bete"
(French fairy tale)
passive vs. active voice
Video: "La Belle at la Bete,"
Cocteau version
reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
listening
debate
essay writing
grammar and vocab quizzes
listening comprehension quiz
essay
Completion of film
Exam review
Oral exams
reading
vocabulary memorization
discussions
role plays
listening
debate
essay writing
reading comprehension quiz
vocab quiz
debate
essay
oral exam interview
grammar, vocab., and essay exam