Units!
Preliminary Unit: Small talk: What's up?
1. I can greet others politely.
2. I can introduce myself.
3. I can describe myself in basic terms (age, how I feel, my family).
4. I can describe the weather in basic terms.
5. I can say the day of the week and the date.
(My life)
1. I can recognize cognates.
2. I can greet people.
3. I can talk about myself and my friends and family.
4. I can make adjectives agree with nouns.
5. I can conjugate the verbs “to be” and “to have”.
(I like / I don't like)
1. I can express my likes and dislikes.
2. I know when to use definite and indefinite
articles. (“the” and “a”)
3. I can form sentences in the present
tense using ER verbs.
4. I can give my opinions on a variety of topics.
(At School)
- I can discuss my courses.
- I know about schooling in Francophone countries.
- I can tell time in conversational and military time.
- I can express wants and needs.
- I can use adjectives to point out specific objects.
- I can use common classroom phrases and commands.
(The weather)
1. I can describe the weather.
2. I can tell how often I do activities.
3. I can form and respond to questions.
4. I can use idiomatic expressions.
(I go to the café)
- I can order common café foods.
- I can carry on a food-related conversation with a server.
- I can conjugate regular –re and –ir verbs.
- I know how to say what I am going to do in the near future.
- I can say where I am going and what I am doing at that location.
- I can identify major landmarks in Paris.
(At the market)
- I can carry on a food-related conversation with a merchant.
- I can shop for some clothing items.
- I can use the metric system to order foods.