WELCOME TO FRENCH 1A (7TH GRADE) - BIENVENUE DANS LA CLASSE DE FRANCAIS 1A (7IEME ANNEE)

In French 1A, we will concentrate on learning basic French words and expressions, and beginning grammar.  We will cover the following topics to build vocabulary: greetings and how to introduce oneself and others, colors and numbers, talking about your family, telling time, the calendar and the seasons, the weather, clothing, shopping. In grammar we will focus on: conjugating the verbs to have, to be, to go and to do, conjugating regular -ER verbs, agreement of adjectives with the gender and the number of the noun it describes, subject pronouns, possessive pronouns, definite and indefinite articles.  We will also talk about French culture, geography and history and make connections with what is taught in Social Studies to show the importance and influance of France in the way America was shaped.

We are using some very exciting new online state-of-the-art speech recognition language program that will help the students to master the French language in a fun and interactive way. Students will use this online program every other day.  The student is also able to log onto this website (www.tellmemoreeducation.com) at home.

If you have any questions, students and their parents should feel free to e-mail me or students can ask for advice/help in class.  Thanks. 

Mr. Johan Vergult

EVERY DAY, WE WILL HAVE A WORD OF THE DAY AND A NUMBER OF THE DAY TO HELP BUILD VOCABULARY. and WE HAVE A DAILY 'WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD".

LESSON PLAN

LESSON 1   GREETINGS

LESSON 2   USEFUL EXPRESSIONS

LESSON 3  LOCATION, GENDER, LIKES & DISLIKES - singular / definite articles le, la and l'

LESSON 4 JE ME PRESENTE - LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF /  CONJUGATION OF être

LESSON 5  LES COULEURS / COLORS - use of colors as adjectives (male/female and singular/plural)

LESSON 6   LOCATION, GENDER, LIKES & DISLIKES - plural / definite article les and how to make nouns plural

LESSON 7  PHYSCIAL DESCRIPTION

(hair, eyes, size, etc.)

LESSON 8 THE FAMILY (LA FAMILLE)

LESSON 9  EXPRESSIONS DE TEMPS (time expressions)

LESSON 10 THE WEATHER

LESSON 11  CLOTHING 

August - September 2009: greetings, numbers (0-20), colors, cognates

Francophone World Project is due on 09/28/2009

October-November 2009: usefull expressions, classroom objects, classroom expressions, days and months, more numbers 21- 50  --  making simple sentenes

November - December 2009: adjectives, feelings

January - February 2009:  review of what we learned during the first semester; conjugation of ETRE and AVOIR; introducing yourself in 8 or more sentences; colors; numbers 50-100; telling time; the weather; describing yourself

March - April 2009: continue with conjugation of Avoir and Etre; telling time; physical description; the weather

May 2009: clothing / start on final project