French 5
La classe de Français 5!
Introduction: Technology tools: Google Classroom sign up, how to use pdf format with Kami and upload completed assignments.
Review: La France et ses régions - Recall names of French regions and where they are located, review geography of France.
Assessment: Quiz and Padlet Project «Un souvenir de vacances».
UNIT 1: Les villes françaises, leur histoire et leur développement.
THEME: Contemporary life (Housing and shelter, Leisure and sports, travel)
THEME: Beauty and aesthetics (Architecture, Contribution to world artistic heritage)
Essential questions:
How were French cities started?
How were they developed?
What are their characteristics?
What can we see in French cities today?
What is the "patrimoine"?
How does a French city contribue to the World Artistic Heritage?
Activities:
Historical background of several major French cities.
Architecture: how French cities were build and why.
"Video visite Nîmes et le Pont du Gard".
Videos: monuments and cultural heritage of Montpellier, "Montpellier, visite guidée - Tourisme en Languedoc-Roussillon"
Videos : "Clermont-Ferrand et le parc naturel des volcans d'Auvergne"
Le Patrimoine: French monuments and sites that are part of the World Artistic Heritage
Reading: "Les journées européennes du patrimoine"
IPA: "Quelles sont les villes les plus attractives de France"
* Vocabulary of housing and architecture
* Review of past tenses (passé composé/imparfait)
UNIT 2 : Les voyages, les vacances en France, la restauration et l'hôtellerie
THEME: CONTEMPORARY LIFE (Housing and Shelter, Leisure and sports, Travel)
Essential questions:
What accommodation do French people favor for their vacation?
Why do French people have reduced their vacation time?
Why is the Michelin guide so important for travelers?
• Readings: "Un nouveau type de vacances : la colocation saisonnière" (how do French people cut down their vacation budget, and why foreigners chose France to vacation?), "La colocation ... même en vacances".
• Video: "Vacances : A quoi ressemblent les habitudes des Français?"
"Pourquoi avoir choisi la France pour vos vacances?"
• Article: "3 millions de Français renonceraient à partir en vacances". «Enquête: Les Français et leur budget vacances d’été» https://www.cofidis.fr/fr/question-de-budget/projets-des-francais/budget-francais-vacances-ete-2023.html
• Video + article: "A la rencontre de Michelin". «Revivre l’épopée du Bibendum Michelin» https://www.auvergne-destination.com/experiences/revivre-lepopee-du-bibendum/
#18h30 «Bernard Loiseau, les 20 ans de la disparition d’un grand chef étoilé» #18h30 Bernard Loiseau, les 20 ans de la disparition d'un grand chef étoilé
Dominique Loiseau se livre dans «La revanche d’une femme». (Short text and audio interview). https://www.k6fm.com/dominique-loiseau-se-livre-dans-la-revanche-d-une-femme
Video: "Chef Guy Martin, Restaurant ** Le Grand Véfour à Paris.
• Text: "Profession : inspecteur". “Estelle Denis teste le métier de réceptionniste en hôtellerie” (M6-15/11/2012)Estelle DENIS teste le métier de réceptionniste en hotellerie
• Text: "L'histoire du Stanley Hotel et de ses fantômes" (assessment: IPA). Le Point: «Ma nuit avec un fantôme du Stanley hôtel de “Shining”» https://www.lepoint.fr/pop-culture/ma-nuit-avec-un-fantome-au-stanley-l-hotel-de-shining-02-03-2016-2022391_2920.php
* Vocabulary of hotel accommodation and reservation.
* Review: Verb tenses: future and conditional (si clauses), comparatif/superlatif, les adjectifs et pronoms démonstratifs, interrogatifs et possessifs.
UNIT 3: Beauty and art: Impressionnism (Review from French 4)
THEME: BEAUTY AND AESTHETICS (Contributions to World Artistic Heritage, Visual Arts, Literature
Reading: Historical background of France during the 19th century - timeline.
The industrial revolution in France.
The mines and Zola - use vocabulary of societal and industrial revolution in context.
Reading excerpts of Zola's "Germinal"
Artistic evolution in France in the 19th century and its worldwide expansion .
Video: "Bougival, Louveciennes, Croissy sur Seine, la Grenouillère, sur les pas des impressionnistes"
Podcast: "Les trésors intimes de Claude Monet".
Text: "La révolution impressionniste" + the importance of the industrial revolution for the impressionists.
* Verb review: passé composé, agreement of past participle
* Review of adjectives of colors and agreement
* Reflexive verbs: present and past tense
* Verb review: for "Si clause", adding the plus-perfect (plus-que-parfait) and the past conditional tenses (Conditionnel passé).
* Subjonctif
UNIT 4: L'influence des médias
THEME: Science and technology (Ethical Questions)
THEME: Contemporary life (Advertising and Marketing)
THEME: Global Challenges (Economic Issues)
Essential questions:
What media are being transformed and how? Will some media disappear?
What are the most popular print media in France?
How has technology impacted the ways in which we stay informed?
How does one choose reliable sources on the internet?
How does advertising and marketing improve our quality of life?
Does advertising present challenges for consumers?
In what way are French ads similar or different from American ads?
How is education affected by new technological advancements?
• Short film: "Le technicien" (2010).
• "99 Francs" (Excerpt from "99 Francs", Frédéric Beigberder, (2000)).
• Video: "Publicité anti-tabac" (2010).
• Article: "Tous sous influence".
• Video: Advertising: "Les fruits et les légumes moches" (2014).
• Video: Advertising: "Emma - le trèfle maxi-feuille" (2013).
• Articles: "L'iPAD à l'école, planche de salut ou outil marketing", "Les Français n'aiment pas la pub sur Internet, et ça commence à poser problème", "Sondage : la pub sur Internet n'attire pas les clients", "Apple introduit le blocage des publicités dans Safari".
*Vocabulary of advertising and branding.
*Review: sentence structure and linking words and phrases.
UNIT 5 : L'amitié et l'amour
THEME: Families and communities (Customs and Ceremonies, Friendship and Love)
THEME: Personal and Public Identities (Beliefs and Values)
Essential questions:
What are the qualities/characteristics of a friend?
How do teens express their feelings in France and in the United States?
What is involved in planning a wedding in France?
Can friendship/love survive lies/deception?
How is our relationship with others altered by new technology?
Activities:
Short films: "A tes amours", "On s'embrasse".
Video: "L'amitié, qu'est-ce que c'est?".
Articles: Le mariage en France: le mariage à l'américaine", "En France, le mariage perd du terrain".
Texts: "Facebook a-t-il détruit l'amitié?", "SMS, textos: dites "Je t'M" avec le pouce".
Film: "Cyrano de Bergerac" (Gérard Depardieu, 1990)
* Vocabulary of relationships, congratulating, comforting, and expressing sadness and sympathie), vocabulary of technology.
* Review of adjectives used to describe personalities.
* Subjonctive and "Si clauses" with plus-que-parfait and conditionnel passé + review of reflexive/reciprocal verbs in the past tense with a focus on agreement of past participle.