French 3 Syllabus FIRST SEMESTER First Six Weeks Reprise: Review levels 1 and 2 (suggested time 2 weeks) Episode 1: Faisons connaissance: Scènes 1-2 - 3 Students review how to introduce one s self, family and friends, talk about school, and technology Episode 2: La vie à Aix: Scènes 1-2 - 3 Students review how to discuss leisure time, sports, going to a café, cultural activities. Episode 3: Tout n'est pas toujours bien qui finit bien: Scènes 1-2 - 3 Students review how to discuss travels, hotels, plans, celebrations, relationships. Episode 4: Une semaine mouvementée: Scènes 1-2 - 3 Students review how to discuss technology, problem solving, routines, relationships, friendship and love. Structure vocabulary for family, friends, school, leisure activities, sports, celebrations, relationships, leisure activities, sports, routine, travels, technology regular verbs and common verbs in present time passé composé with avoir and être imparfait future tense pronouns the comparative Theme 1: Families and Communities (suggested time 4 weeks) Personal relationships, friendship and love Unit 1: Ressentir et vivre (suggested time 2 weeks) How to interact with others Family and structures, types of families Relationships, marriage Feelings, personality Citizenship vocabulary related to moods and feelings, relationships, marriage, personality ER verbs with changing stems irregular verbs être, avoir and expressions with avoir, faire, aller asking/answering questions
interrogative words interrogative adjective quel, and interrogative pronoun lequel voting in Belgium the Francophone world in the United States connections between France and the United States Unit 6: Les générations qui bougent (suggested time 2 weeks) Family, stages of life and generations Members of the family and family life Childhood and adolescence Age and class Generation gap vocabulary related to family members, personality, family life, stages of life irregular ir verbs and re verbs demonstrative pronouns more questions a traditional marriage in Algeria evolution of culture and traditions in a family
Second Six Weeks Theme 2: Personal and public identity (suggested time 6 weeks) Beliefs and value, alienation and assimilation, nationalism and patriotism. Unit 4: Les valeurs des idées (suggested time 3 weeks) Beliefs and value, assimilation and alienation Personal ideas and values French politic system Laws and rights vocabulary related to the law, legal rights, politics, public officials plus-que-parfait negation and negative expressions indefinite adjective and pronouns political campaigns slogans and advertisement French political system l assemblée nationale history and culture of Haiti piracy in the Antilles Unit 5: La société en évolution (suggested time 3 weeks) Diversity, multiculturalism, language and identity Personal identity, moving and changing Learning about immigration, multiculturalism Assimilation and alienation vocabulary related to diversity, change, immigration and assimilation partitives articles the pronouns y and en order of pronouns Western Africa linguistic and cultural diversity integration and development
Third Six Weeks Theme 3: Contemporary life (suggested time 3 weeks) Housing and shelter, leisure and sports Unit 2: Habiter en ville (suggested time 3 weeks) Housing, city life People and places found in a city Description of people and places What to do in a city, social life Giving and getting directions vocabulary related to the city places to go to, directions descriptive adjectives and adjective agreement adverbs reflexive and reciprocal verbs French cities life in the city Unit 8: S évader et s amuser (suggested 3 weeks) Leisure time, hobbies, travels and sports Leisure time Travels Sports, amateur and professional sports vocabulary related to sports, hobbies, travels structures with infinitive prepositions with geographic names conditional tense Francophone islands in the Indian Ocean Sports travels
SECOND SEMESTER Fourth Six Weeks Theme 4: Global challenges: (suggested time 6 weeks) Economy, economic issues, environmental issues Unit 9: Perspectives de travail (suggested time 3 weeks) The working world, people at work, entrepreneurs, finances Learning about people at work and workplaces Career decisions, developing careers and jobs prospects Professions libérales Women and the working world vocabulary related to work, people at work and finances the relative pronouns the present participle irregular oir verbs marketing campaigns in Canada economy in Africa women entrepreneurs in Africa Unit 10. Les richesses naturelles (suggested time 3 weeks) Our world, natural phenomena, natural resources, animals, environmental issues Our world, natural wonders Natural resources Environmental issues vocabulary related to nature, environment, animals, plants the past conditional the future perfect Si clauses French Polynesia New Caledonia and Asia saving or destroying nature
Fifth Six Weeks Theme 5: Science and technology: (suggested time 6 weeks) The New Media, ethical questions, discoveries and inventions, social impact of technology Unit 3: L influence des médias (suggested time 3 weeks) News and media, people of the media, impact of the media. Movies, television, the press, radio and internet. Current trends, the influence of media on culture. The role of media in students lives. vocabulary related to the media, people to the media, film, television and the press the present subjunctive expressions for will, opinion, and emotion The media Le Quebec Le Cirque du Soleil and the media Unit 7: A la recherche du progrès (suggested time 3 weeks) Inventions, technology, science, astronomy, the universe, Inventions and discoveries Progress, research and people in science Ethical questions Social impact of technology vocabulary for science inventions, technology the universe comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs the present subjunctive with expressions of doubt and conjunctions Belgium Switzerland Luxembourg (culture, economy, science and research projects)
Sixth Six Weeks Theme 6: Beauty and Aesthetics (suggested time 6 weeks) Contributions to world artistic heritage, ideals of beauty, performing arts, visual arts, and architecture. Unit 8: S évader et s amuser (recommended time 3 weeks) Shopping, ideals of beauty, art, theater, literature Shopping and clothes, fashion and design Cultural places and cultural activities Learning about art and theater Language and literature, different genres (poetry, short stories, comic trips, etc.) vocabulary for the arts, theater and culture, fashion, shopping, clothes adjectives and verbs for description present and past subjunctive La Réunion Madagascar the Indian Ocean Units 1 to 10: all units (suggested time 3 weeks) Contributions to world artistic heritage, the arts in France and the Francophone world Learning about the different art forms Art movements in France Cultural perspectives, creativity Ideals of beauty and how they affect modern life general review of vocabulary and grammar from all chapters additional vocabulary to discuss art, beauty and aesthetics more advanced structures French cinema Photography literature from the Francophone world comparing beauty around the French speaking world compare ideals of beauty throughout history