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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.
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