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Objective
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The student will exchange
spoken and written information
and ideas in French.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Ask questions and provide
responses based on self, others,
and the immediate environment,
such as exchanges concerning
people and things, plans and
events, feelings and emotions,
and direction and location.
2. Give and follow basic
instructions and directions in
French.
FII.1
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Participate in brief oral and
written exchanges that reflect
present as well as past and future
time.
2. Use simple paraphrasing and
nonverbal behaviors to convey
and comprehend messages.
FII.2
The student will demonstrate
skills necessary to initiate,
sustain, and close brief oral and
written exchanges in French
using familiar and recombined
phrases and sentences.
SOL
Sample Strategies
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Sample Resources
Conduct a linguistic
treasure hunt based on last
year’s knowledge.
Create a skit about travel
abroad.
Make and present a
collage about home or
self.
Take on a persona (e.g.,
star, athlete) and other
students will guess who
you are.
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text
CD-ROMs
laserdisc
class posters
costumes
puppets
props
Role play a fortune-teller
and predict future.
Write a letter to an advice
column and give advice.
Use e-mail.
Play Pictionary or
charades on board or at
desk.
Write stories/comics in
past tense.
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text
CD-ROMs
laserdisc
chalkboard
games
markers
e-mail
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Objective
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The student will understand
basic spoken and written French
based on new topics in a
familiar context that are
presented through a variety of
media.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Understand main ideas and
identify essential details
when reading and listening in
French.
2. Understand culturally
authentic announcements,
messages, and advertisements
that use some new as well as
familiar information in
French.
3. Understand and follow simple
instructions in consumer and
informational materials in
French, such as those for
following recipes or using
computers.
FII.3
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Differentiate among
increasingly complex
statements, questions, and
exclamations.
2. Interpret gestures, body
language, and intonation in
order to clarify the message.
FII.4
The student will use verbal and
non-verbal cues to interpret
spoken and written texts in
French.
SOL
Sample Strategies
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Sample Resources
Internet cartoons from
French newspapers
Read real estate ads and
pick a favorite home.
Prepare a skit in which you
order a meal from a French
menu.
Find a French recipe on the
Internet and make the dish.
Read, then create
horoscopes.
Read and translate
instruction manuals in
French.
Create an infomercial to
advertise a product or
service.
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magazines
newspapers
internet
real estate pamphlets
menus
instructional manuals
Describe sports pictures.
Create flashcards of
different body language and
gestures.
Give physical commands to
other students.
Create skits based on given
emotions.
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text
catalogs
pictures
flashcards
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The student will present orally
and in writing information in
French that combines learned as
well as original language in
simple sentences and
paragraphs.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Relate with some detail the
main ideas from levelappropriate print or non-print
materials in French.
2. Present information in French
using structures that reflect
present as well as past and
future time.
3. Demonstrate attention to
accuracy in intonation and
pronunciation when speaking
French.
4. Demonstrate attention to
accuracy in word order,
punctuation, accents and other
diacritical marks, and spelling
when writing in French.
FII.5
SOL
The student will present
rehearsed and unrehearsed
material in French including
skits, poems, plays, short
narratives, and/or songs.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Use appropriate verbal and
nonverbal techniques, such as
voice inflection, gestures, and
facial expression.
2. Communicate ideas in an
organized manner using
appropriate visual and/or
technological support.
FII.6
Sample Strategies
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Sample Resources
Present a memorized poem
to the class.
Sing songs.
Present a recipe to the class.
Give an oral summary of a
French article.
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laserdisc
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songs
poetry
Write and perform a fashion
show.
Create French commercials.
Create a vocabulary rap.
Create a children’s book.
TPR storytelling
Students create their own
story using same vocabulary
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CD-ROMs
videotapes
children’s books
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The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the
perspectives, practices, and
products of French-speaking
cultures and how they are
interrelated.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Participate in real or simulated
cultural events, such as family
activities and holiday celebrations.
2. Identify and discuss patterns of
behavior typically associated with
francophone cultures, such as
observance of business practices
and celebration of national
holidays.
3. Examine the influence of the
geography of francophone
countries on cultural elements,
such as food, clothing, dwellings,
transportation, language, and art.
SOL
FII.7
Sample Strategies
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Host an etiquette dinner.
Prepare holiday foods.
Take a field trip to a French
restaurant.
Download satellite tv.
Celebrate Mardi Gras.
Research foods of a variety
of francophone regions.
Sample Resources
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food
videos
tv
cookbook
field trip
room decorations
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The student will use
information acquired in the
study of French and information
acquired in other subject areas
to reinforce one another.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Give examples of the influence of
the French language and
francophone cultures in other
subject areas, such as French
words used in the English language
or contributions of important
mathematicians and scientists from
francophone countries.
2. Relate information acquired in
other subjects to topics discussed
in the French class, such as use of
the metric system for measuring
distance, volume, and weight or
how modes of transportation
reflect the economy and geography
of francophone countries.
SOL
FII.8
Sample Strategies
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Have a cognate race.
Perform a skit using the
metric system.
Match clothing to
temperature.
Identify geography and
corresponding modes of
transportation.
Sample Resources
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clothing
thermometer
ruler
field trips
maps
internet
metric chart
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The student will demonstrate an
understanding of cultural
similarities and differences
between the French-speaking
world and the United States.
The student will develop a better
understanding of the English
language through the study of
French.
Benchmarks
SOL
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Identify similarities and
differences of traditions, such as
holidays, foods, family, and
celebrations.
2. Identify similarities and
differences of the geography of
francophone countries and the
United States and their impact on
aspects of culture, such as
clothing, foods, transportation,
dwellings, recreation, and the arts.
FII.9
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Recognize critical sound
distinctions and intonation in the
French and English language in
communicating meaning.
2. Compare vocabulary usage and
structural patterns of French and
English.
3. Use level-appropriate idiomatic
expressions in French.
FII.10
Sample Strategies
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Compare and contrast pictures of
American and French table
settings.
Prepare foods from the Frenchspeaking world.
Study and present to class different
traditions from various Frenchspeaking countries.
Play traditional games from
French-speaking countries.
Practice homonyms.
Compare word order using colored
Velcro flashcards.
Use idiomatic expressions.
Play Jeopardy.
Sample Resources
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foods
recipes
textbook
games
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dictionary
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Objective
Benchmarks
The student will develop and apply
French language skills and cultural
knowledge in opportunities beyond
the classroom setting for recreational,
educational, and occupational
purposes.
To be successful with this, students are
expected to:
1. Illustrate how the French language
and francophone cultures are
evident in and through media,
entertainment, and technology.
2. Locate and use French language
resources, such as individuals and
organizations accessible through
the community or the internet, to
reinforce basic cultural knowledge
of the francophone world.
SOL
FII.11
Sample Strategies
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Find advertisements with
a French influence in
American newspapers of
magazines.
Look up cultural facts on
the internet.
Bring in guest speaker.
Attend international plays
or dinners.
Sample Resources
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Alliance Francaise
internet
UVa international circle