FRENCH 4

 

Book:  Discovering French Rouge 

DC Heath and Company, Evanston, Illinois  ©1998

 

UNIT 1

 

Functions

  • Describing people
  • Personal care
  • Describing one’s daily routine
  • Expressing how one feels and inquiring about other people

 

Grammar

  • Definite article
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Reflexive verbs in passé composé

 

Vocabulary

  • Adjectives
  • Personal care products

 

Culture

  • French Art (Impressionism, Post-Impressionism)

 

UNIT 2

 

Functions

  • Helping around the house
  • Asking for and offering help
  • Thanking people
  • Describing an object

 

Grammar

  • Il faut que + subjonctif
  • Vouloir que + subjonctif

 

Vocabulary

  • The house
  • Chores
  • Various materials
  • Adjectives

 

Culture

  • Le bricolage
  • Le jardinage
  • La couverture
  • Early French history
  • Vercingétorix
  • Charlemagne
  • Guillame le Conquérant
  • Aliénor d’Aquitaine
  • Jeanne d’Arc
  • La Chanson de Roland

 

UNIT 3

 

Functions

  • Talking about outdoor activities
  • Describing the weather
  • Relating a sequence of past events
  • Describing habitual past actions

 

Grammar

  • Passé composé
  • Imparfait
  • Passé simple
  • Passé composé v. imparfait

 

Vocabulary

  • Outdoor activities
  • Weather

 

Culture

  • Le tourisme vert, les éco-musées
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • La Renaissance
  • Le Grand Siècle
  • François 1er
  • Louis XIV
  • Cyrano de Bergerac

 

OTHER

  • Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes
  • Review of French 1 and 2 prayers
  • Acts of Faith, Hope, Trust and Contrition in French
  • La fête des Rois (Epiphany)
  • Mardi Gras et Carême (Fat Tuesday and Lent)
  • Le chemin de la croix (The Stations of the Cross)
  • La Messe (French Mass)
  • Poisson d’avril (April 1st)
  • National French Week
  • Francophone Current Events
  • Lundi largo French slang

 

 

UNIT 4

 

Functions

  • Shopping for various items
  • Buying stamps and mailing things at the post office
  • Having one’s hair cut
  • Requesting services

 

Grammar

  • Object pronouns
  • Multiple pronoun sequencing
  • En and indefinite expressions of quantity
  • Faire + infinitive

 

Vocabulary

  • Stationery
  • Pharmacy
  • Convenience store
  • Bank
  • Hair salon
  • Cleaners
  • Shoe repair shop
  • Photo shop

 

Culture

  • Shopping in France
  • Le Minitel
  • Tipping
  • French music

 

UNIT 5

 

Functions

  • Planning a trip abroad
  • Going through customs
  • Making travel arrangements
  • Travel in France
  • Making future plans
  • Hypothesizing about what one would do

 

Grammar

  • Negative statements
  • Future tense
  • Future with quand
  • Conditional

 

Vocabulary

  • Travel
  • Train station
  • Airport
  • Customs

 

Culture

  • TGV
  • Eurotunnel
  • Impressions of the United States
  • French Revolution
  • Napoleonic Era
  • Louis XVI
  • Marie-Antoinette
  • Napoléon
  • La Marseillaise
  • Victor Hugo
  • Les Misérables

 

UNIT 6

Functions

  • Deciding where to stay when traveling
  • Reserving a hotel room
  • Asking for services in a hotel room
  • Comparing
  • Asking for an alternative
  • Pointing out people or things
  • Indicating possession

 

Grammar

  • Comparative
  • Superlative
  • Lequel
  • Celui
  • Le mien

 

Vocabulary

  • Hotel
  • Room service

 

Culture

  • Auberges de jeunesse
  • Séjour à la ferme
  • Guide Michelin
  • Les Guerres Mondiales
  • Union européenne
  • Marie Curie
  • Charles de Gaulle

 

UNIT 7

 

Functions

  • Going to the doctor’s office
  • Going to the dentist
  • Going to the emergency room
  • Expressing how people feel about facts or events
  • Expressing fear, doubt, disbelief
  • Expressing feelings or attitudes about past actions and events

 

Grammar

  • Subjunctive after expressions of emotion
  • Subjunctive after expressions of doubt and uncertainty
  • Past subjunctive

 

Vocabulary

  • Symptoms
  • Medical history
  • Doctor’s office

 

Culture

  • French health care system
  • Immigration
  • Maghréb
  • Racism

 

UNIT 8

 

Functions

  • Making an appointment
  • Giving directions/location
  • Discussing advantages and disadvantages
  • Narrating past actions
  • Making polite requests
  • Hypothesizing

 

Grammar

  • Pluperfect
  • Conditional
  • Si clauses
  • Past conditional

 

Vocabulary

  • Events
  • City life
  • Neighborhoods

 

Culture

  • The street scene
  • Toussaint Louverture
  • Joséphine de Beuharnais
  • Aimé Césaire
  • Developing francophone nations

 

Book:  Graded French Reader Première Etape 

DC Heath and Company, USA  ©1987

 

Les Chandeliers de l’evêque –Victor Hugo

 

Grammar

  • Passé compose v. imparfait
  • Prepositions in negative sentences
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Present participle
  • Lequel
  • Plus que parfait
  • Negation
  • Si +imparfait
  • Comparative
  • Subjonctif

 

La Belle et la Bête –Mme Leprince de Beaumont

 

Grammar

  • Subjunctive
  • Conditional
  • Passé simple
  • Imparfait v. passé composé

 

OTHER

  • Saint Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes
  • Review of previous prayers
  • Act of Abandon, Guardian Angel, St. Michael and Prayer of St. Francis in French
  • La fête des Rois (Epiphany)
  • Mardi Gras et Carême (Fat Tuesday and Lent)
  • Le chemin de la croix (The Stations of the Cross)
  • La Messe (French Mass)
  • Poisson d’avril (April 1st)
  • National French Week
  • Francophone Current Events
  • Lundi largo (French slang)