Continuing with the publisher's suggested course of study, French III students will review using Level 2, Chapter 1, finish Level 2 and begin with Level 3. The Bien Dit! series is designed to continually spiral by reviewing already learned material while adding new concepts to be mastered.
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Chapter 1-Review (Bien Dit! Level 2)
Describing friends and family After-school activities Describing yourself and asking about others Talking about your likes and dislikes Asking questions Telling when to do something Grammar: verbs avoir and etre, adjective agreement, adjectives beau/nouveau/vieux, and -er and -ir verbs Culture: Sundays, family nicknames, a family in Maroc, after-school activities, cafes, and Pierre Auguste Renoir Chapter 6 Le bon vieux temps Childhood activities Country life Talking about when you were a child Telling about an event in the past Comparing life in the country vs. the city Describing life in the country Grammar: the imperfect tense, the past vs. imperfect tenses, adverb placement, the comparative with adjectives and nouns, the superlative with adjectives, irregular comparatives and superlatives Culture: children's games, comic books, summer camps, and Paul Gauguin Chapter 7 Un week-end en plein air Camping Nature, animals, and activities Saying what happened Describing circumstances Telling what you will do Wondering what will happen Grammar: past tense and imperfect, past tense verbs with etre or avoir, future tense, irregular verbs in future tense, verb courir Culture: camping, nautical sports, tourism and Jean Metzinger Chapter 8 Es-tu en forme? Parts of the body Injuries and illnesses Improving one's health Asking and tellling how you feel Describing symptoms and giving advice Complaining about health and giving advice Sympathizing with someone Grammar: subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs, expressions using the subjunctive, the conditional tense, if phrases, using the conditional to make polite requests Culture: healthcare, France and medicine, Senegalese foods |
Chapter 9 On s'amuse!
Movies and books Television shows and music Describing a movie or book Asking for and giving information Asking about preferences Recommending or advising against something Grammar: relative pronouns qui, que, and dont, present participles, using c'est and il/elle est, interrogative and demonstrative pronouns, comparatives and superlatives Culture: movies, TVA, Cannes Festival, French TV, and Vincent Van Gogh Chapter 10 Partons en vacances! Vacation Preparing for vacation Asking about a vacation Saying what you would do if you could Expressing necessity Asking about what has been done Grammar: object pronouns, conditional tense, si clauses, subjunctive, past tense and the imperfect tense, etre en train de Culture: tourism, vacations, Nice, school holidays, vacation schedules and Henri Matisse Chapter 2 Le monde du travail (Bien Dit! Level 3) Professions and services Telephone vocabulary Formal letter vocabulary Asking about future plans Making polite requests Making a phone call Writing a formal letter Grammar: future tense, feminine forms of nouns, verb conduire, future perfect tense, present participle, conditional tense for polite requests Culture: French economy, French work year, finding a job in France and the ANPE, unions and strikes in France, and Fernand Leger Chapter 3 Il etait une fois... Legends, fairy tales and fables, Historical accounts from Africa Setting the scene for a story Continuing and ending a story Relating a sequence of events Telling what happened to someone else Grammar: passe simple, relative pronouns with ce, adjective placement and meaning, past perfect, sequence of tenses in indirect discourse, and past infinitive |