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Seventh Grade French
  

Seventh Grade French (year-long course)

Recommended Prerequisite: None

Grades Offered: 7th

Credit: None

State Code: 0704

MNPS Course Code: FLA1067Y

 

Course Description

The French program for the seventh grade is a basic introduction to the language and people of the French-speaking world.  Though in a middle school curriculum, this course has no prerequisites including the fifth and sixth grade courses.  This course is a year long study of the French language.  This course continues to promote and teach conversational, listening, and pronunciation skills with some instruction devoted to reading and writing.  Relevant culture, geography, and history are taught as integral parts of each lesson, not as disciplines in isolation.  This course can be offered as the first part of a two-year course for French 1 high school credit.

 

Course of Study: Students are expected to use and understand the following topics.

·        Cognates

·        French alphabet

·        Accent marks

·        Use of articles

·        Greetings, farewells and courtesies

·        Nationalities and talking about age

·        Colors

·        Ordering/Paying in a café

·        Time

·        Weather

·        Seasons

·        Months and days

·        Use of subject pronouns

·        Present tense of –er verbs

·        Negation of present tense –er verbs

·        Verb + Infinitive

·        Yes/No questions

·        The verb être

·        Interrogative expressions

·        Information questions

·        The verb faire

·        Adjectives

·        Adjective agreement with singular and plural nouns

·        Placement of adjectives

·        The verb avoir

·        Differences in definite and indefinite articles

·        Singular and plural articles

·        Expressions with c’est

 

These cultural topics should be covered with these units of study.

  • Numbers: Using the numbers, students can talk about telephone numbers in France and learn different vocabulary for phone etiquette.
  • Café: Etiquette and different types of café food can be explored.  Trying the food or having a “café day” can be beneficial to students’ understanding.
  • Colors: Art can be included with colors.  A suggestion is to have students study one particular artist or movement.  For example, Monet can be studied along with Impressionism.
  • Months of the year: Holidays relating to French culture can be covered, including, but not limited to:
    • Bastille Day
    • Mardi Gras
    • Fête des Rois
  • Time: 24-hour clock
  • Geography: Some traditions of French speaking countries and their connections to common practices in the United States

 

Standards

Standards are based on the American Council of Teachers of French (AATF), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) Standards, and Tennessee Standards.

ACTFL:

http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3392#standards

Tennessee standards:

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflmodern1.htm

 

Recommended Textbook

No MNPS purchased textbook is available.

 

Text Resources

Discovering French Nouveau! McDougal Littell, 2004

 

Internet Resources

Textbook Website: http://www.classzone.com

Discover France (includes topics such as education, pastimes, food, culture etc…): http://discoverfrance.net/

French Cognates: http://french.about.com/library/vocab/bl-vraisamis.htm

Geography: http://french.about.com/od/geography/