Course Outline

  1. Relate one’s knowledge about the French lifestyle from personal experiences or from acquaintances; Express one’s opinions about France; Reflect on first impressions people have on one’s country.

  2. Review and compare the use of the Indicative and Subjunctive forms; Use the Indicative form to make declarations and hope for the future of one’s country; Use the Subjunctive to share one’s feelings and doubts about the current world situation.

  3. Listen for the gist from a document on Parity at Sea; Discuss the views on Women’s Rights and Equal Rights in the workplace in different countries; Use expressions of Probability and Possibility and the correct verb tenses.

  4. Condense ideas from documents about France, Montesquieu and Descartes to communicate about the behaviour of French people and the French culture. For example, “It’s obvious that French people are helpless romantics and live for the love of life.”

  5. Learn vocabulary about French Politics; Define Democracy and discuss about the French Government; Compare the French Political Systems with those of different countries.

  6. Discover renowned personalities in the French history; Write about one such personality by expressing admiration for his works; Imagine what this person would be like in today’s world.

  1. State one’s reasons for learning French and other languages; Gather ideas from documents to give one’s opinion about Learning a Language; Share tips on what work and don’t work in the process.

  1. Use Linking Words to speak about the pleasures and issues one faces while learning a foreign language for the purpose of Immigration; Elaborate on Language Barriers; Relate known experiences about foreigners who have perfectly blended into foreign cultures.

  2. Listen to an Interview and identify Declarative verbs used to mark one’s speech; Study and apply the Reported Speech (Past) to report what was said in the interview.

  3. Discover the Gascons and the French Academy; Speak about similar organizations in one’s country; Gather information from a text and write a Biography for Dany Laferrière.

  4. Unlock the meaning behind Slang words and vocabulary about specific sounds. For example, “The buzz in the market”; Write the dialogue for a comic strip using Onomatopoeia. For example, “Vlam! And he went away.”

  5. Deduce the meaning of Anglicism from a document on Candy Crush; Discuss about the proliferation of Anglicism in the media and in one’s own country; Weigh the pros and cons of having a universal language.

  1. Recall and develop vocabulary about the Media and the Press; Give an account of existing newspapers in one’s country; Compare newspapers in different countries based on a text.

  2. Listen to a document and study an infographic about French People and the News; Recognize the latest trends about the Press and deduce reasons why; Relate one’s readership of the news and means adopted to stay informed.

  3. Discuss about the craze of Celebrity News in different parts of the world; Use phrases of Cause and Consequence to list the impacts of the Press on Stardom, Politics and the Public.

  4. Familiarize oneself with the vocabulary used in the Press (occurrences, disasters, justice, etc.); Review the Passive form to write up headlines and the introductory lines for news articles in the various categories.

  5. Memorise the names and objectives of several French newspapers; Examine articles from each; Select a newspaper from the list and compose a contemporary article which would be suitable for it.

  6. Watch a video about Headlines; Report what was said and reformulate the key sentences; Prepare a list of the latest news from one of today’s French newspaper and enact a TV journalist to announce today’s news.

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  1. Identify travel preferences from a text; Account for the choice of destinations in one’s past (and future) travel experiences; List a number of countries where one could settle depending on the stage of one’s life.

  2. Study a chart on the Presence of French People Abroad; Use terms about Reading Data to summarize the information projected; Represent and comment on the information from a document on an Investigation (in the form of a graph, bar chart, pie chart, percentage, etc.).

  3. Watch and gather information from a video on Goodbye France; Reflect on reasons why one leaves a country by including numerical data from the video; Compose a Message in a Bottle, based on a text.

  4. Recall and develop vocabulary about Places; Understand an audio document on a Travel Poem; Apply Prepositions of Place and Adjectives to write an inspirational poem on Travel.

  5. Use expressions about Protest to oppose a friend’s decision to make a pricey trip; Apply expressions of Protest and Claim in a formal context to react against an Air Travel Agency in an unfavourable situation.

  6. Recall and develop vocabulary about Geography; Retrace the journey of Alexandra David-Néel from a text; Present a traveller’s journey giving as much geographical details as possible.

  1. Acquire vocabulary about Historical Periods (Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Royalty, Revolution, etc.); Share impressive historical facts about one’s favourite era; Use the Conditional structures to communicate about the era in which one would have liked to live.

  2. Identify the Definite Past from texts about personal stories; Discover the history of Haiti through a text; Apply the different forms of the past (Simple, Perfect, Imperfect and Definite) to detail a timeline of the history of one’s country.

  3. Understand a recording of someone’s account of Immigration; Refer to a document and a graph to discuss about the phenomenon of Immigration to European countries, France, in particular.

  4. Review words and phrases used to locate an event in time (duration, simultaneity, frequency, etc.); Watch a video about Women and give an account on how the roles and status of women in movies have changed over the years.

  5. Review the Adverbs of time and the structure “Before/After/Once + Verb”; Use the Adverbs of Time and Time Markers to recollect what moments have marked History. For example, “After having conquered Gaul, Julius Cesar returned to Rome.”

  6. Discover Geniuses of Europe (intellects, scientists, architects, founders of wisdom, etc.); Discuss about their lives, objectives, motivations, and find things in common.

  1. Recall and develop vocabulary about Health and Medicine; Read the interview of a doctor and list motivational reasons for joining this field; Reflect about the challenges that medical professionals face; Understand figurative expressions about Medicine.

  2. Learn vocabulary about Handicaps, Diseases, Symptoms and Treatment; Share knowledge about popular Grandma’s Home Remedies; Debate about Conventional and Alternative Medicine.

  3. Read a text and gain understanding about Bonds Shared with Medical Practitioners; Assess the impacts of Online Medicine on the regular medical practices by applying forms of the Participles and Gerund.

  4. Discover famous medical organizations (Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, etc.); Highlight the importance of Volunteerism; Relate a personal account where one has been helpful to others.

  5. Scrutinize a Journal Entry and watch a video about a Moliere’s Play to gather vocabulary to describe the body; Describe the physical appearance of strangers encountered in day-to-day life; Enrich the descriptions by applying learned adjectives and figurative expressions.

  6. Draw a list of Beauty Standards from a text; Discuss about modern-day beauty standards; Debate about Body-Shaming and the public’s Validation of one’s image; Hold a dialogue with a friend who is desperate to undergo Cosmetic Surgery.

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