Malden Public Schools
French 1 Curriculum Map
Quarter
PRELIMINARY:
Quarter 1
Faisons
Connaissance!
Functions / Concepts
Functions:
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Introduce oneself
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Spell one’s name
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Count to 20
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Understand and give common classroom
instructions
Culture:
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Functions:
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Greet people and saying goodbye
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Ask how someone is
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Tell how you are
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Ask someone's name and age
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Tell your name and age
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Express likes, dislikes and preferences
about things
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Express likes, dislikes and preferences
about activities
Culture:
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Vive l’école!
Poitiers
Greetings and goodbyes
Hand gestures
Leisure time activities
Functions:
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Agree and disagree
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Ask for and giving information
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Tell when you have class
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Ask for and expressing opinions
Culture:
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French Speaking world
Famous French-speakinpeople
Importance of learning French
French gestures for counting
Poitiers
French educational system
Le bac
The French grading system
Skills / Vocabulary /
Structure
Grammar:
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French alphabet
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French accent marks
Portfolio /Performance Assessment
Oral Portfolio:
Student will recite the alphabet and read French names
Vocabulary:
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French names
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French numbers 0-20
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French classroom
expressions
Numbers 1 – 20
Grammar:
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Negative ne…pas
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Definite articles le, la, l’, les
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Connectors et and mais
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Subject pronoun
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-er verbs present tense
Vocabulary:
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things you like or don’t like
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activities you like or don’t
like to do
Grammar:
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Oui vs si
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Verb avoir present tense
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Vocabulary:
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School subjects
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School related words
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Class times
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Parts of the school day
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Numbers 21-59
Oral Portfolio suggestion:
Students should work in pairs and imagine they are going to meet an
exchange student from France. They must write out questions to ask
the student, name, age, likes and dislikes.
Writing Portfolio suggestion:
Student should write a letter to “Robert” telling him about a friend
who would like to have a pen pal. Student should include information
about the friend – name, age, likes, dislikes.
Speaking Tests:
1. Student should act out conversations from the book using
appropriate gestures.
2. Student should make a collage of what he/she likes/dislikes and
present to the class.
Students work in pairs as interviewer / celebrity. (videotaping
possibility
Oral Portfolio suggestion:
Student should pair off and exchange class schedules and discuss
them. Find out what partner likes, dislikes, classes in common.
Writing Portfolio suggestion:
Students should evaluate the year thus far telling what they think of
courses, activities and teachers. (one paragraph)
Performance Assessments:
1. Partners prepare and act out a conversation between a student
and a school counselor
2. Students write their schedules in French (including classes, times,
etc.) and pair off to ask each other questions.
3. Students work in pairs as a French student and an American
student, comparing and contrasting schedules, school, likes,
dislikes.
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French 1 Curriculum Map
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Quarter 2
Sports et
passé-temps
Functions / Concepts
Skills / Vocabulary /
Structure
Functions:
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Making and responding to requests
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Asking others what they need, telling
what you need
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Telling what you’d like and like to do
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Getting someone’s attention
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Asking for information
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Expressing thanks
Grammar:
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Indefinite articles un, une,
des
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Demonstrativeadjectives ce,
cet, cete, ces
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Adjective agreement and
placement
Culture: Poitiers
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Bagging your own purchases
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Buying school supplies in Frenchspeaking countries
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French currency (euros)
Vocabulary:
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School supplies
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Things you might buy for
school and fun
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Colors
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Numbers 60-201
Functions:
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telling how much you like or dislike
something
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exchanging information
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making, accepting, and turning down
suggestions
Grammar:
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Expressions with faire and
jouer
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Questions formation
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De after a negative verb
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The verb faire
Culture:
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Vocabulary:
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Sports and hobbies
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Weather expressions
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Months of the year
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Time expressions
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Seasons
Québec
Old and new in Quebec City
Celsius and Fahrenheit
Sports in francophone countries
Maison des jeunes et de la culture
Portfolio /Performance Assessment
Oral Portoflio suggestion:
Using the catalog (see writing below) the students should take turns
ordering over the phone, using greetings, titles, vous and describing
the merchandise.
Writing Portfolio suggestion:
Student should work with a partner creating a back to school catalog,
drawing out illustrations or using pictures, writing descriptions, prices
and order number
Performance Assessments:
1. Using teaching transparency students should assume the identity
of the shoppers and tell what they need for school.
2. Student should make lists of what they have and need for
courses and act out a scene in a store.
Oral Portfolio:
Interview:
Students will answer questions about what sport they like, what they
like to to, accept and turn down invitations.
Role-play:
Students will act out in pairs what to do after school, making
suggestions, turning down invitations.
Writing Portfolio:
Student will imagine they are writing back home telling about activities
at a Village des Sports. Student will mention the activities, what they
like, don'’ like, the weather.
Interview:
Students in pairs will imagine interviewing a famous Canadian athlete
as a reporter/interviewee.
On va au café?
Quarter 3
Functions:
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Make suggestions and excuses
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Make a recommendation
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Get someone’s attention
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Order food and beverages
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Inquire about likes and dislikes
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Express likes and dislikes
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Pay the check
Culture:
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Paris
Food served in a café
Waitpersons as professionals, tipping,
La litote
Grammar:
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Verb prendre present
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Imperative forms of all verbs
Vocabulary:
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Food and beverages
Grammar:
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Le with days of the week
Oral Portfolio:
Café skit (in groups)
Using the signs for the writing portfolio students will create a
restaurant scene, creating conversations in the café, placing orders,
commenting on the food, etc.
Interview:
Students will answer questions about going to a café, what they like to
eat, drink, and whether or not they are hungry/thirsty.
Writing Portfolio:
Students will create posters and signs for one of the three cafés
mentioned in the text. Signs should include menu, prices, times, etc.
Oral Portfolio Item:
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French 1 Curriculum Map
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Amusonsnous!
Functions / Concepts
Skills / Vocabulary /
Structure
Functions:
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Make plans
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Extend invitations
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Respond to invitations
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Arrange to meet someone
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Culture:
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La famille
Quarter 4
Au marché
Paris
Going out
Dating in France
Conversational time
Functions:
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Identify people
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Introduce people
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Describe and characterize people
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Ask for permission
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Give permission
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Refuse permission
Culture: Paris
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Compare and contrast “pets” in France
and US
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Compare and contrast some aspects of
family life in France
Functions:
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Expressing needs , making, accepting,
declining requests
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Telling someone what to do
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Offering accepting or refusing food
Culture: Abidjan
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The Ivorian market and foods
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Shopping for groceries in francophone
countries
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Metric system; mealtimes in francophone
countries
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Verb aller present tense
Aller plus the infinitive
Verb vouloir present tense
Information questions
Vocabulary:
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Places to go
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Things to do
Grammar:
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Possession with de
Possessive adjectives
Adjective agreement
The verb être
Vocabulary:
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Family members
Adjectives to describe and
characterize people
Grammar:
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Partitive articles
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Avoir besoin de
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Verb pouvoir
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De with expressions of
quantity
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Pronoun en
Vocabulary:
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Food items / expressions of
quantity
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Meals
Portfolio /Performance Assessment
Students will look at a large map of Paris and suggest places to go
and what to do at each place.
Interview:
Student will respond to questions about making plans, extending /
responding to invitations, arranging to meet someone.
Role-play:
Student will act out with a partner inviting a friend to do something
with them on Saturday afternoon. The friend accepts and asks for
more details about where/when they’re going to meet.
Writing Portfolio:
Student should write a note home to parents telling where they and
their friends are going to go this weekend, including time of departure
and return home.
Oral Portfolio:
Interview:
Student will answer questions identifying, introducing someone,
describing, characterizing someone, asking for and giving permission.
Role-play:
In pairs students will act out a situation one taking the role of a new
student asking questions, the other answering about other
classmates.
Student will use pictures or prompts to talk about members of family /
friends using information such as age, name, physical description, etc.
Writing Portfolio:
Students will write about real/imaginary (TV) family, giving names,
ages, relationships, personalities, interests, hobbies.
Oral Portfolio:
Students will talk about shopping for groceries in the Côte d”Ivoire
Writing Portfolio:
Students will write a paragraph about mealtimes in francophone
countries
Interview:
In pairs students will create a shopping scenario in a marketplace.
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