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Suggested Prerequisites

French 1

Description

On this French journey, you will reinforce the fundamental skills and increase your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in French. Like many French explorers, you too, will set sail and visit the French territories overseas and learn about the geography, foods, homes, celebrations, and traditions from each place. All aboard! On y va!

Module One: Chez moi!

-Home and chores

-French sounds and accents

-Regular and irregular verbs ending in -er, -ir, and -re verbs

-Irregular verbs (être, avoir, faire, aller, sortir, partir, prendre)

-Imperative and negative form of the imperative

-Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and Saint Barthélémie 

-Stem changing verbs 

-Fabrics of the DROM TOM, use

-Possessive adjectives and expressions

-Verbs vivre and voir


Module Two: Au jour le jour

-Morning and evening routines

-French Polynesian outfits and cosmetics

-Reflexive verbs

-School and time expressions

-Higher education in France and French Polynesia 

-Verbs prendrecomprendre, apprendre

-Questions (formation, question words, intonations and inversion)

-Negative expressions

-Adverbs in the affirmative and negative


Module Three: Bien vivre

-Visiting the doctor's office and hospital

-French medical discoveries

-Alternative medicine

-La Réunion Island

-Quantities 

-Expression avoir mal à… 

-Verbs pouvoir and vouloir

-Living healthy

-Verbs courir and boire

-Expression il faut ... and devoir

Module Four: Le week-end dernier

-School vacations and activities during vacations

-Les châteaux de la Loire

-Imperfect tense and trigger expressions

-La Guyane  

-French technological innovations

-Weather expressions

-Celebrations and holidays

-When to use the imperfect


Module Five: Mes souvenirs

-Vacationing (beach, mountains, countryside)

-La Nouvelle Calédonie

-Famous people from DROM TOM

-Passé composé with avoir and être

-Passé composé and imparfait

-Expression il y a

-Beach, mountains, and countryside animals

-St. Pierre et Miquelon and clothing you need in a cold climate, use n

-Writing numbers from 1,000 to one million

-Future tense and near future w/ aller


Module Six: L'avenir

-Post high school paths

-Irregular future tense (être/avoir/aller/faire/venir)

-Present of irregular verbs (offrir/recevoir/apercevoir/écrire/lire) 

-Careers

-Working and wages in US and France

-C'est + noun vs. Il/Elle est + adjective (w/professions)

-Verb connaître and savoir in the present and past tenses