Once again, Bien Dit! will use the first chapter from the year before to review material and then move ahead. So French IV will begin with Chapter 1 from the Level 3 book and then pick up where we left off with Chapter 3. I would also like to add in some outside reading for this group as well.
Chapter 1 Retour de vacances (Review: Bein Dit! Level 3)
Back to school acitivities and classes After school acitivites What you did last summer: activities, things, and places Expressing likes/dislikes and preferences Asking about plans Telling when and how often you did something Describing a place in the past Grammar: regular/irregular verbs in the present, verbs followed by the infinitive, past tense, imperfect, and reflexive verbs in the past tense Culture: the baccalaureat, tourism, summer vacation for French youth, festivals, and Georges Seurat Chapter 4 Amours et amities Reciprocal actions and emotions Life events and emotions Saying what happened Asking for and giving advice Sharing good and bad news Renewing old acquaintances Grammar: reciprocal verbs, the past conditional, verbs manquer and plaire, the subjunctive, the subjunctive with necessity desire and emotions, disjunctive (stress) pronouns Culture: hospitality in Africa, Maroc, going out with friends, weddings in North Africa, family politics, and La Noce Chapter 5 En pleine nature Nature and animals Exploration: hiking, rafting, extreme outdoor sports Expressing astonishment and fear Forbidding and giving warning Giving general directions Complaining and offering encouragement Grammar: the subjunctive with expressions of fear, the imperative, verbs voir, regarder, apporter, amener, emporter and emmener, verbs followed by a/de and the infivitive, verbs with idioms Culture: Parks in Louisiana, French and Cajun influence, public parks in France, extreme sports guides, Canadian sports, and Jean-Jacques Audubon Chapter 6 La presse Francophone newspapers and magazines The news Expressing certainty and possibility Expressing doubt and disbelief Breaking news Asking about information Grammar: the subjunctive with doubt and uncertainty, verbs croire and paraitre, quelque part, qulequ'un, quelque chose, and quelquefois, object pronouns, qui est-ce qui, qui est-ce que, qu'est-ce qui and qu'est-ce que, more negative expressions Culture: Francophone press in the US, becoming a journalist in Quebec, daily journal for teens, Creole or French in Haiti, blogs,and Toulouse-Lautrec |
Chapter 7 Notre planete
Natural phenomena Environmental issues and solutions Caution Telling why something happened Making predictions and expressing assumptions Expressing and supporting an opinion Grammar: the comparative and superlative, passive voice, prepositions, quand, lorsque, and des que, subjunctive after a conjunction, verb eteindre Culture: climate, research in France, Kyoto treaty for Evironmental protection, electric cars and Claude Monet Chapter 8 La societe Political campaign and government Government services (police/firefighter/administration) Expressing a point of view Speculating about what happened Asking for assistance Getting information and explaining Grammar: contractions with lequel/auquel/duquel, the past subjunctive, adverbs, the conditional, verb vaincre, and chacun/chacune Culture: traveling in the EU, Belgium's three cultures, judges, international organizations and the French, the Swiss government, and Henri Rousseau Chapter 9 L'art en fete Types of fine arts Music and other performing arts Asking for and giving opinions Introducing and changing a topic of conversation Making suggestions and recommedations Giving an impression Grammar: inversion, present participles used as adjectives, si and oui, the comparative and superlative, demonstrative pronouns, and the verbs savoir and connaitre Culture: Tahitian crafts, sculptures, museums in France, music, and Marc Chagall Chapter 10 Bon voyage! At the airport Traveling by car Asing for and giving information and clarifications Reminding and reassuring Asking for and giving help Asking for directions Grammar: prepositions with places, the subjunctive, the future, the past perfect and the causative faire Culture: DROM, highways in France, French driver's license and the point system, and Henri Matisse |