High French 2

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.