Garden City Public Schools Garden City, New York Course: French 3R/H Overview of Course This third level course will complete Checkpoint B of the state syllabus and culminates in a comprehensive Regents examination, which will be offered in June. The aim of the course is to increase communicative proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammatical skills. Instructional Philosophy The Department of World Languages believes that the primary goal of second language learning is the achievement of functional communication in the context of the target language. Language learning is also an invaluable asset to students who will be taking their place in the world today. To achieve this goal, the aim of the department is twofold: To teach students the skills necessary for effective communication in the foreign language; i.e.: listening, speaking, reading and writing. To provide students with the insight into and appreciation of the foreign culture in order that they become more informed and understanding citizens of the world. Knowledge and Skills Objectives Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication. Listening and Speaking are primary communicative goals in modern language learning. These skills are used for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action. Reading and Writing are used in languages other than English for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action. Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings. Effective Communication involves meanings that go beyond words and require an understanding of perceptions, gestures, folklore, and family and community dynamics. All of these elements can affect whether and how well a message is received.
Units of Study Unité 1 : Ressentir et vivre Vocabulary: Relationships, feelings, marriage and personality Structures: Spelling-change verbs The irregular verbs être, avoir, faire, and aller Forming questions Culture : Francophone music and cuisine in U.S. Short film: A tes amours Reading : Il pleure dans mon cœur, Paul Verlaine Unité 2: Habiter en ville Vocabulary: The city, places, directions Structures: Reflexive and reciprocal verbs Descriptive adjectives and adjective agreement adverbs Culture : The annual music festival in France Short film: J attendrai le suivant Reading : Mai 1968, Jacques Prévert Unité 3: L influence des médias Vocabulary: The media, the film, the television, the press Structures: The passé composé with avoir The passé composé with être The passé composé vs. the imparfait Culture : Cirque du soleil Short film: Emilie Muller Reading : Quebec
Unité 4: La valeur des idées Vocabulary: The law, legal rights, politics and national security Structures: The plus-que-parfait Negation and indefinite adjectives and pronouns Irregular -ir verbs Culture : The history and culture of Haiti Short film: La revolution de crabs Reading : Chien maigre and chien gras, Jean Juraver Unité 5 : La société en évolution Vocabulary: Imigration, diversity, social problems and change Structures: Partitives The pronouns y and en Order of prononuns Culture : The education in Western Africa Short film: Samb et le commisaire Reading : Le marché de l espoir, Ghislaine Sathoud Unité 6 : Les générations qui bougent Vocabulary: Family memebers, family life, stages of life and generations Structures: The subjunctive: impersonal expressions; will, opinion, and emotion Demonstrative pronouns Irregular -re verbs Demonstrative pronouns Irregular -re verbs Culture : A wedding in Algeria Short film: De l autre côté Reading : La logique des grands
Unité 7 : Les sciences et la technologie Vocabulary: Progress, technology, inventions, science Structures: The comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs The futur simple The subjunctive with expressions of doubt and conjunctions Culture : Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg Short film: Manie-Tout Reading : Solitude numerique, Didier Daeninckx Unité 8 : S évader et s amuser Vocabulary: Sports, leisure time, arts, theater, shopping, clothes Structures: Infinitives Prepositions with geographical names The conditional Culture : La Réunion Short film: Le ballon prisonnier Reading : Le football, René Goscinny Unité 9 : Perspectives de travail Vocabulary: Work and finances Structures: Relative pronouns The present participle Irregular -oir verbs Culture : Women entrepreneurs in Africa Short film: Bonne nuit, Malik Reading : Profession Libérale End-of-Year: Intensive NYS Regents Review.
Major Resources Reference materials that you can review when completing exercises will be provided in class as well as on the teacher website. Included are glossaries of grammatical terms, grammar references, verb charts, and other helpful information. D accord! 3 textbook D accord! 3 workbook D accord! 3 Film collection DVD D accord! 3 Audio program Barron's Regents Exams & Answers French by Christopher Kendris Ph.D. http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/lotegre/regentfren.html