French III Pacing Guide
3rd 9 weeks (sp semester)
Unit: Introduction
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
2 days
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
ML.III.INT1D
ML.III.INT1E
Expression
Utile
Vocabulary
guide.
Communicate your
thoughts and
needs purely in
French.
How can we
continue to
learn French by
using only
French?
Beeline T.V.
France24
news report
Watch French
news and actually What
understand what is challenges will
going on.
me meet?
ML.III.INT1C
How can we
overcome
them?
French III Pacing Guide
3rd 9 weeks (sp semester)
Unit 1: Who are you?
(Regular, Reflexive & irregular verbs
in the present tense)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
4 weeks
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
Irregular verb
charts.
Skills
Students will review the
meanings &
conjugations of regular
Reflexive verbs & irregular French
MLIII.IP.2A
+ vocabulary
verbs. Students will be
MLIII.IP.2F
able to use these verbs
Educational
in speaking (interviews
ML.III.INT1A
Media- Gateway & scavenger hunt),
ML.III.INT1B
to proficiency
writing (self-portrait),
ML.III.INT1F*
prerecorded
listening (news) and
oral scavenger
reading (Petit Nicolas).
ML.III.P1B
hunt.
ML.III.P1C
Students will explore
Monoprix
the world of reflexive
ML.IIICCC2B
circulars,
verbs, finding
ML.IIICCC3A&B Prisunic and
incongruities to English.
ML.IIICCC4A
Printemps
Students will explore
websites
print media to find
examples of refl. Verbs
Short stories:
in advertising
“Le Petit
(Monoprix).
Nicolas”
“Le Notaire”
Additional reading work
“Les 3 Bagues” will be done using “le
Notaire” and “les 3
Beeline T.V.
Bagues” . Students will
France24 news begin their vocabulary
report
logs.
Essential
Questions
How important
is the principle
of conjugation
to the French
language?
How are
irregular verbs
the foundation
of the French
language?
Why does
English not have
Reflexive verbs?
What is
different about
French
advertising?
What reading
skills are we
developing?
French III Pacing Guide
3rd 9 wks (sp semes.) Unit 2:Who were you?
(The French Past Tenses)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
6 weeks
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1C
MLIII.IP.1D
Irreg. verb
chart.
Review the
What does the
fundamentals of the
P.C. sound like
Passé Composé (4 steps). in English?
MLIII.IP.2B
MLIII.IP.2E
ML.III.INT1A
ML.III.INT1C
ML.III.INT1F*
ML.III.P1D
ML.III.P1E
ML.III.P2B
ML.IIICCC1A
ML.IIICCC1B
ML.IIICCC3A
Passé composé
4 steps outline Understand and
compare the Imparfait
Passé/Imp.
tense to the P.C..
powerpoint
Show-and-Tell - Oral
P.C. versus
Presentation -present a
Imp. chart
favorite “old lovey”
explaining it’s story (in
Short Stories:
the past)
“Le Poulet
Extraordinaire” Use “Cinderella” to
identify the need for
“Boucle D’Or et carefully deciding
les 3 Ours”
between the tenses and
how to correctly form
“Cendrillion”
each.
“Une Histoire
de Napoléon”
“Petit Prince –
chapter: Le
Géographe”
France 24
Reuse vocab. gained
from prior unit’s
readings in the past
tense. New reading: “Le
Poulet Extraordinaire”
Song lyrics. Listen for
and fill in missing words.
Essential
Questions
How is the
Imperfect
different in both
formation &
usage?
Where do
Fairytales come
from- how is a
French one
different?
How do best
retain new
vocabulary?
What is the
need for
alternative past
tenses?
Are you a
Literary Giant?
Unravel the meaning of
the song.
Present, compare and
contrast the Passé
Simple to the other past
tenses and English.
Rewrite Napoléons
speech without the P.S.
Review spectrum of all
past tenses learned to
date.
Learn the Plus-QueParfait tense, comparing
it to the other tenses.
Use the “Géographe”
from le Petit Prince to
identify all of the past
tenses, tell why they
were used and to use the
same tenses to talk
about the piece.
French III Pacing Guide
Unit 3: Who did it?
(Using Pronouns in French)
4th 9 weeks (sp semester)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
2 weeks
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
MLIII.IP.1F
Pronoun chart
& rules
Identify the need for
pronouns and the
differences between the
different kinds of
pronouns.
What would life
be like without
pronouns?
ML.III.INT1A
ML.III.INT1B
ML.III.INT1F*
ML.III.P1A
ML.IIICU1C
ML.IIICCC1C
ML.IIICCC3B
ML.IIICCC4A
Pronoun
powerpoint
Magazine
survery, “Are
You a
Generous
Person?”
How does using
pronouns in
Learn the French
French take us
pronouns and their
beyond
placement (in the
beginner level
present & all past tenses) French?
Use pronouns to respond
Short story “La to questions about
Derniere
yourself including, “Who
Classe”
do you admire and why?
What would you do if…?
Maps: Prussia
What I did while I
v. WWII French was___.
occupation
Read and think critically
Video clips:
about “La Dernière
Saving Private Classe”. Explore the
Ryan
history and passion
behind the story.
Beeline T.V.
France24 news Write a Dernière Lettre
report
to show your feelings
and understanding of the
times.
What would you
have done if you
were in the
Dernière Classe?
French III Pacing Guide
4th 9 wks (sp semester)
Unit 4: What will you do?
(The Future Tense)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
1 week
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
MLIII.IP.1F
MLIII.IP.2B*
All tense chart
Determine use of the
Futur tense.
Futur
powerpoint
Song:
Je Chanterai
ML.III.INT1A
ML.III.INT1B
ML.III.INT1F*
ML.III.P1A
ML.III.P1D*
ML.IIICU1C
ML.IIICCC1C
ML.IIICCC3B
ML.IIICCC4A
Poem:
“Demain Dès
l’Aube”
Beeline T.V.
France24 news
report
Essential
Questions
What does the
Future tense
sound like?
Add adverbial Future
Why do we
vocabulary and pronouns need it?
to correctly talk about
the distant future.
What will you
do if…..?
Correctly form “if” and
“when” clauses.
How do you talk
about what you
Ask and answer an
will have done?
interview about your
future plans.
How can you
showcase all of
Write poems that show
the tenses that
off 3 tenses:
you know?
Yesterday…Today…
Tomorrow
Identify the need for the
Futur Anterieur.
Compare it to the Futur.
Make grammatically
correct predictions about
what you will have done
20 years from now.
French III Pacing Guide
4th 9 wks (sp semester) Unit 5: What would you do?
(The Conditional Tense)
Timeline
Standards
1.5 weeks MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1D
MLIII.IP.1F
MLIII.IP2A
ML.III.INT1A
ML.III.INT1E
ML.III.P2B
ML.IIICU1C
ML.IIICCC3A
ML.IIICCC4B
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
All tense chart
Determine use of the
Conditional tense.
What does the
conditional
tense sound
like? Why do
we need it?
Conditional
powerpoint
Correctly form complex
“if” and “when” clauses.
Song:
Autrefois
Play the dating game:
accurately form and be
Choose your
able to answer
own adventure conditional questions
reading.
(ex. If you were a
vegetable what would
Composition
you be?)
rubric &
correction key Read a story in which
you choose what you
Beeline T.V.
would do in a certain
France24 news situation.
report
Identify the need for the
Conditional past.
Compare it to the cond.
Write a 2 page, typed
composition in the
conditional with respect
to all tenses & grammar
learned to date.
What would you
do if…..?
How do you talk
about what you
would have
done?
How can you
showcase all of
the tenses that
you know?
French III Pacing Guide
4th 9 wks (sp semester) Unit 6: What don’t you do?
(Negation)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
.5 week
MLIII.IP.1D
MLIII.IP.1E
MLIII.IP.1F
Negation
powerpoint
Learn the vocabulary
and grammatical
structure of French
negation.
How do we
negate
something
someone else
says?
ML.III.IP2A
ML.III.IP2D
ML.III.IP2F
ML.IIICU1C
Song:
Les Cornichons
Beeline T.V.
France24 news
report
Be able to give the
contrary to any
statement.
Answer all questions
posed negatively.
ML.IIICCC2A
Correctly use the
expression “Si” even
though it doesn’t exist in
English.
Use negation in all of our
tenses.
How do we
continue to use
all of our tenses
adding
negation?
French III Pacing Guide
Unit 7: What is
it necessary that you do?
4th 9 weeks (sp semester)
(The Subjunctive Tense)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
2 weeks
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
MLIII.IP.1F
All tense chart
Determine use of the
Subjunctive tense.
Does the
subjunctive
exist in English?
MLIII.IP.2A
ML.III.INT1A
ML.III.INT1B
ML.III.P1A
ML.III.P1C
ML.III.P2E
ML.IIICU1C
ML.IIICCC3A*
Subjunctive
powerpoint
Find examples of the
tense in English.
Why and How
do we use it in
French?
Song:
Champs Élysées Compare the formation
of the subjunctive with
“Writer’s
all other tenses.
What is it
Relief” website
necessary to do
to analyze the Be able to talk about
if….?
English Subj.
what it is
…necessary to do.
French fable:
…time to do.
Le Corbeau et
…strange to do. Etc.
le Renard
Preach to others about
Beeline T.V.
what they should do
France24 news differently.
report
Recognize the
subjunctive and the need
for it in stories.
French III Pacing Guide
4th 9 weeks (sp semester)
Unit 8: What did
you, do you, will you, would you, is it necessary that you do?
(All Tense Review)
Timeline
Standards
Suggested
Resources
Skills
Essential
Questions
1 week
MLIII.IP.1A
MLIII.IP.1B
MLIII.IP.1C
MLIII.IP.1E
All tense charts
Compare the meanings
and formation of all 11
tenses studied this
semester.
How can I say
anything I’ve
ever wanted to
say in French?
MLIII.IP.2B
MLIII.IP.2E*
Song:
Dansez-Vous
ML.III.P1C
ML.III.P2E
ML.IIICU1C
ML.IIICCC1B
Subjunctive
powerpoint
Recognize all tenses in
written text and
discourse.
Myriad of short
stories: 3 pigs, Accurately determine
stranger on the which tense to answer in
bus, Little Red when posed a question.
Riding hood
Be able to write any verb
Beeline T.V.
in any tense!
France24 news
report