High French 2
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
French 1
Description
Salut! Get set for some more adventure! The French 2 course is full of engaging and interactive videos, dialogs, presentations, self-checks, and much more!
Further develop your French listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while broadening your vocabulary and knowledge of grammar. In the French 2 course you will experience the beauty and expressiveness of a language that is shared by different people and cultures throughout the world.
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Course description:
Segment 1
• Culture: The Eiffel Tower
• Adjectives and adjective agreement
• The verbs être, avoir
• Present tense –er, -ir and -re verbs
• French pronunciation
• Culture: Basic French history
• Culture: Northern France
• The prepositions à and de
• Likes and dislikes
• Classroom objects
• Culture: French Art
• Numbers
• Culture: Schools in France
• Culture: The Paris Zoo
• Animals
• Reflexive verbs
• Parts of the body
• Using the expression: J’ai mal à
• Culture: Québec and Montréal
• Irregular verbs like acheter
• The irregular verbs voir and croire
• Negation
• Culture: French holidays
• Culture: The history of Paris
• The passé composé
• Using adverbs
• Passé composé with être
• The French-speaking world
• The Imperfect
• Object pronouns
• L’imparfait vs Le passé composé
• Vocabulary related to cities
• Culture: Mardi Gras
Segment 2
• Culture: Le Métro
• Clothing, transportation, stores and places in a town
• Direct object pronouns
• Culture: Shopping in France
• Culture: The European Union
• Shopping and paying
• Culture: La Fête Nationale française
• Emotions
• Indirect objects
• The verbs venir, revenir, and devenir
• The pronouns y and en
• Culture: Christmas in French-speaking countries
• Culture: Working in France
• Professions
• The irregular verbs recevoir and devoir
• Culture: Jeanne D’Arc
• Qui and que
• Culture: French-speaking Africa
• Culture: Savoir-vivre
• The future tense
• Culture: Martinique and Tahiti
• Vocabulary related to the media
• The verbs rire and sourire
• Nationalities
• The conditional tense
• Important French people
Microphone and speakers or headset
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.